How to Supercharge Your Workouts through Suspension Training Are you getting tired of your usual workouts? Do you feel like you are not getting any gains from your normal routine? If you’re looking for more challenge to your fitness regimen, suspension training may be the answer to your needs! Before …
Bodybuilding Through the Ages As technology evolves around us at a rapid pace, we realise that other aspects of our daily lives are also constantly changing. Nutrition and fitness has been revolutionised. In the past 50 years alone both have undergone a huge transformation. Significant changes came about in the 1980s …
Intermittent Fasting: A Longer Way Of Life For many of us, the idea of having a toned, fit physique is appealing, but so too are generous helpings of our favorite foods. And there’s usually only one winner. But what if you could have the body without having to eradicate the …
What You Need To Know About Calisthenics Training If you don’t have the money to get a gym subscription or can’t build your own at home because you don’t want to spend a fortune on exercise equipment, calisthenics might be the right solution to all of your problems. One of …
A Lazy Mom’s Fitness Guide: How to Get in Shape for Summer Being a parent is a full-time job all on its own, and once you add a career on top of it, sometimes it becomes rather difficult to be able to focus on anything else – like hanging on …
Trust me when I tell you that German Volume Training, GVT, is very hard. However, nothing worth having comes easy and I have found it to be a very effective way to pack on muscle fast!. To the best of my knowledge, this training system originated in Germany, hence the …
How Personal Trainers Can Reduce Injuries and Increase Fitness Summer weather is just around the corner, along with swimsuits, sundresses, tank tops, and a strong desire to lose weight, increase fitness levels, and hit the gym. So many people make their New Year resolution to go back to the gym …
There once was a time when Batman was portrayed as an average-sized human being, with nothing particularly super about his physique (think Adam West in a leotard in the 1960s TV series). However in comic books, his body would give real-life body builders a run for their money, but when …
PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching is one where muscle group is passively stretched, then isometrically contracted against resistance while in the stretched position, and then is passively stretched further on. Basically, it is a combination of passive and isometric stretching. PNF is the most effective currently known way to increase …
I’ve discussed dynamic stretching in the previous post. Let’s see what static stretches are. First of all, they are great for cooling down after weight training or other kind of intensive training. Static stretching – can be classified to active, passive, isometric and PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretches. Active static …