Convinced that you should do strength training and lift weights, but not sure where to begin? Look no further – I’m going to walk you through everything you need to know to get started quickly and safely.

Wait, you do know why you should lift weights, right? No? Well, go back and read part one.

Having access to lots and lots and lots of native spoken material for listening comprehension is extremely important. Unfortunately, not everyone is surrounded by speakers of their target language. If you’re one of the lucky people who can travel to a country where their target language is the spoken, then this article is not for you. You have no shortage of access to native listening material.

If, on the other hand, you’re stuck in a country that doesn’t speak your target language – listen up. You can find native speaker listening material to practice with, and it doesn’t require plane tickets.

The topic of women strength training or working out with any weight that isn’t light as a feather and coated with bright colored plastic is one that ignites a great debate. Real science and good advice get lost between the broscience and magazines that spread myths, unfounded “advice” and fear.

An unfortunate amount of people, particularly women, get the short stick when it comes to exercise – especially strength training. Like I said myths, fears and ridiculous, unfounded advice often keep women away from working out with weights when in my opinion, we should be running toward them (but not into them.)

I’m tired of it. All of it. I’m here to tell you that you should be working out with weights – and not the little pink ones. I’m talking barbells. Giant, heavy barbells.

I’ll be honest, I have a sticky note addiction. Whenever I need to remind myself to do something, or make a note of something for later, I reach for a sticky note. Though they have brought about some changes in my note taking habits even my iPhone and Evernote aren’t enough to quell my brightly colored addiction.

Thankfully there is an outlet which not only lets me plaster the entire house in sticky notes but is highly productive and helpful as well – language learning.

Circuit training is one of the most efficient ways to combine strength building, endurance building and fat burning all in one neat little time saving package. In addition to high intensity interval training, circuit training is perfect for people who want to get as good of a workout as they can in as short a time as possible. Making them bodyweight circuits has the added benefit of not requiring any expensive equipment or a gym membership. If you’re really out of shape but don’t have the cash for a gym membership or hours to waste on a treadmill then bodyweight circuits are for you.