Our ankle joints are quite complex and designed to be very mobile. They help with ankle dorsiflexion, this is to point your toes upwards, and plantar flexion, to point your toes away from you. Essentially, the ankle joint helps us to walk, run and stand whilst helping to absorb shock when carrying heavy weight …
Your shoulder joints play a very important role in everyday activities and helps to move your arms through a wide range of motion. As the shoulder joint is very mobile this makes the shoulder more prone to injuries. Common causes of shoulder pain include things such as bursitis, arthritis, or a rotator cuff tear. However, …
Training the trapezius muscles can often be overlooked. Whilst bodybuilders will focus on this area to get the muscles to pop, the traps actually play a very important role in upper body stability. The trapezius is a large muscle which connects from the base of your neck, passes down across your shoulder blades and …
Strength training causes you to work up a sweat, and this includes your hands. Sweaty palms when lifting weights can reduce your grip strength. Not only could this result in you failing your lift, dropping your weights can result in injury. However, there is a solution in the form of gym chalk. In this …
Buying the best gift for bodybuilder or other fitness enthusiasts doesn’t have to be as difficult as you may think it is. You’ll probably want to avoid sugary treats and gift vouchers for a local restaurant, especially if they’re in a cutting phase prior to a competition. So, what are the best bodybuilding gifts? …
Strength training workouts can be split down into several different forms, such as upper body vs lower body, 4-day workout split, compound vs isolation etc. How you choose your workout style very much depends on your goals. For example, in a four-day training split, you can focus on training each muscle group whilst allowing …
Being able to gain access to your local gym at any time that suits your members can be great selling point. Nowadays, people don’t often work set times and those who work anti-social hours will often consider 24-hour fitness centers as opposed to those that open for limited times throughout the day. If you …
Your back muscles enable many movements of the upper body and work with your chest and torso helping to provide stability and protection to the surrounding joints and your spine. The muscles of the middle back are made up of the trapezius, a large triangle shaped muscle which sits just under the skin, and …
Plyometric exercises can help to improve your explosive power making them perfect for elite athletes such as basketball players and footballers who need to be able to jump high and change direction quickly. That being said, power exercises can benefit anyone by activating fast twitch muscle fibers and improving lower body strength and increasing endurance …
During strength training there are three types of contraction which is used to describe how each muscle is changing throughout the movement. These are known as the eccentric phase, the concentric phase and the isometric phase. 3 Types Of Muscle Contraction Let’s look at the biceps curl exercise to better explain each portion of the …