Stahp!!!! You're doing it wrong.

I keep seeing people at the gym doing their resistance training all wrong.

Bicep curls turning into ab workouts, TuT thrown out the window in lieu of freight training a heavy weight up and down like you have a bad case of the shakes.

My training partner and I have a saying and moto when it comes to weight training.

"There is no shame in dropping down in weight (if you start at a higher weight) form and TuT should not be sacrificed."

If you start to twist in the wrong direction or lose your locked in core. There is nothing to be gained if you continue the rest of the workout like this.

Something good TuT promotes is the full range if motion. All too often you see bench presses where arms barely even make it to 90 degrees and the speed of the reps look like they are going for a speed record. Slow it down and get full extensions and contractions.

So stahp doing it wrong and start doing it right, you will start to see more results and feel the full effect of the workout.

Gotta make the time AND take your time!

It was put to me the other day when discussing what we (my gym buddy and I) would be doing tomorrow, legs, shoulders and back… "I don't know where you get time to go to the gym!"

And my immediate answer was, "you have to make time!"

The plan at the start of the week was to go to the gym after work. BUT work dragged on too late and forced a missed day due to appointments that couldn't be moved.

SO the plan was made to gym first thing!!! 5:30 gym opened giving us plenty of time to get a session in enforce work.

It's important to not let "TIME" become an excuse! As long as you get enough exercise in to reach your goals and targets.

What's your excuse?

Motivational Music!

Finding it hard to get pumped for your workout? Perhaps you have just woken, or driving in the car to gym? This song is sure to get you pumped. It might be about rappin but the beat and the strong sure lyrics make it a great workout pre starter.

Resting ness

I know I’ve been a little bit quiet on the posts of inspirational-ness at the moment.

This has mainly been due to some well-earned rest.

Now it has come to my attention that many exercisers get a case of the guilt’s when they don’t exercise for a day or two.

Well you shouldn’t feel bad, unless you have decided not to go for slack reasons or because you’re making excuses for yourself.

In fact sometimes your body will tell you if you’re needing a break. If you have over worked yourself and you are eating well and haven’t increased your workload too significantly you may find that you haven’t given your body enough time to rest and rebuild before you start again.

For body builders this down time will normally equal growth rather than nothing. Which will surprise most. For those looking to lose weight, you should find that as long as you keep on top of the diet side of things, your metabolism will balance the rest, while YOU rest.

If you don’t rest and you don’t have the drive to push through it… you will hit a slump in your routine and your interest in exercise will begin to wane.

Don’t let this happen!

Take a break, 3, 4 or a whole week of days and then get back into it. I have spoken of this before, but you mustn’t give up!! Use that time off to get your mind ready to attack again, check your workout plan, look at how you can best utilise your time for exercise coming up.

A break isn’t a bad thing, see it as a necessity for your body to catch up to the efforts you have been putting in.

K²

For a fairly long time now I have been a self motivated fitness goer.

I've done at least one workout with my bro before but never had a long term workout training buddy. And for the most of this time it has suited me fine. I find I have a pretty good self drive and enjoy the solitary that it gives me. Time to forget about the outside world and it's problems, time for a de stress.

However over the last couple of weeks I have taken my name sake under my wing as a training partner. He has the same goal set in mind and I hope that we can achieve that goal.

What I have noticed is that on the days that I am still at the gym alone without the training partner I can easily cheat myself out of some training intensity. No one is there to challenge your concept of "to failure" or to give you a reason to show off and set the bar a little higher.

So if you have found yourself plateauing or feeling like your drive is waning, you might want to enlist a training partner to give your workouts a kicker.

Make sure they have the same drive as you. Perhaps not the same goal but at least the same drive will ensure you don't spend your whole time talking and not working out.

Make sure you are both willing to push each other to the limits so that you can both achieve your goals.

Watch each other in-between sets to keep an eye on each others form and to be ready for any possible spotting that you might be needed for.

So what are you waiting for, drag along a sibling, work colleague, mother, father or just a friend and start motivating each other to reach your goals!

Below: one of the most famous training partnerships in the world.