Actual conversation: Q: "What can I do to tone up my stomach?" A: "Watch what you eat and get some type of exercise on almost everyday." Enter puzzled look of bewilderment..... Q: "You mean there's no ONE exercise I can do to lose weight in my stomach?" A: "Table push-aways work best." Q:"How do you do those?" A: "When you sit down to eat. Push yourself away from the table." Enter look of frustration, like I'm holding back some type of deeply kept fitness industry secret given only to those who pay the entry fee to the guild.... A: "There's no magic bullet. Eat less, move more, make better food choices. I really can't give you a program with … [Read more...]
You Can Never Have Too Much Ass….
February 7, 2013 by
It's a universal truth. The easiest, quickest way for most people to feel and perform better is to get their ass in gear...literally, like, make it do something other than store Krispy Cremes. "for us, for athletes, glutes are everything -- the absolute epicenter and powerhouse of all athletic movement. It's all about the ass."- Mark Verstegen Simply put, the glutes are the most important muscle group in the body. "Maybe normal people don't discuss this all day long, but we sure do," says Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. "Every strength coach I've ever been around, it's glute, glute, glute -- always, always, always. It's a broken record. I can't tell you how … [Read more...]
Doing it Better: Lunges
February 5, 2013 by
Your lunges are terrible.... So bad you shouldn't do them. At least not until after you read this. Your lunges probably don't look like this.... I can say with almost 100% certainty that when you do a lunge one of these things happens: From start to midpoint: Step out is too small, not giving the hips enough room to drop down. Step out is too big and the back leg has to be kept straight to be used as a kickstand. The Step out foot is placed towards the mid-line of the body. Contact on the step out foot is on the ball of the foot not on a flat foot with pressure in the heel. The knee collapses in towards the mid-line of the … [Read more...]
Workout ADD, Why you Workout all the Time but Make no Progress….
January 24, 2013 by
Pintrest: Multiple pins on the same persons board of: This persons leg workout, that persons butt workout, how such and such gets body X,Y,Z Magazines: Every month a new workout. TV Shows: How celebrity X,Y,Z does this or that and this doctors or personalities favorite workout of the minute. Bootcamps: "We get in a group and do something different each time" Exercise Classes: Taught to the mid range user in the group, which is usually someone of a low fitness level. Fact: Most group exercise classes are based on entertainment, not fitness training. In and of themselves all these things can be fine, can be done right (but it's VERY rare) and … [Read more...]
The Desk Jockey’s Guide to Fixing Yourself
January 22, 2013 by
We evolved to stand upright. But with the posture a lot of people have these days, you might not believe it. We spend so many hours hunched over a computer screen and slumped on a couch that we develop what I call... Desk Jockey Syndrome.. Really its Janda's Upper Crossed Syndrome and Lower Crossed Syndrome: The result is the really, really poor posture that it seems everyone has these days. Why you should care: You look like Quasimodo..... If you fix this you'll FEEL a million times better. Most of the aches and pains you have will "magically" disappear. Headaches will disappear. You'll MOVE a million times … [Read more...]
Sh@t My Trainer Says…..
January 17, 2013 by
"Fitness Professionals" usually aren't all that professional... I mean, you can buy a Living Social coupon to save on getting certified... That's certainly not the case all of the time but there are far too many people in this business who really don't know what's going on. But they pretend toooo.... And this time of year LOTS of people are trying to get into shape and have hired trainers or got As Seen on TV products or started going to Bootcamps or whatever. They don't know what the hell is going on, it's not their job, they're paying the fitness Yoda for that. So they only know what the jackass Yoda in front of them says which usually is about as … [Read more...]
10 Best Exercises for Hockey
January 15, 2013 by
This list is stupid because there are NO 10 best exercises for any sport... But I put out two of these articles a week, sometimes I run out of ideas. it's not like I'm asking for sharks with laser beams on their freaking heads.... After a long lockout I figured it's OK to be a total tool bag and do one of these stupid lists. #10: Running Sprints Most Hockey players spend too much time in this position... During practice and games it's necessary but what happens is they go to home/ work and... Everything flexed or "closed down"....and they often opt to train on the bike, cause it makes the quads burn, which does more of the same. This doesn't mean the … [Read more...]
The Epic Hip Hinge/ RDL Post
January 10, 2013 by
"I don't do those cause they hurt my back..." http://youtu.be/9X3g8-v3iOw And because of that I stopped putting the Romanian Deadlifts into most programs because inevitably I got that or, "I don't know how to do that" I know, you're thinking? WTF? You don't know how to bend over? To which I respond: It's NOT about "bending over" and that's the problem. People think it's just bending over.... It's about: "hinging the hips". http://youtu.be/Gh5lyIbMe8c Bending over happens when the torso (shoulders) is projected forward over the toes with little to no backwards counter-movement of the hips and is usually accompanied by a flexing or "unlocking" … [Read more...]
