If you’re someone who maintains a CONSISTENT schedule with your workout routine, you deserve to not only mentally feel fulfilled and accomplished, but more importantly, physically achieve and see your progress as well. If for some reason you feel something is causing you to fall short, or you’re just not getting the gains you feel you should be despite a good diet and training schedule, perhaps the answer lies within your post workout behaviors.
Here we are about to wrap up the month of January, and while our friends in the Northeast have declared a state of emergency due to the blizzard of 2015, those of us in the Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando Florida areas have a little more than a month before beach season is once again in full effect.
The benefits of getting yourself in shape are obviously well documented and extensive but the reality is that the majority of said benefits have absolutely NOTHING to do with how good you look naked!
The commencement of a New Year brings with it a batch of resolutions, as millions of people across the nation dedicate themselves, at least for the time being, to changing their bodies and bettering their lives. If you need validation that the New Year has arrived, look no further than your local gym where you’ll find a surplus of new members clanging and banging in the weight room, and walking or striding away in the cardio area trying to become the upgraded versions of themselves.
Aside from eating a steadfast diet of predominantly fast food and soda, the biggest mistake a person can make when training to obtain an impressive set of abs is sticking to the same old workout of crunches, sit ups, and traditional planks all the time. These exercises are ok, but by no means should they be the only tools utilized to carve up your midsection. Like most people you’re probably somebody who hates change, but rest assured that incorporating new movements into your ab routine will not make your workouts longer; quite the opposite actually. What I’m about to teach you will not only provide you a more productive workout, but a shorter one as well.
To workout or not workout on Christmas Day, that is the question? Christmas is a special day for several reasons; spending time with family and loved ones, gifts, and of course you‘ve earned a Get Out Of Jail Free Card for consuming everything and anything your little heart desires, and it’s completely justified because it is after all Christmas, right?!While are brains will undoubtedly tell us that it’s ok to eat everything in sight, sadly our bodies do not get that memo, and this huge calorie surplus could in fact cause some serious problems, especially for those trying to lose weight.
So most of you are all to familiar with what it feels like to arrive at the gym, only to realize you left your headphones at home. For the majority, no music means a less efficient workout. In fact, the research shows that listening to music while exercising will increase intensity and endurance by 15%! Other studies have shown that listening to music during workouts can also increase heart rate and improve oxygen consumption, which in turn allows the body to burn more calories.
I realize this will be a somewhat controversial topic and opinions may vary considerably, but today I want to explore and discuss how cardio can and just maybe making you fat! This may seem inconceivable to some, but recent research and scientific evidence shows that long, monotonous, slow and steady state cardio sessions actually hinder your bodies natural ability to burn body fat; specifically in your belly! Cardio directly will not cause you to gain fat, but there are situations where performing cardio in conjunction with other behaviors will lead to unwanted weight gain and increased body fat.
I get a lot of questions via email and social media about how to train calves for maximum efficiency.
Calves unfortunately are a problem area for a lot of people, (most guys) but like any problem in life there are often many solutions! Today I’m going to share with you a calve training video that IFBB Pro Lee Banks and myself did to help you improve on the size, symmetry, and overall aesthetics of this difficult to master body part!
If you want to get and stay in shape, please do yourself the favor and under no circumstance do any of the following:
If you are wanting to get leaner, stronger and look like a superstar in the process, check out this short video I put together to help all of you do just that!
Here I showcase some of my unconventional training that will improve your physique, allow you to diversify and have some fun with your workouts, and also, more importantly look cool in the gym or on social media in the process!
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