Fitness, Training

How To Breathe While Exercising To Improve Your Performance — INFS

How To Breathe While Exercising

Breathing is often the forgotten sixth pillar of strength and performance. Yet how you inhale, exhale, and time your breath affects spinal stability, intra-abdominal pressure, cardiovascular load, recovery, and even endurance. This post explains the physiology behind common breathing strategies used in resistance training and sport, summarizes the evidence for their benefits and risks, and gives practical, research-backed recommendations on how to breathe while exercising in the gym.…

Fitness, Weight Loss

BMI and BMR: What’s Better for Weight Management?

We’ve all heard of Body Mass Index (BMI). For many years, it has been the go-to number when it comes to understanding fitness, often presented as a quick way to judge whether someone is underweight, normal, overweight, or obese. But another equally important concept exists in the world of health and fitness: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).…

Fitness, Health

Does Your Body Metabolism Slow Down With Age?

Ageing is an inevitable process that every one of us will experience. While we often relate age with wisdom and experience, it also brings a range of changes in the body, both visible and hidden. From losing the ability to chew our favorite foods comfortably to experiencing digestive issues, bone fragility, and muscle loss, the effects of ageing can influence daily life in many ways.…

Fitness, Training

Training for Strength and Power: Functional Training

Functional training has gained popularity as a method that enhances everyday activities through exercises mimicking real-life movements. Unlike traditional strength training, which often isolates muscles, functional training focuses on multi-joint movements that improve strength, balance, and coordination. However, it’s important to understand that functional and non-functional training is not a black-and-white issue; both have their merits, and the fitness industry sometimes oversells the benefits of functional training.…