Squats are heralded by many as the king of all exercises. Squats blast your legs and recruit the upper back, lower back and core as stabilizers to engage your entire body and spark some serious size and strength gains. However, all of this does not come without its risks. Under great stress, squats can hurt your knees. There are several different possible causes to this pain, … [Read more...]
Best Fitness Apps For Kick-starting A Healthy Lifestyle
Fitness has always been a big market especially given the potential that it offers to both business and users. Business get to make money and change lives and users get to give their body what it really wants. In recent times, the trends in fitness have largely changed from having skipping ropes to apps that track even the least tasks that you do. This way, you’re able to keep … [Read more...]
Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Grip Strength Training
We pick the bar up with our hands and squeeze it during deadlifts, we drive power through our hands for the bench press, we attach our body to a bar during rowing with our hands, and they hold the squat bar up on our back - so why is grip training often neglected? The hands are our fasteners to the bar, essential for all things powerlifting, bodybuilding, olympic lifting, … [Read more...]
Brad Pitt’s Fight Club Workout-Schedule
Fight Club’s worldwide acclaim led Brad Pitt to become one of the most talked-about Hollywood stars of the 1990s. His physique was “visceral and hard-edged” like the movie itself. Pitt’s memorable Fight Club avatar Tyler Durden initiated an all new tradition of celebrity-fitness in the 1990s – the lean and strapping look with clearly defined abs and light muscle. Though this … [Read more...]
Resistance Band Ab Exercises
Finding resistance band ab exercises is hard. Most people automatically assume they are going to be stuck in an endless loop of sit ups but ! Using resistance in the form of a band or some other type of elastic is going to be beneficial because the muscles are going to be under constant tension with the contraction, and then the release. If the muscle is under tension in … [Read more...]