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4 Phase Workout For Huge Biceps
Every guy wants huge biceps. Most get nowhere close. Today, I’ve got a 4-phase, 30-day program that is designed to shock stubborn biceps into growth with a combination of strength and hypertrophy training.
Getting Back into Training After COVID
Returning to your exercise routine after contracting Covid can be challenging. You may be lacking in energy and strength, making you feel like you’re back at square one. You may even be still unwell as you deal with the effects of long covid.
4 Tips to Improve Mobility
Mobility is strength through the full range of motion of an exercise. Unlike flexibility, it relies on the muscle alone to produce the range of movement. So, a flexible person may be able to raise his straightened leg quite high with the assistance of their arm. A mobile person, however, will be able to manipulate their leg or other muscles without any help at all.
Why You Should Warm Up and Cool Down
When we’re busy, it can be tempting to forego the preliminaries and jump directly into our workout. In this article, my aim is to remind you why taking the time to warm up and cool down is well worth the extra few minutes.
Don't Skip Leg Day - Build Giant Quads
Leg day is the most dreaded day of the workout week. That’s because the lactic acid build-up and muscle pain that you get from working your quads are more intense than working any other part of your body. But that doesn’t mean you should skip leg day.
Don't Let the Weather Get You Down - Winter Wellness Tips
Heading into the winter season, a lot of people start to get sick, suffer from itchy throats, sniffles, and general yuckiness. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are 5 winter wellness tips that can keep you healthy as the weather closes in.
5 stretches to help knee pain
Knee pain can be debilitating. Even if it’s not chronic, it will cause constant discomfort and get in the way of your everyday routine. In this article, we lay out 5 stretches that will help you to bring some relief to the pain in your knee.
7 Veggies to Include When Meal Prepping
If you want to get on top of your nutrition, eat clean and stay consistent then you need to be meal prepping. That’s when you set aside some time one or two times per week to prepare future meals in advance. Doing so, allows you to pull a fully prepared, healthy meal right out of the freezer when you get home on a weeknight.
4 Week 5K Training Program
Running a 5K is an achievable, yet challenging objective for anybody. As a result, it makes an ideal goal for someone trying to get off the couch and into an active lifestyle. Without a plan, however, you will struggle to make it to the finish line on the big day.
5 Intense Core Exercises
The core is at the heart of virtually every move you make in the gym. As the link between your upper and lower body, it is your functional power base. It is also responsible for midline stabilisation.
Breathing Exercises to Get Your Stress and Anxiety Down
The way you control your intake of oxygen has a lot to do with how you feel. More specifically, by learning to breathe for maximum oxygen intake, you'll be able to significantly reduce your stress and anxiety levels.
Morning or Evening? When is the Best Time to Exercise
Carving time out of your day to exercise is a challenge. So, if you’ve got the choice, it pays to know whether you’re going to get more bang for your buck by exercising in the morning or the evening. In this article, we take a look at what the science and the practical applications say about the best time to exercise.
Get Your Heart Rate Up with this 45 min HIIT Workout
When it comes to maximising fat burn, supercharging your cardio fitness, and building awesome endurance power it’s hard to beat a HIIT workout. HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training. It involves short, intense bursts of work followed by equally short rest periods.
Start Your Day Off Right With This Morning Stretch Routine
During the hours of sleep, your muscles can become stiff and immobile. A wake-up stretch routine will wake up your muscles, allowing them to feel more supple as the blood flow increases.
What is Keto and is it Right For You?
The ketogenic diet is a high fat, moderate protein, low carb diet designed to force the body to switch from using glucose from carbohydrates to using ketones from fat as its primary energy source. It does this by restricting the intake of carbohydrates and increasing the amount of fat consumed.
4 Reasons to Add Kettlebells to your Workouts
You’ve probably seen those strange bowling ball like iron weights in the corner of your gym. You may have even wondered why anyone would use them when dumbbells are so much more user-friendly. Well, it turns out there are some distinct benefits to adding kettlebells to your workouts.
5 Wellness Habits and How to Stick to Them
Life is an accumulation of habits. If we can accrue more good ones and fewer bad ones, we will thrive, both physically and mentally. Here are 5 wellness habits that you should focus on, along with some tips on how to stick with them.
Short on Time? Here are 5 HIIT Workouts to Try
If you thought you had to dedicate a large chunk of time to your workouts to get a super effective cardio effect and burn a ton of calories, you haven’t done HIIT. High Intensity Interval Training allows you to get in a very intense workout in less than half the time you might normally spend. That makes it the perfect solution for those days when you can’t fit in your regular workout.
Yoga for Recovery and Coming Back from Injury
If you’re putting up with aches and pains, or if you’ve recently suffered a muscular injury, you’ll likely do anything to find relief. For many people, though, yoga doesn’t readily come to mind as a therapeutic tool to help provide that relief. In this article, we’ll shed light on the benefits of yoga therapy for injury recovery.