Want results from your workouts? Use Heavy Weights! For years only a handful of dedicated fitness enthusiasts have practiced a sure-fire method of achieving results from exercise: lifting weights with the heaviest loads possible. Most common gym routines are derived from the bodybuilding world and focus on moderate-to-high repetition ranges, usually 8-15 reps, to … [Read more...]
5 Ways Social Media Can Support YOUR Fitness Journey
Social Media Can Help Your Fitness Journey What motivates you to exercise? There are two basic motivators: a desire to move towards a goal or the intent to avoid an outcome. For example, you may be motivated to exercise because you want to lift an additional 50 pounds. However, if you’ve been advised to start an exercise program to improve your health because you face the … [Read more...]
6 Benefits of Using Standing Exercises to Strengthen Core Muscles
Your core muscles are designed to work while you're standing! Lying down to "strengthen your core" is sooo 20th century. If you're looking the best core exercises that can help you to reach your goals, consider doing them from a standing position! Let me ask you a question: how do you feel when you’re lying down? Does your energy go up or do you find yourself getting drowsy … [Read more...]
8 Fitness Trends for 2020
Every year the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) releases a list of fitness trends. While they use quantitative metrics from the fitness industry to identify popular workout programs, there is a flaw in their methodology. Some of the “trends”: personal training, exercise is medicine and health coaching (in the 2020 version which can be READ HERE) are nothing more than … [Read more...]
6 Things to Know About Muscle Imbalances
Looking better, losing unwanted weight or enhancing athletic performance are three of the most popular reasons for why we exercise. While many of us want the benefits from working out, not many of us will walk into a fitness facility and tell an instructor that we have something that needs to be fixed; yet many of us are walking around with muscle imbalances that could be … [Read more...]
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