Squats vs Lunges

Both exercises activate Glutes, Hamstrings and Quads. Squats can be done in many variations and each of them can hit different parts of your muscles. It is more stable and able to achieve heavier workout sets.

Lunges on the other hand requires a little more balance and focus on the movement. Sometimes, lunges can be a little demanding even with lighter resistance.

Both exercises are equally important, depending on your fitness goal and physical condition. Workout both for better physical results.

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is an eating method that you can only eat with a 8 hour window. In the 16 fasting state, the insulin level will drop and increases growth hormone. This is to help to burn your fats, reduces the risk of getting diabetes and lower the risk of cardio vascular diseases.

Crunches everyday?

It is fine to do crunches everyday. Doing crunches daily can help you to build stronger and nicer abs. However, if you load weights on your crunches exercise, probably you can cut down to twice a week.

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Are you taking weight loss pills?

If you have no idea what are the contents in the weight loss pills, better stay away from it. There are some unknown ingredients that have limited research and may cause harm to your body, especially liver, kidney, hormones change and cardiovascular health. Don’t assume that products with endorsement are safe to use!

Things to consider for your weight loss plan:

1. Are you over eating?
2. Lifestyle- Stress and sleep
3. Under medication or medical condition
4. Lack of exercise?
5. Excessive alcohol or smoking

 

Lifestyle change is the best way for weight loss!

Should you lift when you want to loose weight?

When you lift, your muscles will grow and of course you will gain weight. Isn’t it contradicting for someone who needs to loose weight? Let’s say you are 80kg with 25% fat mass versus 80kg with 15% fat mass, you will look totally different. You need to put on some muscles to increase strength and endurance for you to workout efficiently in order to shed your body fats. Now make sense? By increasing muscle mass, it enables you to increase your metabolism rate and you will able to burn those stubborn fats even faster.

Body Weight Workout- Dips

Dips is a very effective body weight training for building upper body mass. It hits your lower pectoral and triceps. You can add on weights for higher intensity training and bigger gain! Try out with seated dips before doing on parallel bar.

 

Narrow shoulders problem

Some people has wide shoulders naturally, due to the bone structure. This doesn’t mean that if you have narrow shoulders, you can’t widen them. A little trick to make yourself looks broader is to train up your lats. Massive back and well train shoulders can improve a lot on broaden your body frame.

Weight Loss food?

We heard people talking about food that can help in weight loss. What would happen if you over eat “weight loss food”? Will you put on weight because of excessive calories or you reduce your body weight? Some “Weight loss food” may help in controlling your appetite or provides good minerals and vitamins, but the important factor for weight loss is to change your lifestyle and eating habit.

Gym machine, good or bad?

Gym machines provide consistent resistance and most machines design with safety features. It is good for gym newbie to start with before hitting free weights.