Posted on January 18th, 2011 by
james in
Quick Fat Loss Tips,
Workouts
If you haven’t heard before, Tabata intervals, or the Tabata protocol, is a high intensity training protocol created by Japanese researcher Dr. Izumi Tabata and his mates. Put simply, each ‘interval’ starts with 20 seconds of maximum effort e...
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Posted on November 12th, 2010 by
james in
Training
Squats are a great lower body exercise but sometimes you will need an exercise substitution to replace it with. This may be because of an injury to your knee or lower back or just for variation in your workout. The exercises are all very similar in movement, b...
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Posted on November 3rd, 2010 by
james in
Other
Body weight workouts for men are all the rage these days and with reason too. Bodyweight exercises can be done with little or no equipment which means they can be done almost anywhere and anytime. If you are busy then having the option of doing a bodyweight pr...
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Kettlebell workout routines should always include lower body and upper body exercises. In this article you are going to learn the 5 best lower body kettlebell exercises you can do to both gain muscle and burn fat. Even more importantly though, is with these ...
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Posted on February 10th, 2010 by
james in
Training,
Workouts
Here you go. Five Workouts. Two Timing Variations. Ten Minutes. No excuses. No equipment, still no excuses. Got a kettlebell, dumbell or skipping rope? Definitely no excuses. A stopwatch, countdown timer or Gymboss timer would be handy. (If you have an iPhone ...
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Posted on August 30th, 2009 by
james in
Other
We’re following on with a similar theme today looking at some variations on another common exercise, the lunge. Some people (myself included!) will call the lunge a split squat or vice versa but as far as I’m concerned it’s just a name. Let...
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Posted on July 15th, 2009 by
james in
Workouts
Today we have the pleasure of a guest post from up and coming strength coach Marcello ‘Chel’ Marchioli. Now I must admit that I haven’t tried this one out, but Chel tells me that he used it with one of the high level soccer teams he trains an...
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by
james in
Training
Following on from the success of the post 8 More Ways To Instantly Improve Your Eating, here is the workout version. Too often we get caught up focusing on minutia instead of getting the basics right. If we take the back basics approach, more often that no the...
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