Busy work schedules, financial incapacitations or pressure from family or within makes it challenging for most people to be fit and maintain fitness. Society today has categorized people into classes such that if you don’t have the financial might, then you won’t be able to enjoy some of the luxuries or even worse amenities offered like gym services which may only be offered by particular clubs that you don’t have money to subscribe to. What is worse, is that if you can’t afford to get a personal trainer to help you through the fitness journey, then you are put at a disadvantage as all that comes at a very high cost.

If you are familiar with bodybuilding and bodybuilding exercises, then you’ve probably heard or come across the words suicide grip or in other terms false grip or thumbless grip. The suicide grip as I prefer to call it is a technique used by muscle builders in grabbing barbells and dumbbells.

This gripping technique basically involves holding the barbell bar with your fingers excluding the thumbs. For this reason, it is one exercise technique that is highly discouraged unless you are a professional with prior experience and confidence of safely performing the technique.

If this suicide grip sounds this scary in theory, then how is it in actual practice? Still, why do bodybuilders insist on performing lifts with this grip? Read on

If you are a person whose normal day routine subjects you to long hours of standing, then you just landed at the right place as this article will help you choose the best shoes for standing all day.

Nursing, hospitality, and hairdressing professions are some of the fields that requires people to stand or walk for long hours without sitting down. If you are one such person, then you must consider investing in shoes that will provide you with all the comfort to sustain you through all those hours of standing.

Most people decide to go dieting with their main aim being to lose weight. However, only a handful achieve this goal as the rest tend to give up along the way either because they run out of resources to keep up with the diets needs or because they lacked the will to continue dieting. For whatever reasons you decide to go on a diet, it is essential that you understand dieting is not for the faint-hearted or at least that is what most diet plans make us believe.

The norm behind dieting has been created such that we are made to believe that it is something which requires a lot of input, sacrifice, and stresses to the body. Maybe this is the reason why only a handful manage to get results from strict dieting.

You have to agree with me that after the gluteus muscles or in common language the butt region, the next body region that most people desperately try to work out is the abdomen. The effort I see people putting into working out their abdominal muscles is very impressive but at the same time surprising. In light of this, crunches have become very popular exercises for strengthening and toning up the abdominal muscles. There are different types of crunches all which target the said muscles differently. If performed well, crunches can be of great benefit to maintaining a flat tummy and toned up mid-section. They can also be dangerous if performed wrongly.

Work pressure, irrational eating habits and too much of alcohol is making it difficult for millennial to be in shape. Excessive carbohydrate and sugar has made it difficult for people to lose that extra fat and gain the much-needed muscles. The world is having more obese people than smartphones.

Millions of people from around the world are constantly trying to lose weight and get back in shape but nothing seems to work. Running, fat free food and supplement consumption are some of the most common things people are doing in order to lose weight but nothing seems to work out, you know why? Because of lack of intensity.Running, eating fat free and consuming supplements are not going to help until and unless you start following a defined paradigm. You need to do the right thing in order to be in right shape.

Weight lifting belts are associated with a lot of controversy from fitness experts, health specialists and users at large. Despite the controversy, the demand for these belts continues to rise rapidly. Read on to find out why.

Weightlifters stand to lose a lot when it comes to harm, especially injury to their spinal region. However, weightlifting belts make things easier when conducting heavy lifting exercises. The belt protects your backbone from any injury. You all know how dangerous and complex spinal code injuries can be hard to cure. A small spine injury can affect the quality of your entire life. And as you can guess, it won’t be anything positive. To be safe, you can wear the belt over your back as it will support your lower back from the pressure of the extreme weights that you may be lifting thus preventing any short or long term injuries from happening.

Do you want an exercise that can help you get a flat stomach or good-looking six packs in the shortest time possible? Keep on reading this article.

A great body especially great abs and flat stomach is every man and woman’s desire. Many people tend to spend a lot of time and money in the bid to achieving a good-looking body. However, if you do not incorporate exercise into your daily routine, even a strict diet only cannot help you achieve a fit body. Exercises like crunches can help you lose extra fat, work your core and also enhance your overall body movement.

On crunches, one of the best crunches for abdominal muscles is butterfly crunches. These types of crunches will not only focus on getting rid of abdominal fat but also strengthening and toning up these muscles. If you want to develop abs or a flat stomach, you should adopt the butterfly crunch as a part of your regular body workout.

This type of crunch is very easy to perform; all you need to do is spare a few minutes of your exercise time and some dedication.

Have you ever wondered if the Jefferson deadlift could be of help to you? Perhaps this guy in your gym does it, and you wonder, ‘how in the world could he pull off such a lift?’ Don’t worry this article will enlighten you.

At first glance, this exercise may look very awkward and exciting at the same. Well it is, the strength and ability needed to perform the lift are not minimal. Look at this pictures;As you can see everything about the two pictures is not merry. This is the type of exercises you would rather do behind locked doors or in the gym where no one will see/be bothered by the funny and ugly faces you make throughout the lift.

What is suspension training? What are some of the best suspension trainers available today? To find out these and more, keep reading this article.

Suspension training is a form of training that started way back in the 19th century. It is a kind of strength and overall body training that involves the use of ropes and webbing above the head of a trainee. Suspension training allows users to work majorly against their body weight. The ropes and the webbing is what we referred to as “suspension trainers.”

These days, suspension training has become so popular; as expected, the demand for suspension trainers has also increased rapidly. To identify the best of this fitness equipment you first need to understand the basics. Like I said earlier, keep reading to find out more.