Post-Injury: How to Start Again After a Long Break
Generally, if we suffer some sort of exercise or training related injury, it goes one of two ways. Either it rocks our confidence and we never really get it back, opting instead to head back to the gym and actively avoid anything resembling the scenario when we sustained the injury. Alternatively, we resolve to get […]
Easy Ways to Improve Your Punch Power
Punching effectively and forcefully is hardly an art form. We’ve all seen someone throw a haymaker and it hasn’t done much more than slightly inconvenience the opponent. Likewise, we’ve also seen a short, sharp jab that has looked pretty ineffective when thrown but has put someone on the floor. Despite it not needing to be […]
Injuries: Most Common Injuries for Women
With training comes a unique set of pitfalls depending on what the routine is. Weightlifting, running, aerobics and even yoga all come with injuries that can be sustained if you’re not doing it properly or are doing too much. To compound the problem, women, being built differently to men, need to be aware of the […]
Six Food Safety Myths
Food safety is highly important. By following food safety rules, you will have a better chance of staying healthy and preventing food-borne illness. There are many myths floating around that give people false ideas about food safety. Knowledge is power, so here are some of the main myths so that you can avoid them and […]
Progress: Why You Don’t See Any Changes to Your Body (Yet)
Progress is a slow moving train. And because of that, it can be incredibly frustrating to put in your absolute best and not see the results you want, or worse still, see no results at all. There may be a perfectly reasonable explanation for why; you may have simply not trained enough, or placed unrealistic […]
Positive Body Effects of Distance Running
Our body reacts to strenuous activity like distance running in two ways: acute reaction and training effect. Acute reaction is when your heart rate speeds up, your stroke volume increases, your ventilation rate and depth of breathing increase, your blood pressure rises, and your muscles feel some fatigue. However, when an activity becomes regular routine […]
5 Reasons Why You Should Rock Your Insecurities
Even the most confident person in the world has insecurities. If they say they don’t, they’re not being honest. We’re human and part of that means we have imperfections, physical and mental. The old guard will tell you that you should step outside and not let your guard down; be confident and ‘fake it til […]
The Different Types of Cardio
Cardio has one major thing going for it; its beauty is in its simplicity. Being that the only major criteria for cardio is to be an exercise that works the heart, there are an absolute ton of different cardio exercises and regimes out there. Let’s take a look at some of them. Low intensity cardio […]
Cardio: What Is It and How to Start
‘Cardio’ is a term often bounded about that many will reference without fully understanding. ‘Cardio’ in the true sense of the word simply means that it is related to the heart, but that can be used in a range of subjects; medicine, science, and, of course, in exercise and general health. But what actually is […]
Know Your Muscle Building Exercises – The Back
Every bodybuilder and weight trainer will have his or her favorite exercises for each body part. That’s how it should be – as you progress through the various stages of learning you’ll understand what works best for you. It is useful, however, to take stock of your progress every so often and carry out an […]
