Training 101: Training With Your Heart Rate Monitor
‘What’s the best way to measure progress while I’m training?’ When you’re running or cycling, it’s not enough just to know whether you are working your glutes or your calves. The muscle you should be keeping tabs on is actually, your heart….
It’s A Wrap : The Complete Guide to Wrist Wraps
Apart from looking fancy on the gym floor, fitness gear and accessories also have other important roles when it comes to showtime. The right pickings help you raise the bar (literally) in terms of both performance and appearance. These include…
Crossfit Techniques for that V-Shaped Back
If you walk into any gym, you’ll see easily 80% of guys working out their chest or biceps. While these are definitely the “show muscles”, if you want to cut an impressive figure in a suit and tie, you’ll need…
Toning Your Glutes with Crossfit
Everyone wants a tighter, perkier butt, unfortunately your buttocks, or gluteus maximus, tends to be a very stubborn muscle when it comes to growth and development. It’s a large, strong muscle that’s used in a wide variety of daily activities including…
Maximising Intensity in Crossfit – Drop Sets, Super Sets and More
Is your goal to become fitter, stronger and healthier, or to become leaner and more muscular? Well, this is something of a trick question – with Crossfit, you don’t have to choose. In terms of fitness goals, the cardiovascular and…
How to mentally and physically deal with injuries
If you are serious about fitness and exercise unfortunately, at some point, you are going to suffer an injury. Injuries are either acute which means that they come on suddenly and are usually caused by a specific trauma e.g. a…
Squat it like it’s hot
Of all the exercises you can do, the squat is arguably one of the most productive and beneficial. For starters, the movement of squatting is functional in the truest sense of the word; its how you get out of a…
No Gym? No Problem!
Unless you are lucky enough to work in a gym, have a gym at home or live literally next door to a gym, there are going to be times where getting to the gym to workout is going to be…
From Couch Potato to Runner Bean
I used to tell everybody, ‘Everyone can run’ and I was almost always met with the ‘there is something seriously wrong with you’ look. I often wondered why people liked to doubt themselves. I found it amusing that it was…
Fitness Conditioning on the Go
In our ever increasingly fast-paced world, setting aside time to maintain a fitness regime is tough enough, let alone getting leave from work for a vacation. So, of course you would not want to pass up an opportunity to go…
