Friday, September 3, 2010

Dieting

How to Buy the Healthiest Eggs

Hyo’s note:  We buy organic, cage-free, and omega-3 enriched eggs from Costco. ... 


How Do Bodybuilders And Fitness Models Get So Lean?

Q & A with Guest Blogger, Tom Venuto – The Fat Loss Guru  QUESTION: “Tom,... 


Egg Recall 2010 Due to Salmonella!

One of the nation’s largest egg producers is recalling 380 million eggs after being... 


How To Build Muscle on a Vegetarian Diet

By Jason Ferruggia, Guest Blogger There are usually four to five reasons why someone... 


Listen to Maintainers, Not to Losers: 5 secrets to keeping the weight off for good

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped... 


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Living

8 Essential Life Lessons for True Success

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), January 23, 2009 If you wish to succeed... 


Too Busy to Work Out

One way some folks “guilt” trip a person into exercising is by saying,... 


How much fat and sodium is in that thing?

Wow, I am stunned at how much we are willing to compromise for the convenience sake. ... 


Back It Up Now!

Wow – here’s a cautionary tale.  If you have not backup’ed your... 


A Triple Baconator has What?

Wow, I have a bad vise when it comes to dieting.  I love Wendy’s single bacon... 


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Tips and Thoughts

Stone Cold Steve Austin Workout

By Jason Ferruggia, Guest Blogger Since I have told the story a few times before on my blog, people often ask me about the Stone Cold Steve Austin workout. I met Steve for the first time back in May of 1997. To make a long story short, we hit it off at a bar one night and spent six hours talking about everything you could possibly imagine. But one of... 


Why Some Skinny Guys Will Always Stay Skinny

by Jason Ferrugia, Guest Blogger It’s funny, but in 2010, with all the advances in science and technology that have been made over the last few decades, an average skinny guy has far less of a chance of ever getting significantly bigger, stronger and faster than he did twenty or thirty years ago. Why? Because there is far too much information out... 


5 Best Exercise Equipment Under a 100 Bucks

There are exercise equipments out there that cost upwards of $14,000.  Okay, $14,000 is an insane, unless you can afford it.  Actually, it’s just flat out insane, even if it works as advertised. You don’t need to spend $14,000.  And you don’t need the vast majority of gimmicky exercise equipments out there.  What you need is solid,... 


5 Worst Exercising Gimmicks on TV

Fitness is straightforward.  It’s even pretty simple.  You take the 3 components of rest, nutrition, and exercise; mix it all up and you achieve your fitness goals.  But one thing it is not- it is not easy.  For most of us, there is no losing 50lbs in 3 months or gaining 40lbs of lean muscle in 4 months. But how would you look 25lbs lighter... 


Can Older People Build Muscle?

Debunking a myth, with guidelines for safe workouts for seniors. by Martica Heaner, Q: At what age do you lose the ability to build muscle? I’m 64 years old and have been told that I’m too old to create new muscle and that all I can do is tone my existing muscles. A: You’re never too old to build muscle! And it’s crucial for older adults to... 


Using the 5×5 System to Build Muscle

By Jason Ferruggia, Guest Blogger The 5×5 system is one of the oldest muscle building programs in the book and has stuck around forever. 5×5 is good and 5×5 is bad; it just depends on the situation. There are a few ways that the 5×5 muscle building system is implemented. The first way that people use the 5×5 system to build... 


Want A Perfect V-Shaped Body? Change This Now…

By Jeff Anderson  , Guest Blogger  The “perfect body” is one that starts out wide at the top with broad, muscular shoulders and a back the size of a barn door, all leading down to a small waist.    The “easiest” way to achieve this awesome “V-shape” upper body is to build more muscle mass on your lat muscles... 


Unique Movements and Exercises You Should Be Doing

by Jim_Brewster, guest blogger Lately, due mainly to time constraints, I’ve had to get creative in some of my workouts as far as how I perform an exercise. Case in point, if I have 15 minutes to do a workout (sometimes I only have ten!) and it’s back day, for example, I will employ intensity techniques as well as using the basics with heavy... 


Getting Strong for Everyday Living

Building muscle and getting strong is not necessarily the same thing.  Notwithstanding the cast of “300,” I am guessing that not too many gladiators and Grecian warriors had bulging Pecs or wondrously sweeping Lats with mountainous peaks for biceps.  More than likely, they had great shoulder girth, strong forearms, and strong core muscles... 


Grip Harder and Get Stronger with a Thicker Bar

The simplest changes can have the most profound effects.  In a previous article, I wrote about the importance of gripping hard.  The harder the grip, the better the chances of finishing that last brutal rep. There is something about gripping hard that focuses our attention and brings everything we have to bear on the situation at time.  Arnold Schwarzenegger... 


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