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Wade Yoder

Wade Yoder is a Master Trainer, with certifications in: Fitness Nutrition, Exercise Therapy, Strength and Conditioning, Senior Fitness and Youth Fitness. He is the owner of Valley Athletic Club and has been in the health and fitness club business since 1991. For a little over 10 years he has been writing health and fitness articles for local newspapers and enjoys helping his readers strip artifice and fluff away from the basics of fitness, nutrition and health.

Wade Yoder's Latest Articles

Battling against water retention

Most of us have probably had this come up either personally or with someone we know.

Our holiday season calorie furnace

There are two things that usually seem to happen during the holidays: An increase of calorie intake and a decrease in intense physical activity.

Unleashing Your Inner Pharmacy

When foreign invaders come into our body and attempt to upset the balance, it would make any of us feel good if we could see the armies unleashed by our immune system. 

Sports conditioning vs. lifestyle conditioning

Sports conditioning is similar in concept to lifestyle specific conditioning, in that both are trying to maintain or gain certain levels of capability.

Breaking your fast

Breakfast comes from "breaking the fast."

Breast cancer cell apoptosis…nature’s chemotherapy

There are many approaches to cancer, whether prevention, early detection and using external methods of reducing or extracting the cancer.

Safe fat loss vs. toxic fat loss

Rapid weight loss can cause rapid aging. If you do it right, there are a few things you can do that will ensure your efforts will yield the results you're after…

Controlling sugar spikes controls fat deposits

Food intake is a lot like income.

Intersection of suicide and mass homicide 

Though they are vastly different, they both bring mass harm and both are often connected to mental health.

Aerobic vs. anaerobic exercise

Some things remain the same and give substance to why almost any exercise routine works.

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