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    **black friday sales!**

    BLACK FRIDAY SALES! Hello Team Iron! As we reach the pointy end of the year, everything becomes a little more chaotic. There doesn't seem to be enough time in the day - we totally get this! Starting a little early, we're having some Black Friday Specials (which can double as a sneaky Xmas...
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    30 Day Accountability Challenge: Signups

    This is essentially a 30 day personal accountability challenge where participants choose personal goals to work on over the 30 days, and then talk about their day (ups, downs, challenges or major victories or fails), and as a group we are there for each other to give a kind word or support as...
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    This 94-year-old grandma is a powerlifting champion

    Think of a powerlifter, and you probably don’t imagine: “94-year-old Florida grandma.” But not all powerlifters look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, and some are retirees. Edith Traina is a 94-year-old Floridian with a real passion for heavy weights. While she' s just six years short of 100, that...
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    Australian fitness model Maggie Russell works out four hours every day

    This is Maggie Russell. She’s 20 years old, trains every day for four hours and only eats 1,100 calories. Seeing as we are never going to put ourselves through that regime, looking at these pictures is the closest we’ll get to knowing what we’d look like doing the same. Thankfully she’s not...
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    Introducing The All New TITAN Gym shoe!

    Hey guys, super excited to announce this one. "Titan" has been in the works for 6+ months, and we're happy to share it with you guys. What do you think? They look incredible, and are also highly functional. We've made these available early as we know they will be super popular. Click HERE to...
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    workout review

    Hi guys, I'm new here, and maybe new to the fitness world. I would like to get my workout reviewed by more experienced people. I just use bodyweight exercises, I want to gain some mass and muscles but not like a body builder. I'm 30, 1.80m tall, 70kg. I'm quite lean but no muscles. So my...
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    Pre-prepared meals

    Does anyone use pre-prepared meals? Things like: http://www.fivepointfour.com.au/ I used to spend sometime on the weekend doing my meal prep but I am finding it harder to get do everything (work, training, family, hobbies etc...) so am looking at the prepared meals option. Just dont know what...
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    Expensive Running Shoes Are Not Better Than More Affordable Running Shoes (Study)

    Expensive Running Shoes Are Not Better Than More Affordable Running Shoes (Study) Table of contents 1 Conclusions first 2 Background information 3 Methodology 4 Results 5 Potential biases that influence results 6 About the researchers Based on 134,867 reviews of 391 running shoes from 24...
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    Scientists have discovered why running makes you happy

    If you're a big runner like me you know what I'm talking about when I describe that euphoric feeling you get in the middle of your workout — when your feet feel like they are floating over the ground and you can almost hear the air dancing past you. It turns out it's not all in your mind...
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    September 2015 Newsletter - our latest updates

    Recently reformulated, Pre Workout 101 has been selling like hotcakes and the Strawberry Lime flavour has been getting amazing reviews. So our Product of the Month for September is a free 200g pouch worth $20! Just by placing an order over $250, you can try 16 serves of our premiere ASADA...
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    Review - Inov-8 Fastlift 335

    So I got these shoes recently and thought I'd share my opinion. Unboxing - initial thoughts were that they look tiny. Admittedly I am only a size 9US (so these are an 8UK) but they looked smaller than all my other shoes and I thought they wouldn't fit but they're spot on. Build quality looks...
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    Elbow sleeves

    Interested in feedback from anyone who uses elbow sleeves. Particularly if you have used both the Inzer type ones and neoprene Rehband/TK type ones. Which did you find better/worse and why? Were you happy with they brand/type you used? Has anyone used the Loaded Lifting branded 7mm neoprene...
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    Possible Metabolic Issues

    Hi Guys, Fairly new here but I do have a question. Background I started a "10 week transformation" exactly 4 weeks ago @79.4 kg , so far i've sat on about 80kg the entire time and now dropped down to 79.5, i still seem to however be retaining a lot of the fat around my torso (this is usually...
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    Calum von Moger, Geelong bodybuilder, wins Mr Universe

    A 25-year-old Geelong man who was a self-confessed teenage “skinny little boy” has been crowned Mr Universe. Calum von Moger, 188cm and 112kg when not competing, won the bodybuilding pro title at the World Fitness Federation Universe event, staged in La Ciotat on the French Riveria over the...
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    CrossFit Games creator Dave Castro details how he designs the gruelling competition

    Winners are grinners. Rich Froning taking it all in. Source: YouTube AFTER four days of gruelling competition, Rich Froning faced a cheering crowd with his arms spread wide. He was embracing the moment for he had just won his fourth consecutive CrossFit Games and was now considered the...
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    Orions - how is everyone's holding up?

    Very happy with the Orions, very comfy etc, how is everyone's holding up? Mine are starting to come apart where the felt overlaps half way down the lace eyelets. They only get worn once a week for the most part so haven't done a huge number of ks...anyone else experiencing this?
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    From footy to food, corporate cash-ins cheapen the Anzac legend

    Ten years ago I wrote an opinion piece for The Sunday Age, condemning the commercialisation of Anzac symbolism. I specifically targeted the Anzac Day football game, arguing that the so-called "traditional clash" between the Bombers and the Pies was essentially a cynical marketing exercise...
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    Here is why we don't mass delete posts

    While we are happy to delete a post here and there when requested of when the thread gets spammed etc how ever we don't mass Delete posts as it screws up the order of threads, which means that threads need to be re-indexed by search engines before they return proper results. Deleting posts...
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    comments and suggestions on balancing life and training etc

    Hello everyone, just wanted to share part of my story and perhaps if others have felt the same and can share their thoughts and what they did. I would appreciate if we can stay on topic. Some information about myself: In the younger years i was relatively skinny. Around 2009 i started going...
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    Microsoft Surface III, wood you?

    The future of computing is here? I reckon next time I get a PC, it won't be a PC but a pad thingy like this one. It certainly has the specs to back its sexc looks up, dontcha think? Microsoft announces new iPad competitor, the Surface 3 Hook it up to a 27" monitor with a set of Dolby speakers...
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