Foam rolling is a technique used to ‘massage’ your muscles, which can become very tight and tense from exercising, by using your body weight to apply pressure to certain muscles. This practice can be used to ease muscle tightness and knots, help with elongating your muscles and even aid in their recovery. It is quite […]
Here are 6 simple tips that you can incorporate in your own life to get yourself started, if you have absolutely no idea where to begin on your road to losing that extra weight. Now most of these tips should primarily be applied by people with a lot of fat to lose, with body fat […]
Look at those guns! The biceps flexing and those ripped triceps. Something we hear so often when someone refers to a guy with perfectly formed biceps and triceps or ‘ARMS’. Having a good pair of guns does seem impressive, and yes, it takes a lot of work to get them, and you can wear the […]
When it comes to setting foot in the gym or commencing any ‘exercise regime’ for that matter, one common predicament that many people find themselves in, is that they do not know where to start or how to go about putting together a decent training programme. This in turn often leads them to delay in […]
We all have those days when we get to the gym to train, go through the motions and just get it done, but that burning, pumped-up feeling is simply not there. This is normal, after all we are only human and we have our ups and downs. The way you feel, your mindset and attitude really determines […]
We all hope that everyone we meet and have to interact with has some sort of manners, maybe not extreme manners, where they want to help us in every possible way but I think we hope that they will at least have the courtesy to treat us well and in a decent manner. The same […]
When starting out with anything in life, we never truly know exactly what we are doing, but as time goes on we adapt and start to learn and get better and better at it. Practice does make perfect after all. This same thing applies with training. A lot of young guys join a gym wanting […]
Many times people walk into the gym without a programme or plan and end up doing a few exercises all over the place, depending on they are feeling or what mood they are in. Now I’m not disputing this approach entirely as it may work for some people, but mostly the more advanced gym […]
There’s quite a big difference between just losing weight and losing specifically fat. Most times if someone is quite overweight we hear the expression “I just need to lose weight.” When it comes to bodybuilding and fitness related competitions it is extremely vital to lose FAT and not lose weight per se. The reason behind […]
Every time I get sick or get the flu, the big question comes into my mind, ‘should I train or shouldn’t I?’ Then I start to think about my progress and how I just have to get to the gym and I keep trying to justify it to myself, thinking I will be fine and […]
