October 2011
1 post
Anonymous asked: my diet is great but i need a workout that will allow me to reach my limit. i was thinking doing a cross fit workout. can you give a cross fit workout routine for 12 weeks, which is proven to help you gain muscle and get ripped. help out a brother
June 2010
2 posts
A series: My philosophy - Part One: Contemporary ...
Hey everybody, so this is the first entry of a series I will be writing on my philosophy on fitness and health in general. I’ll warn you now that in these entries I will go off on tangents, but they will all be relevant to the message I am hoping to deliver. My goal in these entries is to give you an overall understanding of fitness, how it can make your life better, and how to be fit with...
May 2010
6 posts
Mark Lauren’s You Are Your Own Gym
Author’s credentials: Military Special Operations Officer, Military Physical Training Specialist, Special Operations Combat Controller, Triathlete, and Muay Thai Champion
There’s no question that Lauren is a fitness guru. In his second chapter “How I got Here” he outlines his military experience and recounts the grueling all day exercise routine that caused an 85% attrition rate in his particular...
Fun Fact of the Day
Men who get 25-35% of their calories from good fats produce on average 25% more testosterone than those who don’t.
CrossFit : The perfect athlete?
“CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.”
It’s a fitness program that specializes in not specializing. It focuses on all aspects of fitness...
To all of my gymless friends - Worry not!
Gym memberships are expensive these days. They usually run around $50 a month and for some, including college students like myself, coming up with this money is not always possible. On top of that, half the time you have to sign a contract and commit to the gym for an entire year! But here’s a secret, you don’t need a gym to get incredibly strong, buff, or cut. My father just lent...
increasing anaerobic capacity - the tabata method
Here’s a brief article I read on a CrossFit affiliate website about increasing anaerobic capacity:
(for anyone who’s wondering what the word anaerobic means is scroll to the bottom of the article*)
“”The Tabata Protocol–named after Izumi Tabata, Ph.D., a former researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya–is an interval routine developed by the...
April 2010
3 posts
Sucrose and Fructose Post Workout: meh
In my last post, I discussed the ideal supplements for restoring glycogen post workout. Now I will tell you why fructose and glucose are two simple carbs that are not ideal for post work out nutrition. I’m being very nit picky here! Although the last two supplements I reviewed are superior, the ones I’ll talk about now still are beneficial. I only use the term ineffective because as a...
The Post Work Out Shake: Part 1 - Restoring Muscle...
You just got home from the gym and you’re exhausted. You had a killer work out and all you want to do is collapse onto your bed or veg out in front of the TV for a few hours. You also feel like you could eat a horse and after a few minutes, the time comes to rade the kitchen. Stop. Muscle heads, ever wonder why you see people at the gym six days a week and as the months pass they don’t get ANY...
“Shakespeare said to thine own self be true. I don’t know what the f*ck he meant...”