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How do you prevent a sunstroke or heatstroke?
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  15-06-2025

How do you prevent a sunstroke or heatstroke?

How do you prevent a sunstroke or heatstroke? My love has regularly maintained a friend's garden during the weekends in recent months. As a result, his skin gradually became more and more bronzed. Last week, the outside temperatures suddenly rose to...
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How to become super strong and muscular in a responsible way! Sometimes you think, why make things difficult when it can be easy? At least, that's what it seems like these days when you read all the rave stories about Ozempic. Only to realize again why it's such a stupid idea. We already touched on it at the end of 2023 in an article about hypertrophy when Ozempic was already becoming a hype.That hype has still not blown over. What few people seem to realize is that Ozempic only helps with losing weight, but that if those people do not also start doing strength training at the same time (or continue with it), a significant amount of muscle mass is lost.What a shame!In line with our previous article about a 'beach body' , I want to take a different approach: strive for a super strong and muscular body!How do you achieve that in a responsible way? Then I can hardly do anything else than refer to the manual that everyone has been referred to for about 25 years when they want to seriously start strength training: Starting Strength van Mark Rippetoe. Nowadays you can watch videos in abundance on YouTube. Yet, we recommend that you also start here with the Starting Strength videos: https://www.youtube.com/@startingstrengthThat is far preferable to taking advice from some guy at the gym, who assures you that he has all the wisdom, but then teaches you exercises the wrong way, no offense to the good ones.I myself suffer from a kind of innate clumsiness, so that videos did not work out so well. Moreover, they were hardly available about 20 years ago. That is why I went to a gym where they practiced Olympic weightlifting to learn deadlifts.Then you will notice what a difference it makes whether you go to a regular gym where they just let you mess around or to a serious weightlifting school where good technique is taken seriously.In short, if possible, go to a gym where they practice Olympic weightlifting. If you can't, buy this book, watch videos and even better, record yourself and compare it to the videos you saw on YouTube!If you don't speak English very well, it helps to turn on the subtitles. Here are videos of the three basic lifts Squat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhoikoUEI8U Deadlift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2OPUi4xGrMBench presshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxD321l2svE
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  01-06-2025

How to become super strong and muscular in a responsible way!

How to become super strong and muscular in a responsible way! Sometimes you think, why make things difficult when it can be easy? At least, that's what it seems like these days when you read all the rave stories about Ozempic. Only to realize again...
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Ready for summer with a great looking beach body
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  04-05-2025

Ready for summer with a great looking beach body

Ready for summer with a great looking beach body We have been blessed with such beautiful sunny weather in recent weeks, so that the thick layers of clothing could be stored in the winter wardrobe to be exchanged for summer clothes. As a result, it is...
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How is it possible that young people have started smoking more instead of becoming the 'smoke-free generation'?
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  24-03-2025

How is it possible that young people have started smoking more instead of becoming the 'smoke-free generation'?

How is it possible that young people have started smoking more instead of becoming the 'smoke-free generation'? Vapes have become very popular in a relatively short time. This is not surprising: smoking flammable cigarettes (cigars or pipes) is...
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Are you afraid of driving at night? How to avoid night blindness!
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  09-02-2025

Are you afraid of driving at night? How to avoid night blindness!

Are you afraid of driving at night? How to avoid night blindness! After just about two months of grey dreary weather, overcast skies cleared up and the sun finally came out. As it goes, this was paired with cold weather and icy roads. Icy enough...
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How to align training with each phase of your menstrual cycle
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  17-11-2024

How to align training with each phase of your menstrual cycle

How to align training with each phase of your menstrual cycle It's been quite a while ago when menopause started , but in the last few years before my body finally stopped ovulating, I was quite fanatical in the gym. After I stopped practicing extreme...
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Why gardening improves your mental health and physical well-being
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  20-10-2024

Why gardening improves your mental health and physical well-being

Why gardening improves your mental health and physical well-being Once leaves start to fall and autumn is at our doorstep, it seems as if you automatically start to reflect on the past summer as if the year is over. It's not a miracle how some cultures,...
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What’s causing fertility rates to decline and what can we do to boost fertility naturally?
 •  Yvana van den Hork  •  08-09-2024

What’s causing fertility rates to decline and what can we do to boost fertility naturally?What’s causing fertility rates to decline and what can we do to boost fertility naturally?

What’s causing fertility rates to decline and what can we do to boost fertility naturally? During the last few weeks, politicians and journalists have suddenly shown interest in the sharply declining birth rates in the Netherlands. It's not as if this...
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