Sticking to a fitness routine is tough. We all start the year with the best of intentions - joining gyms, buying new running shoes, downloading workout apps - but then life happens. Motivation fades, excuses pile up, and before you...
If you’re looking for some gym cardio challenges to spice up your workout routines, you’re not alone. Plenty of people prefer the rippling glamor (and Instagrammy results) of bicep curls and ab circuits. The idea of hitting the treadmill for...
Finding it harder and harder to drag yourself to the gym? Do you find yourself slogging through workouts without seeing any real progress? It could be that you’ve become habituated to your workout routine, meaning that both you and your...
There’s no better time to keep your workouts going strong than when the summer weather is this nice, so we’re here to inspire you to take advantage of the summer months with a 30-day strength training challenge. Oh, the glories...
How do you maintain the routine necessary for fitness goals without everything feeling so, well... routine? What may come as a surprise is why our motivation slips away in the first place. It’s often connected to these six reasons, according...
At this point, we can all agree that chasing after the ideal summer body is not a great standard. Yet, there’s something interesting about the summer body, because it suggests that it is inevitable that our winter bodies are always...
If you’re not feeling the burn with your ab workout anymore, it could be time for a change. That’s because when your workout intensity hasn’t dropped off but you don’t feel the same struggle, you’re experiencing general adaptation syndrome. One...
Outside of actually lifting weights, one of the hardest parts of strength training is weightlifting nutrition -- getting the right balance of calories from the right foods. That balance, which includes an emphasis on protein for weightlifters in their strength...
Many bodybuilders say weight lifting is all about the form you use to lift weights. Given what we know about weightlifting nutrition, though, the form you use to lift food to your mouth might be just as valuable. Just like...
There are a few gold standards when it comes to diet and exercise. These recommendations follow us our whole lives and they are, for the most part, unimpeachable. Yet, we rarely follow them. Ideas like drinking more water, going out...
With all of the fun and festivities of the holidays comes certain seasonal stresses that are hard to ignore. Traveling to be with family involves, well, travel. And though air travel is close to the levels it was at in...
Weight-lifting is still one of the best ways to get in shape. Whether you’re looking to burn fat faster or build more muscle, lifting weights works and it doesn’t have to be complicated. But that's the question. How many days...
