Ever feel like all the work you put into attaining your ‘best body’ just is not cutting it? Here you are dragging yourself to the gym, running on the treadmill, slaving away with dumbbells, barbells and machines that resemble some sort of medieval torture device and none of it is working. You can’t seem to [...]
One of the biggest barriers facing people that want to exercise is getting the motivation to begin. Then there is the problem of not knowing where to begin or where to end and what to do in between.
This all depends on your body type and fitness goals. If your overweight cutting calories and burning fat [...]
Lets talk fats! no, not the fat around people waste line. I mean the good fats. The essential fatty acids, the fats that promote good health, and aid in building lean muscle mass.
Omega 3 fatty acids are 20-carbon compounds essential for normal growth and development, and are noted specifically for their powerful influence over multiple [...]
10 Easy Tips for Guaranteed Fat Loss Success
As a personal fitness coach, I find that I spend a good portion of time talking with people and offering advice, suggestions, tips, etc… to them on how accomplish a myriad of goals. Usually pretty basic stuff, like what should I eat, how should I train, how do [...]
Do you want to learn how you can get flat abs quickly without doing hundreds of crunches everyday? One of the most common myths in the abs training world is that crunches and spot training exercises will give you the flat abs you want. This cannot be further from the truth, and it explains why [...]
Combat to the Core
In this recent news story, Combat to the Core, Staff Sgt. Carlos Diaz discusses strengthening of our service men and women discusses a comprehensive approach to their abdominal training.
Here are a few excerpts:
“Core strength refers to abdominal and back muscles used to support the spine and keep bodies stable and balanced.”
and
“In general, [...]
The development of abdominal is a goal easy to reach, in condition of being justified and regular in its drive. Without entering in detail, it is useful to include the constitution and the functions of the abdominal muscular group to involve itself correctly.
One Distinguishes Mainly:
Musculus Rectus Abdominis Of The Abdomen
Localization: it is an important frontal [...]
Do you want to learn how to workout your abs and hips correctly to lose fats? Many people think that by simply doing hundreds of crunches every day, they will be able to lose all the fats on their waist and hips. This is the wrong way of thinking, and it explains why most people [...]
Stress causes weight gain!
If that were true in every case then most people would be overweight - well that is not far off. In the United States over 64% of the adult population is overweight! This can cause stress in many ways.
Stress is a vicious cycle - we are stressed, we over eat, we gain [...]
Nomar Garciaparra’s Baseball Core Routine
From the Stack, this article details Nomar Garciaparra’s (a six time all-star with the Dodgers) baseball core strengthening routine.
I really like this statement outlined in the article:
“…think of a young athlete that lifts weights for the first time. Jen Walker states that rapid gains are made, but those gains aren’t at [...]
