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How to Balance School Work and Exercise
Whether you’re in grade school, college, or taking classes online, balancing fitness and school can be a challenge. Just like a full-time job, you spend most of your time attending classes. Unlike a job, however, you’re also responsible for homework and extra studying on your own time. This eats up even more of your day and requires a lot of time management skills. With so much to do, how do you strike a balance between that and fitness? Balancing schoolwork and exercise requires 3 things: choosing a place where you can workout consistently, making realistic goals given your schedule, and
The Best Time to Go to the Gym
The gym experience isn’t the same at all hours of the day. Going in the morning compared to the evening can be a vastly different in many ways; energy levels, amount of people, whether you’re going to work later or not, etc. Because of this, picking the best time to go to the gym is more than picking whenever you’re free for an hour. The best time of day to workout is the time you can show up the most consistently. Even if research says 1am is the worst time; if that’s the only time where you can come in
How To Create Workout Discipline for Long-Term Success
Everyone has lost motivation to work out at some point of their journey. Whether they’re just starting out, or have been lifting weights for years, there comes a point where “I want to go to the gym” turns into “I have to.” It’s at this point where most beginners say fitness just isn’t for them. That their goal to lose weight or get stronger is far from their reach. Every person in this situation benefits from the same thing: workout discipline. Creating workout discipline requires creating a specific goal, recording multiple measures of progress over time, and creating accountability amongst
Why You Can’t Feel Your Chest Workout
Chest is the most common muscle guys want to develop in the gym, and for good reason. A big chest is an obvious sign that you look good and can lift a lot of weight. However, a lot of beginners struggle to see change, even after months or years. They can grow their arms and shoulders just fine, but the chest seems too stubborn to budge. There are 4 common reasons why you can’t feel your chest: bad posture, lack of warmup, bad technique, or poor workout programing. If you can’t feel your chest, you likely will not develop it
Is It Bad To Do The Same Workout All The Time?
The idea of going to the gym and knowing exactly what you’re going to do makes workouts much less stressful for most people. A weekly workout routine solves this issue, but what’s more simple than just doing the same workout every day? It’s not bad to do the same workout for each gym session, but you’ll get the most benefit of a workout by changing the right variables at the right times. How To Create an Effective Everyday Workout Routine Work the Entire Body With Compound Lifts One of the major problems doing the same routine every day is muscle
How Much Weight To Add For Progressive Overload
Most people should be able to add about 5-10 lbs a week on your compound lifes (squats, bench press, deadlift, etc.). Exactly how much depends mostly on your experience level and your exercise volume. Some workout programs are much more suited for adding weight than others. How Experience Level Effects Progressive Overload Your experience level is not how many months or years you’ve been working out. For weight lifting, experience level describes how long it takes to fully recover from max effort workout. A max effort workout is any workout where you try to push the weight as heavy as
How to Balance School Work and Exercise
Whether you’re in grade school, college, or taking classes online, balancing fitness and school can be a challenge. Just like a full-time job, you spend most of your time attending classes. Unlike a job, however, you’re also responsible for homework and extra studying on your own time. This eats up even more of your day and requires a lot of time management skills. With so much to do, how do you strike a balance between that and fitness? Balancing schoolwork and exercise requires 3 things: choosing a place where you can workout consistently, making realistic goals given your schedule, and
The Best Time to Go to the Gym
The gym experience isn’t the same at all hours of the day. Going in the morning compared to the evening can be a vastly different in many ways; energy levels, amount of people, whether you’re going to work later or not, etc. Because of this, picking the best time to go to the gym is more than picking whenever you’re free for an hour. The best time of day to workout is the time you can show up the most consistently. Even if research says 1am is the worst time; if that’s the only time where you can come in
How To Create Workout Discipline for Long-Term Success
Everyone has lost motivation to work out at some point of their journey. Whether they’re just starting out, or have been lifting weights for years, there comes a point where “I want to go to the gym” turns into “I have to.” It’s at this point where most beginners say fitness just isn’t for them. That their goal to lose weight or get stronger is far from their reach. Every person in this situation benefits from the same thing: workout discipline. Creating workout discipline requires creating a specific goal, recording multiple measures of progress over time, and creating accountability amongst
Why You Can’t Feel Your Chest Workout
Chest is the most common muscle guys want to develop in the gym, and for good reason. A big chest is an obvious sign that you look good and can lift a lot of weight. However, a lot of beginners struggle to see change, even after months or years. They can grow their arms and shoulders just fine, but the chest seems too stubborn to budge. There are 4 common reasons why you can’t feel your chest: bad posture, lack of warmup, bad technique, or poor workout programing. If you can’t feel your chest, you likely will not develop it
Is It Bad To Do The Same Workout All The Time?
The idea of going to the gym and knowing exactly what you’re going to do makes workouts much less stressful for most people. A weekly workout routine solves this issue, but what’s more simple than just doing the same workout every day? It’s not bad to do the same workout for each gym session, but you’ll get the most benefit of a workout by changing the right variables at the right times. How To Create an Effective Everyday Workout Routine Work the Entire Body With Compound Lifts One of the major problems doing the same routine every day is muscle
How Much Weight To Add For Progressive Overload
Most people should be able to add about 5-10 lbs a week on your compound lifes (squats, bench press, deadlift, etc.). Exactly how much depends mostly on your experience level and your exercise volume. Some workout programs are much more suited for adding weight than others. How Experience Level Effects Progressive Overload Your experience level is not how many months or years you’ve been working out. For weight lifting, experience level describes how long it takes to fully recover from max effort workout. A max effort workout is any workout where you try to push the weight as heavy as