Why a slow and steady approach to your health and fitness goals always wins
You can’t be blamed for wanting to lose 21lbs in 21 days or to sculpt a 6 pack in 7 minutes or less. After all, It sells and it’s important to dream. However, anything that seems to good to be true, normally is. Here's why the slow and steady approach to your health and fitness goals will always win!
Bodyweight Training | Your Essential Guide
Bodyweight training is a fun and highly effective form of exercise that will not only have you fit as a fiddle in no time, you'll burn a ton of calories, build strength and muscle, improve coordination, endurance, speed, flexibility and balance.
5 reasons your diet is doomed
There is nothing worse than committing to a diet, making the sacrifice and seeing zero return on your investment.
A successful diet is a sometimes complicated case of working out your own mathematical equation. Your current weight and desired amount of weight loss should be considered before embarking on any diet.
Forget the fad diets and just eat!
The word diet brings on a severe case of angst in most people. Having to reduce calories is bad enough but fad diets and cutting out entire foods groups is truly awful.
9 reasons you’re always tired!
With increasingly busy social lives, family commitments and work schedules, feeling tired at times is perfectly acceptable. If however, your fatigue is constantly getting the better of you, it may be time to make some lifestyle changes.
How to make your fitness resolution stick
After weeks of overindulgence in mulled wine and turkey stuffing, it possible that you’re ready for a fresh and healthy start to the new year. If you’ve set yourself the new year’s resolution to get fit, here are some helpful tips to ensure you’re exercising long after the rest have thrown in the towel.
6 tips to keep you motivated to exercise
Motivation is most important when beginning any sort of exercise program. It will allow you to ease into the rhythm of your new routine and your desire to train will be greater, yielding more impressive results.
Sugar – is it bad for you? The unsweetened truth!
Sugar it seems is absolutely everywhere. From high fructose corn syrup beverages to sugar-laden cereals to seemingly healthy low-fat products. Read more about how sugar affects our health and wellbeing.
A guide to using Ice and Heat for Recovery
Ice and heat treatments are seen as a simple solution to everything from arthritis to pulled muscles but what does science have to say about the subject?
How to speed up your recovery after exercise
Results don't happen in the gym alone and what you do in the hours and days surrounding your workouts can make all the difference between a slow and painful recovery with mediocre results and a fast recovery with great results! Here are 6 simple ways to maximize your recovery and results.
The no nonsense way to lose weight
The first thing to acknowledge about losing weight is that it's no easy task. It takes time, determination and consistency. Unfortunately there are no magic tricks to transform you into Beyonce or David Beckham over night. Forget the lose 21 pounds in 21 day or the build a six-pack in a week crap! Don't buy into the hype. If you do, it'll only chomp into your motivation when you don't get the results you expect.
The 5 Biggest Mistakes Skinny Guys Make When Bulking Up
When it comes to bulking up, many skinny guys get frustrated because they're doing all they can to build muscle but not seeing the results they feel they deserve. Can you relate?
What is Tabata training? | Your Essential Guide
Tabata training is one of the most trendy high-intensity interval training workouts around, and with so many amazing benefits associated with the ultra-intense HIIT workout, it's not hard to see why.
The almighty Argentine asado
For Argentinians, Asados are more than a meal, they're a ceremony. Men huddled around the fire sipping on fine wine, giving their 10 cents on how it should be done. The women making the side dishes. More often than not it's a 2 gusto salad, 3 if you're lucky. If you're honored enough to be invited into the home of an Argentine. Take this advice: you are a guest, take wine, eat whatever is given to you, empty your plate, enjoy the experience and say thank you!
Your essential guide to fall fitness
Despite the colder and darker days, Autumn in all its glory is not only one of the most beautiful times of the year, it’s one the best seasons to exercise and add some spice to your workouts. From idyllic weather to deliciously sourced local produce, here's your essential guide to fall fitness.
Healthy new year's resolutions you can stick to
Not all new year’s resolutions need to be wildly optimistic lifestyle changes. With these small but easy to stick to new year’s resolutions, you can have a fitter and healthier 2019.
Clean Bulking vs Dirty Bulking: Which is best for muscle growth?
Bulking refers to a gradual increase in the number of calories you take in combined with intense weight training. Any calorie intake beyond what your body needs to maintain your current bodyweight is a calorie surplus that your body can then use to build muscle. But which is better, clean or dirty bulking? We have the answers!
14 Tricks to stay motivated to exercise
Motivation is one of the most important and challenging aspects of regular exercise. Thankfully there are some simple tricks that can inspire and motivate you to keep exercising even when it's the last thing you want to do.
10 signs of a great workout
A great workout can help sculpt you a killer bod, relieve stress, boost energy and self-confidence and improve the quality of your sleep, but what is a great workout? Here are 10 signs that you're doing it right!
Lean Bulking: How to Bulk Up Without Gaining Fat
Going down the route of a lean bulk is much more sustainable in the long run than your more traditional bulk up and cut cycles. It ensures that you get everything you want and need without packing in calories for calories' sake and turning yourself into a literal human garbage disposal.