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I hope you all had a fantastic New Year! With huge celebrations with friends and family.

Here at Beebleblog we love a good party and of course the drink that goes with it! However, we don’t like hangovers and I’m sure you don’t either! So here are our 3 top tips to avoid a hangover and 3 top tips to beat the hangover:

3 Top Tips to avoid a hangover:

1.    Have a good meal before starting the evening
2.    Have a glass of water with every alcoholic drink or as much as possible (may require lots of visits to the bathroom! - Beeble)
3.    Drink in moderation

We were going to do a fourth which would have been don’t drink at all! Although I have a feeling that not only would that be an obvious one but also would have been completely ignored.

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A few days ago I was asked the question: can sit ups make your stomach bigger? It took me back to my school days when there was a belief that too many sit ups would have the opposite effect of the desired flat tummy and actually give you a big stomach. So I have taken it upon myself to settle this myth once and for all.

Is it possible?

It is true that if you exercise a muscle it will grow in size and therefore surely exercise on your stomach will increase the muscle size and therefore make it stick out? Strictly speaking this is true, however the muscle will develop in all directions and not just outwards. It would also take an immense amount of exercise to achieve a large gut and you would be spending way too much time on your stomach. However that said there are people though that will find their stomach sticks out more once they have started their exercise routine that includes an ab workout.

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We would love to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Enjoy yourselves at this festive time and please come back after Christmas to learn more about how to treat your body and recover from the over indulgence! (which I think we all deserve – Beeble). If you have yet to read our tips to survive Christmas then please click here to learn your survival program.

From the team at Beebleblog.com

Hugo & Beeble

What are the Lat muscles?

The Lat muscles are positioned on your back and are the large “wing” like (shaded in yellow on the diagram) muscles that travel down either side of your back. Their full name is Latissimus Dorsi and they are one of the biggest muscles in our upper body. They join into our upper arms and reach all the way down our backs to our pelvis.

What do we use them for?

Any pulling movement that brings an object towards our bodies. Ranging from the simple task of pulling open a door to a back specific exercise like the bent over row or the classic chin up exercise. With our arms in an upright position above our heads the Lat muscles aid in pulling them down against resistance in front of us or to our sides. A lot of the movements created by the Lat muscles are assisted by the Biceps (shaded in red in the diagram) (click here for biceps stretch) and that is because usually when we pull something in towards us the elbow joint bends and it is the biceps that do this movement.

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What are the calf muscles?

The calf muscles are situated at the back of your legs below the knees. Scientifically the main portion of the calf muscle and the muscle usually considered as the calf is called the Gastrocnemius. It has two sections that run alongside each other originating from just above the knee and ending at the heel. The lesser known muscle that makes up the rest of the calf muscle sits under the Gastrocnemius and is known as the Soleus. The Soleus originates from just below the knee and joins into the same section of the heel as the Gastrocnemius. They both join on to the heel via a very well known and well injured tendon known as the Achilles tendon.

What do we use them for?

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