Reading Time: 6 minutesHow to Prepare for a Great Training Session – Pre-Training Food In the first part of these series, I talked about the training program, planning and measuring. On the second part of this article, I will address the subject of pre-training food. The subject of food is a little bit more complicated, and it […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to Prepare for a Great Training Session – The Training Program This is a multi-series article, and in every post, I’ll address a different point on how to prepare for a great training session. Winston Churchill is credited with the expression “who fails to plan is planning to fail”, and even though
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Reading Time: 3 minutesPart of my philosophy on training, and other aspects of life, is to keep eyes and mind wide opened, and be willing to try new findings, and that includes Sarcoplasm Stimulating Training for hypertrophy and muscle pump. Because of this, I found a training program in the Journal Frontiers of Physiology, called Sarcoplasma StimulatingTraining[1], originally
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Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat is warm-up? Warm-up is extremely simple. Stay away from people who overcomplicate things … the typical wannabe coach will prescribe moronic routines consisting of 10 minutes of carioca drills supersetted with humping a foam roller for hours on end. This set-up is more likely to earn you a restraining order than provide any significant
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Reading Time: 9 minutesThe vertical jump is one of the hallmarks of athleticism. It is used to test an athlete’s ability and discriminate those with great potential from those with… not so much potential. So, it comes as no surprise that much energy and thought has been given on ways to improve it. While the squat has been
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOf all the lifts, the overhead press and its many variants have to be the most misunderstood and, sadly, underutilized. Yet, it is a very powerful tool to use in your arsenal for shoulder, traps and triceps hypertrophy, athletic performance and, believe it or not, shoulder health. Back in the 50’s, 60’s &70’s, the overhead
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Reading Time: 8 minutesMetabolic conditioning is all the rage right now, from Crossfit to more ancient, traditional methods of fat loss. This is nothing new, as many athletes have used different methods ranging from bodyweight exercises to exercises using kettlebells, dumbbells, barbells and other tools to improve their conditioning and body composition. The good news about this is
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Reading Time: 3 minutesA guest Blog by Designs for Health Despite decades of advice to increase physical activity for the purpose of “burning calories” to aid in weight loss, millions of people conducting their own “n=1” experiments have found that exercise does not result in magical body fat loss. Lack of expected results from faithful efforts dedicating hours
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Reading Time: 6 minutesDo Your Suffer from a Strength Deficit? Specific performance demand specific types of strength. They are a necessity to grow. A strength deficit can hamper your gains in muscle mass or strength. What is a strength deficit? It refers to the ratio between concentric and eccentric strength. Essentially, an eccentric contraction refers to an action
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Reading Time: 4 minutesBoost Your Hamstring Development: 3 Effective Solutions to Break Plateaus Hamstrings, often overlooked in the muscle-building realm, are the Rodney Dangerfield of the fitness world—they don’t get the respect they deserve. Located at the back of the legs, they face two challenges in the pursuit of leg training: being less visible in the mirror and
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