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How Does a PT Help Me on my Fitness Journey?
Are you wanting to get more out of your workouts? Considering hiring a personal trainer but not sure if it’s worth the effort or the money? Then you’re at the right place. In this article, I’ll spell out five dozen benefits that come from working with a personal trainer.
Recovery Smoothies - What You Should Add
Your workout is both physically and nutritionally demanding. It depletes your muscles of glycogen and causes stress to the muscle fibres. In order to recover, the body needs an infusion of solid nutrition after your training session is over. The recovery smoothie is a great way to get it. Smoothies are easy to digest and absorb so that the nutrients will get into the muscle faster.
Looking to Build Your Back - Try These 5 Exercises
When it comes to building an impressive, rugged muscular back, you have to work every area. That means targeting the latissimus dorsi, trapezius, and erector spinae muscles. In this article, we’ll lay out the five best exercises to work these muscles most effectively.
7 Reasons You Should Be Eating Fish
Fish is one of the healthiest foods you can ever eat. Yet, people in the western world aren’t generally getting enough of it. In this article, we’ll lay out 7 reasons why you should be eating fish at least 2-3 times per week.
How To Get the Best Sleep of Your Life
Getting a good quantity and quality of sleep is crucial to a happy, energetic and productive life. Lack of sleep will leave you feeling drained, lethargic, and unfocused. Rather than seizing the day ahead, you’ll struggle just to drag yourself through it.
HIIT for Beginners
You’ve probably heard of high intensity interval training, or HIIT before. It’s been around for over a decade, but it has become hugely popular in the last few years. HIIT started out as a method of running on the track, but is now being applied to all sorts of types of training, including bodyweight and resistance exercises. In this article, we’ll explore how to incorporate HIIT training into a beginner training routine.
10 Full Body Exercises
Full body exercises are those that work the majority of your skeletal muscles together. By building your workout around these types of exercises, you will be getting more bang for your exercise buck. In this article, we’ll present 10 full-body exercises that can be done anywhere with no equipment.
Wellness Tips to Prevent Burnout
With the pace of life more intense than it’s ever been, burnout is a risk that we all face. When you’re including exercise as part of your lifestyle, you need to be careful that you don’t overdo things, resulting in a state of overtraining and burnout that leaves you exhausted and unable to function normally.
A Brief History of Pilates (plus a simple workout).
Without a German immigrant to the United States named Joseph Pilates in 1925, there would be no such thing as Pilates. In this article, we briefly track his story and the parallel development of the Pilates phenomenon.
Getting to the Core: Functional Workouts for Maximum Core Strength and Stability
Your body’s strength, stability, and functionality all originate from the core. Core exercises work the muscles in your abdomen, lower back, pelvis, and hips. When these muscles are strengthened you’ll be able to reduce back strain, improve breathing, and develop your body’s power base.
45 Min Spin BIKE Workout
Spin cycling is one of the most intense forms of cardio exercise that exist. If you want to burn maximum calories, while giving both your lower and upper body muscles an intense workout, spinning is the way to go. Spin cycling is also fantastic for your heart and lungs.
Help Look After Your Heart With These Nutritional Tips
Eating for heart health and overall wellness has become hugely complicated. There are so many conflicting diet ideas out there that it's no wonder people have no idea which one to follow. The truth is that you shouldn’t follow any diet plan. Instead, you need to build sound nutrition habits into your lifestyle. Only then will you be able to achieve sustainable long-term heart health.
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.