1: Wake your glutes up with a dynamic warm-up. You know that static stretching before workouts is passé, but doing dynamic movements to wake your muscles up is particularly important…
WHAT IS DOMS? Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) differs from regular muscle soreness in severity, duration of soreness and in causal factors. Whereas normal muscle soreness results immediately following…
What is Foam Rolling? Foam rolling refers to a technique for self-massage and post-workout muscle recovery using a cylinder made of dense foam. Why should I be Foam Rolling? We…
Did you know that regular stretching is just as important as regular exercise? If you’re like me, you probably neglect this aspect of your fitness regime. Stretching has major benefits and…
Hormones Unfortunately, as women, we just don’t have the level of anabolic hormones in our body that men do, so building muscle is, and probably always will be, more challenging….
Excess body fat makes a man look more curvaceous than cut. Body fat contains aromatase, an enzyme that converts testosterone into oestrogen, the main sex hormones in women. Having extra…
Training with big weights doesn’t guarantee you will get bigger, the high numbers on the bar don’t mean anything if you are not contracting the muscle properly. The aim for…
Let’s start off with the major one! If women lift weights, will they get big? The answer is NO. I am sure that you have seen this many times before…
Cellulite is a real pain in the backside! It’s not like normal fat – as it isn’t just caused by overeating and lack of activity. Guys are not affected by…
We know that Eating too much is bad. If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. (You’re in a calorie surplus) but when you’re dieting and…