Month: May 2024

Call it your bottom, butt or bum, your gluteus maximus or glutes for short is arguably the most important muscle in your body after your heart. Your glutes help stabilize your femurs to ensure your hips and knees function optimally, is your main hip extender which makes them essential for all running, jumping and lifting activities and also give you something comfortable to sit on and stops your jeans from falling down!

At some point in their lives, a large majority of the population will go on a diet. For a few days or weeks, they will eat much less than normal, swear off foods they enjoy, eliminate certain food groups and generally make themselves miserable in the process.

Whether you run, ride, row or cycle or prefer to lift weights, do press-ups or play sport for fitness, a good warm up can make the difference between workout success and failure.

Take a look around your gym and take a mental picture of all the people exercising. In a vast majority of cases, if you revisit the same gym in 12-months time, those people will, in the majority of cases, look exactly the same.

While the vast majority of the fitness industry is fixated on fat loss and cardiovascular exercise, a meaningful percentage of gym goers are more interested in weight or, more accurately, muscle gain. Many men and some woman want to build muscle for improved appearance, increased performance or both.

There is a definite bias in the fitness industry toward cardio ? sometimes called aerobics. Go to any gym and you?ll see lots of people putting in lots of time on treadmills, exercise bikes and rowers or attending Group exercise classes. Look outside and you?ll see walkers, joggers, runners and cyclists doing the same.

Although you are unlikely to be falling over and gouging huge chunks out of your knees as an adult, you could be harming your knees in a way that can't be seen.

Vascular Wear is a relatively new brand that was established in 2012. Dedicated to the regular gym user, their range of clothing is perfect for showing off the toned torso that you?ve spent hours of hard work perfecting.

Whether you?re getting ready to patrol the beach on your summer holiday or you?ve got a big competition coming up, there?s no doubt you?ll want your six pack to be the envy of everyone else. A six pack shows everyone that you?re at the peak of physical fitness and also holds extreme sex appeal.

The founder of Gold?s Gym, Joe Gold, opened his first dedicated fitness centre in Venice Beach, California in 1965. Its members included a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and professional bodybuilders including Dave Draper and Lou Ferrigno to name a few, which meant that Gold?s Gym soon became the place to be.