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As an advanced trainee, you may not have too much fat to lose. You are training 6 times per week, maybe using a combination of weight training and cardio. The following recommendations are for your cardio training only. You should also include strength training in your routine to maximise fat loss and to maintain or increase the amount of muscle that you are carrying. This will not only give you a great shape but more muscle means more calories being used 24 hours a day.

Do these high intensity… Continue

If you have been exercising at least 4 times per week for at 30-40 minutes at a fairly high intensity, you are probably classified as an intermediate trainee. If you have been walking only, you should start with the beginner workouts in the previous article.

To lose weight through exercise, you need to be training at least 6 days per week. So first build you training frequency to this level over the next few weeks. Do the 30 minute workouts from the beginner article 3 times per week and walk fo… Continue

This first article in the three part series is aimed at the beginner. You are a beginner if you have not done any regular exercise for the past 6-12 months or longer. By regular I mean at least 3 times per week.

Basically any exercise is going to get you some results. You should start out with walking. Begin with 15-20 minutes every second day for the first week and then increase it to every day for the second week.

If all goes well after that, you can begin to increase the time. Add 5 minutes… Continue

If you want to be in the best shape possible, with minimal fat levels and lean strong muscles. If you want to achieve and maintain great health, you must think about everything that you do to and with your body. What exercise do you, or don’t you do? What do you eat? What do you drink? Do you get enough sleep?

It’s all so confusing. I have listed some common foods below that you probably thought were healthy. Have a look. How many do you consume regularly?

Breakfast Cereals – all cereal… Continue

First of all, you need to stop concentrating all your efforts on looking different. It can take a while to start looking different in the mirror. A much better way, is to concentrate on improving your performance. Aim to get stronger, faster, to be able to lift more or do more in a certain time period. Performance improvements can come quickly if you train correctly and we all know that achieving goals gives us incentive to keep on trying and improving. In the meantime, our bodies will be changi… Continue