Forget about the infomercials you’ve seen promising a toned tummy from a magic machine; bikini-baring abs don’t come from isolated abdominal exercises! In fact, I’m sorry to tell you, no singular act will get rid of belly fat… But, here’s what you can do. You need a comprehensive workout to lose fat everywhere and then […]
Strength Training, The Key to Looking Fit as You Age
Believe, as you age strength training is the best thing you can do to improve your health and fitness level. Strength training is important because around age 40 you start to experience muscle loss. “If you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose, you’ll increase the percentage of fat in your body,” […]
Should Women Lift Weights?
Even though we live in an ocean of information, I still run into women who believe myths about strength training. Because of this let me dispel the Top 3 Weight Lifting Myths that most women think are true and follow that up with reasons why women should be lifting weights. My hope is that by […]
Endurance Athletes: Do Not Resist Resistance Training
A long standing debate within the fitness industry has been the appropriateness of strength training for endurance athletes, both recreational and competitive. Many people, including fitness professionals assume that endurance athletes share nothing in common with their strength athlete counterparts. Some examples of strength athletes include, but are not necessarily limited to: Olympic weightlifters Power […]
Warming Up Before Exercise
There has been debate in the fitness and strength and conditioning world about warming up before exercise. Let me see if I can shed some light on this controversy, speaking from not only my own personal experiences but also from what I know as an exercise professional as well as from my observations of colleagues […]
Early Sports Specialization: Don’t Do It
As recently as a week ago I had a friend who knows what I do ask me whether his son should concentrate on one sport exclusively. In no uncertain terms I told him, no way! There are all sorts of so-called experts out there claiming that early specialization is the way to go for creating […]
Lifting Weights: It Does a Body Good
Historically, exercise in this country has been driven by the exercise physiologists and cardiologists crowd, Dr. Ken Cooper being the primary case in point. His aerobics commandments of the 1970’s started the whole running fitness boom and many have not looked back. As a result, fitness for many came to be defined by aerobic fitness […]
Strength Training: The Real Fountain of Youth
I believe, as you age strength training is the best thing you can do to improve your health and fitness level. Strength training is important because around age 40 you start to experience muscle loss. “If you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose, you’ll increase the percentage of fat in your […]
Functional Training: What It is AND Isn’t
Magazines love to write about it. Gym goers love to talk about it. The ironic thing is that there is probably no other term that is so overused, misused and misunderstood than functional training. So, let’s talk about functional training and functional fitness, answer some of your questions and hopefully clear up some of the […]