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Lauren Mazzo is a freelance writer and editor specializing in health, fitness, nutrition, and wellness content. She's also an ACE-certified personal trainer and fitness nutrition specialist and is passionate about helping people live a holistically healthy lifestyle, focused on feeling good above all. Read her work on Self, Shape, Peloton, and Popsugar, where she was most recently the senior fitness editor. Offline, you can catch her hopping on a flight or learning to surf, ski, or mountain bike.

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