The chest is a complex muscle which can be hard to target directly unless using the correct technique. This will usually involve pressing movements that keep your shoulder blades retracted. This helps zero-in on the pecs while ensuring maximum stretch is achieved on the negative part of the rep for ...

In this article, Why Women Should Lift, we make it easy to understand why women need never fear lifting weights ever again! Many women take regularly to the gym with the goal of losing weight or more specifically, losing fat. On a mission to reach their goals, some spend hours repetitively ...

Opinions about weight machines are very diverse. Some love them and see many benefits of using them. Others almost condemn them and believe they have no place within a training program. In this article, we look at 7 Top Reasons to use Weight Machines to help achieve your goals! 1. Convenience ...

The triceps are made up of 3 heads and perform extension and pressing movements and the top 5 tricep exercises on this list will indeed involve extension and pressing movements. The triceps make up two thirds of your upper arm yet is often neglected in favour of the biceps, probably due to it being ...

Forearm muscles are often a neglected body part of many a gym-goer's routine. But wait! Think of Bruce Lee’s incredible forearms, think baseball bats or steel girder defenders when in a fight. Being forearmed forewarns any potential foe in advance, how handy is that eh? Now's a good idea to ...

Swimming is an excellent way to keep fit; it’s no wonder this unique sport is an all-round workout as it uses of course the entire body. Not only does it avoid putting a huge amount of pressure on the joints, but it also serves as an important life skill that can help protect you against drowning. ...

Getting into the habit of working on a better behind may be challenging if the exercises you start with are confusing or are proving too difficult. So here are Top 4 Simple Exercises for Better Glutes!  These are very simple yet effective bum-toning exercises that you can do anywhere, including in ...

So we’re serious about building maximum strength and muscle. We know we must include barbell squats in our training, but is there any leg room for any training aids, devices or methods to potentially help us improve our squat performance? You bet there are! We’ll now look at Top 5 Ways to Boost ...

The bicep is a simple muscle which only performs one function: to flex the arm, bringing the forearm closer to the body via elbow flexion. The biceps are made up of the lateral and medial head but in this article I am going to include two other muscles which work synergistically with them to ...

The bench press is an iconic favourite for many gym-goers for obvious reasons! But all posturing and bravado aside, what do you actually get out of it? Here is a list of  8 Top Bench Press Benefits! Read on for what you can experience by performing this popular and effective exercise. 1. If you ...

The deadlift is an excellent exercise for strength and muscle gains. Here we look at 10 Benefits and Tips for Deadlifts and why you should incorporate them into your own training! 1) There are many variations of the deadlift which can be used to suit an individual’s goals, build, age, gender, ...

The back or posterior of our body is made up of a multitude of muscles including the posterior deltoid and rotator cuff muscles which form part of the shoulder and are responsible for pulling movements. With there being so many muscles, there are also as many possible exercises to develop those ...