According to a recent report, 90% of people quit working out within 3 months of starting. As such, you must find as many ways as possible to stay motivated when working out. This means that with every session (and every drop of sweat), you’re moving one step closer toward your goals, as opposed to ending up at square one all over again.
With that in mind, here are some of our experts’ top tips for staying motivated when working out.
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a highly effective martial art. If you train regularly while wearing a comfortable Gi or other BJJ fightwear, you can reap numerous fitness benefits. The benefits you can get are not limited to your physical strength. Instead, you can get help in preventing a lot of diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases. Besides these, your mind becomes tough, helping you deal with the stressful situations in your daily life.
BJJ is not just a martial art but a complete workout that engages your full body in training, hence providing benefits to all of your body organs. Let’s explore the fitness benefits of BJJ in greater detail.
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People decide to hit the gym for various reasons. The majority do it to keep fit and healthy, others try to lose weight, and others for personal reasons, which include health reasons. After you set your goals, such as aiming to shed a specific number of pounds of weight or achieve certain levels of body strength, you may feel highly motivated, but the motivation for workouts may be short-lived. To achieve your goals, you must be consistent with your workouts and check your diet.
Getting yourself to the gym or your workout place is the most difficult part of exercising. So, what is the secret to getting yourself motivated for workouts?
The following are some steps to keep your motivation for workouts alive and strong.
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Fitness goes beyond enhancing physical appearance—it’s a transformative tool for boosting energy and improving mood. While most people associate exercise with physical benefits, its influence on mental health is equally profound. The connection between fitness, energy, and mood is both complex and deeply rewarding.
Let’s explore how engaging in regular physical activity positively impacts your energy levels and emotional well-being. Fitness can be a key to a happier, more energized life.
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If you’re interested in bulking up, then you may be aware of the fact that you need to change your approach to both diet and exercise. Although the fitness portion won’t be easy, you probably know that you need to start a program of weight training that involves scheduled increases to gain muscle mass. On the diet front, however, unless you’ve studied a few common cooking tips for bodybuilders, you may not have a very good idea of how to go about bulking without gaining fat in the process.
If you’re cooking for someone whose goal is to bulk, all you need to worry about is making that healthy food taste great. While I don’t have to time type out all of my recipes today, here are at least some tips to get started.
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As someone who’s spent years helping families design outstanding home gyms, I’ve seen firsthand the positive transformations these spaces can bring, especially for teenagers. Let’s face it: inspiring teens to prioritize fitness is tough. Between homework, social media, and endless screen time, staying active often falls to the bottom of their list. A gym membership might seem like the obvious solution, but creating a home gym tailored specifically to your teen’s needs is an absolute game-changer.
Staying healthy and fit is about convenience, comfort, discipline, and building lasting healthy habits no matter your age. Let’s examine a few reasons why exercise is so good for teens along with a few great ways to try to get your teen to workout in a home gym.
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Warming up before a serious workout is very important. Choosing a good, effective warm-up before working out will help you avoid injuries that can delay your fitness progress. The right warm-up exercises can create an amazing difference in how quickly your fitness improves.
However, choosing the wrong warm-up can also have an impact on your overall performance. You could end up getting injured or not maximizing the workouts that you make time for in your busy schedule. Keep reading as we talk about the most effective ways to warm up before working out!
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Do you restrict yourself to mainstream weightlifting equipment as you try to increase/improve muscle, strength, and conditioning? By using only barbells and dumbells on pre-programmed routines day in and day out, you could be setting yourself up for failure in several ways. Do you find yourself scratching your head? Do you wish there was some alternative training equipment you could use to spice up your workouts?
I want to introduce you to traditional weightlifting cousins in just a moment. Before I introduce them, I will assure you they are all very viable means to fully develop muscle and also to help you shred your body by accelerating fat loss as well as giving you a variety of choices to complement your weightlifting program.
Without further ado, the cousins to weightlifting are kettlebells, resistance bands, the stability ball, homemade exercise equipment, and perhaps the most exciting of all: odd objects.
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If you have been reading weightlifting materials for any length of time, you have probably heard of 5×5 training. It has worked for many trainees. We folks at Project Swole even made excellent progress on a 5×5 program. But with all this 5×5 hype, has anyone stopped thinking there might be an even more efficient way to train? You might want to take a moment to learn about The Swole 3×5 workout.
In my experience, at least for trained athletes, there are benefits to a Swole 3×5 workout routine which include added volume for accessory movements, core training, and conditioning due to the slightly lower workload.
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So I was out on the Interwebz looking around at strength training and fitness videos, and your typical YouTube martial arts fights, and I got to thinking about how annoying the ads are and how much the video quality sucks. There are some cool channels like Muscle Madness and Strength Wars but ultimately most of the videos on the web are slow to load and often the quality makes them hard to sit through. Worst of all is when videos are taken down, leaving dead links and video embeds scattered around the web.
So where can we go to find a reliable, secure, white-labeled fitness videos hosting service? The journey begins…
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Personal trainers have to know how to train people from all walks of life. I’ve seen bodybuilders, strength athletes, middle-aged men, obese housewives, trained athletes, newbies, weekend warriors, and about 100 other types of people and athletes. No one routine can be designed for everyone. Sport-specific movements might be prescribed for some athletes, while others might need a beginner’s routine, while others might only want to focus on powerlifting movements like bench, squats, and deads. We need to always be aware of the athlete’s goals when designing a workout routine.
