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  • Choosing Fitness Training Equipment for an Obstacle Course Race

    Obstacle Course Races (OCRs) like the Spartan Race or Tough Mudder are designed to be physically and mentally demanding. Each event can be very different from the last. On one day you might be running, jumping and scaling walls in an urban setting while on another you might be carrying heavy weights and trudging through…

  • How to Create the Perfect Home Gym Experience

    If you want to work out at home, without a trainer to supervise, there are important things to consider so that you can avoid injury, properly prepare for the workout, know how to recover properly post-workout, and so you can buy the right kind of equipment to get the body you envision (big muscles =…

  • 5 Body Sculpting Exercises for the Buttocks

    One of the hottest areas of the body that many people want to target with their workout program is the buttocks or the glutes. Body sculpting has become a hot topic in the fitness world as more and more people have a very precise look they want to create and by use of proper body…

  • Sculpt Your Arms with Tricep Dips

    Triceps can be a trouble area for many people. Not only are they functional in numerous situations, but they also can make or break the defined look of an arm. To strengthen and define the triceps with a movement that also includes functional training, add the tricep dips exercises into your workout. Dips can be…

  • Workout Equipment for Your Home Gym

    If you’re getting set to build a home gym, one thing that you need to be doing is looking at the various types of workout equipment that you can utilize to build this gym and get yourself on track to success. Having the right workout equipment at your home gym is important to success as…

  • 6 Must Have Essential and Simple Gym Equipment

    The act of staying active and healthy is something that everyone must do in order to make a change, from being unhealthy and unfit, to being fit and enduring physically and mentally. If you haven’t lifted a weight all your life or are trying to get back in shape, then this it is the about…

  • Stability Ball Exercises for Total-Body Development

    The stability ball or Swiss ball has the potential to serve as a useful training aid in exercises for all levels of gym attendees. Fitness enthusiasts might use the stability ball as a key piece of equipment in a calisthenics-oriented routine. Competitive strength athletes, by contrast, might use the stability ball as an addition in a weight-training…

  • 5 Essential Pieces of Gym Equipment Every Serious Cross-Fitter Can’t Do Without

      Crossfit isn’t something that you do – it’s who you are. It provides the challenge that allows your inner warrior to emerge. When it does, you’re able to go forth and conquer in every other aspect of your life. When you’re ready to get serious about Crossfit, you want to be able to get…

  • How To Build Muscle: A Guide For Women

      If you’re a woman who is wondering how to build muscle, it’s important that you learn some of the foundational secrets of what it takes to achieve success so that you can get started on an effective program right from the start. Unfortunately, many of the women who are looking to learn how to…

  • A New Take on New Year’s Resolutions

    A New Take on New Year’s Resolutions

    One of the most common New Year’s Resolutions every year is to lose weight. On January 1, gyms are crowded, junk food gets tossed, and people are serious about making the new year a healthy one. And, almost inevitably, the vast majority of people struggle to make the changes required to lose weight and end…

  • Fitness Club Versus Home Fitness Training

    If you’re about to get started with a brand new workout program, one thing that you may be thinking about is whether you should invest in a fitness club membership, or whether you would be better off doing home fitness training. There are pros and cons of each and in order to really get the…

  • 5 Factors Influencing Sports Performance

    Every athlete at every level of sport is always looking to improve sport performance.  Some factors that influence sports performance can be improved while other cannot.  To improve sport performance one needs to look at 5 influencing factors.  Body proportions, skills training, strength, flexibility and endurance.   These five factors will influence what sport you play,…

  • Fitness Face Off: Insanity Workout versus P90X

    Two popular programs in the fitness industry right now are the INSANITY® conditioning program and the Power 90 Extreme (P90X®) home exercise system. As with most structured systems, both are effective, but the question of which is better is determined by the individual. What are your goals? What is your body type? How much time…

  • Choosing and Using the Right Exercise Ball

    There have been thousands of fitness products over the years.  Most of them waste away after a few months but sometimes one comes along that actually works and is backed up by science.  One such product that has been around since 1963 in the exercise swiss ball.  It was developed by an Italian plastics manufacturer…

  • Exercises for Physical Fitness

    Physical fitness has always been associated with exercise, weight lifting, proper diet and nutrition, as well as ample rest to recover from the daily stresses that the human body receives daily. It has always been defined as an overall ability to perform routine tasks or exercise related activities within a certain level. Once it has…

  • 7 Best Abdominal Exercises You Should Try

      Abdominal exercises have gone far from being just exercises performed for aesthetic, bodybuilding reasons to functional purposes that mimic sports related movements for better performance in sports and different activities. Core exercises have taken much of the workout programs out there today for one apparent reason. A good core helps you lift more, move…

  • Exercises for the Obliques

    Nearly everyone is familiar with the “six pack” portion of our abdominals, i.e., the rectus abdominus; but, right next door in the shadow of the six pack are external and internal (abdominal) obliques and the tranverse abdominals (tranversalis) on the sides of the waist and wrapping horizontally around the torso from front to back and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…