Question – How do I properly perform the barbell row? Maintain a natural lumber arch for the whole exercise. Never let your lower back round for any reason! 1) Maintain your lumbar arch, bend your knees, and bend at the hips (not the lower back) and grab the bar. When …
I’m not a doctor, or a nurse, or a nutritionist, or any other kind of health care professional. What I am, at the time of writing this, is a 50 year-old male who was told five years ago by his family doctor that he needed to go on statin drugs because of …
Question – How do I properly perform a power clean? A picture (or in this case a video) is worth a thousand words: Question – What kind of clean should I do? Power clean, hang clean, or squat clean? Both power cleans (pulled from the floor) and hang cleans (pulled …
The basics: 1) Get under the bar with your chest high and your upper and lower back tight. 2) Ensure your position is balanced from left to right, grip the bar, ensuring your grip is balanced from left to right. 3) Grip the bar as close to your head as …
You are not at a calorie deficit. Either you are over-estimating the amount of calories you use. Barring a medical condition, you WILL lose weight is you take in fewer calories than you expend. Sites like MyFitnesPal (MFP), SparkPeople, LiveStrong, FatSecret, CalorieCount, and CalorieKing often crowd source their nutritional information …
This weight training routine is easy to understand and illustrates the importance of making systematic progression to drive size and strength gains. I suggest you read How to Get Big and Strong for a better understanding of how weight training works to make you bigger and stronger. This is only …
HISTORY: This program and variants have been making the rounds on the internet for a few years. Variations have been made for specific lifters, it’s been rehashed and re-explained by various people ranging from your standard guy who had a lot of success with it all the way to some …
If you have already made adjustments to your diet, and you didn’t see much of a change in your cholesterol levels, perhaps you are wondering – does exercise lower cholesterol? While adding more green leafy vegetables, reducing red meat consumption and adding Omega 3s are all helpful in reducing low-density …
Looking back, I can see my resistance training has gone through four stages marked by the exercises I did and how often I did them. I began regular training as a teenager in my basement, using one of those 110 pound Sear’s weight sets. You know the type — gray plastic …
How do I properly perform a basic bench press? This is not a bodybuilding bench press, nor a power lifting bench press. This is a basic bench press. 1) Lie flat on the bench, ensuring that you are evenly balanced from left to right. 2) Keep your feet on the …
