Planning to lose weight, but don’t know if you should go for a run or do jumping jacks? We tell you if running is better than jumping jacks for weight loss or not. Running is perfect for those who don’t like to use equipment or go to a gym, but want to burn …
Here’s why the world’s most recognisable athletes and celebrities can’t get enough of this Aussie-made workout device. If you follow Khloe Kardashian, the ‘sporty spice’ of the bunch, you’re likely faced with clips and pictures of her intense daily workout routine on Instagram every time you open the app. …
Table of Contents Would you like to take a break from lifting weights or just add some variety to your full-body workouts? Then you can try using an exercise ball, which is suitable for strengthening the muscles of your arms, back, abdomen, and legs. This …
Calorie Calculator | Total Daily Energy Expenditure | Maximum Heart Rate | All Training Calculators Wondering how to burn more calories? Being more active is a great start. But how do you know how many calories you’re actually burning? This calculator will give you calorie burn estimates for over 100 common exercises, sports, and …
It’s no secret that a variety of exercises are needed to effectively train your shoulders. Presses, raises, reverse fly variations—they’re all great and contribute in their own ways to building healthy, balanced shoulders. But these shoulder-day staples aren’t the only tools you have at your disposal! Your shoulders can also benefit from some quality …
Exercise is good for you. That’s hardly news: People who exercise tend to have longer, healthier lives. But until recently, researchers have tallied its benefits only in narrow slices: Exercise lowers your cholesterol and blood pressure; it keeps you from getting fat. Now it’s becoming clear that those known slices don’t add up to …
I would never suggest that you have to follow all of my programs to the letter, as written, with no wiggle room to change exercises. It’s your workout, after all, and you should be able to do whichever exercises you prefer—especially if you’re working around an injury or have limited equipment available. I recently …
The prevailing stereotype says that gaming and fitness are opposites that definitely don’t attract. Sure, somewhere around 66 percent of Americans play video games, but it’s hard to shake the image of the gamer as someone buried in the couch, slamming Mountain Dew and Doritos, and chasing kills while getting unhealthier by the day.[1] …
What do you do when you’re missing the machine you need to perform a certain exercise in my Shortcut to Size program? Or when some guy or girl at the health club is hogging the squat rack? Or when your sports medicine doc tells you to avoid a certain exercise until you’re healthy? Skip …
Some people will have you believe that the only way to change your body is to leave yourself in a sweaty heap in the gym every day or tie yourself to the treadmill or elliptical for hours at a time. This doesn’t have to be the case! If you’re new to the exercise world, …
If you know me, you know I love to train with nothing but my own body weight. There are just so many ways to progress calisthenics exercises that I’ve got a lifetime’s worth of challenges without even worrying about external weights. I understand that not everyone feels that way, however. Plenty of people love …
Test boosters can be an effective accessory for increasing muscle strength and size, but they won’t take the place of a solid resistance-training program. Research has shown regular strength training has the potential to help boost your testosterone levels, not just benefit the testosterone you have.[14] It’s a win-win relationship. Here are a few …
During her early twenties, Courtney Hendon was like many women, playing the love/hate game with her body and arbitrary numbers on the scale. Her weight rose and fell for years, at one point hitting 200 pounds. It undoubtedly went higher, but she grew so discouraged that she stopped using the scale. Today, Hendon weighs …
Odds are, you know someone who has hurt their back in the gym. The fact of the matter is that many of the exercises we do in the gym are not inherently bad for the human back. What can be very bad, though, is the way people sometimes do them. If using bad form has […]
Incline movements dominate most chest workouts, and a lot of attention is paid to building the upper chest. Finish up with a few sets on the flat bench and you’re good to go, right? Not so fast. You’re neglecting one area that is paramount for optimal pec development—the lower pecs. Many lifters out there don’t […]
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...]