Category Archives: Fitness Tips
How to Stop Leg and Foot Cramps and what Causes Them
Stop Leg and Foot Cramps Now
Let us take a closer look at how to stop leg and foot cramps. If you’ve ever experienced a leg cramp in your hamstring or calf muscle, or even a foot cramp late at night, you know how agonizing the pain can be. Anyone can get leg cramps, but they are more commonly experienced by athletes and active individuals.
Protein Intake for Women who Exercise
Protein Intake for Women to Build Muscle and Lose Weight
In this article, we will discuss why protein intake for women who exercise is so important. If you are working out in order to lose weight and tone your body, you must build muscle. Muscles not only strengthen your body but also speed up your metabolism. This, in turn, burns more calories. In fact, unlike aerobic exercise, weight training and building more muscle tissue will even continue to burn fat well after you’ve finished your workout. But you can’t build muscle if you don’t get enough protein.
Something I’ve noticed a lot of at the gym is that I never see women with a protein bottle. Pretty much every guy I see has one bottle of water and an energy or pre-workout drink, and a protein shake.
