Workout For Less Blog

Most of us dream of having that perfect six pack and many work hard to achieve it. But why can't some of us see our abs? After all, everyone has abs, so where are they?

We all know that exercise is good for us. Science has proven time and time again that staying active can help keep us happy and healthy, but does gardening count as exercise? Does gardening offer aerobic and muscle strengthening benefits? Which types of gardening offer effective workouts? Let's take a look.

Insulin is a hormone produced by the beta cells in the pancreas that regulates blood glucose. With type 1 diabetes however, the body can no longer produce insulin naturally. Some diabetics question whether insulin causes weight gain or are other factors at play? In this blog we discuss insulin and its effect on weight.

We all know that exercise is good for us. It makes us stronger physically and certainly helps our mental health but it’s not always easy to drum up the enthusiasm to actually do it. It’s very common to have negative thoughts about ourselves, fear of failure or not being good enough and it’s easy to put it off…….but never get around to it.

Many people who do weight training at home find it confusing that the same weights at their local gym just feel lighter. Why is this?

We all know that being inactive is not good for our health and can lead to weight gain and a number of chronic health conditions, but is standing in itself good for you?

Progressive overload involves constantly working your muscles harder than before, and is arguably the best way to build muscle. It works by increasing the weight or number of repetitions each time you train in order to improve strength, endurance and muscle growth. Here are the 3 ways you can use progressive overload.

Let's take a look at the mind-muscle connection with regards to training for hypertrophy or muscle growth. The mind-muscle connection is something that bodybuilders have known for years that's now backed up by science. Understand its meaning, implement it into your weight lifting workouts and reap the reward of gains!

People who don’t have diabetes produce insulin naturally. When we eat, glucose is absorbed into the bloodstream. This raises our blood glucose levels which stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin allowing the glucose to move inside our cells and be used but for type 1 diabetics this is not the case.

Pricking your finger to test your blood glucose level can be a pain both physically and metaphorically. For most type 1 and type 2 diabetics though, this unpleasant process is a fact of life that must be performed multiple times each and every day. Here are my top dips to reduce diabetes finger pricking pain.

For a type 1 diabetic the honeymoon period is a unique phase that can affect blood glucose levels and insulin requirements. So what is it and why does it occur? How should you deal with it and is it possible to extend the honeymoon phase? In this blog I discuss my experience of the type 1 diabetic honeymoon period.

As a type 1 diabetic I soon came to realise that there is a lot of confusion out there as to the the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The media will often lump both conditions together under the single 'diabetes' umbrella, but the truth is they are very different. Let's explore some of the differences.