by admin on June 28, 2009

Recall I wrote about some examples of minimalist and simple efficient strength training workouts for the busy professional. These workouts can be done in less than 30 minutes with 2-3 workouts per week using a full body approach and compound movements. They’re perfect for anyone short on time with a hectic schedule.
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Now here’s [...]
by admin on June 28, 2009

The internet has allowed strength and conditioning, personal trainers, and coaches to share their most effective programs for sports performance, weight lifting, fat loss, and gaining muscle mass though various community forums and sites. With so many bodybuilding programs, workouts, and routines on the net to choose from, it’s hard to find out which ones [...]
by admin on June 28, 2009

As I noted in the Fat Loss Principles article, achieving your body recomposition goals, whether it’s fat loss, muscle gain, or just getting into shape, you have to accomplish 2 main things:
doing the right things
doing things right
Doing things right precedes doing things right. So you really need to do the right things right by knowing [...]
by admin on June 27, 2009

There are a lot of template and cookie-cutter routines on the internet if you search around on various bodybuilding and fat loss sites. Some of them are too strict, confusing, hard to follow, and user-unfriendly. Many are unnecessarily complicated with a bunch of unproductive exercises thrown in just for the sake of making it complicated. [...]
by admin on June 27, 2009

The classic 5×5 weight lifting strength routine has been talked about a lot by lifters and trainers in recent years, mainly due to the release of Mark Rippetoe’s “Starting Strength” book that outlines a 5×5 program template centered around the three major powerlifts; squat, deadlift, bench press.
The 5×5 program is a classic routine from the [...]
by admin on June 25, 2009

A while back I was browsing through athletic trainer, Kelly Bagget’s, site at Higher Faster Sports and stumbled across this article titled, “Creation of a Bodybuilder.” That article is perhaps the most non-bullshit, non-fluff, straight-to-the-point training primer for anyone looking to pack on muscle mass fast. The article is all action and lays out [...]