Every year I compile a list of my top workout tracks that were released in that year. When I train, I generally listen to rap and RnB. Depending on how I am feeling, I will listen to music that makes me feel happy and positive or even cocky and confident (whatever I need for that day!). Sometimes I use music to distract myself between lifting sets, as to not stress about the weight I am about to lift.

I've posted a few workouts this year which use minimal equipment. These workouts make it easier to exercise at home or when you are on holidays. Below is another such workout and all you need for this is one dumbbell.

I've posted a few workout ideas over the years and this year I plan to do more, to help the people out there who need workout ideas, especially sessions you can do at home, with minimal equipment. The workout below will just require you to have two dumbbells. The ability to interchange the weights to suit the different exercises would be great, but not necessary if you don't have them available. If you feel like an exercise is a little too easy with the dumbbells you have, increase the repetitions you do. If the weight is too heavy, decrease the repetitions.

It can be hard to stay motivated with exercise over the winter months, when all you want to do is stay warm and cuddle your blankets inside. But just because it is freezing outside, doesn't mean you can't exercise in the comfort of your warm cosy house!

Being a competitive powerlifter, I obviously have a love for lifting heavy weights and being a personal trainer, I love to share this love with my clients, especially women who before training with me would never have thought about giving it a go.

In my previous post I outlined the benefits of strength training for runners, along with the key requirements for a training program. In this post I will share with you a base strength program that I have put together.

Targeted strength training can improve a runner's performance. However, there are many avid runners out there who don't do any strength training at all, or if they do, they follow a modified body building type program, which isn't going to help their running performance.

This coming Sunday I will be competing in yet another powerlifting competition. So with this in mind, I thought it would be an ideal time to finish the third and final instalment of my deconstructions of the powerlifting lifts. I have previously written about the squat and the bench press, and now here are my insights on the deadlift.

It's almost time for me to compete at the Australian Powerlifting Championships. It's now under two weeks away. I've been training hard and hopefully in  a few weeks I will have a positive post about how I went. In the meantime, I thought I would share with you my second instalment of my powerlifting series. In the first post I went over the technique of the squat. Today I will break down the correct way to perform a bench press.

As a competitive powerlifter, I do a LOT of squats in my training, with many variations, such as back squats, box squats, and front squats. In this post today I will break down the the correct way to perform a back squat, as per the way I perform them in powerlifting competitions.