Building muscle and toning are two different fitness goals that require different approaches. Building muscle involves increasing the size and strength of your muscles through resistance training, while toning involves reducing body fat to reveal and define the...
Strength Building and Building Muscle
Weight Lifting – Things to Do and Not Do
Proper weight training will always depend on using the proper technique. Understanding good weight training technique can help you lose fat, while at the same time increasing your strength and building great muscle tone. It can also help you to improve your bone...
Which Is Better? Free Weights or Machines
When you walk into any small or large fitness center, you will see both free weights and weight training machines for various strength training. Some people use only the free weights, and some go from machine to machine to get in their workout. This creates the...
Light or Heavy Lifting? – Gaining Strength and Health by Lifting Weights
Don't feel wimpy - New studies show that lifting lighter weights with more repetitions can equate to lifting heavier weights with less repetitions. But in order to pull it off, you will need to do enough repetitions with lighter weights so your muscles get just as...
The Non Muscle Building Health Benefits of Working Out With Weights
Why doesn’t everyone lift weights? Until quite recently, there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that strength training and/or working out with weights was supremely beneficial to an average person’s health ... But thank goodness that’s changed! Weight lifting is no...
Top 10 Superfoods for Gaining Muscle Mass
A good fitness regime should combine exercise and nutrition. What you eat has a big effect on how your body reacts to the physical exercise programme you are following. High protein foods, carbs and fats provide the energy needed to carry out physical exercise....