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How do you get back to training once the corona has got you?

I already have several friends who have complained that it has been more difficult than usual to return to sport after contracting the coronavirus. A former classmate who is a tough sportsman was one of the first to be diagnosed with coronavirus back in March 2020, when a diagnosis of coronavirus was much rarer in our country than the hospitalisation of the polkovnik's son-in-law from the Smul play "The Life of a Polkovnik".

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Be 10 years younger! It's not easy, but it's possible.

Did you know that intense exercise keeps you young? You've probably noticed that people who put more effort into their workouts look more youthful. Is it because they have a smaller waist circumference? A slimmer waist certainly has an impact on how old you feel, but in reality, youthfulness starts at a cellular level. Intense exercise is

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Energy Transmission vol. 3. Nutritionist Krete Junson

On this occasion, the Energy Exchange was visited by nutrition advisor Krete Junson. The Energy Transmission is a podcast that focuses mainly on how energy is created and what we can do to have more of it in our lives and what not to do to lose it. As Krete is definitely one of the most energetic people in the whole of Tartu, we focus on what we do and what we can't do without energy.

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"Unfortunately, I just don't have time to go to the gym"

If you're not as sporty as you'd like to be, the main reason you give is that you don't have the time. In November 2017, we conducted a Stebbys survey of almost 3000 users and found that almost all of them valued sport and a sporty lifestyle, but 50% found that they didn't have time to be sporty enough.

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FitQ is one of the 13 best wellness startups in Estonia

Sometimes, when you comb the internet, you find surprising things. For example, we discovered that FitQ has been mentioned among the 13 best wellness startups in Estonia. The Startup Pill, a portal that shares news from the startup world and startup founders, was the source of the accolades. They themselves spell out the criteria for their ranking as follows: We selected these startups and companies based on their exceptional performance.

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Did you know why you have less energy than usual this week?

This week I've been feeling somehow a bit more than usual that work isn't going very well. Things are starting to feel like the wrong time. Sleep comes way too early in the evening, I'd like to fly at 10:30 for my lunch break. Reflecting on a couple of unproductive days, it came to mind - right, of course, the damn clock-watching. When spring arrives

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A fresh start: who are your friends?

or CHAPTER XI of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" Tell me who your friends are and what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are.If you want to start from the bottom of my mouth, right now I'm coffee with milk and Kalev's dark nut chocolate. Unfortunately or fortunately, it wasn't a paid advert. Unfortunately,

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How to make a training body?

The authors of this story, Marti Soosaar and Krete Junson, both studied physical education at the University of Tartu. Marti Soosaar is the founder of Stebby, Estonia's largest health marketplace, and FitQ, a software for personal trainers. Krete Junson is the Head of Health Sports at the University of Tartu Academic Sports Club. How to finally get a beautiful training body? This is undoubtedly a recurring question for many

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A new start: get things written down

or CHAPTER X from Marti Soosaare's e-book "New Beginnings" The idea of writing is almost the same as saying it. A loud message is more powerful, but if you put your goal or plan down on paper, it's clear that it will stick better in your memory. In your brain, your thoughts are pretty much the same.

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A new start: Why are you doing this?

or CHAPTER IX of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" Ask yourself why you are doing this at all. Is this the chapter you should have started with? But if we look at motivation as the sum of the addends, it fits in wonderfully here too. If you haven't watched the legendary Simon Sinek TEDx talk, which suggests starting with the question "why",

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A new start: say it loudly

or Chapter VIII of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" What's in the mind is in the language. What on the tongue is on the mind. You've probably noticed that when you've made a promise to someone, regardless of whether it may or may not have been insignificant to the other person, by saying it out loud we immediately develop a kind of moralistic

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A new start: Think of yourself as an athlete

or Chapter VII of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" "If you have a body, you are an athlete" When does a person become a singer? When a pianist? When an athlete? There is probably no objective answer to these questions. Some say Marco Tasane is a singer, some say he is not. So what do we do? A referendum? It is probably not so important whether or not the

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A fresh start: make a commitment

perhaps CHAPTER VI of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't have made it to school most days, at least until ninth grade, if it hadn't been compulsory. Mare Toompere's history lessons would have been a pleasant exception. That I am not quite a pu pu pu pu today I have to thank the Ministry of Education of the Estonian SSR and the Ministry of Education of the Estonian SSR.

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A fresh start: make it easy for yourself

or CHAPTER V from Marti Soosaare's e-book "New Beginnings" "The body stands still or moves in a uniform straight line when there are no external forces acting on it.". Newton's First Law Maybe you've had a cold-weather car with a flat battery. It happened to me once in the 90s. I was driving an old car at the time, and the battery was probably flat.

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A fresh start: put clues in places you can see

or Chapter IV of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" The most important thing in the world is what you're thinking about right now If you're not used to exercising, then for you, exercise is not like sleep, hunger or the urge to have sex, which will take care of itself. No one needs to remind us that it's time to eat something in the belly.

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A new start: focus on the start, not the finish line

or Chapter III of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" "5-4-3-2-1-down" We often have a goal for active movement, and it can often be some seemingly distant external motivator. If you follow Tiia Kaare's or Ott Kiivikas' Instagram feeds on a daily basis, but see a middle-aged, slightly overweight man or woman looking at you in the mirror, the contrast is stark.

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A new start: small things become big things

or CHAPTER II of Marti Soosaare's e-book "A New Beginning" Would you take a million euros from me today, or 1 cent that will double in value every day for the next month? In the previous chapter I wrote about time pressure. We often use the phrase that we have a HUNDRED. It's true that we all have quite a lot to do when we have a lot of time on our hands.

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A new start: Why do we go to the gym or not?

"We don't don't have too little time, we just have other priorities" If you ask us what the reasons are for going to the gym, you're bound to get a lot of different answers from different people. Who wants to look good, who needs to address a health concern that exercise can do wonders for, who says they get a kick out of exertion, who says it's the best thing for them?

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