Even in sport-specific niches like football, baseball, basketball, and soccer, or with other athletes such as powerlifters, bodybuilders, strongmen, and Olympic lifters, there is no one-size-fits-all training routine. You can’t take a baseball pitcher and train the pitching motion for 5 hours a day, 7 days a week. It just won’t work. So how do you train athletes who only need a small variety of movements to be successful at their sport?
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In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become more crucial than ever. Among the various ways to stay fit, going to the gym stands out as one of the most effective and accessible options. Whether you’re looking to shed a few pounds, build muscle, or simply improve your overall well-being, the gym offers a structured environment where you can work towards your fitness goals. But the benefits of going to the gym extend far beyond just physical appearance. From boosting mental health to fostering a sense of community, hitting the gym regularly can have a profound impact on various aspects of your life.
More often than not, we typically start going to the gym because we want to look better. However, exercise offers much more than simply looking good. Regular exercise not only strengthens muscles and increases flexibility, but it can also lower stress, blood pressure, and mood while increasing happiness levels – as well as possibly helping prevent certain diseases or illnesses.
Here are five compelling benefits of going to the gym that can inspire you to make exercise and fitness a regular part of your routine.
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Staying fit and in shape while traveling can be challenging, I get you. When I was traveling in Southeast Asia, I could only find member and personal training gyms.
That said, it’s entirely achievable with the right strategies. Whether you’re navigating bustling cities, relaxing on a beach, or trekking through remote landscapes, maintaining your fitness routine helps you feel energized and ready to make the most of your journey.
This guide offers practical tips on how to incorporate exercise into your travel plans, make healthy food choices, and stay motivated, ensuring that your adventures leave you feeling just as strong and healthy as when you started.
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If you’re an exercise enthusiast, it might be hard to wrap your mind around the many benefits of low-impact exercise. Far too many fitness junkies believe that your workout needs to be high-intensity every single time. While there are countless benefits associated with high-intensity exercise, it’s not the only form out there.
Low-impact exercises are especially useful if you’re recovering from a recent injury. They also serve you well when training for a vigorous event. Incorporating low-impact exercises into your workout regime helps condition your body, repair muscles, and give your body the rest it needs to recover. Want to learn more about some of the best low-impact exercises for overall health and strength? Keep reading!
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In today’s fast-paced work environment, spending long hours at a desk has become the norm, often at the expense of our physical well-being. However, staying active during work hours doesn’t require a trip to the gym. Incorporating simple desk exercises into your daily routine can help combat the negative effects of prolonged sitting, boost your energy levels, and improve overall health.
Let’s explore the best exercises you can do right at your desk to keep your body moving and your mind sharp, all without leaving your workspace.
Athletes have become bigger and stronger and are in better shape nowadays, and the trend to build endurance through specific training has only accelerated this phenomenon. Athletes are getting leaner and more ‘ripped’ than ever, in nearly every sport.
It used to be that a baseball player, for example, would focus on exercises specifically designed to improve the specific skill set that they needed to succeed on the baseball field. The same sport-specific training was true for every sport. But as people began to see the broad-spectrum benefits that came with endurance training for events like the triathlon, it became evident that an individual with greater strength and endurance in any sport could benefit from a more well-rounded circuit of exercises.
It didn’t take long before regular people started to realize that they could benefit from endurance training, too, and it quickly became more and more popular. Today, its appeal is at an all-time high. Even weekend athletes, as a result of endurance training, are becoming almost indefatigable.
Here’s why.
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You could be wasting your time with a great workout routine and proper nutrition if you don’t know how to train and eat based on your body type. When I first started training and reading about body types my first question – what is my body type, was hard to answer. It seemed I was the combination of 2 of them so initially, I struggled to categorize myself. Honestly, your body type category doesn’t matter enough for anyone to be stressed out about categorizing the body type but knowing the details of how to eat and train for each type, at least gave me some direction as I set goals for fat loss and strength gains in my earlier years.
Hopefully, this guide will help you find some answers if you ask the question, ‘What is my body type?’
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Want thick, dense abs that stand out like a washboard? Want a ripped midsection with veins and shredded striations? No? How about this: Want to look good naked? If you answered yes to any of those, you’ll want to be sure you’re not making any common ab training mistakes.
You will never achieve any of the above goals or personal goals if you train your abs once a week with three sets of crunches for 100 reps, or if you eat like a horse. Avoid these 6 common abdominal training mistakes and your abs will dial in. Whether you are a bodybuilder, an athlete, or a novice, chances are you are making several of these ab training mistakes in your training right now. Take heed!
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Are you experiencing unpleasant pain in the knee while training your legs? In this article, we are going to tell you how to protect your knees from any unpleasant injuries as they are very common.
Your legs are one of the most important parts of your body. As athletes and/or gym rats, we must train our legs regularly, even though it can be quite unpleasant at times. Training legs is not always fun, and is sometimes a bit painful, causing many beginners and even novice athletes to neglect them. Personally, I love deadlift day, I don’t care much for squat day, and I abhor lunge day for the reasons mentioned above.
Today we will share some tips and tricks of the workout trade, used by coaches and athletes that you can use to protect your knees from inflammation and injury.
A few years ago, Josh Hanagarne, aka The World’s Strongest Librarian, sent me this great piece of work on training longevity. Enjoy!
We hear about weight training goals all the time.
What about training goals that wily matter when you spot your first gray hair or when you buy your first pair of bifocals? Granted fat loss is always a concern as you age, but what can we, as dedicated strength athletes, focus on NOW that will help us stay healthy as the years tick by?
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