Can You Build Muscle as a Vegetarian or Vegan?
Can You Build Muscle as a Vegetarian or Vegan? When it comes building muscle, diet is key – especially eating enough protein and carbohydrates, and keeping food in your stomach throughout the day. However many bodybuilders get their protein from animal sources – in particular eggs, dairy and meat. So can you get enough protein […]
How To Hold Yourself Accountable For Your Summer Fitness Goals
How To Hold Yourself Accountable For Your Summer Fitness Goals Two weeks into your new running or fitness life you start to lose momentum. It’s not as fun as you thought it’d be and it’s tough to get motivated. What’s missing? Accountability. When you haven’t created a means to hold yourself accountable for your fitness […]
7 Strength Training Wall Workout Ideas
7 Strength Training Wall Workout Ideas We think of a gym with exercise equipment when we consider working out. In most cases, the idea of exercise in an empty room with just four walls can seem impractical. The reality is that you can turn the walls in a room into a strength training workout area […]
5 Cardio Exercises You Can Perform Outdoors
5 Cardio Exercises You Can Perform Outdoors Exercising outside is much more challenging, and definitely more fun, than doing the same thing indoors. Here are 5 outdoor cardio exercises that require little equipment, but will absolutely kick butt when done correctly: Lunges: To start, stand with one foot forward and the other one about 3 feet […]
4 Tips for Making Exercise More Fun
4 Tips for Making Exercise More Fun If you go to the gym because you think you have to, verses going because you want to, then maybe you need to put some fun into your workouts. These tips are guaranteed to make your workouts more enjoyable… Find an Exercise Buddy: Some people are happy working out […]
3 Benefits of Working Out in Cold Weather
3 Benefits of Working Out in Cold Weather Getting out of a nice and cozy warm bed to go outside and exercise when it is freezing cold may not be your idea of a good time. But exercising in the cold has several benefits over doing it in warm weather. Specifically, it: BURNS MORE CALORIES […]
2015 Fitness Goals: Endurance, Strength, Weightloss
2015 Fitness Goals: Endurance, Strength, Weightloss Many factors will come into play when setting your 2015 fitness goals. First and foremost, what are your goals? Do you want more endurance? Increase your strength? Lose a few pounds? Maybe you want to achieve all three. Either way, for each will have to take a different approach. […]
10 Tips That Help Prevent Injury of Young Athletes.
10 Tips That Help Prevent Injury of Young Athletes. If you’re a coach, or a parent of a child athlete there are things you should remember to help keep your young players healthy. “The number one tip coaches should remember is that children are not miniature adults and shouldn’t be treated as such,” says Jim […]
10 Things That Happen to Your Body if You Never Exercise
10 Things That Happen to Your Body if You Never Exercise Regular physical activity can deliver plenty of rewards. You feel better and look better, improve your heart health, and your mental functioning receives a boost as well. Those few benefits are just the tip of the iceberg where the advantages of exercise are concerned. […]
Why Martial Arts Are a Great Way to Get Fit
Why Martial Arts Are a Great Way to Get Fit Participating in one of the martial arts not only improves one physically, but also mentally. From the physical aspect, participants lose weight, tone and firm muscles and increase strength. They also gain flexibility, agility, hand-eye coordination and balance. From the mental aspect, if you lose […]
