Exercise & Training Archives

13May 2018 by Cristian No Comments

In a rut with your routine? Tips to get motivated again

Many people struggle to maintain a regular and consistent exercise routine. Some people struggle with knowing exactly what to do, whereas others struggle with keeping up with consistent routine weeks and months and years on end. It’s no surprise why: most of us are stressed out, have tons of obligations and commitments we must realize, and at the end of the day, if we have an hour to ourselves, few of us are inclined to spend that extra time exercising and instead opt for sleeping or vegging out. The underlying cause of the struggle, in my estimation, is not necessarily motivation but a lack of systemic support. Human motivation waxes and wanes over time; it’s only natural. Most of us can recall a time when we had the best of…

04Oct 2017 by Cristian No Comments

Weightlifting vs. Cardio: Which is Better for Fat Loss?

Exercise & Training, Weight Loss

What’s up everybody, I know a lot of you guys only care about weight but hey, remember that losing weight doesn’t make any sense if most of the weight you lose comes from muscle. Tell me, have you ever wondering why spending hours doing cardio on a treadmill or elliptical machine doesn’t help you lose fat? Well, don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to say that cardio is useless for fat loss. In fact, doing enough cardio can help you burn a lot of calories in a short amount of time and improves our heart health effectively. But too much cardio can kill your gains and if weight loss is not your priority and you want to lose fat slowly and steadily, then I highly recommend weightlifting or strength…

14Jul 2016 by Cristian No Comments

What exercises to do in gym? Simple and effective guide.

Exercise & Training

In this post we are going to do exercise selection super easy for anyone who is starting out. There’s at least one guy or gal waking up every morning and deciding to go to the gym for the first time and they don’t know anything about that lifestyle. I know that as a beginner I had a hard time deciding what exercises to do and what machines to use inside the gym. In an average size gym there are usually a hundred different machines and gym equipment you can select. That seems like a whole bunch at first and it might seem overwhelming. But don’t worry, you don’t need to do all of them and I am going to help you select the absolute best exercises to jump start your…

11Jul 2016 by Cristian No Comments

How much time should you spend in the gym?

Exercise & Training

This is a question that I hear a lot especially from the people that are very new to lifting weights and don’t know a whole lot about this stuff. I’ve been there and had the same issue when I first got into the gym. Am I working out enough? Is one hour enough to get big? Do I need to be in the gym for 2 hours to look like that guy? Read on and see how much time YOU need to put into working out. Don’t make this mistake You see, the problem is that all newbie’s are very enthusiastic about making progress fast and are anxious to get to the gym and kill it in there. And this is sometimes the reason for overtraining, which has exactly the…

12May 2016 by Cristian No Comments

Are there good and bad exercises for muscle growth?

Exercise & Training, Muscle Building

If you are wondering which are the best exercises you can do in the gym in order to make gains as fast as possible you are in the right place. I like to look at the human body as a project – a work in progress project. Your body is your master piece and you are the artist who designs it. You also have a tool box full of different exercises, different workout routines – high rep, low rep, high volume, low volume, high intensity, low intensity and so on. The purpose of this article is to see what tools (exercises) we have in that tool box, when and how to use them in order to optimize our progress towards our goals. If you’ve been asking around about that type…

04May 2016 by Cristian No Comments

4 common weight training mistakes to avoid

Exercise & Training

There is a reason why you don’t see jacked guys around every corner. In fact, even inside a gym you will most probably see just a handful of guys that look muscular and have a physique that you would want to have. When I was in high school I was in a small group of 5-6 guys that worked out regularly for couple of years, yet neither one of us had a truly muscular, impressive body. Even though we had a ton of fun working out, our training routine was pretty stupid and the results were very poor in most of the cases. Anyways, once you understand it, dieting and training right is not rocket science at all. But people find very creative ways to mess it up each day,…

30Mar 2016 by Cristian No Comments

4 steps to design your personal workout routine

Exercise & Training

Workout routines have been, are and will be a hot topic in the fitness community. Everybody wants to know what’s the best beginner workout routine, what’s the best training routine for mass, what’s the best for strength, the best routine for women and so on. There are literally thousands of questions being asked every day around this topic. Justly, there is no question about it; the way you train will have a tremendous impact on how your body will look, therefore it make perfect sense to continuously learn and experiment with different routines. A very common workout routine is the ‘push, pull, legs’ program which I’ve followed when I first started working out, almost a year and a half ago (wow, it’s been that long already). If you’ve been reading…