Training
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE 5 ISOMETRIC EXERCISE BENEFITS THAT YOU SHOULD BE CONSIDERING
The fitness journey can be a tough one to embark upon. If you have yet to get started, the process is often daunting. However, these journeys do not have to be as challenging when the ...
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Exploring Anaerobic Exercise for Strength Training and Body Building
Anaerobic Exercise: What You Need to Build Muscle Anaerobic exercise is short bursts of high-intensity exercise designed to help you build muscle and process glucose (sugar) in your body. Weight lifting, sprint running, and HIIT ...
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HIIT: The Workout for Busy People
If you’re like me, you classify yourself as a perpetually busy person. Things are always coming up, filling your schedule, leaving you feeling like there’s no time left for yourself. But what if I told ...
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Functional Fitness and Why You Need to Incorporate it in Your Training
What is functional fitness?Functional fitness is a style of exercise that focuses on everyday movements (OPEX Fitness, 2023). Instead of focusing on maximal strength with ideal form, functional fitness emphasizes holistic strength and stability paired ...
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Losing Weight During Perimenopause
As women get older, maintaining their desired weight becomes harder. The workouts that worked in their 20s and 30s may no longer give the same results. It’s normal for weight gain to start a few ...
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Training Your Core Is Essential
When you think of core training, you probably think of endless crunches and planks. You might think of six-pack ab muscles on beach-ready bodies. But you may not think about all the other things a ...
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Women, STOP Being Afraid to Lift Heavy!
Let me guess, some unnamed people have ingrained in your brain that lifting heavy, or lifting weights at all, will make you “bulky”. I’m here to tell you that’s BS, and it’s time women take ...
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Lifting: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Let me start by saying that I am not a psychologist or a therapist. This is coming from experience training many different people and training myself. This is meant to be a helpful read to ...
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Get Stronger by Lifting Less?
Here is a confusing statement… you do not get stronger in the gym!
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The Importance of Mobility Training
Mobility training is crucial for functional health. In the gym, mobility training will lead you to have better form, less risk of injury, and in turn move more weight. Outside of the gym, mobility training ...
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Dealing with a Failed Lift
It happens to everyone at some point…failing a lift. It sucks when it happens but it is not the end of the world. You just have to know how to handle it.
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Progressive Overload: A Steady Track to Muscle Growth
How do you know if you’re getting stronger in the gym? Most of us are aware that over time, we have to increase our weight and/or reps, but how do we know how much weight ...
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