When you want to strength train, aside from body weight, you can use either free weights or resistance bands. The latter option is growing in popularity fast because of the advantages bands offer.
Trying to lose weight? Some people make the mistake of focusing too much on cardio. Find out why strength training is important and tips for using strength training to help you reach your weight loss goals.
When you resistance train, there are two types of exercises – compound exercises and isolation exercises. Find out how compound and isolation exercises differ and the additional benefits that compound exercises offer over isolation movements.
Muscles grow when you expose them to greater stress than they’re accustomed too. There’s more than one way to increase the intensity of a resistance training workout and stimulate muscle growth. Here are some ways to make a resistance training workout more challenging.
Exercise recovery is important for fitness gains and muscle growth to take place. It’s during “down time” that muscles repair so that change can occur. A number of factors can impact exercise recovery. This article discusses five of those.
Burn Sets is one of our new XTrain workouts that consist of two traditional upper body, heavy weight workouts: Chest, Back & Shoulders and Bi’s & Tri’s. Burn Sets uses tried and true classic weight training techniques, but what makes Burn Sets truly unique from other DVDs is all of the different ways this one DVD can be used.
Functional strength training is growing in popularity because it builds “practical strength” that can be applied to everyday life. This article discusses the benefits of doing a functional strength workout.
Burn Sets is an XTrain Upper Body heavy weight workout that is divided into two main workouts: 1. Chest/Back/Shoulders 2. Bi’s/Tris We’ve also uniquely structured the Burn Sets workouts to give you tons of options so that you can work individual muscles or try different combinations of all your upper body muscle groups. We had
In recent years, Pilates has been picking up steam as one of the most popular forms of total-body fitness. Athletes of all types see the benefits of a Pilates workout magnified in the other sports they practice, as Pilates targets the core elements that every athlete needs to improve their game: balance, coordination, flexibility, and strength.
Why is it always such a challenge to lose the last five pounds? This article talks about why shedding the last few pounds is so difficult and what you can do to make it a little easier.
