Tag Archive for Exercise

The Best Approach to Post-Workout Nutrition

The post-exercise period isn’t just your window of opportunity to build muscle, it’s also your ideal opportunity to burn fat.

Improving Your “Motor” with mTOR

Human fitness is based on specific rules, and you need to know how to follow these rules. So, what are those rules?

Study Examines the Benefits of Kettlebell Training

If you are already doing a regular workout, but still have a few pounds you would like to shed, mix in one or two 20 minute kettlebell sessions and see if that doesn’t make the difference.

Are You Surviving Your Training or Training to Survive?

We all have our reasons why we train. For those in the military, they train to be an effective soldier. Law enforcement and fire fighters train to stay ahead of the rigors of their jobs. Elite athletes train because their livelihood depends upon it. they know it takes more than just talent to stay at the top of their game.

12 Tips To Improve Your Deadlift

“Any healthy male under the age of 50 should be able to deadlift at least 400 pounds within two years of proper training.”-Eric Cressey

Everything Works…For a While

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Everything works…for a while as Dan John would say. If you are currently doing nothing, do something, anything. It will work since your body isn’t used to the new activity.

How Robert Downey Jr. Trained for Ironman 2

Have you seen “Ironman 2″ yet? To prepare for that movie, Robert Downey, Jr. had to put on 20 lb in 3 months. Usually, it seems, when an actor has to put on weight for a movie role, he has to eat his way to more mass

More Offseason NFL Training

With just over two days until the 2010 NFL Draft, veterans of all 32 teams are involved in their offseason strength and conditioning workouts. Take a look inside the Packers weight room to see Ryan Grant’s training regimen.

How To Control Aging Through Exercise

You’ve heard that regular exercising helps make you look younger and may even extend your lifespan and improve the physical quality of your life. But how? What are the variables you can control or at least heavily influence in the healthiest direction?

What To Do When You Overdo It

Last night was a CNS-tapping, high volume workout that was made harder by my actions of the previous day.