May 19, 2026 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Health, Lifestyle, Members & Clients Only
Adhere to a weekly, good effort exercise plan, for all of life, while always respecting your own limits, that is, your capacity for recovery and the price of recovery after sessions.
May 13, 2026 | Members & Clients Only, Exercise Science, Health, Lifestyle, Nutritional Science, Strength Training
A lasting weight loss includes a lot of different physical changes in your body. But one thing is clear, GLP1 does not remove the need for proper food and weekly fitness habits. Welcome to another fact-based Strength By Fitness article
Mar 11, 2026 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Members & Clients Only, Strength Training
The optimal workout frequency for the same muscle chain per week is never going to be a specific amount of hours thats the superior choice for every human being, or even the vastly better workout frequency for any individual.
Welcome to another fact-based coaching article from Strength By Fitness
Jan 26, 2026 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Health, Lifestyle, Psychology, Strength Training
In this nail biting free to read, public article, Coach Mike from Strength By Fitness answers the dreaded question, “Am I a non-responder” to exercise?
Two words is enough. Extremely unlikely. But read on to get the science too.
Jan 14, 2026 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Members & Clients Only
How much weekly exercise do you need?
This is a relative answer that comes down to the unique context of your lifestyle puzzle, current habits, and goals.
Read on to find out why this is nothing but great. Unlimited reading of all Strength By Fitness articles, and recipes for only 9US$ per year.
Jan 6, 2026 | Health, Aerobic Exercise, Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Strength Training
Body and brain walk hand in hand. As such, regular, weekly exercise boosts both the physical and cognitive you. Making you faster, fitter, stronger and more durable, while, also drastically improving health, processes, and function in body & brain.
Dec 12, 2025 | Exercise, Bodyweight Fitness Plan, Fitness Hike, Fitness Plans, Our Coaching, Outdoor Gym Plan, Strength Training, Weighted Calisthenics
Participate in our unique weighted Fitness Hike + Personalized Coaching Talk together with Strength By Fitness, on location in gorgeous Cape Town, South Africa. Or get the same coaching while doing weighted calisthenics, yoga or boxing.
Nov 13, 2025 | Quality Sleep, Coaching Wisdom, Lifestyle
Quality sleep comes from a few key pillars in a healthy lifestyle.
Yes, quality sleep is just another habit we build over time with nothing more than our own choices. In this article, Coach Mike from Strength By Fitness will teach you how to do it too.
Oct 31, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Members & Clients Only, Nutritional Science, Strength Training
Strength training, injury-free, 80-year-old men can be as strong as a 35-year-old gym goer. And running is no different. All it takes are maintained habits. Exclusive Strength By Fitness Member Article. Join today, only 9$ Per Year.
Oct 29, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Members & Clients Only
Good habits will always move everyone in the right direction. Your genes then decide just how far your ceiling goes. For every single person on the planet, this means becoming way healthier and fitter over time, and as long as you maintain those habits, the positive outcome won't go away.
Oct 2, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Strength Training
Fitter kids rapidly become healthier kids.
These fitter and healthier kids eventually go on to become much fitter and healthier adults with a higher quality of life, better physical capacity, work performance, cognitive health, and ageing trajectories.
If they maintain their healthier habits and fitness routine as adults.
Sep 12, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Strength Training
Why is it a slight health & fitness problem, relatively speaking, that the world has fallen in love with making hypertrophy the be-all end-all of strength training? Well that is what we will talk about in todays fact-based Strength By Fitness article
Aug 14, 2025 | Exercise Library, Exercise Science, Press Exercise, Shoulder Exercise, Strength Training
The overhead press is a fabulous exercise, no matter which version you are doing. Machine, dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells, bilateral, unilateral, standing, seated. They are all amazing. But the Unilateral, standing curl to overhead press is my favorite shoulder press variant. Read on to see why Strength By Fitness Coach Mike prefers this bad boy.
Jul 15, 2025 | Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Library
Welcome to Strength By Fitness’ second boxing foundation article: The second pillar, movement from feet to head.
Bob, weave, slip, and move, learn to cut angles, and strike across all levels and from all angles and sides. Learn and absorb from everyone.
Jul 10, 2025 | Exercise Library, Coaching Wisdom, Exercise
Strength By Fitness Exercise Library: Boxing Foundation, The First Pillar. Every good martial artist needs a good, solid foundation to build stackable techniques and movement upon. This holds true even if you only include weekly sports combat in your fitness life for the fun, and wonderfully beneficial exercise and outcomes it provides.
Welcome to Strength By Fitness fact-based fitness life & coaching.
Jul 2, 2025 | Exercise Library, Exercise
Strength By Fitness Exercise Library: Standing Lateral Leg Raise. This exercise choice can primarily be thought of as a bodyweight exercise from the world of Yoga, Martial Arts, Gymnastics, and Pilates.
But it serves a useful purpose for many sports and fitness-related reasons due to increased lower body strength, agility, control, and flexibility. All while providing no blunt force impact for tendons, joints, and bone mass. Making you fitter, stronger, increasingly flexible, and more agile while providing extremely low-impact activity.
Welcome to Strength By Fitness, fact-based fitness life & coaching.
Jun 28, 2025 | 3x Per Week Strength, Bodyweight Fitness Plan, Fitness Plans, Outdoor Gym Plan
Welcome to day three of Strength By Fitness 3-day strength training Per Week: Bodyweight and outdoor gym Plan.
JM press, lateral raise, rear shoulder raise/row, unilateral shoulder press, biceps curl, and unilateral RDL + optional slow running or heavy bag boxing is on the menu for today.
Weighted backpack in tow if needed.
Jun 24, 2025 | Bodyweight Fitness Plan, 2x Per Week Strength, 3x Per Week Strength, Fitness Plans, Outdoor Gym Plan
This is day two of Strength By Fitness 2/3 days of strength training per week: Bodyweight and outdoor gym plan.
You have several different versions of day 2 available to choose from. Exercises include horizontal pull ups, weighted full rom step up, sissy squat, flipped V push up, wheel flip and more.
Jun 22, 2025 | Exercise, 2x Per Week Strength, 3x Per Week Strength, Bodyweight Fitness Plan, Fitness Plans, Outdoor Gym Plan
Fitness Plan from Strength By Fitness: Body Weight, Outdoor Gym Plan with two to three RT sessions per week.
Some clients spend weeks and months annually in their summer house or similar with no proper commercial gyms nearby. But you can maintain and even build strength, health, and fitness with a good outdoor gym and bodyweight plan.
Resistance bands and a TRX band. A log and a backpack filled with rocks can add tremendous weight to any bodyweight exercise. Add a big wheel from a truck or tractor and a sturdy tree.
May 15, 2025 | Plant-Based, Coaching Wisdom, Exercise Science, Lifestyle, Nutritional Science, Omnivore, SPC
Protein synthesis & its role in hypertrophy is, first of all, not the be-all, end-all of higher protein intake benefits.
So neither 1.6 nor 2.0g/kg/day represents a hard stop with no additional benefits from a higher protein intake. The reason why some people can claim that 1.6 is all that’s needed depends on how complete you want the conversation to be. But, when they make that claim, they are always, and only, talking about healthy, younger omnivores, and they are only looking at protein synthesis and hypertrophy. Seemingly doing so because they are convinced that human health, nutrition, and fitness never, ever go beyond these two things, and that everyone happens to be young, and an omnivore.
This is based on an incomplete understanding, or at least a limited perspective, on food, health, aging, and fitness.