How To Improve Grip Strength
If there was to be a single, across the board, test that would quickly reveal how strong, fit and healthy you are and how long you are likely to remain like this in your lifespan, then the grip strength test is exactly that test. Studies show that grip…
How To Choose Dumbbells
Lifting a weight to make your muscles adapt to the resistance it presents them with and therefore grow stronger is such an intuitive thing to do when you do it that it is hard to imagine that you may need help to start. Yet, most of those of us who…
The Benefits Of Low Intensity Interval Training (LIIT)
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is probably the only shortcut there is when it comes to building strong muscles and losing weight. But HIIT training is also a high, external stressor that tires us out significantly, makes it harder to be able to…
Physical Training And A Woman’s Hormone Cycle
Since June 1905, when Ernest Starling, a professor of physiology at University College London, UK, first used the word ‘hormone’ in one of four Croonian Lectures[1] we’ve come to better understand the role hormones play in the control of many…
Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) – What Is It And How It Benefits Your Fitness
Imagine never having to worry about your fitness ever again. Never having to worry about being able to physically do the things you want to do each day, never having to worry about putting weight on as you age, never having to worry about losing mobility…
How To Change Any Exercise Into A Resistance, Cardio or Aerobic Workout
We’re used to qualifying workouts and, indeed, exercises, as Resistance, Cardio or Aerobic. This broad categorization is fine when we need a quick way to choose the type of exercise we are going to do but really, once we get down to it and look at things…
Guide to RPG Fitness
The brain is the body’s most complex organ.[1] It interprets sensations, regulates emotions, controls movement and modulates behavior. It is therefore key in exercise in almost every way you can imagine: from a biomechanical point of view where signals…
Guide To The Central Nervous System And Exercise
The brain is the body’s most complex organ.[1] Part of that complexity arises from its unique architecture and function and part of it is the result of the complex bi-directional list of interactions that go on all the time between the brain and the body…