Take a look around your office, cubicle prisoners hunched over their keyboard like a tyrannosaurus rex devouring their prey, Lexus pushing executives sprawling all over their mahogany desks and kicking back and lounging on their leather presidential chairs and people slumping around with shoulders so internally rotated it looks as if their head is sitting […]
Women and Strength Training Myths
Update 9/5/20. In this review, I will cover what I feel are the top 3 of the most common myths that have to do with women and lifting weights. These words need to be said because in spite of a deluge of information these days – on TV, the internet etc – many women still […]
SPOT REDUCING: The Right Way to Do It
Update 9/5/20. Everyone has the assumption that” if I do a lot of ab exercises, I’ll form a six-pack, get ripped, have a washboard stomach, etc.” There are info-commercials, pills, powders, ripped fuel, etc., which are making a great deal of money from the American people who are searching for a “quick fix.” This is […]
Working Out From the Inside Out Pelvic floor and Diaphragm exercises
As a personal trainer I naturally like working the muscles of the body and utilizing the functions of them. In fact, throughout my earlier days, I would create a favorite “muscle of the month” that I would choose to work on to find new exercises for muscle leanness. In those days it was largely about […]
Back Training Back To Basics
Barbell Row As performed by Todd Bumgardner, MS, PES, of beyondstrengthperformance.com A popular, yet controversial exercise for strength athletes is the barbell row. Which according to Todd Bumgardner, MS, PES, of beyondstrengthperformance.com, has a great carryover to the deadlift. “I think the carry over is pretty big when you consider that it’s strengthening your lats […]
Calf Training: Facts You Need to Know
What do you use thousands of times on a daily basis… That contains a frame consisting of over: 30 solid parts – which interact with a corresponding network of nearly three dozen joints and is crossed by a web of ligaments, and is supplied with thousands of nerve endings? What, if not properly paid attention […]
Bodyweight Exercises
As a fifteen-year fitness professional, it never ceases to amaze me how many buff and seemingly seasoned gym goers fail to utilize bodyweight exercises in training programs. On a daily basis, I watch people bounce forty-five pound bars loaded with countless plates off of their chests as they use momentum to help bang out one […]
Cold Weather Exercise Training
To the people who don’t regularly engage in exercise – especially running, you may not get it. You know, some asshole you see all bundled up running outside in Siberia-esque weather that we experience in the north during the winter months. But to the non-exerciser, specifically the non-runner, this makes no sense. These people don’t […]
The Journey
The journey into fitness can be a lifelong, altering experience. But how does one begin the venture? Be it lifelong or short-term, once understood, the application will change your life. Are we simply born fit? Is it “in our genes?” Does it take a horrific diagnosis with some incomprehensible medical condition? Could it be your […]