When we think of exercising for health and fitness, our minds immediately go to running. To be healthier, I must run. Running means, I’m fitter. Time to put my trainers on. It’s an accessible and effective form of cardiovascular exercise. True. But...
The upper body is hard to hit without weights. It can seem as though there’s a limited supply of home-friendly exercises that challenge you enough to make some fitness progress. We often end up doing the same ones over and over again. This list is...
When we think of core workouts, a couple of things come to mind. Sit-ups. Planks. A floor-based ab workout. A visibly toned tummy. It’s easy to reduce core workouts to these simple things. And whilst they’re rightly associated,...
If you need some motivation to keep your running up, here it is. Runs which today seem impossible, with practice, will one day seem effortless. It’s important to remind ourselves of that simple science every now and again because it’s easy to feel...
Whether from your fitness tracker, or every influencer across social media, we’re always told 10,000 steps a day is a golden number. That hitting 10k gives us a health and fitness status of the highest standard. But what do 10,000 steps a...
In the gym or at home, we often have to craft our own fitness routines that match what we’re looking for that day. Whether we’re using heavy barbells, light dumbbells, or maybe just our own body weight, each exercise we do presents us...