Before I even stepped foot in a gym, my first exercise love was cycling. In Cape Town, where I live, there is an annual cycling event call the Argus Cycle Tour. It’s the pinnacle of the local cycling calendar and covers 109km of gruelling terrain around the Cape Peninsula. The event attracts over 35 000 […]
I’m sure most of you know, but for those of you who might have missed this piece of information, it bears repeating. You can’t spot reduce! That means that you can’t target fat loss by exercising a certain area. For example, a man with a big belly won’t get a six pack by doing endless […]
It is a common misconception that light weights performed for a high number of repetitions will tone the body or add definition to muscles without adding a lot of bulky muscle. For this reason, most ladies you see who have been brave enough to enter the weights room will work out with the pink Barbie […]
I’m sure that most of you are familiar with the notion that lactic acid is responsible for the muscle burning sensation you get when you work your muscles hard. You know those guys in the gym shouting ‘feel the burn baby, just one more rep’ at the top of their lungs? That’s the burning I’m […]
How many times have you been told that if you want to lose weight, you need to perform cardio at a low intensity in order to stay in your fat burning zone? This disinformation regarding fat loss has got to stop. What I am about to explain is not difficult to grasp nor is it […]
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