At some point in your gym career, you will hit the dreaded ‘plateau’. Sure enough, you’ll be putting the time in, merrily lifting away them bam! All of a sudden the weight will stop increasing, the reps will start failing and the only thing growing will be frustration. This series of articles, ...

When we hear about Mixed Martial Arts, (MMA) we usually think about the fighters in the UFC or the diverse skills of Bruce Lee from the 1960's and 1970's. MMA is a combination of several fighting sports in one such as boxing, kickboxing, karate, jiu-jitsu, Jeet Kune Do, taekwondo, wrestling and ...

Alexis Brink is the CEO of the Jin Shin Institute in New York City, USA where she maintains a private practice. Her journey into healing started as a 25 year-old dancer from Holland looking to heal a challenging knee injury sustained from endless hours of dance practice and performance while she ...

Part of the reason why we all love movies is because we can connect with the characters and all the emotions they feel on their respective rollercoaster journeys. When they come into hardship, we cry with them and when they find happiness, so do we. But there are also scenes in films that ...

Title: Next Level Strength: The Ultimate Rings and Parallettes Program Author: Al Kavadlo and Danny Kavadlo Year: 2019 Publisher: Dragon Door Publications Review: With the abrupt closure of gyms around the world in 2020, many fitness fanatics have had to turn to home training to stay ...

Whether you’re used to hitting the gym, or it's the first workout since your New Year’s resolution was made, you could be feeling a 'burn' of one kind or another! The hours—and sometimes days—after intense exercise can be rough. From sore muscles to dehydration, a lot of discomfort can accompany ...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably joined several gyms throughout the years, and each time you’ve thought 'this is the one’! You were excited, motivated, you had a goal and the will to achieve it. You went to the gym consistently for a few months, then you started finding excuses until you ...

Here’s some brief history: I started competitive swimming at a young age, reached National level and then stopped just before starting university. When I reached my second year however, my mental health deteriorated and I became fixated on comparing myself to the athlete that I was before, ...

Who is the most successful bodybuilder of all time? If measured by Olympia titles then the answer isn’t Ronnie Coleman or Lee Haney. In fact, the most successful bodybuilder is not even male. Rather, the bodybuilder with the most Olympia titles is none other than Iris Kyle, holding a whopping 10 ...

Many believe bodybuilding comes down to hardwork and genetics, with the latter often outranking any amount of blood and sweat shed in the gym. With genetics determining trophy-winning attributes like symmetry, the debate over who has the best genes often starts and ends with Kenneth ‘Flex’ Wheeler ...