Hopefully, I have dispelled your fears of building muscle from my previous post on why women should do strength training, in this post, we will go over the benefits of building a stronger, more muscular you. There are so many benefits to list out that I have summarized them into 3 categories: Aesthetics; Practical advantages; Health advantages. Let’s start with aesthetics. I don’t think this one requires much explanation as we all know that
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The last part in this 3-part series on Why Women Should Do Strength Training, will be on the health benefits. I must warn you that there is a bit of science below so if you are not interested, feel free to just read the list of health benefits and be on your way to pumping some iron. So, in my previous blog, we talked about the obvious aesthetic and practical reasons for building muscles,
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Women have it tough. Not only are they expected to be the primary caregivers in a household, but they also need to manage a stable career and look amazingly hot all the time! That’s a tall order for anyone to live up to! Then you throw in all the photoshopped images of models in magazines and internet lifestyle websites of perfectly-airbrushed skin-tone and body curvatures to make the obtaining of the perfect female body practically
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That’s right. As the title says, just because you’re sore the next day doesn’t mean you had a good workout. The proper term for that all-too familiar day-after-a-workout muscle soreness is DOMS - delayed onset muscle soreness. You may get DOMS regardless if you had a good workout or not because it seems to manifest itself the most through eccentric, unaccustomed exercise. Eccentric exercise - when the muscle fibres lengthen (ie. the lowering part of
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Exercising Too Much Is Bad For You! Recently, I’ve had some clients where I’ve advised them that they may, in fact, be overtraining. “Overtraining? How can that be bad?” you may ask. It’s true. If you overdo exercise, it can actually be bad for you. Especially, if you do a lot of high intensity exercise. When you exercise, you are essentially doing damage to your body. You are causing micro-trauma or micro-tears in your
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Today’s blog post is dedicated to an avid reader of my blog who wants to know how to minimize the risk of injury while working out without a trainer to supervise. This is a great question to ask and I love it when my readers are keen to learn more on fitness and nutrition. For the remainder of this blog post, I will refer to exercise as physical activities that enhance your fitness - this
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Hey guys, I’ll be writing a new line of blog posts called: “Misconceptions in Exercise & Nutrition”. They will be shorter in nature and are aimed at debunking the misconceptions about fitness and nutrition that are widespread in the media and society. The first one in this series is the common belief that you have to sweat a lot to get a superior workout. Now if you are
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"I need to exercise more..." What is exercise? Might seem like a no brainer, but the answer is less straightforward than you might think... As a fitness consultant, I find that words like "exercise" are used to mean different things by different people. Another example of this the phrase ‘getting back into shape’. Depending on the person, this could mean either building muscle mass, burning fat or increasing physical performance at a specific activity like
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