The Akhaada Blogs

By line: Hacks to keep your fitness game strong when you travel. / Essential hacks for travelfitness. The next time you pack your bags and are off for a vacation you don’t have to worry about the extra baggage of the weight you’ll be putting on during your holiday. Because we bring you a plan of action that’ll keep you fit. 1. MAKE A WORKOUT PLAN Whether you’re off for a business meeting over the weekend or a week-long leisure t...

Everyone wants to be at their best. Being at a position where you feel good about yourself is a necessity. It has a lot of unsaid perks to it.Being at your best is practice. Takes a lot of efforts to achieve that, especially, the physical aspect. For if you are physically fit, you are already halfway there! A person with a good physique has advantages; quite honestly, some unfair ones too. The well-shaped body gives way to a healthy mind. So when you have a good body, you indirectly have a ...

Most people use the terms of powerlifting and weightlifting interchangeably and some even think it is the same thing. There are however, a few subtle and major differences between the two styles of weight training. This article will look at the differences between the two in terms of the equipments used, speed of the movements and their outcomes. So you know exactly the style of training to choose to achieve your desired goals. It will also give you a basic idea of the rules and regulations of these barb...

Christmas is over but the holiday season is still in full swing as we approach New Years Eve. During this period, it is hard to keep track of your food habits due to the traveling or the scrumptious spread and even harder to find time to work-out as you are inundated with party invites. Below are some tips to help you make the most of the holidays and not come out few pounds heavier. 1. Change the mindset.The mindset of ‘All or Nothing’ comes about when the expe...

Winter is here and some of us are feeling the chills with constant struggles of laziness, low motivation and common colds. But there is no need to rustle through your daily life looking and feeling like a mess. Here are a few lifestyle changes you can make to beat the winter blues. 1. Exercise: If you haven’t heard this one a thousand times I will be surprised. But there is a reason why physicians, researchers and fitness gurus recommend you exercise in the winter. On...

If you have been exercising and working out for while, you would have faced this conundrum: should you go to the gym when sick? There isn’t a cut and dry answer but in this article I will be exploring the facts and give you some pointers that, I hope will clear the confusion. The Immune SystemIf we are to understand how the body reacts to additional stress (working out) while already being under stress (illness), it is necessary to talk about the immune system. ...

Ah it’s the weekend, your boss has been killing you all week or your professor has you buried under a pile of coursework, only a pint of beer or a glass of wine can make your sorrows go away! But what effect is this having on your body and most importantly, your hard earned gains?  Hollow caloriesWhile alcohol might give you a shot of courage to break the ice with a girl across the...

When Dr. James Levine, the director of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions and the inventor of the treadmill desk first coined this phrase people thought it was barmy.But the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. We spend most of our day sitting down at the office, in a car, at the dinner table and even whilst exercising. Add another 7 hours of sleeping time and most of us spend just a third of our day on our feet. Even from an evolutionary standpoint, sitting is ...

Two is better than one. And that’s not just limited to sale offers and happy hours but also to working out. You can burn fat or build muscle by training with a partner than being a lone ranger. Studies have shown that getting your friend, colleague, relative or your better half involved in your exercise routine can help you stay more accountable and increase you motivation to push harder. This will help you get the results you always wanted with the added enjoyment of accomplishing those goals with...

"There is no point to exercising, I am going to get old anyway." "Exercise puts me at a risk of falling." "I am too old to start exercising." These are just some of the questions which pass through the minds of the elderly when asked about exercise. However all of these doubts and myths simply don't hold any merit. Exercise in the older population has shown to have a lot benefits such as feeling and looking young and lowering a variety of clinical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and depression...