Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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9 Benefits of Having a Fitness Partner
Working out alone is a good thing but having a workout partner is better. Having a fitness partner helps you stay fit, reach your goals, motivate you and double your gains since you and your partner will build muscle, endurance and maintain it as well. Read on and hopefully you will be more than eager…
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The “Four One One” on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
What Is HIIT? High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is often described as “doing intervals” but this is inexact. More precisely, the idea with HIIT is to alternate periods of brief, high intensity (i.e., anaerobic or maximal exertion) exercise with equal, shorter, or longer duration periods (or distances) in lower exertion zones. Alternating between warm-up and aerobic…
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8 Men’s Fitness Tips for Beginners
Due to the widespread power of media, today when it comes to information dissemination, the acts of maintaining a healthy, fit and strong body has become the new health and beneficial trend that everyone must follow. However, the most common struggle that beginners encounter is the anxiety, the difficulty and the lack of knowledge…
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Easy Home Cardio Workouts
Some people love going to the gym for hours at a time, some dread it. Other refuse to go to the gym and prefer to workout at home. Performing cardio workouts at home can be fun and just as beneficial as going to the gym. The problem most people run into when doing cardio at…
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10 Tips to Trigger Muscle Growth
When trying to build muscle, it is important to keep in mind and apply these ten tips to trigger muscle growth. Bulging chests, sinewy shoulders and toned legs don’t build themselves. These muscle groups require an efficient workout, rest and nutrition in order to promote recovery and eventual growth of the muscles. Read on and…
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Do I Really Need a Fitness Instructor?
Whether an individual wants to lose weight, gain muscle, or just get fit, enlisting the services of a fitness instructor is a worthy consideration for a variety of reasons. Novice exercisers may need a supervised program to ensure safety, but more importantly results. For others, a fitness instructor may provide the needed motivation and accountability…
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Intensify Your Workout With These Lunge Variations
If you’re someone who’s looking to get a jump start on the fat loss and muscle firming process, one thing that you need to be doing is a number of lunge variations. Lunge variations add excitement to your workout program, reducing your risk of falling off the bandwagon due to boredom.
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Strongman Training Routine
A strongman (or strongwoman) competition is a colorful strength sport with significant differences from both powerlifting and weightlifting. Powerlifting contests combine the squat, bench press, and deadlift. Weightlifting contests, in contrast, combine the snatch and clean-and-jerk. A strongman contest, however, often combines derivatives of the squat, deadlift, clean-and-jerk, and a number of eclectic tests of…
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5 Best Exercises for Glutes
Having a great and aesthetic physique is one of the main goals that many fitness aspirants want to achieve today. Having a great physique means you should have the athletic performance to back you up, as well as the balance and proportioned built that makes up a real fitness sight. Most people, however, tend to…
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Should You Use a Weight Lifting Belt?
It’s not uncommon to see people using weight lifting belts… improperly. Belts are not necessary in the majority of workouts when doing sub-maximal and non-competitive presses, lifts and squats, they are a training aid. It should be sufficient most of the time to take a full breath and simultaneously flex the muscles of the core…
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Crossfit: Pros And Cons
If you’re looking to get into shape quickly, one form of workout that you might have heard about before and are giving some consideration to is Crossfit. More and more people are jumping on the Crossfit bandwagon and for good reason – the workouts are very effective and can provide much of what many people…
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Workouts To Develop The Quadricep Muscles
One of the most difficult muscle groups to build is probably the quadricep. You may just pump a few reps with bicep curls and you see gains within a few weeks. Perform exercises such as leg extensions for the same time period and still you see little or no gains at all. The development of…
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Get a Lean Body With A Circuit Training Workout
Along with health, wealth and happiness, a lean body is one of the most sought after things in life. We are always searching for the most effective way to achieve a svelte, ripped physique and preferably in as little time as possible. There really is no secret when it comes to obtaining that much desired…
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Weightlifting Shoes, A Must Have or Fashion Accessory?
If you’re working out your most likely wearing shoes, unless you’re doing yoga or thai chi. The options are endless for workout shoes, running, cross training, basketball, tennis but weightlifting? Weightlifting shoes, a must have or fashion accessory? That’s kind of a loaded question. Of course you should be wearing shoes when lifting weights but…
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300 Workout – Does It Really Work?
Pull ups, push ups, box jumps, all basic exercises we’ve all performed at one time or another. Using minimal to no rest between sets, that’s a basic circuit training protocol. So why then is the 300 workout getting so much attention? Because people are actually doing it! There’s a lot of steam behind this workout…
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Using Free Weights Safely To Avoid Injury
It is no wonder why free weights in the gym are the most preferred type of training encouraged by trainers and strength and conditioning specialists due to the wide array of benefits that you can get such as balance, increased strength and muscle mass. However, with the use of these types of exercises, it is…
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Weightlifting for Strength and Conditioning
Often when people imagine weightlifters, they envision a big, bulky Schwarzennegar type, grunting with each rep performed. While it’s certainly a must for those that strive to gain some size, using weightlifting for strength and conditioning will achieve those goals as well as increasing size, shape and function of the muscles, all while burning fat.…
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Resistance Training On The Go
These days, most of us are short on time. This makes it way too easy to find another excuse to add to the list of why we didn’t make it to the gym. Our resistance training and cardiovascular workouts are set aside due to hectic schedules and too many commitments. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to…
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Workouts for Men (and Women)
It’s generally assumed that men (and women for that matter) are different enough that their workouts should be significantly different. Yes, there are some anatomical differences and, yes, there are hormonal differences but, no, actually it’s not reason enough to approach exercises, stretches, and training differently. For their part, women seem to avoid training hard…
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Weider Principles for Successful Training
There’s always that very moment in every fitness enthusiast when the results just stop on coming, you come into a plateau and the muscle building process becomes stagnant. One of the reasons why this phenomenon happens is when you fail to inject something new into your program design or workout. One of the best ways…
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