Archive for the ‘Resistance training’ Category

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Tired of the gym and longing to get outside in to the nice weather? You should workout without weights for a few months and just concentrate on body weight exercises outside in nature. In fact, I am going to go [...]

Tired of the same boring gym atmosphere and looking for a change in your workouts? I have a routine that you can do that not only works great, but is most likely different and more fun than anything that you can do in a gym. I don’t really think that you should give up your [...]

A funny thing happened the other day at the gym. I was talking to this guy about losing weight and he said, “Yeah, it’s easy for you to lose weight! Just wait until you hit fifty, then you’ll see that it’s not that easy anymore!” I am 41 and I can still remember people telling [...]

I got a text from my training partner just before I left my house around 5:00 AM this morning. It said, “Don’t be too pissed, but I had a rough night and am not coming to the gym.” This wasn’t really a big deal because he usually misses two or three workouts every month. I’m [...]

Well if you see me walking like a penguin, it’s because my legs are killing me! I have been following Craig Ballantyne’s turbulence training for the last eight weeks and have had some incredible results with it. I have been doing strictly bodyweight exercises, and concentrated on losing fat instead of gaining size or getting [...]

Image via Wikipedia People ask me all the time about how I managed to stay lean all of these years while doing very little cardio. I’m 41 years old now and have never been overweight by more than around ten pounds or so. Like most, I have had times that I was carrying around more [...]

Depending on who you talk to there are definitely two different schools of thought on weight loss and training. Some say that cardio is the best way and others say that resistance training is better. Some even go as far as saying that cardio training is a waste of time. As with anything, you can [...]

This is for beginners as well as people that have been exercising for years. While exercising, you should have an actual goal or plan as to what you are trying to do and what you are expecting to get out of it. I see people in the gym all the time that have no idea [...]