A Workout Routine To Burn Maximum Fat With Minimal Equipment
It’s 5:30 p.m. You’ve had a long day at work, but are finally done. You’re out of the office and heading to the gym to get a workout in before the day is over. You get there only to discover that everyone had the same idea as you. The gym is packed and overrun with…
What To Do When You’re Not Seeing Results In The Gym
It can be frustrating to go to the gym week in and week out and not see any visible progress. I’ve worked in several commercial gyms and can tell you from experience that the majority of gym members feel this way. They constantly put in the work, but the results just aren’t there. In times…
The Myth Of Spot Reduction
You may have read that title and thought to yourself, “What the heck is spot reduction?”! It sounds like something very complicated, but the truth is, it’s a common question within the fitness industry. Spot reduction means reducing body fat at a specific body part by using exercises that train that specific body part. If that…
How Many Days Should You Exercise Each Week?
This is a question I get asked often by friends, family, and potential clients. At Tidewater Fitness, we offer 1x, 2x, and 3x per week training options so that everyone has something to fit their needs. But one thing everyone wants to know is, can they receive any benefit from working out only 1x week?…
The Top 5 Workout Finishers You Can Use To Melt Fat And Get Lean
Last year, I wrote an article for the local paper on how adding a finisher into your workouts can help speed up fat loss. If you’re unfamiliar with what a finisher is, it’s an exercise or group of exercises performed at the end of your workout. They’re usually 10 minutes or less in length and…
A Daily Checklist For Optimal Health And Fitness
Everyone loves a checklist, right? They make things simple and can streamline even the toughest of tasks. One of the most rigorous objectives we have in life is maintaining our health and fitness. The reason being it requires work. It’s easy to sit on the couch all day and eat whatever we want. But it takes…
The Benefits Of Single Leg Training
Lower body training plays an important role in the effort to strip body fat and get lean. Lower body exercises use a lot of muscle mass and burn a ton of calories. But most of the movements you commonly see are things like squats, leg press, deadlifts, hip thrusts, RDLs, and the like. There’s absolutely…
The Primary Reason Fitness Is Valuable
Talk to 20 different people and you will probably get 20 different definitions of the word fitness. If you were to consult the dictionary, it would say “the quality of being suitable to fulfill a particular role or task”. I really like this definition, and I’ll come back to why in a minute. When you generally…
The Most Important Variable Of Any Exercise Program
If you were to look up the definition of fun, you would find words like enjoyment and pleasure. Fun, in and of itself, is a feeling you experience when doing something you enjoy. Over the past weekend, my wife, myself, and my in-laws traveled up to North Carolina to celebrate the 4th of July. While…
4 Mistakes Beginners Make In The Gym That Will Undoubtedly Stop Progress
Depending on where you’re at in life, a mistake can either be a good or bad thing. On one hand, they help us learn and grow so we can do things better than we did previously. On the other hand, they can hold us back from making progress towards a goal or achievement. The funny…