Best Rep Ranges for Strength, Muscle Growth and Endurance Goals
Rep ranges for strength, muscle growth and endurance. In this article, we’ll explain everything you need to know about repetition ranges for your fitness goals.
Resistance Training - 5 Things to Avoid For Best Results
When done right, the benefits of resistance training are literally limitless. Here are 5 things to avoid to maximise your results when starting a new program.
Fasted vs Fed: Weight Training
Intermittent fasting has been one of the most popular weight loss methods for years now, and for good reason. Not only can it help promote weight loss, some studies suggest that it can also reduce inflammation, promote cellular regeneration, improve insulin sensitivity, and boost brain function. It's clear to see why people love it so much!
5 Training Methods to help you break through a weight training plateau
You're eating well, training hard, and giving your body sufficient rest, yet you're stuck in a rut. What gives!? Unfortunately, weight training plateaus happen to us all. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or Mr. Olympia, you will no doubt have or will experience at least a few weight training plateaus along the way. Loss in strength, failure to hit rep counts, irritability, lethargy, frustration, lack of motivation, and little to no progress are all telltale signs that you've hit a training plateau.
Progressive overload training principle: Why it's so important for results!
The principle of progressive overload is probably familiar to you, but just not by that name. If you hang about the gym long enough, you will undoubtedly come across this term. And if you are serious about building muscle, this bodybuilding term and training concept is one that you must become friends with.
A beginners guide to weight training and muscle gain.
Whether your goal is to carve out Brad Pitt's six-pack in fight club or to build an Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator physique, you're going to have to include some weight training into your exercise routine.
Not sure where to start? Let us help!
Build Muscle, get ripped and increase endurance with Drop-sets
Drop sets are essentially a technique where you perform an exercise to failure or near failure, then drop (reduce) the weight and continue for more reps until you reach failure, drop the weight again and repeat.
The Mesomorph Series: The Ultimate Lean Bulk Plan
The three most common body types, or "somatotypes," are mesomorph, ectomorph, and endomorph. Understanding the three body types with their different body compositions, body shapes, bone structures, and metabolic rates helps nutritionists and personal trainers design effective, personalized workout routines and meal plans.
10 Ways to live longer: the secret to longevity
The first person to live to 150 years old has supposedly already been born and that the first person to live to 1,000 will be born in the next two decades. Here are 10 things you can do right now to improve your chances of living a long and healthy life.
Muscle Growth: 12 Essential tips to build more muscle
As men, it's only natural to want to look bigger and stronger, but with so much inaccurate information out there, knowing what to believe, what to do, and where to start can feel overwhelming. Here are 12 Essential tips to building more muscle mass!