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One of the most common questions is: “How many squats do I need to do for optimal impact?” We spoke to trainers to find out more. The Benefits of Squats Squats aren’t just for bodybuilders or weight lifters. They’re for everyone who wants to improve not only the way they look, but also their functional, skeletal and tendon strength. Building your strength in these areas helps to reduce the risk of age-related conditions like osteoporosis and sarcopenia, as well as improving posture, focus and balance....

How Much Potato Salad Per Person for Your BBQ If you are making homemade potato salad from scratch, you can figure that each person will eat 1/2 cup of potato salad. Here’s how much you will need to make, based on these guidelines: 4 people – 2 cups6 people – 3 cups12 people – 6 cups 20 people – 10 cups If you are buying potato salad ready-made, the measurements won’t be so exact, and you’ll probably end up with a little extra....

There are four main ways fish is prepared for purchase: whole round, dressed or pan dressed, steaks and fillets. When Serving Whole Fish If serving whole round fish—which means that the fish are exactly as they came from the water—figure each person will eat 3/4 to 1 pound. Here’s a general guide for how much whole round fish you’ll need per person, if everyone consumes 1 pound: 4 people – 4 pounds 6 people – 6 pounds 12 people – 12 pounds...

“The most challenging part of getting visual abs is reducing your body fat enough to be able to see them. Everyone has ab muscles but the problem is that they are often covered by body fat,” Matt Claes, personal fitness coach and founder of Weight Loss Made Practical, explains. “Once you are at a body fat percentage that is low enough, doing ab exercises to grow these muscles can really show visual results....

As delicious as garlic is mid-meal, the aftertaste is…not great. Since garlic is so pungent, it can linger in your mouth for hours after a meal—not exactly ideal. If anyone knows how to get rid of garlic breath ASAP it’s dentists, who are intimately familiar with oral health. Here, two reveal their top tips. Why Does Garlic Cause Bad Breath Anyway? New York-based general and cosmetic dentist Dr. Lauren Becker, DDS, explains that the reason why garlic causes bad breath is because of the compounds it contains....

What causes hiccups? “Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm and muscles that surround it,” says Donald B. Ford, MD, MBA, staff physician at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and professor of family medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. “That spasm causes an involuntary intake of air—a hiccup—and closure of your vocal cords. That closure is why you make a noise when you hiccup.” The exact mechanism for a hiccup, according to Harvard Medical School data: the contraction of your diaphragm and muscles makes you breathe in fast, then your vocal cords snap shut (which is called “glottic closure”)....

Each year, the music streaming giant releases its “Wrapped” lists for users, revealing your most-listened tracks and artists of the year. If you’ve been seeing all of your friends in your feed sharing their playlists but are clueless on how to find or share your own, fret not! Here’s how to see your Spotify Wrapped for 2021, as well as exactly what the service entails. What is the purpose of Spotify Wrapped?...

Setting your alarm with the best of intentions wake up at the crack of dawn tends to go straight out the window at the moment it actually goes off—and that’s when the snooze button starts to look oh-so-appealing. The truth is, the answer to the pressing “how to wake up early” question isn’t a simple one, and it’s only gotten more complicated now that we’re two years into the pandemic—and it’s on many of our minds have just gone through daylight savings time....

Marvel/Disney How to Watch Marvel Movies in Order of Story Since the action flicks weren’t released in sequence, we’ve gone ahead and, ahem, assembled a list of the films in what we feel is the best way to watch the Marvel events unfold (because we love you 3,000). So, if you’ve found yourself with a lot of time on your hands and feel like diving into the first three phases of the MCU—many of which are available to stream on Disney+—then you’ll want to watch the Marvel movies in chronological order rather than the order of their release....

“I’ve done some films and I’ve done some plays, but there’s nothing like doing a musical on Broadway,” says the beloved triple threat who currently stars as the well-meaning con artist Harold Hill in The Music Man on Broadway. “Right now, with everything we’ve been through, it’s so thrilling to have audiences back coming together—celebrating, laughing crying and communing.” Jackman adds that working with the cast, which includes Sutton Foster, has been a dream....

