Best Workout Tips

Making the most of your training time is essential, your time isprecious right? So
let's make sure you tighten up your workout with these top tips.

Use a Workout Log

If you aren’t logging your workouts, you’ve not got the data to progress.

Set Goals

To perform effectively you need to know why you’re working out when you don’t

feel like it!

Stay Hydrated

Most of your body is made up of water, don’t get depleted during your workout

otherwise you can’t perform at the top level.

Be well equipped

Have the best clothing and equipment you can afford, you’ll workout better and stay

more comfortable.

Plan your Workout

If you meander around the equipment you’re wasting valuable time and you aren’t

focused.

Don't be a workoutaholic

Going to the gym or working out all the time leads to staleness and injuries - don’t be

a bore!!

Warm up correctly

A poor warm up will lead to poor gains and injuries, spend the time to get that blood

pumping.

Stretch after exercise

Stretching can help the body to rid it’s self of the chemical build ups that cause

muscle soreness. No one likes to walk like Frankenstein after our workouts!!

Give yourself a holiday

Every few months, give yourself a few days off. Your body will appreciate it and you

will return with renewed vigour.

Keep it fresh

Mix up your workout sessions, join a class, try a new machine, change your strength

days. Shock your body into new growth.

Best Compound Exercises

Don’t have much time to workout? Want THE top muscle builders? Want to develop

real strength? If so compound exercises should be the core of your strength routine!

Compound exercises are simply exercises that target more than one muscle group. For

clarity, exercises that target a single muscle group are called isolation exercises.

Anyway on to the Herculean strength builders!!

1) Squats

The good old traditional squat should be a part of any strength workout

2) Clean and Press

This exercise will work the muscles AND the heart and lungs, it’s like a workout on

its own!!

3) Deadlift

You can move some big weights eventually with this strength builder

4) Chin Ups

Tough to do at the start but worth persevering with as they will give you a fantastic

physique

5) Bent over Row

Really works the back, but make sure of your form when performing this exercise

6) Press Ups

The good old fashioned press up has lasted the test of time for a reason!

7) Dips

Another time tested exercise

8) Bench Press

THE way to work out those pecs

9) Lunges

A great leg builder that will also build explosive strength and the heart and lungs

10) Crunches

Not strictly a compound exercise but simply the best way to work those abs!