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You Get Out What You Put In

Darryl — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:25:51 +0000

There’s a lady I know that would like to shed some excess body fat. She started lifting weights, but from what I can tell she lifts in a manner that requires minimal exertion. She doesn’t control her eating. She doesn’t seek help. She puts in very little in her effort to slim down. She began [...]

Muscle Mags

Darryl — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:33:06 +0000

A quick note about muscle magazines in general and some muscle-building oriented websites — they are primarily vehicles for supplement advertisement and sales. This isn’t to say that they are completely useless; it’s just a note about what I feel is their primary function, i.e. to sell supplements for the supplement companies that advertise in [...]

“Shaping” Muscles

Darryl — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:19:06 +0000

A guy I’m working with is concerned about his biceps. He wants it to stand taller when he flexes his arm, i.e. he’d like to have a higher or more pronounced “peak”, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger. He wondered what exercises he might do to make his biceps peak more. Biceps curls will help him, [...]

Beware the Danger Years!

Darryl — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:04:43 +0000

The years from age 25 to age 44 are the “danger years” for adults. What’s dangerous about those years? These are the years that adults become over fat. Americans gain about 2 pounds per year in these years for about a 40 pound weight gain. Women tend to gain the most weight — roughly 14% put [...]

1st Fundamental of Success

Darryl — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:37:46 +0000

I’m reading a book called, “The Success Principles”, by Jack Canfield. He’s the guy that wrote the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series. In his book, he lays out those principles that are necessary for success. The first foundational principle he gives us is this: “You have to take 100% responsibility for everything that [...]

Weights Not Working?

Darryl — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:28:28 +0000

A couple of days ago, a lady told me that she had been working out for about a month, but that “it wasn’t working”. She said that she was lifting weights, walking, and that she ate “pretty good”. She wondered why she wasn’t losing weight. We didn’t get to talk in depth about her situation. However, [...]

Evander Holyfield

Darryl — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:48:04 +0000

It is always encouraging to me when I see an older guy keep himself in top physical shape and do something spectacular. In this case, 47 year old Evander Holyfield knocked out Francois Botha to become the WBA boxing champion. One thing that has always been the case with Holyfield is that he keeps himself [...]

Weight Training for Your Health and Nice Body

Darryl — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:20:46 +0000

Resistance training, in my opinion, is one of the missing keys to the long term weight loss success many people seek. Why do I say that? Because it helps to keep muscle mass up. One of the primary reasons people typically slowly gain fat over time is due to a progressively slowing metabolism, which is largely [...]

How to Best Perform PRE

Darryl — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:31:38 +0000

What the hek is “PRE”? PRE stands for “progressive resistance exercise”. It is exercise done against some kind of resistance, whether the resistance be your own body weight, resistance bands, another person, weights, or any of a number of other types of resistance. What will PRE do for YOU? If you do it correctly, a few [...]

Getting the Body We Want with PRE

Darryl — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:29:54 +0000

In the series, “The Most Effective Weight Loss Solution”, we discovered that people that lose weight and keep it off do so through the combination of diet and exercise. They keep the weight off with exercise, self-monitoring (weighing themselves frequently), and eating sensibly most of the time. For those that exercised intensely, the most common form [...]