Finding a healthy balance in your diet is key to ensuring you and your body feel good, not deprived. Here are some ways to eat better. Find healthy alternatives that you actually enjoy. So it's 8pm or so and you're craving something sweet, what would you go for? The chocolate chip cookies in the cupboard [...]
Although getting a leaner core will not happen with only targetted ab workouts; you'll need a low body fat percentage and full body training for very shredded abs, core workouts can help you on your way to target the abdominal muscles, strengthen them and make them more prominent. I have to admit I'm not the biggest [...]
Working different muscles in your body for different results seems like a fairly obvious concept. Exercises such as squats, deadlifts, crunches, lat pulldowns all work the different 'sections of your body'. For example, a Romanian deadlift works the hamstrings (in addition to the back, abdominals and more). Crunches work your rectus abdominus (the 'abs'). In [...]
Loving Earth creates healthy, sustainable, fair products and really believe in consuming foods in their most natural, minimally processed, pure and of course delicious state. These values are kept up in their array of raw chocolate. "Not only are we nurturing our own health and wellbeing but we are also nurturing the health and wellbeing [...]
Occasionally, we find ourselves training effectively, eating clean, and doing everything that the fitness professionals suggest... but we don't see the results we deserve? Still holding onto fat, not gaining muscle and overall pi***d off that we aren't making progress. Why? If this if you, religiously following everything you think you should be doing then let's [...]
Hey Cecfit readers! Before diving into the main body of this post, I just wanted to introduce myself to you all. I’m Emma, the 17-year-old blogger behind Fruits and Routes, where you’ll find a guest post from Cecily as well as healthy recipes, race write-ups, training tips and general advice posts. I hope you’ll find [...]
Don't be fooled by the idea that adequate protein intake is only for those who strength train loads or so-called 'meat heads' at the gym. Our bodies NEED protein for tissue synthesis and repair, production of enzymes - which help us digest food and proteins help carry oxygen. I was chatting with my sister the [...]
HIIT, high-intensity interval training, is one of the most effective methods for total body fat burning and toning. Explosive, high-intensity intervals followed by short bursts of rest continue to boost your metabolism even 24 hours after exercising. I won't lie, HIIT is very challenging physically however mentally it's easy to grasp as the intervals are [...]
We all struggle with motivation from time to time, for whatever cause it may be - stuck in a fitness rut, completing an assignment, getting out the door to the gym; I really struggle sometimes too but sound can make the biggest difference. So, I decided to share a few little, some strange, tips on [...]
