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4 HIIT Workouts You'll Love
What better way to mix up your training than by adding a few HIIT sessions to your regime? HIIT, otherwise known as High Intensity Interval Training, is a type of cardio which is known for getting your heart racing and burning through fat. The best thing? HIIT workouts are so intense that they’re designed to be relatively short, so you -
Keeping Fit on Holiday
A holiday is to relax, isn’t it? Of course! But that doesn't mean that the progress you've spent months or perhaps even years making needs to suffer. Over-indulging and falling out of sync with your workout routine is bound to happen at some point, and so it should, but there's a way that you can plan your break so that -
A Guide to Suspension Training
Perhaps you’ve seen these black-strapped contraptions hoisted up at your gym, come across them when browsing fitness equipment online, or you vaguely recall hearing something about them a year or so ago when they started featuring on every list of fitness buzzwords in the Western world. Perhaps you took a look at these fairly simple looking fitness tools and thought -
Healthy Dinner Swaps
We’ve covered breakfast and lunch, now it’s time to talk about dinner. After a long and hectic day it can often be tempting to grab a time-saving, unhealthy option out of convenience, but with a few simple swaps you can transform your meal into one which holds far more nutritional value – and doesn’t leave you reaching for the biscuit -
How to Stay Fitness-Savvy This Easter
With chocolate eggs and sugar-rich, foil-covered bunnies practically spilling into the aisles at the supermarket, temptation to indulge at Easter is pretty high. Many of us have a long weekend to look forward to, time off with family and friends. And, as great as this sounds, time for celebration often includes indulgence. We’re all for taking a break from the -
Why You Should Stop Weighing Yourself
Stop weighing yourself. There, we said it. Put the “sad step”, as fitness guru Joe Wicks likes to call it, to one side and forget about it. Why? Think about it – fixating on a number on the scale takes your attention away from five other very important forms of measurement, but before we get into that, let’s talk about -
Give Sugar the Elbow: How to Reduce Sugar in your Everyday Diet
Other than not being good for your waistline, what’s the harm with sugar anyway? Well, along with being a catalyst for weight gain, sugar also fuels insulin resistance, which can cause Type 2 diabetes and creates a breeding ground for cancer cells. It can increase cravings, food binges and encourage a host of heart diseases. That does sound like a -
3 Signs Your Workout Needs an Upgrade
Just like anything in life, doing the same thing for too long can become boring. And what happens when something becomes boring? You quit and move on. Sooner or later, this will happen with your training! So, how do you know when it’s time to turn things up a notch? YOU DON’T WANT TO WORKOUT Fitness should always be a challenge, but -
The Importance of a Sustainable Diet
Embarking on a fitness journey with a diet that isn’t something you can see yourself doing for more than a few weeks, let alone perhaps a few months, strongly suggests it is not a sustainable diet. Of course it’s all about trial and error, but if you don’t like the concept of it before you’ve even started it, what will -
6 Reasons Why You’re Not Seeing Progress
It’s frustrating to spend months grafting to not see any changes, right? Whether you've hit a wall with your routine or simply aren't getting the most from it anymore, the process can begin to slow, and it can be difficult having to kick-start it again. That said, there are a few very simple tricks which you can try in order