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.

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.

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.

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.

Forearm tendonitis

Feeling pain at the tendon in your forearm after doing bicep curl? Probably you have injured it and cause inflammation. Usually is over stress due to high intensive of bicep curl. Stretch and reduce the weight can avoid possible injury.

Let’s recover from over-eating during festive season

Few simple steps to recover from over-eating

#01- Write down your goals

It’s time to write down your fitness goals in the year 2017! Make a list and try to achieve them.

 

#02- Go shopping!

Buy something that is fitness related can you can use it for exercise. It can be a pair of new running shoes, sport apparels, water bottle or even gym membership. Once you spent, you will have to use it.

 

#03- Get a buddy

Look for someone who is highly motivated in fitness and train with them. They can really push you to your limit!

 

#04- Get good sleep

Most people think don’t get enough sleep. If you are one of them, try to get quality sleep. A good quality sleep helps for recovery and you can focus even better than long hours of bad sleep.

Few reasons why you feel dizzy during exercise

Sometimes you may feel light headed during exercise and below are the reasons why:

• low blood sugar
• dehydration
• overwork
• lack of sleep
• health issue & medication

Water Aerobic

We heard about water aerobic but what is the benefits in it?

• Resistance training and less stress on joints
• Rehabilitation after injuries or illness
• Lesser gravity and reduces impact
• More cooling and you may perform longer training session