Home Gym Life 
If you plan on lifting heavy weights, eventually you will have to use weightlifting straps. You will get to the point where your grip strength holds you back. Luckily, Olympic weightlifting straps are easy to use. Simply slide your hand through the teardrop-shaped hole and let the strap end act as a second thumb. Below, … Read more
Sticking points are annoying. There’s nothing worse than when lifts get stopped in their tracks, or stopped before they even really start. It’s especially annoying when you miss lifts at the same point day-after-day. Luckily, a few programming changes can help you overcome your sticking points and push toward new PR’s! Before you check out … Read more
We’ve all been there. You’re driving out of the hole on a heavy squat. The bar is moving like a knife through warm butter. And BAM. You hit a brick wall and the bar stops. No matter how hard you strain, you can’t get the bar to move any higher. After a fight, you dump … Read more
Nothing is better than walking into the gym after a long day, shutting the door and forgetting about the rest of the world. Whether your workout is half an hour or two hours, a workout can make all your troubles disappear. Having your favourite music playing to pump you up makes things even better. Your … Read more
Most of us spend all day sitting. We sit at a desk at school or work for 8 hours. Sit in our car or on public transit during out commute. Eat our meals seated. And then flop down on the couch all night. But despite all the sitting we do; we spend almost no time … Read more
With the winter training season upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, many cyclists are moving from riding outside to training indoors. Indoor cycling training is often considered to be much more monotonous and boring than riding outside. But if you want to see improved fitness come the spring, being consistent with off-season training is key. … Read more
The most popular home gym flooring is rubber (Source). Rubber flooring is relatively cheap, easy to work with, easy to clean and can last for a long, long time. Because of this, you will notice that nearly every gym you go to will have rubber flooring. Rubber flooring should be at least 8mm thick to … Read more
For years, the use of gym chalk (magnesium carbonate) was reserved for the most serious powerlifters or weightlifters or gymnastics gyms. Recently, the increased popularity of functional fitness that incorporates powerlifting, weightlifting, and gymnastics into everyday workouts has made gym chalk a must-have for all gyms. But the question is: does using chalk increase grip … Read more
If you’re new to exercise you might wonder if you should stretch before or after a workout. The recommendation from strength and conditioning coaches and scientific research is to perform a full-body dynamic warm-up including dynamic stretching to increase heart rate and blood flow to muscles before exercising. After working out you should perform static … Read more
Knowing your heart rate when exercising can give you vital information about the intensity of your workout (how hard it is on the body), how your body will adapt to the training and the number of calories you’ve burned. As a general rule: the harder you’re working, the higher your heart rate will be. However, … Read more