Please don’t tell me your training is too easy. I could walk into the gym and only do a set of squats and have it be a challenge. I don’t care if you have 1 set or 20, you bring intensity to your training and not the other way around. If it is too easy.. Read more →
Here’s an interesting study that shows how men and women respond to the same strength-training program. In this study published early last year, researchers had 44 untrained college-aged men and 47 untrained college-aged women perform the same workout for 10 weeks. The workouts included leg press, leg curls, bench press and lat pulldowns. All the.. Read more →
I had a client ask if I would video how one might go about getting heavier dumbbells up for the Flat Dumbbell Press as well as Seated Dumbbell Press, so I thought I would share it here as well. With the Flat Dumbbell Press I use my legs to help guide the weight down to.. Read more →
Weightlifters do things a bit differently than traditional lifters. Here is an example: The exercise shown below is called a “clean pull” and it begins with a 3 second pause at about 2 inches off the floor, then again at the knee, then lastly at the hips. It is at this point at the hip.. Read more →
Pre-Workout Supplements! 1. They are tremendously overpriced given the cost of most of the constituent ingredients is well … cheap. 2. There’s a LOT of ingredients that have no business being included. I think they’re included to complicate and window dress the label, because of potential ‘ingredient recognition’ (creatine, which has no acute effects btw.. Read more →
Next year is less than two weeks away and I know many of you are looking to get back into gym. I also know many of you are contemplating building up your own home gym because you know how busy the gym can be in January. (It’s true, you know it.) :-) This is one.. Read more →