Belly Fat Loser

Okay, despite the kind of icy temperatures we’re enduring in the top half of the country this spring, summer’s almost here. You know what that means: mercury rising, outdoor activities, and a renewed push to burn fat left over from a winter of relative inactivity and too many second helpings. Sure, burning off your extra [...]

Eccentric reps can be a great way to increase your results or break through a troubling (is there any other kind?) plateau. You always do eccentric reps when you’re lifting, because it’s merely the lowering phase of any lift. The key is to use them to your advantage once in a while. To effectively perform [...]

One of the most common fitness related questions is why do muscles get bigger when you lift weights? It  comes somewhere directly after “How do I lose weight?” and “How do I make my muscles bigger?” There is a simple, 3 word answer to why your muscles grow when you lift; adaptive muscle hypertrophy. It [...]

The Best Time to Eat Carbs to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle While going on one of the many low carb diets  and cutting out most of your high glycemic index carbs is one of the most effective ways to lose fat, you will invariably have to eat some carbs, so the natural questions is [...]

If you workout or play sports long enough, you’re bound to have a bad case of sore muscles at some point. You’ll really get nailed with a case of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) if you’ve taken a week or two away from exercising or playing a sport and jumped back into it again, full [...]

Football is one tough sport. It requires a mixture of speed, agility, and strength like no other. You’ll find world class sprinters on the field with some of the world’s strongest men, that also happen to be fleet of foot and more agile than any 320lb individual has a right to be. The collisions are, [...]

If you’ve been working out for any length of time, there is a great chance you’ve experienced shoulder pain. Almost everybody has. After all, the shoulder joint is complex and you use it pretty much every time you do any upper body exercise. To top it off, many of the exercises we do are wrong [...]

What is the world’s most expensive exercise machine, how does it work, and how much does the darn thing cost? Most important among the questions you’re probably asking is “Does it really work?” After all, if you’re paying a robust $14,615 for the darn thing, your overriding concern is weather or not you are getting [...]

In my my previous post a few months back on the absolute best ab workout, I examined some popular medieval torture…I mean ab workouts, and showed why some popular ab exercises really aren’t nearly as effective as you’d think. The findings in that post were based on a San Diego State University study on the [...]

Weight training routines are personal things, different for every person, depending upon their body and their individual needs. Maybe you want to be the next Mr. Olympia, you might want to win power lifting competitions, or you just want to lose weight, build some muscle, or look better. Many people lift weights primarily to improve [...]

I showed you exactly how to get great abs in the Absolute Best Abs Workout from my previous post. You can definitely use that to get the kind of abs you always dreamed about, provided you lean up too. Sometimes though, it’s nice to change things up a bit, or have someone to workout with [...]

Almost every teenager, bodybuilder, and weekend athlete wants to build bigger biceps. For many people it remains a dream, although there are a lucky few that seem to have been blessed with giant guns from the get go. Why can’t you seem to build larger biceps, even though you’ve tried and tried? For many people [...]