Home Gym Tips

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While many people have found their weight loss goals to be stifled on past attempts, the following tips can help you start losing weight immediately. All you need is a little willpower and some good advice to get you started on the path to the body you’ve always wanted. What you won’t find as you read this is the typical …

If you’re like most people living in the free world, you spend way too much time on your smartphone. In fact, most people have an unhealthy addiction to their mobile device that it’s actually bad for their health. Whether it be the wireless radiation they emit, or the fact they’re so effective at distracting you while walking down the street …

Those of you who like to work out at home likely do so for the flexibility and freedom a home gym offers. However, safety has to be much more of a concern when working out at home. Your local gym has employees on staff to help keep a clean and safe environment for their members at all times. Most times …

Recovery from a single workout takes a lot longer than most of us think. While the soreness may go away after a couple or 3 days (when you’re young), it can take up to 7 full days for the body to replenish what was lost, and repair what was damaged during your last workout. In order to maximize muscle gains …

One of our top recommendations right now for getting a great cardio workout at home is the rowing machine. Very few pieces of equipment offer the reasonable footprint, low cost, all-body resistance, and massive calorie burn offered by a quality indoor rower. Several online and offline publications rate rowing in their top 5 list of most recommended machine-based cardio exercises …

Consuming your protein in liquid form is an easy way to get more of it into your body. Protein shakes and smoothies are great for post-workout recovery, building mass, getting stronger, and when dieting for weight loss to reduce the amount of muscle you lose. Before settling on one product over another, you want to make sure you know exactly …

Indoor air pollution has been found in some studies to be as much as 100 times worse than the air outside. Tobacco smoke, household cleaning products, chemical air fresheners, mold, radon, formaldehyde, building material byproducts, carbon and nitrogen dioxide – there’s a lot of dangerous stuff lingering in the air inside our homes (learn more). A great many of you …

Despite what you might have heard, eating for lean mass isn’t a science. The body requires nothing more than growth stimulation from your workouts and a nutritious calorie intake in excess of your daily maintenance needs in order to grow. Gaining mass, ideally lean mass, can become really hard if you’re not supplying your body with the right kind of …

Free weight exercises have long been labeled as the king of muscle building. Resistance machines are usually tagged to lose weight and tone muscles. But, are these long held beliefs fact or fiction? There’s also a debate about what type of equipment is better for home use. Free weights can certainly take up much less space in your home when …