There are many benefits of sprint training. Some are self explanatory and some just make you scratch your head ans say “huh?” You probably couldn’t care any less about all the specifics of glycolosis, HGH increase, muscle adaptations, EPOC, and all that sort of stuff. Most people don’t want to read a bunch of physical [Keep Reading]
Secret Service Snatch Test; A 10 minute test of your muscular endurance and mental fortitude. The only rule is that you cannot quit. Description; Using a 24kg kettlebell (women 16kg) do as many single arm snatches as possible in 10 minutes. You may switch hands anytime. You may set the bell down if you need [Keep Reading]
You’re probably expecting to read something like workout routines for women need to be different because… (you can fill in the blank). Sorry, you won’t find that here. The fact is workout routines for women don’t need to be different than routines for men. They only need to be different if your goals are different. [Keep Reading]
Workout routines without equipment can be just as taxing and difficult as routines with equipment. There are so many bodyweight movements that the possibilities are almost endless. Add in the additional effect of plyometrics and you’re really approaching endless. Regardless of your fitness goals there’s a routine for you that doesn’t require any equipment. Don’t get [Keep Reading]
You do bench presses, shoulder presses and laterals, lat pull downs, squats and all the other usual suspects. The stuff I like to refer to as “the mirror muscles”. Here’s the problem with most people’s training routines, they lack key movements that work the posterior chain. That’s all that stuff in the back that you [Keep Reading]
Compound movements involve 2 or more joints and multiple muscle groups. That’s a fairly straight forward and simple definition. Now, I’m not going to sit here and write a post detailing how everyone should be doing compound movements if they want to get serious about their training. I’m not going to say that isolation movements [Keep Reading]
The push up – such a simple movement with tremendous benefits. Yet everywhere I look and almost all my new clients can not perform a proper push up. Push Up Step #1 – Body Tight and Rigid A proper push up with full range of motion begins with your body tight and rigid. I should [Keep Reading]
The triceps dip is the king of arm exercises, bar none. It compares like this; bench for chest, squat for legs, dead lift for back, and dips for arms. Yeah, I know it doesn’t work the biceps, but those two little guys are only about 25% of your upper arm anyway. For sheer mass work [Keep Reading]