What if you could lift less weight, spend about half as much time in the gym but still get better results than what you are doing right now? That is the definition of a win-win, right? Researchers in Italy may have the program you are looking for. This study compared “traditional” weight training, the typical [...]
It’s good for you bones: One of the many benefits of strength training is the ability to develop stronger, tougher bones. Gym rats will tell you about how resistance training causes micro trauma to the muscle, and then during rest the muscle is able to rebuild becoming slightly stronger and bigger. Well, the same applies [...]
"Fundamental human movements are fundamental,” Dan John. Now before you roll your eyes and think to yourself, ‘yeah, I know that.’ Ask yourself, do you train with this in mind? I routinely see people in the gym isolating their biceps and inner things, which is fine and has its place, but rarely do [...]
When I first saw these little plastic sliding discs I couldn’t help but think how easy and stupid they were. However, like a 135lb professional fighter, looks can be deceiving. The original Valsides plastic discs pads are about ten inches in length and five inches across. They were created by celebrity trainer Valerie Waters [...]
I remember the first time I took a yoga class, and boy, did I feel uncomfortable. There I was rehabbing from a broken ankle and I could not feel more out of place. All around me were people with incredible flexibility and knowledge of the moves. Downward what? Warrior pose who? I felt so self-conscious [...]
Peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, drinking too much and waking up with a hangover, all of these things go hand-in-hand; but maybe none more than working out and protein supplements. The popularity of protein supplements is well entrenched as gospel among bodybuilders and most athletes, and for good reason, they work. A study [...]
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” A client recently told me this and while he was referring to a finical situation, this holds true in the fitness industry as well. While I love barbells and dumbbells for heavy strength training, but they don’t make up the majority of my [...]
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” Ralph Waldo Emerson – an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the [...]
When people want to work the abs usually sit-up, side bends and crunches come to mind. However based largely on the works of Dr. Stuart McGill, one the leading expects of low back pain, these exercises may place undue stress on the low back because of the excessive bending of the low back. In fact [...]
These four exercises are some of my favorites to burn fat fast. Maybe because they don’t look that sexy, or maybe because they don’t have a celebrity sponsor, or maybe because these exercise are extremely physically and mentally demanding; but whatever the reason, they are not common, but effective. Try adding some of these exercise [...]