Intense vs. Eccentric Strength Training: Which One Wins?
Do you wonder how eccentric training, without being grueling, stacks up against non-eccentric but highly intense weight workouts? […]
Best Strength Training Program: The One You Stick With
Even small amounts of resistance training can build strength, increase muscle size, improve power and support overall physical function. […]
Why Do Gym Bodies Look Different from Work Labor Bodies?
Why do gym workouts with weights make bodies look strikingly different from the bodies of those who do hard physical labor such as construction and moving furniture? […]
Does More Belly Fat Equal More Brain Aging?
The brain is not exempt from the rancid effects of obesity, especially in your midsection. […]
What’s the Best Warmup for Any Given Gym Exercise?
Science shows that there’s a specific way to do a warmup, regardless of the working sets to come or the actual exercise routine. […]
Worst Time to Exercise: Whenever You Can
Why is “whenever you can” the worst time to exercise? This topic was inspired by a woman who, upon being asked “Do you exercise,” answered “When I can.” […]
What People in Their 90s Will Love About Lifting Weights
Lifting weights isn’t just for the young. In fact, it’s especially helpful for people in their 90s. […]
Fight Cancer By Changing Your Body Composition: How To
A protein released by muscles during exercise could be crucial to helping fend off a first bout or recurrence of cancer, especially of the breast. […]
How Women Can Prevent Muscle Loss on Semaglutide
If you’re a woman in midlife using semaglutide to lose weight, you might be losing more than fat. […]
Worried of Your Autistic Child’s Future? Get Healthy & Fit!
It’s common for parents of severely autistic kids to worry “who’s going to take care of them after we’re gone”? […]
Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: Get Strong Muscles; Lift Weights!
It’s about time that science catch up to what many personal trainers have known all along: Strong muscles are highly protective against type 2 diabetes. […]
Sedentary? 5 Minutes a Day of Negative Training = Benefits
If you’re inactive then just five minutes a day of “negative training” can give you great health benefits. […]
The Effects of Two and a Half Months Off from Strength Training
What really happens when you take two and a half months off from strength training? This break could be from a major injury, an illness or even doctor’s orders to recover from surgery. A study [...]
Why Are Most Gym Free Weight Users in Their 20s & 30s?
As you get older over many years, have you noticed that other people in the gym stay in their 20s and 30s? Where have all your peers gone? […]
How to Lose Weight if You’re too Big to Do Cardio Exercise
If aerobic exercise is too uncomfortable due to your size, you can still effectively lose weight with another form of exercise that’s much easier on your joints. […]
Can Strong Be Unhealthy? Or is Weak Unhealthy?
“Strong isn’t healthy” is usually spoken by physically weak people, even though being weak is what’s truly bad for the body. But can an unhealthy person be strong? […]
Benefits of Strength Training for Professional Movers
Those who move furniture or other heavy items for a living need to do structured strength training workouts. This will help prevent injury. […]
Have a Weak Core? Try the Plank Exercise
If you seem to have a weak core (low back and abdominal area), you’ll want to try the plank exercise. […]
Strength Train One Inch at a Time to Burn Stubborn Fat
The technique of inch reps when strength training will help burn stubborn fat. […]
Why Women Should Strengthen a Weak Grip with Fat Gripz
It’s so very important for women, especially those who feel weak, to strengthen their grips. The Fat Gripz tool will give you a stronger grip. […]
Strength Training Guidelines for Smokers or Former Smokers
If you’re a smoker or former smoker who’s thinking about taking up strength training, NOW is a great time to start. Here are guidelines. […]
Do You Know All the Symptoms of Workout Burnout?
Workout burnout can result from overtraining. Do you know how to tell if you have this problem, let alone how to fix it? […]
Why Do Older Men Let Their Butts Fly up with Lat Pull-downs?
Ever notice that nearly every senior age man does lat pull-downs by lifting his butt off the seat before each pull? […]
How a Woman Can Get Strong Vascular Forearms at Any Age
This incredible veiny forearm belongs to a 71-year-old woman! The vascular forearm in that top photo belongs to Sharon Smith of Denver, Colorado, who began training in her late 50s. A forearm like that doesn’t [...]
Why NEAT Won’t Fix the Dad Bod Problem
Men with buff physiques who preach that NEAT can help dad bods transform their body are feeding you nonsense. You’ve been doing NEAT since birth yet still have a dad bod. […]
How to Get Stronger Muscles to Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk
If you’re scared you might develop type 2 diabetes, then you should be working to increase your muscle mass. Bulking up is not necessary, but the more muscle tissue you have, the more protection you’ll [...]
How Much Strength Training a Week Lowers Heart Attack Risk?
Strength training will lower heart attack and stroke risk. […]
How a Woman Can Love Carrying an Extra 200 Pounds of Weight
It can sometimes be a very good thing when a woman is carrying around an extra 200 pounds. Yes, you read that right. There’s a certain type of weight for which it’s a sign of [...]
How Plus Size Women Can Look Great in Tight Belts
There’s a way for plus size women to instantly look great in tight belts. This is NOT about reprogramming your self-worth. […]
How to Stop Fingers from Hurting During Deadlift Workouts
Have your fingers been hurting from the excessive pulling against them by a heavy barbell during deadlifting? This may prevent you from doing your full deadlift workout and/or from going for heavier loads. [...]
Does the Farmer’s Walk Give You Cold Shivers?
Why is it that every time you do farmer walks, you get a slightly chilly or cold feeling in your body and even shiver a little? This almost always happens when I do farmer walks. [...]
Training the Biceps While Seated: Best Exercises
There are effective ways to train your biceps while seated, no matter what your physical condition. In fact, seated biceps curls will more effectively isolate this muscle group than will standing – as a general [...]
Back and Arm Strength Training for Older People
Many senior age men and women do back and arm strength training wrong. As a fitness expert, I like to point out that old age is never an excuse for poor form. [...]
Dread Turning 50? How to Celebrate the Big 5-0 & Feel Young
Are you becoming increasingly despondent because your 50th birthday is coming up? It’s one thing to hear people tell you things like, “Some people never make it to 50,” or, “Pretend a decade is 12 [...]
Should Diabetics Strength Train or Do Cardio for Weight Loss?
If a diabetic had to choose one form of exercise for weight loss, either strength training or cardio, one of these is much better for igniting fat loss. Obesity and even a moderate amount of [...]
Can You Be Too Weak for a Normal Strength Training Program?
There is no such thing as being too weak for a normal strength training program. Can you pick up a broom? Then you can deadlift. If you’re lying down, can you push the broom up [...]
You Know It’s Time to Start Strength Training When …
Have you been toying around with the idea of starting a strength training regimen but keep putting it off, waiting for the “perfect” time? Well, there really isn’t a perfect time to begin training with [...]
Death Risk from Normal Weight but Fat Belly vs. Fat All Over
Which is unhealthier and more likely to kill you: having a normal BMI but most of your fat in your middle or being obese evenly all over? […]
Why Doesn’t the Body Positive Movement Include Muscular Women?
Where are the muscular women in the body positive movement? All we see are women ranging from moderately overweight to morbidly obese. The body positive movement has excluded muscular women, creating the illusion that there’s [...]
Why You Should Exercise 7 Days a Week
Exercising seven days a week is a good thing, not a bad thing. Your ancient ancestors worked their butts off seven days a week, and that's why you're here! Think of all the things that [...]