Reading Time: 5 minutes In this article, you will learn one of the most effective ways to give your calves noticeable growth through a specific training program. Before getting into the program, a brief anatomy description of the calves is provided, including information about the soleus and gastrocnemius muscles. The training program is divided into three parts, with […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The concept of varying the resistance during repetition is not new and you can even evidence it in old pictures of the iron game, where you can see chains as a means of resistance. Nowadays new tools have been developed, but the concept is still the same. The Concept of Variable Resistance Training The
Reading Time: 6 minutes Overtraining is considered an enemy of performance, health, and wellbeing. But is it always such a bad thing, in every single case? I want to start with a phrase that I learned from my late mentor that says “fatigue masks fitness”, and that encloses what I’m about to talk about in this article. Let’s first
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have had the privilege of being in a large number of gyms around the world, and that has allowed me to witness many different spotting techniques, and funny enough, they repeat themselves worldwide. Those techniques (if this could be called a technique) go from the personal trainer or training partner that has 100%
Reading Time: 5 minutes High-Intensity Interval Training or HIIT is a powerful tool for coaches, trainers, and trainees when prescribed correctly. What Science Says Even though the scope of this article is not to show all the research behind the prescription of HIIT, I’m going to name some of the benefits that science has proven: Time-efficient. In a
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this article I’ll share the steps and considerations in order to prepare a tennis player to be a winner in his/her class. This Division 1 tennis player couldn’t practice his sport because he had medial and lateral epicondylitis and one of the tendons had a 40% rupture. He was so desperate to play,
Reading Time: 4 minutes I believe that things don’t happen by accident, and as very eloquently mentioned in a TED talk, ideas come from the conjugation of many different factors. In this specific case, we were filming exercises for the training software and it was a leg day, particularly squats. In order to do the filming more efficiently
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having statistical data is always fascinating, especially when is about showing the results and benefits of doing a proper Structural Assessment analysis, along with the right training program for that person. This is a case study of a cyclist that was looking at improving his performance after a relatively long rest period (which acts
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Every time I don’t train at my gym, I face the most common situation on commercial gyms, and it is that people, even with personal trainers, simply take one piece of equipment, perform one set, rest for a certain number of minutes while sitting on the very same piece of equipment, and the situation continues
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Part 1 of these series I talked about the length of the training session and why you shouldn’t touch your phone while training. In Part 2, I discussed about hydration, performance, and the importance of the use of electrolytes. Now in Part 3 I’ll address the subject of the most important supplements to use
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