Stability or exercise ball workouts require minimal equipment or preparation – just the ball and space to use it in. You can combine a ball with dumbbells for a chest press that works more muscle groups and support muscles but you can work with the ball alone. Either way, exercises using the ball are nearly unparalleled for targeting core muscles and ... Read More »
I’m often asked if I eat between meals and if that’s a ‘bad’ thing. To these people I say – “Yes I do and it’s a good thing!” Eating gives you the fuel you need to get by during the day and the 3 meals a day structure is, in this day and age, a little archaic (based as it ... Read More »
The fitness world has been inundated with new types of exercises to get a flat stomach, new ways to keep you trim and get perfect body. Some of these exercises are fads, others are ancient and proven over the centuries (Yoga for example). Some exercises emerge as we learn more and more about how the muscles in the human body ... Read More »
A lot of people don’t recognise the term ‘ketogenic’ when its applied to dieting. You can bet, however, that they recognise some of the popular ketogenic diets of the last 20 years or so, diets that include the South Beach Diet, and the Atkins Diet. So what does ketogenic mean and what are you doing when you start a keto ... Read More »
I’m sure most of you have read about losing weight with the aid of weight-loss pills. It seems like a brilliant idea to some – perhaps a busy, working parent who finds that their diet or exercise regime doesn’t seem to be working out as fast as they’d like, or someone who just can’t resist snacking at strange times on ... Read More »
Continuing on from our previous post discussing the importance of calorie, let’s look at how you go about calculating how many calories your body needs in a day and, therefore, how many you can take to begin losing weight. The daily recommended calorie intake for an average person maintaining their weight is roughly 2,000 calories. Men (on average bigger) can ... Read More »
Scientifically, there is no specific number of calories that each human can eat each day to guarantee weight loss. Most people can lose weight at around 1,500 calories per day but you don’t want to assume this. It may be too much for you or far too little (leading to your body ‘starving’ and meaning any treats you have get ... Read More »
There are many tools and tricks to weightloss. Some of these can be expensive (gym memberships or healthy diet ingredients) and some less so. Water is one of the latter; free, often overlooked and healthy. Water helps with weight loss in a multitude of ways. Check out this video: Poor hydration means your kidneys call on the liver for help. Proper hydration ... Read More »
Cardio is an abbreviation meaning cardiovascular (heart and lungs). It’s commonly applied to Aerobic exercises, that is exercise that works the cardiovascular system or exercises that get you breathing hard and your heart pumping – that is the heart and lungs. Cardio is fundamentally important for your body. It’s what humans have evolved to do. Whether you want to build muscle, ... Read More »
The human body and brain are designed to eat. This is why losing weight proves so challenging for so many. When we want to lose weight, we all accept we need to change our eating habits. It seems simple and logical, but even with a goal set, plans laid and willpower stocked full, after a while it all seems so ... Read More »
