Fitness Tip: Lie on a bench with a dumbbell in each hand and your arms extended to the ceiling. Slowly lower the dumbbells, then push back up and repeat.

Fitness Tip: An effective way to gain strength and improve your fitness results is to compete with yourself by tracking your workouts.

Fitness Tip: Try doing dropsets, which involves completing an exercise at a certain weight before dropping the weight slightly and performing the same exercise.

Fitness Tip: Try 15 minutes on the treadmill, 15 minutes on the bike, and 15 minutes on the rowing machine, with some resistance exercises in between.

Fitness Tip: If you’re still plodding through the 3 x 12 reps session that the gym instructor gave you a year ago, it’s time to mix up your weights workout.