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...
Looking for a confidence challenge to help you overcome shyness? Searching for ways to get out of your comfort zone? Or maybe you’ve just had a big life change, and you want to get out there again. Whatever your reason,...
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...
Summer workouts can be a lot of fun. We can go for long runs later in the day. We can spend more time outside. And it can be a new way to explore during our vacations. For all the fun,...
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...
Ever wonder what Anna Karenina has to do with your motivation to show up and work toward your goals? (Besides the serious amount of motivation you need to tackle 800 pages of Russian literature, of course.) It’s right there in...
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...
When you’re looking to find a sustainable, healthy way to lose weight, you’ve likely come across FITT and HIIT before as types of workouts that could help you reach your goals. Though diet is often thought of as the more...
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...
