Fitness
10 Best Cardio Exercises for Beginners to Try
You’ve heard everyone tell you that cardio is good for you; and finally, you’ve decided it’s time to start. They’re right. Cardio is great for you, whether you want to lose weight, gain more energy, or just improve your overall health and wellbeing. And the good news is that it’s not that difficult to get started. You don’t need to...
11 Upper Body Cardio Ideas (How to Do Cardio Without Legs)
Cardiovascular exercise is essential whether you want to lose weight, tone up, or just improve your overall health and wellbeing. But most popular forms of cardio require a lot of work from your lower body. This can present issues for people with disabilities, lower body injuries, or if you just want to prioritize your upper body. So is it possible...
7 Benefits of Nasal Breathing During Cardio
You probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how you breathe. You know how to breathe, right? You’ve been doing it all your life. But science tells us that being more conscious about how you breathe, specifically making sure you breathe through your nose, rather than your mouth, can have a number of benefits for your overall health...
Is Fasted Cardio Better for Fat Loss?
A lot of theories get thrown around in the fitness community on different ways to optimize training and get better results. One that’s talked about a lot is fasted cardio. Some corners of the internet will tell you that fasted cardio helps you burn fat quicker, and get more benefits from your cardio workouts. Yet others claim this is totally...
11 Bench Press Alternatives To Build a Strong Chest
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Do You Need a Deload Week?
If you’re feeling stuck at the gym, as if your progress has stalled, or even reversed, know that this is totally normal. When you maintain a strict, consistent, and intense training schedule over a long period of time, your body starts to wear down, even if you take regular rest days and are smart about recovery. Often, when you hit...
Can Working Out Twice a Day Accelerate Your Fitness Gains?
If you’re anything like me, you get impatient looking in the mirror every day and waiting to see your body transformation take place. Reaching your fitness goals takes time. However, it stands to reason that this time will be shorter if you work out harder and more often. That begs the question: can you work out twice a day? And...
All You Need to Know About DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness)
If you work out, you’re probably no stranger to sore muscles. Some go as far as to subscribe to the “no pain, no gain” ethos, and take muscle pain as an indicator of progress. But muscle soreness is uncomfortable to deal with, it can slow your progress (by keeping you from working out as regularly as you’d like), and it...
How to Build and Preserve Muscle After 40
When you’re young, you have everything. You’ve got your whole future ahead of you, few commitments, a boatload of free time, and all the energy in the world. But then you start getting older. You find your body doesn’t move as fast or as smoothly as it once did. Everything responds a little slower, it takes longer to recover. And...
How Long Does It Take To Lose Muscle?
Despite consistent training in the gym to successfully reach your fitness goals and achieve muscle growth, there may come a time when you're forced to take a break from your exercise regimen. Whether your routine has been disrupted from an injury, work, school, or family commitments, it's common to worry about if you will lose fitness. Anyone will inevitably lose...
The Norwegian 4x4 HIIT Protocol: A Powerful Path to Longevity
If you’re looking for a new way to train cardio, you might want to check out the Norwegian 4x4 protocol. This training protocol is fast gaining popularity, on the back of Dr Rhonda Patrick talking about it on a recent podcast appearance, and making some grand claims about its effectiveness, particularly as a way to boost VO2 max. Keep reading...
Push-Pull Workout Split for Building Strength and Muscle
No matter your level – whether you’re completely new to strength training, or you’ve been hitting the gym for a while – a push-pull workout routine is a great way to structure your workouts to get long-term results. Push-pull is simple, yet effective, and an excellent alternative to complicated workout splits you struggle to keep track of. Read on to...
Aerobic vs Anaerobic Exercise: What’s the Difference? And Which is Better?
You might not be aware that there are actual physiological differences between different forms of exercise. By changing the way you exercise, you recruit different energy systems in the body, and can achieve different benefits. These exercise types most often fall into one of two categories: aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Understanding the difference is important if you want to craft...
