A good posture will help you look more confident. It will also help reduce muscle pain, improve your balance, flexibility, and make you stronger. Start by paying attention to how you're sitting while at your desk or on the couch. Small adjustments like these can help you improve your posture. ...

The ‘core’ is an important group of muscles at the centre of your body (imagine a box surrounding the middle of your body). The specific muscles that make up the core are mainly the rectus abdominis (‘abs’), transverse abdominis (the deepest internal core muscle that wraps around your sides and ...

Almost everybody desires a fit body. While a fit body includes well-defined abs, shoulders, and chest, an often-overlooked part of being fit is having feet that fit well into any shoe of your choice. For your whole body to be in alignment, you need to keep your feet in good shape. As Hollywood ...

To the delight of well-endowed women everywhere, it’s finally fashionable to have a strong, round butt and wider hips. While not every woman has the physique to build a J-Lo type backside, we can all do a bit more to tone and strengthen our derrière. Importantly enough, a strong rear end ties in ...

"Things are as you judge them to be." - Marcus Aurelius. With that said, let me hurdle you straight into my techniques for tackling the prominently misunderstood human behaviour of the 21st century, namely, anxiety. We often value what we want, more than what we have. It’s wrong, but 'normal'. The ...

How does it feel when you see a woman deadlift double her bodyweight, or squat 100kg? Doesn't it make you want to give it a go, doesn't it encourage you to start getting into lifting? Weightlifting is undoubtedly one of the best methods to improve your health, but very few can deadlift double their ...

A kettlebell is a cast iron or steel ball with a handle attached that’s used for many different types of exercises. It has been around for a very long time, it's said that the Ancient Greeks used to use something very similar to a kettlebell during the Olympic Games. The first evidence of a ...

Doing sit-ups (also referred to as curl ups) has many health benefits and extends much further than helping you maintain a flat stomach and keeping you slender. Sit-ups are regularly confused with crunches and consequently it’s not uncommon for the terms 'crunches' and 'sit-ups' to be used almost ...

Your core is a lot more important than you probably give it credit for, yet it's abs-olutely (sorry, couldn't resist that) key in virtually every movement your physical body performs. It helps give you a solid posture, so you can for example, handle increasing amounts of weight in the gym, it helps ...

Nothing builds the glutes quite like the barbell hip thrust, yet, while it is a staple in most gym programmes designed for women, it remains an unusual sight to see a man hip thrust a loaded barbell in the gym. The biggest advocate and inventor of the barbell hip thrust is, in fact, Bret Contreras, ...