Amy

This is around when most people lose all motivation for working on the goals they set at new years. If you didn’t achieve your goals in January, reassess, plan, and just pick up where you left off. There is still 11 months left of 2025; do you want to go into 2026 in the same place as last year, or do you want to have achieved what you set out to do? #gymmotivation #beginnerworkout #musclegrowth #exercisetiktok

#Stitch with @ @Ryan Jewers For what it’s worth, I prefer programming machines and more stable exercises for muscle hypertrophy, but don’t let anyone convince you you’ll turn into CBum by ditching dumbbells and barbells. #musclegrowth #exercisescience #gymmyths #sciencebased #optimaltraining

I love food, so does my boyfriend, so even on a mini cut I’m not willing to sacrifice tasty meals. The teriyaki salmon was one of the best things I’ve cooked recently. My current priorities are getting in plenty of protein for muscle growth, but also fibre and nutrients for overall health and wellbeing. #healthyeating #highproteinmeals #musclegrowth #strengthtraining

Motivation is fleeting. The people who accomplish what they want to do stop searching for a never ending fountain of it, and just do it regardless. #strengthtraining #exercisescience #gymmotivation #beginnerworkout

Who still believes you need to do 8-12 reps for muscle growth? As much as I love to chat about the science behind training, truly everything you need to know about selecting rep ranges can be summed up in 30s. While I would always encourage and programme towards low rep ranges, high rep ranges can still work when necessary (i.e. if you’re limited by equipment or other factors). In saying that, I wouldn’t be paying top dollar for a coach who programmes everything in 4x8-12 🥴 #strengthtraining #repsandsets #hypertrophytraining #exercisescience #glutesworkout

Getting stronger at those body weight movements 💪 Everyone asks me how to learn to do a pull-up, or push-up, or bodyweight movements. The secret truly showing up, practicing, and progressing little by little. @SKEPSIS #arctic #callisthenics #pullup #upperbodyworkoutforwomen

Despite what many people would have you believe there is research on women’s performance and the menstrual cycle and get this; there is no conclusive evidence that specific points of the cycle are associated with performance changes. There might be individual variation but there’s zero need for all women to tailor their training to pseudoscientific recommendations. #cyclesyncing #healthandwellness #WomenOfTikTok #strengthtraining #debunkingmyths #creatorsearchinsights

#Stitch with @Hybrid Calisthenics The examples of muscular people who train calisthenics are also either only moderately muscular but very lean, or people who also lift weights and built it that way. Again, nothing wrong with physiques from callisthenics or that being your goal, but it’s not an effective long term method for building muscle. #calisthenics #musclebuilding #hypertrophy #exercisescience #resistancetraining

If you’d told my high school PE teacher I would go on to not only become a strength and conditioning coach, but do a PhD in Sport and Exercise Science, he’d have laughed… #fitnessmotivation #gymtok #youngerself #howtobuildmuscles #gymtrend

#dinnerrecipe #mealideas #highprotein #howtobuildmuscles

Productive procrastination I swear 🙈🙈 #pullupchallenge #womensupperbodytraining #callisthenics #gymvibes #creatorsearchinsights

Most of us don’t have hours to train in the gym, so why spend time doing something that doesn’t work? Booty band exercises don’t “activate” the glutes; all you really need for muscle activation is a couple of warm-up sets. #gymvibes #glutesworkout #gluteactivation #musclegrowth #creatorsearchinsights

#Stitch with @Kelly Matthews Clarifying that activation is the size of the signal for amount of force production, which is related to the number and size of MUs recruited. Muscle activation is completely misunderstood and misrepresented in the fitness space! You see even high level coaches in sports like football grabbing resistance bands for “muscle activation” pre match. This is a good explanation of why they don’t prep muscle activation! Bands can still have a place; I still use them all the time for rehab/prehab work or general warmups, but that’s *not* the same as muscle activation. #muscleactivation #glutesworkout #exercisescience #warmup #musclegrowth

The quads are the only muscles that extends the knee, therefore if the knee is extending, the quads are contributing. This goes for squat and lunge variations too. Deep ROMs are not necessarily better. While there may be other reasons to train a deeper ROM (e.g. standardising form or maintaining/improving flexibility) it *does not* lead to more quad growth. #legdayworkout #quadgains #legpress #biomechanics #sciencebasedtraining