The runner-up is not guaranteed a recording contract, only the winner, but Hunter’s Idol single “Red Bird” impressed the record label enough that they signed her to a contract. It also didn’t hurt that the American Idol platinum ticket holder has the gift of gab. “I actually got to meet them whenever we were recording in L.A.,” she told Parade.com in this exclusive interview. “I didn’t even know who I was talking to....

You remember that Vegas show you went to—the one where the magician called an audience member up on stage, sat them down, swung a pocket watch around for 30 seconds and clapped in amazement as the person began to cluck like a chicken? It made for great entertainment—how did he do that?!—but also made you just a little bit wary of this thing called hypnosis. If it’s any assurance, real hypnosis—also called hypnotherapy and used by actual doctors in conjunction with their traditional medical or mental health practices—works a bit differently than a Vegas stage act....

Getting facial injections and dermal fillers used to be totally taboo. If you got them, you probably didn’t talk about it. However, over the past decade, the stigma attached to these types of cosmetic dermatology procedures has relaxed. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, over 4.4 million people were injected with Botulinum (aka Botox, Dysport, etc.) while 3.4 million opted for soft tissue fillers....

Who is Jeff Probst? Jeff Probst is the host and executive producer of Survivor. His work has earned him four straight Emmy Awards for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program from 2008 to 2011. Prior to his breakout on the show, he also hosted Rock & Roll Jeopardy! from 1998 to 2001. He also wrote and directed the Lionsgate released film Finder’s Fee. From 2012 to 2013, Probst hosted The Jeff Probst Talk Show, a syndicated daytime talk show on CBS....

What is the Met Gala? The Met Gala, also called the Met Ball, is an annual event held to celebrate the annual spring opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Each Met Gala has a theme, though not every attendee follows it. What is the point of the Met Gala? The Met Gala is a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Costume Institute is the only leg of the museum that has to fund itself, per The New York Times....

The actor recorded himself getting his head completely shaved, even showing two cut-off braids to the camera, before posting it on Instagram with an important message about stopping the use of plastic bottles, utensils, and other things that end up polluting the ocean and elsewhere. In the video—as he said goodbye to his long, wavy hair—Momoa started explaining why he was doing it, saying, “Shaving off the hair, doing it for uh,” before wincing after feeling the wind on the shaved side of his head....

Cook, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, passed away “peacefully” on Monday, Nov. 7, at his home in Destin, Fla., with his family and close friends by his side, according to a press release. The award-winning guitarist made up one-third of Alabama, alongside his cousins Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen. After first starting the band 50 years ago, the group would go on to have 43 No....

While attending Thursday’s event at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Dewan 41, dazzled on the red carpet while posing for a photo-op alongside fiancé Steve Kazee, 47. The Step Up alum brought her fashion A-game to the event while rocking a plunging black sheer Georges Chakra gown embellished with jewels and complete with a long, feathered train. She also accessorized with jewels from Jacob & Co. One of her stylists, Brad Goreski, shared a photo of the look to Instagram, crediting himself and Daniele Viviana Romero with putting together Dewan’s outfit for the night....

The R&B artist, 43, wished Teigen a happy 37th birthday on Wednesday, Nov. 30 by surprising her with an extravagant display on Sunset Boulevard. Legend shared a video of the moment to Instagram on Wednesday, Nov. 30, in a joint post with Teigen’s brand Cravings, where the cookbook author is seen getting out of her car in a blindfold before her hubby unveils the surprise—a giant billboard in her name on the popular Los Angeles street....

The Full House alum will be voicing Iron Man in Season 2 of Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends and Captain Salty Bones in Mickey Mouse Funhouse: Pirate Adventure. The latter was an exciting opportunity for the self-proclaimed “Disney guy.” “It was a trip for me to voice Captain Salty Bones because during the record sessions, they played back the other characters, and I’m talking to Mickey Mouse and Goofy—and sometimes I can’t even get through the line because I’m just so excited," Stamos told Parade....