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Stephanie Gibson
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Stephanie Gibson has been a fitness professional teaching group fitness and personal training for over 20 years. “I was a personal trainer before there ever were personal trainers!” She now owns and operates StayFit 1on1 Health and Fitness and teaches group fitness classes at a local gym. She is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine.


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10 Ugly Foods from The Eat Clean Diet

  1. Donuts - almost 500 cals and 30 g fat!
  2. Marshmallow Fluff - chemical fluff or white poison
  3. Colas and Sodas - 7 to 9 teaspoons of sugar, chemicals
  4. Bacon,Deli Meat, Processed Meat - high fat, nitrites,perservatives
  5. Sugar Loaded Breakfast Cereals - sugar, sugar, sugar + trans fats
  6. Fruit Juices and Fake Fruit Drinks - high sugar content, preservatives, food coloring
  7. Junk Food - chips,fried snacks, microwave popcorn are high in fat and preservatives and sodium
  8. Candy - calorie dense, sugar loaded, health destroying time bombs!
  9. French Fries - unhealthy fats and trans fats with a side order of free radicals
  10. Twinkies - If they don't decompose in a dump, what happens to them in your body?

Glossary of Weight Lifting Terms

  1. Giant Sets - 3 or more exercises linked togther and performed in sequence. One set is one time through the giant set.
  2. Super Sets - 2 exercises linked together that works antagonist or opposing muscle groups like chest and back, quadraceps and hamstrings or biceps and
  3. Drop Sets - Starting an exercise at one weight, going to failure, and without resting, dropping the weight and continuing on to failure. Continue thi
  4. Pyramid - Raising the weight with each set or lowering the weight with each set.
  5. Slo-mos - Doing each repetition very slowly, like 10 seconds up and 10 seconds down.
  6. Negatives - Using a spotter, the eccentric or muscle lengthening phase of the repetition is emphasized. The spotter assists with the concentric or mus

5 Quick Ways To Fight Fat

  • Get 6 to 8 hours of sleep nightly
  • Combine lean protein with complex carbohydrate at every meal
  • Drink green tea daily
  • Keep healthy snacks handy
  • Get 25 grams of fiber daily