This is a sponsored post. ----- High Intensity Interval Training – otherwise known as HIIT, for less of a mouthful – is the type of workout on everyone’s lips recently. Fitness heads everywhere are being converted to the wonders of HIIT, and it’s not hard to see why: doing short and intensive workouts are proven to help massively improve people’s aerobic fitness and muscle mass. Not only that, but because the exercises you are doing are high intensity you can complete them faster – which gives you more time to do the stuff you really want to be doing! When it comes to utilizing HIIT … [Read more...]
4 Hip Hop Dance Moves To Boost Your Fitness
This is a sponsored post. ----- Hip Hop is and always has been a very popular form of dance. It requires a lot of stamina, energy, training, and power to perform these dance moves, but the payoff is excellent for your portfolio, physical health, and it is just plain fun! We will run through a few of the many options you have for Hip Hop dance moves, but before we do, we should point out that being in good physical shape is very important when performing these dance moves. Many dancers use nootropics made by Corpina to help them ensure high energy levels and a healthy body when … [Read more...]
4 Simple Office Exercises And Workouts
This is a sponsored post. ----- Finding it difficult to get to the gym? It can be difficult to juggle your work commitments with a social life, family life and still squeeze in time to go to the gym. Fear not, that doesn’t mean you can’t keep yourself fit. By eating the right protein snacks, such as protein bars and following this with some exercises, you can keep your fitness levels up whilst in the work office between meetings. Here are four simple exercises and workouts you can do at the office: Bicep Bottle Weights Your biceps don’t need to suffer. Something as simple as using … [Read more...]
Hire Gym Equipment And Save Money
This is a sponsored guest post, provided by Paul Healey, Founder at Hire Fitness. ----- If you are one of the many people in the UK who has a gym membership but hardly goes, you are far from alone. In fact, estimates reckon that gym memberships worth as much as £37 million stand largely unused across the country. That’s a lot of money in anyone’s book! It’s also money that could be put to better use in the home. The problem is this: you want to keep fit and go to the gym, but after a hard day at work you simply don’t have the enthusiasm to get up and actually go. What’s the answer? … [Read more...]
How do Athletes Hack Their Sleep?
This is a sponsored guest post by Richard Meyer, who is Founder/ Main editor at NerdSleep.Com ----- If you’re an athlete wondering why your stamina or performance has a hit a plateau recently, lack of sleep might me the culprit. In addition to enhancing focus, ample sleep also boosts the performance index and muscle repair rate for athletes. Considered part of elite sports training, sleep ethics for athletes is vouched as the First Priority for most coaches too. According to NBA superstar Steve Nash, “If you nap every game day, all those hours add up and it allows you to get … [Read more...]
Three Disability Sports to Keep You Active
This is a sponsored post. ----- A disabled person is half as likely to play sport as a non-disabled person, according to Sport England. This is an organisation dedicated to encourage more disabled people to play sport, highlighting the multitude of health benefits to maintaining an active lifestyle. If you want to try out a disability sport but don’t know where to start, here’s our top three to get you started. 1. Boccia Boccia is a precision ball sport designed specifically for athletes with a disability affecting locomotor function. Players roll, throw or kick balls, aiming to land … [Read more...]
Ketogenic Diet: Taking These Supplements Forces Ketosis And Boosts Endurance
This is a sponsored post. ----- A ketogenic diet relies on a very low intake of carbohydrates, moderate protein and high fat. It forces the body to metabolise and survive on fatty acids or ketone bodies for energy or fuel. It is an exceptional plan for improving insulin sensitivity, improved muscle development, the reduction of inflammation within the body and is perfect for endurance athletes when followed correctly. What Are Ketone Bodies? Ketone bodies, or ketones, consist of three molecules which are water soluble and break down into acetone. They are produced by the liver from … [Read more...]
3 Pillars Of Running For Weight Loss
This is a sponsored post. ----- If you’re looking to slim down, running is one of the most effective ways to do so. Running is a full body, intense exercise that not only burns a high amount of calories while you’re doing it, but creates a higher afterburn effect than other lower intensity activities. Because of this, it is very time-efficient as well as convenient. Only have 30 minutes to exercise? You can be up and running (pun intended) as soon as you’re out the door, no commute or set up time required! Another big plus is the expense, or more accurately, the lack of expense. Sure, … [Read more...]
Winter Bulk: Preparing To Succeed
This is a sponsored post. ----- The colder months are almost upon us, and with them comes the opportunity to bulk up and put on some solid muscle ahead of next summer. If winter is the time of hoodies and covering up, then it’s also the time to be hitting the gym hard and packing on as much mass as possible before you cut down to look amazing when shirtless next year. That means plenty of high protein shakes and good meals, but also confronting the realistic difficulties winter training presents. With the colder months also comes laziness and a lack of motivation. If that happens, it … [Read more...]
How To Tell Good Health And Fitness Advice From The Bad
This post is sponsored by Future Fit Training. ----- When it comes to health and fitness, the concepts of good and bad have become very complicated. As far as diets go, one second we’re told that carbohydrates are healthy, the next they’re being villainised as the single worst thing for our waistline. It’s the same with eggs, sugar and dairy – and don’t even get us started on gluten. When it comes to exercise, the advice is equally as divided and it’s left us in a state of confusion. Should I be kinder to my joints by running on the grass or the pavement? Am I supposed to be … [Read more...]