If You Go Semi-Organic, Which Foods Should You Focus On?

By Catherine Lewis, AHJ Editor — Published: April 27, 2009
Let’s face it, organic seems to be the way to go these days, whether its fruits, vegetables, meat or dairy. Unfortunately, organic often comes at a hefty price. If you want to go organic but can’t afford to go “all the way” due to the confines [...]

Super-Serve Your Fruit and Veggies: Go For Deep Pigment

 

By Bob Condor, AHJ Editor – Published: April 17, 2009
 

We all know about the federal government’s recommendation to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables each day. As if anyone needed the reminder, since most any American childhood includes even more parental reminders to eat your vegetables than turn in your homework.
Well, a good many of us [...]

Recovery and Regeneration for the Strength Athlete

By Patrick Ward, MS, CSCS
Lets face it – strength athletes are animals! They train. They train hard. And they leave it all on the table! Some of the best workouts I’ve been a part of took place in a garage in suburban America where we were flipping tires, performing Olympic lifts and heavy deadlifts and [...]

Hacking Your Strength Training

By Alwyn Cosgrove
When I started out in the fitness-training field, the average client tended to be an active person who used gym exercise to augment the other types of activity he got outside the gym. Few of us specialized in fat-loss training, simply because it wasn’t the primary goal of the majority of our clients. [...]

6 Tips For Cutting Fat

By Phil Stevens
I don’t like Cutting Fat! Who does? But it ain’t as bad as people make it out to be.

Restriction, dieting, eating less then you need to sustain yourself, your training, your strength and hard earned muscle. No, its not fun, but in reality it isn’t that darn hard.

Not as hard as many make [...]

3 Ab Exercises NOT to Do

By Craig Ballantyne (author of Turbulence Training for Abs)
One of my first online training clients, Charlene, had spent years doing long slow cardio workouts and struggling through hundreds of crunches each workout. She even went to “ab classes” on non-workout days (when she could have been at home resting or out with her man) because [...]

The Hidden Threat in Your Drinking Water: Scare or Hoax?

 

By Sylvia Anderson, AHJ Editor – Published: April 01, 2008
 

In your lifetime, it’s likely that you have taken some type of medicine – whether over-the-counter or prescription. Chances are you were well-aware of the medicine you were taking, the possible side-effects and the reason you were taking it. But what if you were exposed to certain medications [...]

The Hip: Power Source, Biggest Rock, Best Friend

 By Barbara Fuller PT, FAFS
The late-seventyish woman looked at me with a bit of skepticism mixed with a little fear. After I introduced myself to her she said, “Before we start, I want you to know that I would like for you to address my low back pain, but I don’t want you [...]