Looking for Great Core, Shoulders, Arms and Fat Loss?

If you want a piece of equipment that can provide, strength, power, fitness and fat loss all in one check out the video below and stay tuned for some cool PT/fitness applications!  My patients love it.  Our athletes, pro and amateur, love it!  

What’s the Most Important Meal of the Day?

Actually, it is the one you consume right after your workout. After your work out your muscles are most sensitive to insulin.  Insulin is what causes your muscle to take up glucose from the blood storing it as glycogen.  Glycogen is the fuel that your muscles use.  So, consuming adequate carbs and protein after your [...]

Moving the Force-Time Curve to the Left

By  Charles Staley Twenty years ago, strength training was considered taboo for martial artists. Today, it is gaining in popularity, despite the fact that it is rarely carried out in a rational manner. Due to strong influences from the world of bodybuilding, most martial artists are only getting half the potential benefit that strength training [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Arnold Fitness Weekend 2009 -Day 3

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

3 Ideas For A Tougher Workout

Alternative Methods of Progression by Alwyn Cosgrove Are you on exercise autopilot? After every set do you add a 10-pounder to each side of the bar before you can say, “Please spot me, Jamie Eason?” Then it’s time to consider some new ways to step up your workout. Alwyn Cosgrove has got some great ideas [...]

The Best Exercise You’re Not Doing

By Alwyn Cosgrove As a trainer, I’ve witnessed some amazing things in the gym, most of which involved 300-pound powerlifters moving weight equal to that of a small SUV. (There was also the adult-film star I trained who had an orgasm every time she did hanging leg raises, but that’s another story.)   The most impressive [...]

Don’t Try These At Home!

                                                  Sometimes you just need a break! Get Strong! Stay Strong!  But don’t forget to rest and have fun! All work and no play………………. Chris

Great Fat Burning Workout!

Great, but challenging workout.  If your beginning modify the workout by decreasing the reps and progressively work up to the desired reps.  This is sure to get you looking great and feeling great! Get Strong! Stay Strong! Chris