You’ve heard about being “down to your last dime,” but how about being “down to your last dumbbell?” Maybe a hard economy forced the fire sale of your once epic home gym. Maybe you’re making do at a ... Continue Reading
Workout Splits Explained — How They Work and Why You Need Them
If you have the luxury of working out, you’re squandering the opportunity by walking into the gym without a plan. To avoid wasting your time with marginally effective training, you need to get organized. ... Continue Reading
The Best HIIT Workouts With Bodyweight, With Kettlebells, and More
Whether you call it conditioning, metcon, or plain old “cardio,” some type of cardiovascular training is necessary to achieve results you can’t replicate with standard weight training alone. While there ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Reverse Crunch for Strong, Well-Developed Abs
Some people completely shy away from direct ab exercises, either out of boredom or because they believe the big compound exercises like squats and overhead presses work their abs enough. But plenty of ... Continue Reading
The Best Landmine Workouts for More Muscle and Better Conditioning
Perhaps you’ve seen a lifter pressing, twisting, or rowing a barbell by rotating it on end. Appropriately named, these landmine exercises produce lethally effective workouts. Landmine training is performed ... Continue Reading
The Best Sled Workouts for Muscle, Strength, Fat Loss, and Recovery
The humble sled has made its way from American football gridirons, into strongman gyms, through CrossFit “boxes,” and has arrived as a mainstay of everyday training. The sled’s rise to ubiquity is fueled ... Continue Reading
Everything You Need to Know About How to Burn Fat
When someone decides to burn fat, they often think it means surviving on a carrot and three lettuce leaves each day while jogging to and from work. Fortunately, neither of those is necessary. While you ... Continue Reading
How to Do the Sit-Up for Stronger, More Muscular Abs
The classic sit-up is one of the first exercises most people learn to perform. Sometimes on their own at home as an early attempt to get into better shape or in school during gym class where it was less ... Continue Reading
What Is The Best Way to Burn Calories In 30 Minutes?
Maybe I should have entitled this article, The Best Normally-Engaged in Calorie-burning Activities Per Unit of Time. After all, you could burn many calories by insanely walking up and down flights of ... Continue Reading
Training Your Thyroid
We hear the word "hormones" get thrown around constantly and it seems that everyone agrees–not only are hormones important but having balanced hormones is crucial for overall health. We hear ... Continue Reading
Ideal Body Weight: Is There Such a Thing?
One of the most common questions I am asked when I sit down with a client to establish a plan is, “What should I weigh?” That is understandable amidst the sea of opinions and cultural pressures. ... Continue Reading
Women, Weightlifting, Nutrition and Metabolism
Everyone is always looking for quick fixes. No one wants to put in the work that creates lasting changes—which is what you really want in the long run. Right? So why do we sell ourselves short? I ... Continue Reading
You Missed the Boat Getting a Beach Body
The longest day of the year has come and gone. Summer has started, sure, but you're in the second half of the year and it's all kind of downhill to Christmas now. That doesn't stop the endless stream of ... Continue Reading
The Hard Truths of Improving Physique and Fitness
You don't get here by sitting on your ass 12 hours a day and eating like crap. You don't get here by sitting on your ass 12 hours a day and eating like crap. We've come a long way in terms of ... Continue Reading
Abstaining From Moderation
Business and self-development coaches will often tell you that the secret to success is to focus on your strengths, while either outsourcing your weaknesses or becoming just good enough at them not to mess ... Continue Reading
4 Ways to Fight Hunger on a Fat Loss Diet
Developing a leaner physique with visible abs has has always been one of the most popular fitness goals. While strong might be the new sexy, it isn’t as if a lean, muscular physique and a stunning set of ... Continue Reading
The Male Model Workout
The camera isn’t always our friend. Sometimes you blink right as the photo is taken, sometimes you’re slouching a little, and sometimes you just don’t like the way your body looks. Sure, you can change up ... Continue Reading
3 Fat Loss Workouts for When You’re in a Time Crunch
Commit yourself, put in the effort, and you will see excellent results. Commit yourself, put in the effort, and you will see excellent results. This article is for those who want to train but ... Continue Reading
The Power of Ketones
If you are a serious athlete, you have undoubtedly heard the word “ketone” floating around here and there, probably from researching something about weight loss, or from gym small talk. Regardless of where ... Continue Reading
Drop Your Stress to Drop That Weight
When entering a competition prep or intense dieting phase, most individuals only consider the hunger pangs, lack of sweets, and mind numbingly boring hours they’ll spend doing cardio for several months. ... Continue Reading
The Dangers of Socially Acceptable Obesity
More and more people are embracing the "love your natural body shape" mentality that has become popular in the last few years. Men and women alike are clinging to the belief that your body is beautiful the ... Continue Reading
Women: Forget These Fat Loss Myths
I hate talking about fat loss. It’s such a popular topic that there is a lot of noise out there. That being said, I also hate seeing many of the same old bad advice shared with readers like you that keep ... Continue Reading
How to Avoid the Biggest Weight Loss Mistake
It’s the start of a New Year, and like every January, people are scrambling to gyms and diet plans to shed unwanted weight gain from the previous year. I’m all for people jumping in with both feet and ... Continue Reading
The Role of Strength Training in Fat Loss
The vast majority of people entering a gym for the first time are doing so with the intent to lose weight. Sure, there are going to be a select few that want to increase size, some that want to get ... Continue Reading
