Seven Tips for Stellar Weight Loss

Pick up any magazine or browse a bookstore shelf and you’ll find all sorts of articles and books about diet, exercise and weight loss.  The fact of the matter is, weight is important – obtaining and maintaining a healthy weight is important to every person’s overall health.  That being the case, why is it so [...]

Long Term Weight Loss – It Is Possible If You Know How

Long term weight loss is the only effective way of keeping fat from coming back on but it is also very difficult to achieve. People who take short cuts to lose weight tend to pile the pounds on back again. If you suffer from a fluctuating weight problem then you are certainly in for trouble because [...]

Healthy Choices for a Sexy New You

Obesity is a problem that many people struggle with nowadays. It seems that the biggest reason for obesity is our lifestyle. We do minimum or no exercise at all and on top of that, consume unhealthy food. This makes things worse for us as it exposes us to a wide variety of ailments and reduces [...]

Boost your workout with L-Carnitine

We all want a well sculpted body with ripped abs and great looking arms and therefore, are willing to go to great lengths to reach this goal. It is the reason that people try out radical diets and fancy products without any qualms. They totally alter their lifestyles and waste a handful of money to [...]

Creation of Power: The Wonders of Creatine

Creatine is produced naturally in our body by amino acids. The most obvious benefits of creatine are increase in strength and improvement of muscle size. It is most beneficial to those performing activities that need a quick burst of energy, like sprinting, baseball or heavy weight lifting. Aside from increase in muscle size, creatine also helps in recovery after intense training activities

Hydrate with Carbohydrates

People who want to lose weight often have the mistaken belief that carbohydrates will make them gain weight. On the contrary though, they can even help you reach your desired weight. Carbohydrates are composed of sugar molecules made out of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are commonly found in starches, fibres and sugars. You can [...]

Branched Chain versus Regular Amino Acids

As you start reading up on various diets and workout literature aimed to help you see better results from your efforts, two terms that you may come into contact with are regular and branched chain amino acids. If you have been doing your reading, you’re likely know that amino acids are what protein is made [...]

How To Beat A Fat Loss Plateau

Struggling to see further progress with your workout or diet program? Feel frustrated that what you were doing seemed to be working and all of a sudden all progress has stopped? If you’re stuck in a rut, congratulations, you’ve just reached a fat loss plateau. Fat loss plateaus are all too common among those doing [...]

Fight Fatigue with These Four Foods

If you are on a fat burning program one thing that you might be dealing with from time to time is fatigue.  Fatigue is perfectly normal to experience when you’re not taking in as many calories as your body is used to, especially if you’re doing intense workout sessions at the same time. Fortunately, if [...]

Hydration Smarts: What You Need To Know

When most people start up on a healthy eating plan, they take a lot of time to figure out the perfect combination of proteins, carbs, andfats to be eating, making sure that their calorie intake is precisely where it needs to be. This is good news because your calorie intake is one of the primary [...]

When Hunger Strikes: Use These Tips To Calm Your Stomach Fast

If you’re currently on a fat loss health plan, one issue that is definitely going to creep up from time to time is that dreaded feeling of hunger. Even the most determined weight watcher who normally has maximum self-control can start to lose it when hunger rears its ugly head. Making smart choices is easy… [...]

Don’t Be a Victim of Emotional Eating – Be Free of the Temptation to Binge

Have you been trying to lose weight over a long time without any success? Do you start all sorts of fad diets only to give up on them within a short while? If your eating habits are characterized by periods of deprivation followed by binges then you are unlikely to lose any weight at all. [...]

Steady State Versus Interval Training

Over the years there have been many discussions and debates about steady state training versus interval training and which one is best to get the results you require.  Is one form of cardio exercise more effective than the other and who is each best suited to? In order to accurately assess the different types of [...]

Yummy Protein Recipes

We had some great recipes submitted for our Facebook Protein Recipe Competition. Find our who the winners are and try out the awesome recipe entries…..

Avoid Overtraining With This One Technique

If you’re serious about making the most of your workout program and moving closer and closer to your long-term fitness results, one thing that you have to be extra careful of and make sure to avoid is overtraining. Overtraining can be a very real and serious issue for some people and could take weeks if [...]

4 Great Alternatives to The Squat

As you go about your workout program, one exercise that needs to be included is the squat. The squat is an excellent exercise to do, as a “compound exercise” it’s going to hit the glutes, hamstrings, calves as well as the quads, lower back and stabilizer muscles, and burn up a whole lot of calories [...]

Nicky Arthur – Designer Physique’s newest Ambassador

Nicky Arthur

Yoga Teacher, Author, Coach, Motivational Speaker and now Designer Physique’s newest Ambassador

Exercise Pairings To Kick-Start Your Metabolism Into High Gear

If you are currently working out, or been around the gym long enough, you would have inevitably either heard of, or been doing, supersets with your weights. This is when you pair two different muscle groups together one after the other generally in between your reps. Supersets are a perfect way to force the muscles [...]