Why Your Big Toe Is the Key To Great Calves

By Nick Nilsson
Author: Fitness-eBooks
Creator: Powerful Training Secrets
This tip is a bit of a change of pace… no pictures…no video (this one would be tough to show in a picture or video but is pretty easy to explain).
If you’re looking to really build your calves, this one little piece of advice will help TREMENDOUSLY. Yet you rarely, if [...]

Should Kids Participate in Triathlons?

Actual Question: Is it OK for 8 – 10 year old kids to participate in Triathlons?

Reply from Brian Grasso (Founder and CEO of International Youth Conditioning Assoc.)

While I am 100% heartened by virtually any activity a young person chooses to engage in, it is important to be careful how we direct their efforts in terms [...]

A Great 1 1/2 Minute Whole Body, Multi Directional Exercise

This is a great little exercise routine (inspired by Gary Gray)that involves multiple planes of motion, multi level lifts and doesnt take a lot of time.  So, if someone tells me they dont have time to exercise, I say Bull@#$&!  I have an answer!  The Matrix.  It only takes about a minute and a half! [...]

10 Fat Loss Mistakes You Are Making At The Gym – Part I

By Matt Lisk
Author of The Burrito Diet

Stop Using Weight Machines!
Weight machines are sexy, sleek, shiny, and smooth. Perhaps that is why gym owners and lazy personal trainers have fallen head over heels in love with them.
Gym owners pack their gyms with these eye catching devices so that they could get more people into their gyms [...]

5 New Ways To Workout!

           
By Sean Barker,  Author of The Dad Fitness System
The idea of these workout tips came to me while watching one of the classic episodes of Seinfeld, “The Bizarro Jerry” episode. The concept behind this episode was of having a world made up of everyone’s total opposite, which is based on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

5 Exercises You Shouldn’t Be Doing!

By Sean Barker
Author of The Dad Fitness System

Old habits are hard to break. But if you keep doing these 5 old school exercises you will be breaking more than old habits.

1. Leg Extensions
Unfortunately this exercise seems to be the extent of most guys leg training. Probably because sitting down and pumping out reps of quad [...]

Arnold Fitness Weekend 2009 -Day 3

I dont want to look like some of these guys, but I am jacked to train on Moday!

Day 2 at the Arnold Fitness/Sports Festival 2009

WOW! Another fun filled day!