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GENERAL The decision is already made. You want to start training, but you don't know what to expect. That's completely normal — everyone goes through it. In this articl...
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FUNCTIONAL Here's a number worth remembering: from age 30 onwards, you lose 3% to 8% of muscle mass per decade — without doing anything to deserve it. After 50, the loss a...
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FUNCTIONAL Are you on Mounjaro, Ozempic or Wegovy? By now you're probably seeing results. The scale moves, clothes are looser, and there's a rare feeling of finally having...
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GENERAL Lisbon isn't New York. But the sense of safety has shifted in recent years — and more and more people are showing up at the gym with "selfdefence" as the trigge...
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FUNCTIONAL Hyrox has exploded. Two years ago almost no one in Portugal knew what it was; today there are soldout events in Lisbon and more and more people asking "how do I...
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GENERAL If you live or work in Campo Grande, Alvalade or near Cidade Universitária, you have a more varied training offer than it looks at first sight. Picking the wron...
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MUAY THAI Muay Thai is the national martial art of Thailand. It uses 8 points of contact: fists, elbows, knees and shins. If you've never trained, hesitating is normal. T...
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GENERAL You arrive at training after an impossible day. Head full of noise. Unanswered emails, tightening deadlines, a difficult conversation you can't shake. You step ...
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BOXING They call it "The Sweet Science." Boxing isn't about brute force or aggression. It is perhaps the most refined and technical combat art there is: distance, timi...
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FUNCTIONAL "So it's like CrossFit, right?" That's the question we hear most when we explain Be Water functional training. The short answer is: no. The long answer is this ...
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GENERAL Deciding to start martial arts is easy. Choosing where to train is the hard part. In Lisbon, you have dozens of options — chain gyms, independent clubs, special...
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MUAY THAI They call it "the art of 8 limbs" — fists, elbows, knees and shins. Muay Thai is the national martial art of Thailand and one of the most effective and complete...
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GENERAL One of the first questions everyone asks when thinking about starting martial arts is: how much does it cost? It's a fair question — and one that deserves an ho...
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FUNCTIONAL If you're reading this, you've probably been to a conventional gym before. Machines, treadmills, a generic playlist and that training plan nobody's updated sinc...
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JIU-JITSU If you've ever thought about starting JiuJitsu but don't know where to begin, this article is for you. I'll demystify everything — what it is, how it works, wha...
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