Tag: exercise
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Travel Workout Kit – What to Pack
Summer is in full swing and if you haven’t gone on holiday already, you most likely are planning to go somewhere soon! Whether going for a few days or for a few weeks, vacations shouldn’t be used as an excuse to slack off and cause a lot of damage to your health. They do, however,…
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Exercise of the week: Glute kickback
Following on from last week’s post on how to shape the glute-ham tie-in (or lower part of your bum 🙂 ), here’s another exercise to help you work those specific muscles. The glute kickback machine is a great way of targeting your butt muscles (the glutes) and also recruits the hamstrings as a secondary muscle. …
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Elliott Speed: Should I have a Personal Trainer?
By Elliott Speed In a modern day society staying healthy can be a difficult task: there can be so many distractions as well as a lack of knowledge about what a person should be doing and when to do it. Going to a gym can often be an intimidating experience for many, and for those…
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Is Weight Training for Everyone?
By Adrianna McDonald In my honest opinion, yes -absolutely! Weight training with a structured, well balanced program for gradually building up strength offers great benefits to health and physical development. It is one of the best tools for building up your confidence and mental resilience. I believe it should be part of everyone’s lives. The benefits of…
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Exercise of the week: Swiss Ball Hamstring Curl
The glute-ham tie-in is a problem area for many women. You know the part you may sometimes call the ‘lower glute’? Yeah, well that part doesn’t really exist. Instead you have an area where you hamstrings and glutes meet as shown in the image below: Luckily, there are many exercises (both with and without weights)…
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Working Out Through the Full Range of Motion
By Paul Magnus A full range of motion exercise is performing a movement through full contraction and extension stopping just short of the limits to ensure resistance and control remain on the muscle at all times. Studies have shown that performing full range of motion exercises leads to better strength gains and more effective muscle…
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5 Ways To Battle Fatigue
Today we live in a fast-paced world full of stress and anxiety and sadly it has become all too common to feel tired all the time. In fact, the situation is so dire that chronic fatigue syndrome is now an officially recognised illness. If ever there was a better time to take a step back…
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Exercise of the week: Reverse Hack Squat
Machines are great for variety and allow you to add more volume to specific muscles. The hack machine is set at 45 degrees and you need to align your shoulders under the pads. The front facing version allows you to make the posterior chain work harder. I like to keep the toes up and put all…
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5 of the Best Exercises When You’re Short on Time
Written by Sam Frohlich As much as we would like to have all the time in the world to workout, life doesn’t always work that way. Other external factors occur from time to time. That workout plan that you needed an hour for, now has to be squeezed in to 20-40 minutes. So what to do…
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No Pain, No Gain? Tackling Muscle Soreness & Injury
Anyone who has exercised a single time in their lives is familiar with the muscle ache that comes the day after an intense workout. Even though I have been working out for years and started doing some serious weight-lifting over a year ago, I still do get sore every time my workout intensity/routine/weight changes (yes,…
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