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If all exercise burns calories, then does yoga help you lose weight? It’s hard to imagine that such a seemingly relaxing activity could push you into the fat-burning zone. It may help you relax and de-stress when things are hectic, but can it really impact your waistline? In recent years, yoga has seen a huge resurgence in popularity. Developed in India over 5000 years ago, it’s still expected to be one of the top 10 fitness trends for 2019. Practicing yoga as a weight loss method hasn’t necessarily been the focus, since most people associate it with strength and flexibility....

Is losing weight high on your list of New Year’s resolutions? Perhaps you want to tone up specific areas of your body, or just reduce your overall body fat to improve your health? Whatever your reasons, if you’re aiming to shed a few pounds, then you’ll need to manage your energy balance to make it happen. This means either reducing the number of calories you consume, or increasing the amount you burn. To help with the latter, we’ve compiled seven of the best calorie burning exercises for you to try out in 2019. 1 – Show off your moves Ballroom...

Time is of the essence in today’s modern world. We don’t all have 3 hours a day to exercise as much as we like, but that doesn’t mean you can’t exercise enough in that time to really make a difference. Fitting 30 minutes of exercise into your day should be achievable for even the busiest of people, and when those workouts are burning 500 calories at a time, you’re onto a real winner! Stay tuned for 3 simple 500 calorie workouts you can fit into your lunch break. Yes, it’s completely possible to burn 500 calories in 30 minutes The...

Unilateral exercises are an incredibly effective way to develop your strength and increase fat-burning. Popular with personal trainers, competitive athletes and physiotherapists, these types of exercises are quickly making their way into the mainstream. They involve training individual limbs instead of working both at the same time, which produces heightened effects and faster results. In this article, we’ll run through exactly what unilateral exercises are, how they can aid weight loss, and even include a 3-month training program to help you get started. How do unilateral exercises help with weight loss? Unilateral exercises are a form of strength training where...

If you’re on a weight loss journey at the moment, it’s inevitable that at some stage you’ll hit a plateau – whether it’s now, or in the future. When that happens, you need to up your exercise game – and plyometrics exercises could be just what you need to do that. They’re one of the most intense exercises in existence, and they’re what kept you supple as a child. But the sad reality is, you’ve probably not performed plyometric exercises since you hit your teens. That needs to change if you really want to lose weight and tone up! What...