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Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports - Your Questions Answered!
With the recent release of the Mitchell Report, performance enhancing drugs in sports is the headline of the season.
While most people think they understand this topic on a basic level (put needle in butt, become magically stronger, Tarzan hit ball far), we're going to look at the issue in further detail.
First, any drug, performance-enhancing or [...]
Grip Strength - Perfect Training Formula Revealed!
Rowing Technique and Training
Rowing training can provide an interesting change-up to your usual treadmill or cycle routine. With proper rowing technique, you can work nearly every muscle in your body, while getting a great aerobic workout.
You use your legs to push off, your abs and core to sit upright, and your arms and back to pull. If [...]
Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog Carnival #13
Monday is Blog Carnivals Day. A Blog Carnival is basically a collection of articles or blog posts, all relating to a similar subject, that are gathered together for your viewing pleasure. You can quickly and conveniently see a list of Article Titles and click on the ones that interest you to read the full post. [...]
Top 5 Lower Ab Exercises
You may have already chiseled away most of your dangerous belly flab, but you're abs still aren't "popping" the way you would like. Perhaps you've been concentrating too much on traditional sit-ups and crunches, while ignoring these great lower ab exercises.
The key is to use specific movements that target the two main components of your [...]
Foods High in Protein: Top 10 Healthy Choices
Foods high in protein should be a staple of everyone's diet. Besides being absolutely essential in helping your body build big, bulging muscles, a new study proves that even Grandma needs protein to preserve her healthy (no matter how small) muscle mass.
So, the question becomes, "What are the healthiest, leanest, and tastiest protein sources?" Below [...]
Daddy, Where Do Muscles Come From?
Well Jimmy, when a Mommy loves a Daddy… oh wait, you said muscles!
When you workout, instead of building muscle, you are actually tearing muscle. That's why rest is so important. You don't build muscle in the gym, you build muscle in between training sessions.
After your workout, you body begins repairing the micro trauma you created [...]
How to Perform a Squat with Perfect Form Video Demonstration
The squat is easily one of, if not the best exercise you can do. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only take one exercise with you, it should be the squat.
It works nearly every muscle in your body, from your abs to your calves, and everything in between. The key, as [...]
Quality Over Quantity and Intensity Over Frequency
Good news for those having a hard time fitting gym sessions into their hectic work weeks: A new study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research says your training intensity is more important than your training frequency.
The researchers based their finding on the results of two separate groups. One group trained three times a [...]
Take Your Muscle Pump With You When You Leave the Gym
Ever notice how you look your biggest and buffest during and immediately after your workout? Of course you do! You sneak a peak at yourself in the gym mirrors any chance you get.
When you're pumping iron, your blood vessels are pumping blood. As you work out, your muscles contract and apply pressure to these [...]
