Super Full Body At-Home Workout
Short and super! This workout included supersets of working for the same muscle group in…
Short and super! This workout included supersets of working for the same muscle group in…
Get ready to hold those planks and bridges, this workout has no movement with isometric…
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This workout features the TRX! Don’t have one? Then you need one. The TRX Suspension…
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Welcome to the January Plank challenge, a simple yet effective daily challenge that will improve…
Coffee is a habit of many peoples workday starting from when they get up and often continues well into the day but does this seemingly harmless habit that gives us such a boost affect our diet, health or fitness?
Coffee is a stimulant with the stimulation coming from ‘caffeine’ found in many drinks both hot and cold it’s an addictive stimulant. Caffeine however is not only found in stimulation drinks, coffee & tea, it has an active role in many weight loss pills and fat burners! The reason for this is the physiological affects it has on the body which are similar to light cardiovascular exercise without actually doing it.
Creatine pronounced (Kre’ah-tin) is becoming increasingly popular in the health and fitness supplements market. No doubt you’ve heard of it but it’s unlikely that initially you’ll have any idea of what it is or why it could help you achieve more and reach your goals.
Creatine is a supplement to primary increase muscle size, it’s not a weight loss supplement, creatine should be taken as per suppliers recommend guidelines together with a structured exercise programme for increasing muscle size and a balanced healthy diet.
It’s worth noting that it will only have any effect if you do indeed work out, it will have no effect if taken on it’s own without working out, other than increasing the amount of Creatine stored in your body which is useless as you are not working out.
Exercising & adhering to a regular training plan is not for those who just want to lose weight. The need to be fitter, more able with better performance is often though participation is sport or a regular sporting activity. While generic training has it’s benefits and to some degree might benefit anyone, training specific for the activity or sport you regularly undertake or compete in will bring about better performance and reduce the risk of injury.
Personal Trainers are trained in creating training plans with the wealth of exercise knowledge to build effective and specific training programmes that reflect sport specific movements, from the warm up to training muscles to fire in a certain order with maximum performance, to get the most out of your training you need to get specific.
Specific Training = Better Results
Taking part in regular exercise often has it’s barriers whether that’s down to opportunity, finance…
Finding the time to do things that you want to and need to do, can be one of the hardest things we have to plan around. A busy job and long hours don’t really help us either, if you want to exercise, if you want to get fit and if you want to start leading a healthy lifestyle then “I don’t have time to exercise” is just not good enough. It’s essentially a decision already made up, the statement implies you have little intention to try or plan to exercise. The truth is the things in life we do, we do because we want to do them and therefore have MADE time to do them. If you want to do something, you need to make the time to do it.
Getting out and exercising in winter when the nights draw in can take some motivation, it’s a real test to your exercise regime once the weather becomes unfavorable. Colder weather can prevent you getting out of the front door. and going on you normal run or getting to your local group exercise session. However, we must remember that it’s a god thing! Colder weather burns more calories.
This is because your core temperature remains the same, rarely moving 1 degree away from the average body temperature of 36.2 degrees. In order to achieve this when the environment is much colder than our core temperature, heat promoting mechanisms are activated, all exchange of heat happens through radiation, conduction, convection and evaporation. Your shell acts like a temperature gauge & a warning system for this heat promoting mechanism allowing them to trigger when shell temperature drops.
Working for short duration on individual exercise stations with fast transitions increase aerobic capacity and overall fitness while burning calories and increasing muscle tone & strength. Circuit training is suitable for everyone and a session will include standard body weight and light equipment exercise that allow for exercise progressions from beginner to expert. Ideal for your first group exercise session or seasoned fitness freak.
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Your body burns more calories in cold weather environments as it tries to maintain it’s…
One of the most used excuses for not exercising and working out has to be ‘ I don’t have enough time’ Well, with an attitude like that you’ll never get in your workout gear!
Time is the most precious commodity we possess and it’s never we don’t have enough of it, just we don’t know how to get the most out of it. The truth is we get done what we WANT to and make time for what we WANT to. The truth about the seasoned excuse “I don’t have time to exercise” is not that at all, it’s that you have-not made it a priority. If you did, you’d be in your running shows and already out the door and back before your procrastinating self has finished telling you why you should be working out yet you’re still arguing you don’t have enough time, not today!
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Why do people always say you should exercise in the morning? It’s not just a myth, it’s actually much better for you and if you’re going to do it, you might as well get it out of the way, right?
Well sure, that’s right but it’s more than just getting it out of the way, it’s about setting you up for the day, it’s about feeding your own needs, nurturing yourself and making yourself more productive. Many Successful people all exercise in the morning, normally for at least an hour and considering their the CEO’s of major companies they still find the time. They find the time because they’ve planned it and it’s part of their routine, that’s the important part, routine. To get something to be part of your routine you need to make a habit and to do that you have to repeat what you do until it sticks. In Laura Vanderkam’s 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think she discusses habits that both successful and everyday people do before breakfast, exercise is normally part of most peoples get up routine.
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The idea of working out first thing might seem to some like a horrible idea and far away from where you want to be, tucked up warm in your bed! however, research shows that when you exercise in the morning, you’ll be more likely to stick to it and create a habit for a lifetime. This will transform your health, improve your happiness, mood, outlook & overall well being. There’s also something really quite rewarding from getting up and completing a workout before most have had breakfast! If that’s not enough, the whole routine of getting up early and getting to it might surprise you just how much you can actually achieve before breakfast.
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