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Body Health, Exercise, Fitness, Health, Workout, Workouts - March 28, 2018

10 Min Workouts you can do without equipment

In the fast-paced life of today, it’s difficult to squeeze in a few hours for gym and workout. Fortunately, for improving your health and keeping you physically active, a mere 10 minutes are enough, if utilized properly. According to research, short and brief periods of intense and ardent exercise are at times more effective than workouts that take a longer time with less effort. If you can take out 10 minutes from your busy schedule, here are a few exercises that can be done under 10 minutes, without any workout equipment, and will keep you active and healthy. These exercises...

Fitness Health Standard Weighted Vest Press Up Exercise

This is the standard press up exercise completed wearing a weighted vest which has an extra 15 kg weight. This is a basic press up exercise, adding the extra weight is a standard form of strength training. Overloading the muscles with extra weight is a great way too increase your muscle and body structural strength. The weighted vest can be adjusted in weight for beginners, or for different types of training.

Chin Up Bodyweight Exercise

CHIN UP EXERCISE You just need an overhead bar to do chin-up exercise. Use a close grip to work on your biceps. As you move up, make sure that your legs are crossed and they don’t touch the ground when you move down. Go to a park or find another place where you can grab ahold of a higher spot and pull your body weight up and off the ground. This will tax your arms and upper back, giving you a great upper body workout without any equipment at all.

Benefits of a Swiss Fitness Birthing Ball

If you’re an expectant mother and you’re not currently using a Swiss fitness birthing ball, you are missing out on some really great advantages. This one piece of equipment offers you a number of benefits before, during, and after the birth of your precious bundle of joy, and here are just a few of them: Fewer backaches. Even if you use the ball just to sit on versus doing an actual exercise routine, you’re still working your abdominal and lower back muscles to stay upright, giving you a strong and stable core that will help get you through pregnancy with fewer of those...

Why foam rollers should be used in your exercise routine

Most people make sure they have adequate weights and cardio equipment to get fit, but if your workout regimen doesn’t include the use of a foam roller, you’re likely missing out. Even though they look pretty useless, they do offer a number of fitness benefits, including these three: Increased flexibility When your muscles are tight, you’re not going to have a very large range of motion with your movements. However, when you use a foam roller before working out (in your warm-up phase), your muscles release their tension which allows you greater flexibility to perform the movements you are...

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