Be it digesting your food, de-stressing after a long day, or preparing your body for well-rested sleep, night walks have many advantages. So, if you also love an early dinner and a night-time stroll, this one’s for you! Well, your night walk might actually help be on your weight loss track as well! …
If getting a fabulous body is your goal, it is essential to remember that a workout routine is absolutely necessary. While shedding fat from certain body areas is easy, targeting back flab can be challenging. Back fat tends to be stubborn and requires dedicated effort to reduce it. This issue is particularly prevalent among …
Do you often struggle to step out of bed for a morning workout? Shake off the laziness with some awesome yoga poses for fat loss. While it won’t give you instant results, yoga does more than giving you a fit body. It is a stress-buster and mood-lifter and helps to curb emotional eating. These …
A little thigh fat won’t do you any harm, but there’s nothing wrong if you want to lose the extra kilos around your thighs. However, spot reduction is a myth and you need to incorporate exercises in your regime that work on your whole body, not specific areas. So, if you’re aiming to lose …
Let’s take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the message boards, before social media, and before everyone wanted 19 footnotes of rat studies […]
I’m a firm believer of whole-body training, and when it comes to better results, I believe it’s important to train seven days a week.Now, there’s no reason to worry about overtraining, because the human body is designed to work every day without rest. With the right full-body training program, you can safely work your entire […]
Read most articles about gaining muscle, and you could be forgiven for assuming it’s purely a male problem. With titles like "Get huge!" "Pack on the pounds!" or "Jack up your mass!" it’s no wonder many women shy away.In reality, though, having plenty of lean muscle mass benefits everyone. Men may want oversized biceps and […]
The best-known lower-body movements in the gym both ramp up muscle activation, and inflict a fair amount (or a ton) of muscle damage. Squats, for example. Do them hard, and they’ll build some serious stumps. They’ll also make you sore as hell and limping for a few days. However, there’s another class of movements that […]
Let’s be honest: Stretching isn’t sexy, and most of us don’t do it. We’d rather do the fun exercises that make us sweat or burn a ton of calories, and stretching doesn’t do either.However, failing to keep your body flexible enough can actually set back your progress, cause unnecessary pain and tightness, and even lead […]
Even when he was a commercial pilot, Thakur Anoop Singh had a physique that would turn heads. It was that tapered body—with good looks to match—that caught the attention of Indian television producers.Soon, Singh was cast in the role of King Dhritarashtra in the 2013 television retelling of the Mahabharata, one of the two major […]
Sometimes the one move that would benefit you most is the one you’d most prefer to skip. In the case of the lower body, you’d be hard pressed to find a move as loved by coaches, and hated by lifters, as the Bulgarian split squat, aka the rear-foot-elevated split squat (RFESS). What’s to hate about […]
Let's take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the … [Read More...]