A great strength builder is using plyometric's as a tool to boost your strength and conditioning, I say it a lot if you want to be like an athlete you train like an athlete. The only way to become the best is by doing things normal people are unwilling to do, to push harder and farther than anyone else. If you do the same things everyone else is doing you will always get everyone else … [Read more...]
Fat People are Boosting the Economy
Fat People are Boosting the Economy Yup, we can thank the fat men and women of this country for boosting economy. Without the fat and diseased there would not be a spike in health care, medical insurance, diet supplements, magazines, newspapers, internet, restaurants, fast food and the beefed up pharmaceutical companies. Why is medical coverage not like auto insurance meaning if you … [Read more...]
WWE Tough Enough Bodyweight Conditioning
WWE Tough Enough Bodyweight Conditioning Some already know that I was a pro wrestler on the independent scene on and off for 10 years, and is the main reason I gained all the weight I did in a short time. Out of high school I was 147 lbs and could bench press 330lbs and deadlift 400 lbs at 21 I weighed 175lbs and was a competitive arm wrestler for a short time, but that’s another … [Read more...]
Pushups and suicides are an awesome muscle building combination tough to beat
Pushups and suicides are an awesome muscle building combination tough to beat I have talked for years about the simple approach to physical fitness and health and get a lot of simple doesn’t work for everyone or that there are exceptions. The only exceptions about a simple fitness program come from closed minded people. Think about some of the complicated plans you used and then some of … [Read more...]
What is Your Limit
I have said it before to be really fit it has to be a lifestyle a way of life, you never get good at anything doing it once in a while, like anything you need a plan a focused goal and you need to take action. Just because I can't do more one day than the next I would not call it failure, it would call it body adjusting, meaning the body will always adjust. I can't continue to try and explain … [Read more...]
Doing Pushups to failure will always increase strength
Doing Pushups to failure will always increase strength Who ever sold people on never pushing to failure? Years ago when I was lifting heavy weights and doing low reps we always pushed as hard as possible squeezing out every last rep, so what has changed? It’s almost like pushing to failure is too much work and we don’t want to push and work to hard we might make gains, is it that you … [Read more...]
The 8 Best Bodyweight Exercises Known to Man!
If you want to know the 8 best bodyweight exercises known to man keep reading I have come up with what I think are the best exercises for a total body make over after over 30 years of training and experiments I have rounded out the 8 most intense result producing exercises for building strength, conditioning, agility, quickness, body awareness, and over all athletic ability. They … [Read more...]
Working out or Wearing out
Working out or Wearing out I think I might be in the wrong business of trying to help people become healthier and physically fit. I have a few that continually write or comment that the things I say aren’t for the everyday citizen, I thought by the things I say people would catch on to that. I don’t want to deal with the general public meaning the regular unmotivated men and women, … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training – Back Pack Training for Elite Physical Fitness
Bodyweight Training – Back Pack Training for Elite Physical Fitness A great way to add to you training is to get a good back pack and load it up for a different type of workout. A weight vest is good but distributes weight pretty evenly, a back pack wants to move around and is always trying to pull you back and forces your body to make adjustments building more muscles as … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Strength Philosophy – Part 2
Bodyweight Strength Philosophy – Part 2 I will start off by saying that whether you lift weights or use your bodyweight if you want to gain weight and muscle you need to take in more calories, if you want to get leaner you burn more calories, you can get learner lifting weights and you can get leaner using your own bodyweight. When I was younger and lifted heavy weights and was bench … [Read more...]