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This Goblet Squat Variation Will Light Your Abs on Fire
We’ve all been guilty of switching to autopilot during a workout—half-assing the moves, mind wandering to all the other to-dos for the day. Problem is, when you rush through reps, you cheat yourself of an exercise’s full muscle-building or fat-burning potential. Samantha Ciaccia, C.S.C.S., knows this all too well, especially when it comes to squatting. Below, Ciaccia shows you how to slow things down with a goblet squat variation that’ll improve your mind-muscle connection, prevent injury, and fire up your core at the same time. In the video above, Ciaccia breaks down the kettlebell goblet squat, noting one major mistake: People tend to bounce. This happens when you move passively through the squat,…
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Pfizer, Trump, and Biden: A twisted triangle that’s complicating COVID-19 relief
On Nov. 18, nearly a year into a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 Americans, a modern miracle occurred: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced that its vaccine candidate had been shown in clinical trials to have a 95{ce8ce7cc98bffdc4302011057a79600ea02c464c5536f1477c12acdb8bd79c00} efficacy rate and no serious side effects. The rollout, they said, would begin within a month of emergency use authorization. Operation Warp Speed, President Donald Trump’s public-private partnership meant to facilitate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines was a success, it seemed: 100 million doses, enough for 50 million Americans to receive the two required shots, were on their way, and that was just the beginning. Vaccines would…
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