Continuing on with the idea that there needs to be heavy component (ie. low reps) to your training … Training with heavy weights improves something called myogenic tone through growth of the contractile proteins ‚Äì the aforementioned myofibrillar hypertrophy. Myogenic tone is basically a measure of a muscle‚Äôs density. When your body is nice and.. Read more →

My next few posts are going to be all about what I think covers the basics of ‘effective training’. It’s amazing how paying a little attention to some basic principles (actually applying some basic principles) can dramatically change the effectiveness of your time in the gym. How many of us have spent a lot of.. Read more →

How do most people warm up? They might jump on the bike or the treadmill for five or ten minutes for a general warm up, then they might do a few light static stretches and then they’ll move onto some light weight, high rep work before moving onto their first exercise. Then they settle in.. Read more →

This is a post I made previously that I thought deserved to be immortalized in my blog. :) It’s always worth a second look … Why does bodyweight matter so much to ‘you’? This is going to turn into more of a rant I think. What does bodyweight tell you? It tells you what you.. Read more →

I did a two-part interview for Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training (//turbulencetraining.com) member site recently. I’ll be running the full interview in a future issue of the LBC newsletter, but in the mean time (since I’m trying to post to this blog frequently) I thought, I’d post up one of the Q&As from the interview.  .. Read more →

Often times some of the issues people face are related to certain emotional triggers that lead to eating. These slip ups can reallyput a damper on a person’s motivation. There’s just so much self-torture and guilt that comes with the slip up. A few things I want to say about this: First, it’s not that.. Read more →