One thing heavy training will do is get your heart thumpin and pumping
Heavy squats, deads, and cleans are demanding work…
Even something as seemingly simple as steel bending can surprise you. A prolonged wrestling match with a little piece of metal can leave you gasping for air…
Once you’re ‘winded,’ displaying high levels of strength is nearly [...]

Fatigue, as Vince Lombardi said, makes cowards of us all.
I heard that General Patton said it, too,
But cowardice is a topic for another day…
Right now I want to talk about the effects of fatigue on your training…
When you’re hammering away and your muscles and lungs are screaming for mercy, it’s easy to give up.
Fatigue is [...]

The standing press is a shoulder exercise, right?
It is, but it’s also a whole lot more…
Launching a bar towards the heavens while standing on your two feet is a FULL BODY exercise. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.
This will become crystal clear once you start using some real poundage.
Yes, your shoulders and triceps [...]

I see it all the time…
It seems to be present in every gym…
And it seems to target the males of the human species…
It hinders progress and can lead to injury…
I know you’ve seen it before, and who knows, you may be infected too…
What am I talking about?
Is it some disease? Some virus? Some alien invader!?!?!
Not [...]

Last Friday I mentioned some of the benefits of Olympic lifting.
I talked about studies comparing Olympic athletes, and how the weightlifters ranked near the top…
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the actual studies; I only had stories and rumors. This meant I couldn’t claim the results as ‘facts.’ (it also had me questioning my gumshoe skills)
The lack [...]

There are days when some people just don’t feel like training…
It can be due physical, emotional, or psychological reasons…
If you’ve been working extra hard all week, it’s hard to drag you’re butt into the gym. Feeling like a bulldozer ran over you isn’t the ideal state for training…
Maybe your mind’s going a light-year a minute…
Focusing [...]

If there’s one thing emphasized by serious lifters, it’s training hard and heavy.
It’s something the mainstream fitness crowd seriously needs to hear.
But, as in many areas of life, you can have too much of a good thing.
It took me a while to figure this out…
I would step into the gym, and max out all the [...]

Last Thursday I shared some tips on training your midsection.
In it I mentioned an exercise called the ‘Full Contact Twist’
That led to a few emails wondering what the heck I was talking about…
So I figured I had some ‘splainin’ to do…
First off, this exercise is as cool as it sounds. And no, it’s not some [...]

Personally, I love the Olympics.
I’m not only talking about all of the glitz and glamour surrounding it either.
Sure, the opening and closing ceremonies are fantastic, but there’s more…
It’s something about how the games involve a fierce competitive spirit, while at the same time fostering unity, to name one…
So, when I heard about studies that were [...]

Yesterday I hinted at the potential back problems caused by doing crunches…
Today I’ll share the ‘dirt’ on this supposed back friendly exercise…
Problem is; overdoing ab work can lead to your abdominals getting ‘shorter.’
They essentially stay tensed up from all of the work. And this can lead to losing some of the natural curvature of [...]