There’s a lot of junk and pseudo-science floating around the Web around building muscle mass. This is propagated by the fact that anyone can churn out an article — it comes across as being factual but the piece is mishandling the information. It’s what we call “bro-science“. With it comes many muscle building myths that …
If you’ve noticed, most of my articles involve kettlebell training and I’ve even tried to write a decent guide that promotes my favorite way to build strength and burn body fat. I’ve been training with kettlebells for more than four years and I’ve got nothing bad to say about them. I mean, I sometimes injure …
Yeah yeah, we get it. Everyone here knows that strength training helps you feel like a badass, but we’re pretty fed up with hearing that strength training sculpts your body and reduces belly fat. We don’t spend hours of our week lifting more than our body weight to look like Kim Kardashian – we do …
Is your workout helping you chill out… Or is it making you more stressed? With so many of us turning to fitness to help burn off day-to-day annoyances or even trying to alleviate chronic stress, I wondered whether these tough workouts were helping us reduce stress in the long term or whether the cortisol released …
There’s no doubt about it that we all live busy, time-starved lives. This means that even though we recognize that exercise is good for our health and for managing weight loss, fitting it in every day often becomes a last priority. The good news is, you don’t need to exercise for hours every day to …
Yes, stress, diet pollution, toxins, prescription drugs, trauma, aging, and illness sound like a list of everyday world problems a lot of people encounter throughout their life. It is also a list of all the things that can negatively affect your liver. You might be suffering from a liver that is stressed or you might …
Yoga is a good way to workout our bodies. As we have commented on countless occasions, it is a good way to keep muscles and joints in perfect condition. But when it comes to carrying it out, we can focus on the work of some parts of the body. This time we are going to …
Trying to quit smoking is very tough, especially for those that have done it for many years. But even if it is difficult, there are some things you can do to help fight the urge to light up another cigarette. Our previous piece entitled “How to Achieve Consistency and Reach Your Fitness Goals” focused on qualities like …
If you want to take your workout to the next level, you’ve got to incorporate some battle ropes. Battle ropes have been a part of the workout scene for a while, but they have started gaining more popularity. This is because fitness trainers have introduced different types, and more celebrities are posting videos of their …
Also known as Peruvian ginseng, maca is an edible root vegetable native to Peru. It’s a relative of the radish plant and even looks similar to it. Historically, maca was fed to stressed and dying horses in extreme weather conditions at high altitudes. Ancient people found that maca helped the horses to survive, adapt and …