Physical activities Articles

The wisdom about exercise is that muscles need to have nourishment after a strenuous workout. They need glucose and water to synthesize the glycogen that pumps them up, as amino acids to rebuild the protein fibers that give the muscle its power.

The job market is shrinking during this current economic downturn. Job loss can be devastating both emotionally as well as financially for the hundreds of workers who are told weekly that their jobs will be terminated.

Between social functions, family commitments and work parties, the gym can take aback seat over the holidays. Your health club may even be closed for a time over Christmas and new year, but that’s not an excuse to skip training altogether.

The loaded carry is one of the most efficient ways to get more volume, more intensity, more strength training and more conditioning into your training. It's functional by definition, and it's effective at improving cardio and muscular endurance.

Exercise has always been part of primary prevention programs to reduce one’s risk for disease. Recent studies show that exercise may also be as effective as drugs for reducing complications and death from chronic disease.

It’s easy to get stuck into the same old fitness routine and end up spinning your wheels. But they key to getting great gains is setting new goals, and for new goals, you need a fitness test.

You’ve made the first step in your weight loss journey and joined the gym. That’s great, but where do you go now? The budget doesn’t stretch to hiring a trainer, so you’ll have to go it alone. Here’s what you need to know.

Online workouts are all the rage at the moment and on the surface they seem to be safe and effective. However, it could be the case that not only are these workouts not giving you the results you want, but they could also be detrimental to your health.

In an age where the government is trying to encourage more people to hit the gym, lose weight and get healthy, the number of people taking this to the other extreme and obsessing over working out is growing.

Almost everything we do in the gym is bilateral, but almost everything we do outside the gym is unilateral. Get some unilateral training and load up your core for improved posture, strength, stability and endurance.