Often at the side of workouts in magazines you see the numbers 3-1-2, this is the rep timing.  Rep timing is the time you spend performing a rep when lifting weights, this is very important as this dictates the time duration of the stress being put on the muscle group being worked out.  For example [...]

At the end of the concentric contraction during weight lifting, e.g at the top of a bicep curl, the muscle is in it’s shortest position.  Many bodybuilders and physiologists recommend you pause here and contract the working muscle as intensely as you possibly can.  Pro bodybuilder Garrett Downing swears by this and owes the success [...]

Grip strength training is an area of weight training that is often overlooked, but certainly shouldn’t be as this is a hugely important part of weight training.   There are four different types of grip strength, pinch grip which is the thumb and fingers squeezing inwards, supporting grip e.g. holding onto something like a hammer, [...]

After you can complete a lot of press ups back to back you may be wondering how to make your press ups harder.  There are lots of different versions of press ups that are much harder than the standard press up such as the clap press up or diamond press up.  The clap press up [...]

Unfortunately, exercise can not actually increase the size of your breasts but it can certainly tone them up.  By performing chest exercises you can tone up your breasts making them firmer.  Some examples of exercises you can do to make the breasts firmer are chest flyes, chest presses and press ups.  I would mix up [...]

If you have just read our article on supersets and tried it out you are probably loving this form of working out but finding it strenuous, well I am just about to show you another form of training that makes the supersets look like a beginners program. Giant sets are when you perform 5 or [...]

The majority of people train using the single set method where you perform one set of reps for weight lifting then take a break. The superset training method is where you perform one set of reps then go onto doing another set of reps immediately after with no rest of a different exercise, then take [...]

The trapezius muscles aka “The traps” as they are known in muscle and fitness magazines are the muscle group that create that freaky looking physique.  When you see big bodybuilders in magazines and on tv what always shocks people straight away is the huge traps, as you rarely see these on the average man standing [...]

Burpees are a calisthenic exercise used often by coaches to train players and personal trainers to train their clients.  A burpee is a squat, push up and squat done back to back quickly usually with a jump at the end of the combo.  Burpees exercise your core, legs, arms, bum and back muscles. and help [...]

I used to perform cheat sets regularly so that I could apply the maximum amount of weight possible to the muscle, however, after pulling my neck rather badly recently I tend to avoid them.  Although I have been training for over 10 years, and I certainly would not recommend them to beginners, I pulled my [...]