After you give birth, you can start making a slow transition to normal workouts, that include activities you might have not been able to do, whilst you were pregnant (Cycling, certain exercises, etc.)The workouts will begin with low intensity, gradually reaching your previous feats of strength and endurance.
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Post-Diet Approach
Have you ever had a friend who kept a diet for some time, then gained back 90-95% of the weight they lost, in less than a week? This is the so-called “Yo-Yo effect” of dieting. As we cleared out in the first article of this section (physiology of fat loss) there’s one very important thing …
Pyramid
The main idea of doing a warm up, is getting your cardio-vascular, central nervous system (CNS), as well as the skeletal musculature activated, before your weightlifting workout, in order to increase its efficiency. Generally speaking, warming up refreshes the nerve paths along your central nervous system, but the most significant changes are in the vegetative …
Shoulder Dumbbell Workout
Overhead barbell movements are usually the king of exercises when it comes to developing the deltoids.However, diversifying the intense workouts with less intense, but more movement-control involving, unilateral exercises, will definitely lead to a positive adaptation, on a neuro-muscular level.
Split Principle
Before we dive into the most commonly used principle of “Split training”, we will go through some information that concerns the contradiction between some of the principles used by advanced and elite athletes. When you open up a fitness magazine and read some of the articles on methods, used by elite athletes (competitors), there is…
Stomach Vacuum Exercise: What Is It And Does It Really Work?
You have done everything you can to carve your midsection – crunches, torso twists, and leg raises – but it’s just not working out. You have started core exercises to go with your abs workout routine but that flab seems stubborn as a mule. So,
Strength And Weight Training For Women
Even though this article is written to target women, the strength and weight training exercises mentioned here can be also applied to men. Should weight lifting replace cardio workouts? The simple answer to this question is NO! The two types of exercise should be done in combination, as this will give you the most effective …
Stretching Methods and Techniques
There is a wide variety of physical activities that you can take on, to improve your overall health and well-being. Some of the activities focus on endurance, others on strength and third, are a combination of strength and endurance exercises. However, there is one group of exercises that helps us improve the even more important
Taurine
Originally considered to be a simple and harmless amino acid, with no special contribution to human health, Taurine has gained a whole new reputation in recent years.
Taurine And Beta-Alanine
We will look at two of the most popular amino acids for sports purposes – taurine and beta-alanine. Often, we can see them together in complex formulas, and many consumers take them as part of their stack, but because of their metabolic