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Study Claims Heavy Lifting Not Necessary to Build Muscle

21. August 2010

A recent study from McMaster University claims heavy lifting is not necessary to build muscle. Don’t trade in your Nautilus machines and barbells for pastel rubber dumbbells yet, though, because the study is severely flawed. From an article on the study at Science Daily; “Rather than grunting and straining to lift heavy weights, you can [...]

Strength Training Myths in the Martial Arts

21. August 2010

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I enjoy reading about different styles of martial arts and recently purchased The Complete Guide to Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu by Stuart Alve Olson, since my son studies Wah Lum Tam Tui Northern Praying Mantis. Considering the book was only published a few years ago, I was very disappointed to find some of the worst misinformation [...]

Are You Training Hard Enough?

7. March 2010

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In a previous post I wrote about the ten biggest bodybuilding mistakes, I listed not training hard enough as the number one mistake. How hard is enough, though? To stimulate increases in strength and size it is minimally necessary to 1. work your muscles harder than they are accustomed to, which means 2. always attempting [...]

The Myth of Core Stability

10. November 2009

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This article is posted with the written permission of the author, Professor Eyal Lederman of CPDO Ltd. in London. Thanks to Steve Turner for making me aware of the article and to Professor Lederman for allowing me to post it here. This is important reading for anyone involved in exercise, either professionally or for their [...]

The Ten Biggest Bodybuilding Mistakes

29. October 2009

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If you’re not making regular gains in muscular strength and size you’re probably making one or more of the following common training mistakes. These are some of the biggest mistakes a bodybuilder can make, and correcting them can often make the difference between outstanding gains and none at all. 1. Not Training Hard Enough To [...]

Negative-Only Workout on Hybrid Machine

28. April 2009

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21 Convention founder Anthony Johnson came over Saturday to go through a negative-only workout on the Hybrid machine and brought his video camera with him. The workout consisted of negative-only squats, dips, low rows (first video), calf raises, presses and pulldowns (second video). When performing negative-0nly on the Hybrid machine, the rep starts with a [...]

Something is Not Always Better Than Nothing

14. April 2009

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I recently posted a link on Facebook to Arthur De Vany’s Top Ten Reasons Not to Run Marathons, to which a friend who runs replied, Everyone has their opinion. I run because I like to. Not because I want to run 26.2 miles every day or even 13.1 miles every day. I think it’s a [...]

Exercises, Equipment Modes and Rep Duration: The Question of Superiority

19. March 2009

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I just received the following article from Ken Mannie, head strength and conditioning coach at Michigan State University, with permission to post it here. Exercises, Equipment Modes and Rep Duration: The Question of Superiority by Ken Mannie The training landscape is in a state of continual flux, and the ongoing changes, updates, and emergence of [...]

Safety Considerations for Exercise

26. January 2009

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The following is a handout I wrote for new personal training clients several years ago. I have reposted it here at the request of several people and to save myself time answering many of the questions it addresses. The upcoming book contains more current, expanded discussions of each of the considerations covered here as well [...]

The Minimum Amount Necessary

18. January 2009

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The following article was originally published on Cyberpump.com in 1998. Recently I’ve been receiving a lot of e-mail and phone calls from people with questions regarding their workouts. Often, people are surprised at the brevity of the routines I recommend, and ask, “why so few exercises?” To which I respond, why do any more? Why [...]

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