By Joe Franco Over the last decade, researchers have made extremely compelling arguments for the benefits of weight training for women and those over the age of forty. Still, the number of women who take this recommendation to heart is still quite low. Most women who exercise are spending most of their gym time on [...]
by Dr. Clay Hyght, DC, CSCS Do you want to gain some lean muscle mass or do you want to get stronger? Typically you have to choose between these two goals when deciding how to train – but not any more! I’ve designed a program specifically for those of us who want to get both [...]
By Jon Herring If your goal is to eat healthfully and lose weight, but you can’t seem to make the good habits stick, here are a few ideas to keep you on the right track. 1. Brush your teeth several times per day. When your mouth feels clean and fresh, you are much less likely [...]
How to stoke your metabolism to create an internal inferno that will smoke your fat 24-7 By: Jim Thornton It’s 9:25 in the morning, and I’m lying on a twin bed at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, one of the country’s premier facilities for the study of body weight and metabolism. My room here on [...]
Next time you race off to the gym, use these secrets for maximum effect By: David Schipper We asked the experts what they see people doing wrong on the leading machines and found out how we can squeeze more out of our time on them. Follow their suggestions and you’ll burn more fat than the [...]
Follow these principles to pack on muscle… Maybe you’ve had sand kicked in your face. Maybe you’ve lost one too many attainable women to beefier guys. Or maybe you’ve read so much about weight loss that actually admitting you want to gain weight is a societal taboo. Whatever the reason, you want to bulk up. [...]
The key to fat burning is using interval workout Getting Up to Speed They say that slow and steady wins the race. But the cardiovascular key to fat burning is using interval workouts – workouts that alternate high-intensity levels with lower-intensity effort. As I mentioned earlier, that formula keeps your body burning calories long after [...]
The key is boosting “”workout density,”” a fancy term for the work you do in a given length of time. Here’s a program for big gains, sans burnout. RULE 1: Fill your tank. High-octane workouts stall if you don’t gas up properly. A half hour before your workout, drink a glass of juice with a [...]
4 ways to keep your meals healthy when you go out to eat By:G. Avedon There are a lot of excuses for not eating properly. The most frequent: “”I’m never home.”” You have clients to entertain. Your neighbors are having a barbecue. And there’s never anything healthy to eat at these places. Unhealthy food [...]
The Fat-Blasting Workout Rev up your metabolism and then burn blubber with this training plan Edited by: Jim Thornton John Berardi doesn’t have his Ph.D. in prestidigitation, but he can still make your gut disappear. The following workout from Berardi’s new book, The Metabolism Advantage, combines weight training and interval sprints to create a calorie-incinerating [...]
