Over the years I’ve learned a bit about the effectiveness of bodyweight training. My first experiences with working out was for football in high school then started doing bodybuilding style stuff and then dropped it and began training with body weight, almost exclusively. In the past three years I’ve added kettlebell training and in the [...]
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These are a few words I HATE(I know, hate is a strong word, well, so are my feelings): Cardio-It’s not the idea of cardio training that I hate, it’s the implications. The general concesus is that the way to improve cardio-vascular function/endurance and too lose weight is long bouts of medium intensity movements(i.e. jogging, exercise [...]
As I write this I am watching NBC’s “The Biggest Loser”. I use to think this show was stupid and it was just a bunch of overweight people who couldn’t take care of themselves. My wife watches it and got me hooked. This isn’t because of the drama, that just makes me angry, it’s because [...]
Form is something that is all too often sacrificed in the pursuit of accomplishing more work. I agree that the only way to increase strength is to increase the amount of work performed in each session but this is a misguideed attempt. More work does not equal more strength if you aren’t using the right [...]
The way that you apply yourself in your training will directly affect the way you move outside of your training. This is why it is important to put some thought into the way you train. If you lift weights in a bodybuilding style manner then you can expect to build muscles that are big and [...]
Focus on a Turkish get-up: I used to use various means to extract my mind from training. The most obvious is listening to music, singing to myself, thinking about something else. Anything I could do to get my mind off of the work that I had to put in. Through my years of training, learning [...]
In today’s society the word “fitness” is very overused and very misunderstood. We’re taught that it’s the way you look, that fitness means that you’re body fat is under 5% and you have a six pack and a horseshoe on the back of your arm. They tell us this as if they can calculate an individuals level [...]
Why do I train? This is something that we should all ask ourselves at some point or another. Throughout the last 11 years, my reasons for training have changed several times. When I was in high school I trained to be a better football player, wrestler and runner, after I graduated I had no more [...]
