Workouts

A collection of 49 posts

Fitness

What Should I Do On Rest Days?

if you’re someone who detests the idea of taking a day completely off the weights, read this article. It will (hopefully) knock some sense into the inner iron demon within you and show you how well-planned rest days can fast-track your muscle-building progress.

Fitness

The Ultimate Guide: The Barbell Back Squat

While most people squat, many don’t perform it correctly – or optimally for maximal leg muscle growth. Perhaps it’s the setup. Or, maybe they’re just not reaching sufficient depth.

Fitness

How To Make Your Lower Abs Pop

Aren’t the upper and lower abs one single muscle? Now, before we deep-dive into how you can – finally – meet your lower abs, it’s critical to address a common misconception. Many believe that the upper and lower abs are just one muscle and that the lower abs cannot be selectively targeted.

Ladies

The Harsh Truth About Building Muscle As A Female

Everywhere you look, it seems like all women want to do is to lose weight. What if you're trying to gain weight by putting on lean muscle mass? If you do, I think you'll agree with us that muscle-building information relating to women is a lot more scarce!

Workouts

You Only Need These 3 Equipment To Build A Home Gym

Look: you can be honest with me. I understand. Between all the packing and the time taken to commute amidst the heavy traffic (depending on what time you work out), you can be exhausted even before you step into a commercial gym.

Fitness

The Top 3 Glute Exercises You’re Not Doing

Do you think that deadlifts and squats are all you ever need for a functional, perky butt? Well, if you do – you’re in for a rude awakening. In this article, we’ll explore why soreness doesn’t always lead to maximal muscle growth

Diet

Struggling To Lose Weight? Take a Look at Ketogenic Diets

By now, it must be near impossible for you to take part in dietary-related conversations without the mention of the word “ketogenic.” From its purported enhanced fat-burning effects to its potential to cure cancer, it seems that there’s nothing this low-carb diet can’t do.

Workouts

Why Training Injured Can Speed up Recovery and Performance

Do you think you can improve strength in your injured limb by training your other? From what we know so far, it is entirely possible to train one limb and increase strength or mitigate strength losses in the other limb; this concept is also known as the "cross-education phenomenon."

Diet

How Many Protein Shakes Is It safe to drink?

The chances are that dietary protein is bound to come up in conversations every few minutes or so. And if you're a lifter yourself, you undoubtedly understand why. Protein is – undoubtedly – the most critical macronutrient when it comes to making improvements to your physique.

Diet

Things You Didn't Know About Collagen Protein Powder

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but collagen protein powder seems to be the buzzword that’s on every fitness enthusiast’s lips at the moment. With purported benefits like enhanced muscle development, reduced joint inflammation, and more radiant skin – I was intrigued.

Workouts

How Dangerous is Working Out in The Heat Really ?

To prevent you from getting a heat stroke since we don't want you passing out in the scorching sun, here are some refreshing tips. Workouts in the heat cannot be considered enjoyable by any stretch of the imagination, yet its not entirely unheard of to make progress during the hottest of times.

Motivation

Key Reasons Why Workouts Benefit Your Mental Health

You already know the various physical benefits of exercise: lower blood pressure, reduced risk of diabetes, weight control, and of course, the ultimate achievement of a rocking hot body. But – I bet you didn’t know that exercising can give you above-the-neck benefits, as well!

Community

5 Tricks That Will Make You Love Your Workouts

You've just gotten home after a long and exhausting workday filled with endless meetings and unnecessary email communication; it's perfectly understandable why heading to the gym is at the very bottom of your to-do list. I mean, if it's even there at all, of course.

Diet

These Myths About Female Fitness Are Holding You Back

Flip through any women's fitness magazine – you'd be hard pressed to read 3 pages of content with being shown a 'revolutionary' workout routine that promises to melt all your fat off within 2 weeks. And the best part? All you need are 2 KG dumbbells.

Diet

The Real Reason Why Post-Workout Anabolic Window Is A Myth

Are you someone who sprints off to the locker room to chug down your favorite chocolate protein shake the moment you’re done with your last rep? Well, if you are, I take it that you’ve heard of the anabolic window: the special place where all your gains come true.

Diet

Secrets to Getting Lean Body Mass

There’s no exceptional food, fruit, or type of diet that can help you achieve sustainable leanness. Repeat after me: the only way you’ll get lean for the long-term is if you are in a consistent caloric deficit. So — what should you eat to get lean, then?

Gym

Why You Should Forget Everything You Know About Short Rest Periods

If you’re like most people, you believe that short rest periods are superior for muscle hypertrophy. But — other than being a moral and (honestly, sometimes) an ego booster, do short periods really help with enhanced muscle growth?

Workouts

One tip that can give you bigger muscles

Up until recently, there has never been scientific testing on the idea of inter-set stretching. Only a grainy picture of a PowerPoint slide from a conference that suggested a prospective study that showed improved hypertrophy rates from stretching between sets.

Fitness

How To Conquer Muscle Soreness And Muscle Pain Effectively

It would be a bad idea to train the same muscle group today, right? Well: not so fast. New research has surfaced findings that light training of the damaged muscle group can help with recovery better than merely resting. But just how light is ‘light’?

Progressive Overloading

Should You Always Train To Failure?

One of the most common pieces of advice? Probably that you need to train to failure — where you only ever end a set when it becomes physically impossible to move the weight any further. So —  does training to failure lead to higher rates of muscle growth?

Mindfulness

The Power of the Mind Muscle Connection

For decades, bodybuilders have been preaching the importance of ‘mind-muscle connection’ — the concentration of effort on the particular muscle being worked during an exercise. But: does mind-muscle connection really lead to increased muscle growth in working muscles, or is it all just bro-talk?

Fitness

How your different muscle fibre types affect muscle development

If you’re into lifting, you’ve probably heard that you should train various muscles differently based on its predominant muscle fiber type. Is it true ? Find out

Fitness

Morning or Evening? The Best Time to Workout Revealed

What if you had a choice between working out in the morning or the evening ? Lets take a look at which one is better for your fitness

Workouts

How to Build Muscle Faster in the Gym with Progressive Overload & Deloading

While there are no shortcuts, there are two methods you can use to build muscle more effectively: progressive overload and appropriate deloading.