Holding your breath and squeezing every last ounce of strength in order to complete the last rep of the last set gives a feeling of accomplishment that undoes all the crap a day in the office brings. Keep in mind though that when you see stars after that last rep, that's your body letting you know how close it was to shutdown due to stress. Nine out of 10 times, you recover in seconds but knowing how to breathe during...
Weight lifting for weight loss is a best practise for healthy long-term weight management. Unfortunately, weight lifting is often lost on people who believe that it’ll make them look like body builders. Another deep-rooted, and wrong, belief is that cardio is the best strategy for weight loss. Both beliefs are false and today we’re telling you why you can’t ignore weight lifting for weight loss.
Compound exercises are like city neighbours - you see them every day but you never noticed them till someone pointed them out to you. These 5 effective compound workouts are probably already part of your workout but this might well be the first time you stopped to look at them closely and understand why they're effective. We're not saying that all your fitness and weight loss problems will be solved if you do these compound exercises but we are saying...
I love the skipping rope and skipping rope workouts are a great way to practise good mind and body connection. What's more, skipping can't be boring, unlike jogging and walking, which you can do even half asleep. But if you're new to skipping, be prepared to feel the music play when the rope hits your toes! And if you use a thick rope as I do, then the music will only play louder!
Sometime back Sasha posted about the basics of rope skipping and explained how it can be an effective cardio workout. So if you have never skipped rope before, I suggest you first read Benefits of Skipping for Cardio Exercise to get familiar with skipping. For those of you who can skip rope, here are some fun skipping rope workout ideas.
Whether you're starting a workout or you've been working out for 6 months, it's always good to know how you're doing. In fact, you should regularly measure fitness levels simply because there's no way of knowing otherwise whether you're stagnating or not. We had spoken earlier about measuring your body fat percentage as a good way to measure fitness, today we're going to look at the push-up test. The push-up test gives you benchmarks that you can measure against so...
The bicep hammer curl is often looked at as a sister exercise to the bicep curls. Most of you would already be familiar with the bicep hammer curl being a part of your arms workout or your biceps workout. The motion is almost identical to the bicep curl, the difference being that in the bicep curl, the wrist faces outwards and in the bicep hammer curl, the wrist faces inwards (towards your body). The slight difference allows for additional arm...
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