I often read about how ‘running doesn’t work’ or give people what it promised (assumingly abs). And it always gives me the pause especially if the given alternative is a stationary bike or something. Well, there are quite a few reasons why running may not work for you. Your Diet Is Bad More cardio or…
Running has taken a hit for all kinds of problems. There are notions that it will hurt your knees, eat your muscle, and even make you fat. But these are mostly myths or misconceptions that should be put behind by anyone who wants to get in shape and fast. Myth # 1 – Running Hurts…
Motivate Yourself To Run Running was never my favorite physical activity. It’s hard to run in a mountain landscape and in a sharp chill air. But lately I just cannot deny its effectiveness in combating the bulge. Besides it’s free and liberating in a way. But before you can feel that for yourself, it can be hard…
When talk is on about fashion models’ thinness people often remember horror stories about young girls starving themselves living off alcohol and olives or worse – trying to dull hunger with cotton balls (don’t try this at home). But lately as fitness becomes a bigger mainstream trend by the day even fashion models found ways…
With a ton of diet and workout plans out there it’s hard not to get confused. Some say you should cut out white carbs (bread, rice, potato) while others break weight loss plateaus with help of white potatoes exclusively. Some Instagram fit chicks claim they do the fasted cardio on non-training days to keep lean,…
Image via Pixabay Running never was my favorite thing and for some time before I joined the gym it was really physically hard for me to run even a few yards, let alone miles. The reason was of course the low level of general fitness. After two years in the gym and lots of HIIT and…
If you’ve been working out for months without much of a visible progress there is a temptation to either stop it altogether or go at it even harder than before. And while the latter usually helps the beginners to progress further and fight off plateaus, the former looks much more enticing for those who had no progress in…
Running on a treadmill is no picnic but there are ways to make time go faster as you sweat and pant on the damn thing. Taking your mind off the timer and your body is a good way to make it feel a bit easier and thus prolong your run. Listen Music is the best…
If you’ve been dieting and working out but your results could have been better, you might want to take a look at your lifestyle as a whole and make some changes. The further we evolve the more we sit it seems, so trying to get more movement into your everyday life might just give you the…
It turns out our muscles don’t run out of energy when we get tired. It’s not that we physically cannot continue to work out even when we think we can’t. It’s our brain’s preemptive shut down mechanism that allows body to conserve energy for what’s after the workout (brain doesn’t particularly care) and make us…
