Fitness Plans – Stay On the Training Train At Christmas

The Christmas/New Year period is the most productive time for fitness industry cliché. Fitness and lifestyle magazines are full of mostly good advice about how to have a healthy Christmas dinner, and how to lose those extra pounds once the decorations are back in the loft, and the tree is on the compost heap.
Motivation to [...]

Speed Up Your Weight Loss – Use Your Competitive Instinct To Hit Your Goals Faster!

Healthy Competition could be just that – Healthy! Build a competitive element into your Fitness Plan or Program and right into each of your Workout Routines and you’re more likely to get faster results than simply drifting along and ‘going through the motions’.
We tend to think that fitness and health is primarily a physical matter.  [...]

Maximise Your Training Program With Effective Planning

Everyone’s time is valuable. If you have a busy life, a training program can be very hard to fit in. Children, your job, your partner, all need and deserve attention, it’s no wonder that most of us feel that there just is not enough time in the day. Therefore, when you take time to train, [...]

Lose Weight & Get Fit By Having Fun!

All work and no play make jack a dull boy, and that is true of working out.  You have made the choice to follow a healthier life style, you want to follow a Fitness Plan to lose weight & get fit, you’ve  shown the determination to get out there and train, and maybe you’re just [...]

Make The Squat a Core Exercise in Your Workout For Fast Results!

If you were new to the gym that I go to, you would be forgiven for thinking that squats were not in most people’s workout routines and that the squat rack, or power rack was some kind of exotic sculpture!  In my gym, just like other gyms I have been a member of in the [...]

Training Your Abdominals – Part 6: Mixing It Up

Your abdominals and your core play such a varied role in our everyday lives. Almost everything we do involves core stability to a certain extent – even sitting upright involves core stability. Core strength will heavily influence your athletic ability, and can also make you less likely to suffer from lower back problems. I’d be [...]

Training Your Abdominals Part 5: Leg Raises

When it comes to getting that elusive 6-pack, it’s not difficult to find someone in the gym doing crunches on the Swiss ball, or on an abdominal board, but I seldom see anyone doing leg raises. The abdominal muscles are actually quite long and extend from the base of your pectoral or chest muscles right [...]

Resistance Training For Lean Mass and Strength – Part 2: The Program

In my last blog,’Resistance Training For Lean Mass And Strength – Part 1′, I outlined my goals for a resistance training program, and hopefully, they are similar to yours: improved strength, lean mass and improved power for my chosen sport which is cycling. I am not looking to put on a lot of muscle because [...]

Training Your Abdominals – Part 3: Decline/Abdominal Board or Bench

In Training Your Abdominals – Part 3 we’re going to cover the Decline Board or Abdominal Board in our quest for that ever elusive 6-pack!
As I said in previous blogs, trainers tend to want to use gym apparatus to train their abs, rather than doing plain old floor exercises. That’s fine in principle, but the [...]

Resistance Training For Lean Mass and Strength – Part 6: Power Cleans

This is the sixth part in our series called Resistance Training For Lean Mass and Strength. In my last blog post (Resistance Training For Lean Mass and Strength – Part 5: Squats) I talked about the importance of squats in a full body program, and the profound effect they can have on your metabolism, strength [...]

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