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We get it, life is busy and finding a slot for a workout can be difficult. It’s easy to get wrapped in everything else that’s going on and be tempted to just get this or that finished a skip a workout to get ahead in another area. So what can we do to help keepContinue reading “How to workout on a busy schedule”

Whether you are an endurance athlete or a power athlete, strength training can help you improve your performance in a number of ways. Firstly, strength training helps to build and maintain muscle mass. When you perform resistance exercises, your muscles are put under stress, which stimulates the production of new muscle tissue. This increase inContinue reading “Athletic performance”

Fitness training can improve your health and wellbeing in many ways. It can help you lose weight, build muscle, and improve your overall fitness. It can also help reduce stress, improve your mood, and boost your energy levels. If you are new to fitness training, it is important to start slowly and gradually increase theContinue reading “Health and Wellbeing”

With lots of information already available regarding fat loss, let’s take a look at some strategies instead. After all, knowing what to do is one thing, implementing it is the key: Create a calorie deficit: The most important factor in weight loss is creating a calorie deficit. This means burning more calories than you consume. Continue reading “Fat Loss “

Hey SpikeFitness, give me 3 tips for gaining muscle: Consistency is key: following a well-designed workout plan and nutrition program is crucial for long-term muscle gain.  Make sure you’re lifting weights regularly and progressively overloading your muscles. Aim to train each muscle group at least twice a week with proper form and technique.  Additionally, ensureContinue reading “Muscle gain”

Compound lifts are important for several reasons, including: Efficiency: Compound lifts involve multiple muscle groups and joints, which allows you to work more muscles in less time. This is especially important if you have a limited amount of time to work out. Strength: Compound lifts are excellent for building overall strength because they target multipleContinue reading “Compound lifts”

With the continued increase in popularity and reporting on strength training, we have more people than ever trying it out for the first time, which is awesome. With an increase in popularity comes a lot of potentially conflicting information, I say potentially as with all information, the key is in the demographic, age, training typeContinue reading “5 myths of strength training”

It really is, once we understand that’s it not just about lifting the heaviest weight possible or sculpting perfect muscular symmetry. It can be balancing on one leg, performing a squat without pain, or doing a pull-up. In order to balance on one leg, we need the strength to hold our bodyweight on it. SameContinue reading “Strength training for all”

Why is it that when we speak to people about strength training the vision is the ‘bigger peeps’ in the weight’s section? Whilst the look may not be to our liking (or maybe it is!) as with all things human we can learn from methodologies and processes. Strength training or resistance training from here onContinue reading “Introduction into strength training”

Picture this, Sunday evening we are all set for the week ahead, good intentions for food and exercise. If it all goes well, result, every now and again it doesn’t seem to work out like that though. So, how can we plan-ahead to flow with changes we might need to work around. Much like theContinue reading “Planning for your week ahead”