Your muscles grow when you rest. And so the key is stimulation, not annihilation. If you’re really that addicted to training, then instead of doing an intense workout, you can just keep yourself active with sports on your off days.

Remember one thing – in order to stimulate muscle mass, and give it a reason to grow, you need to hit it with maximum intensity. Intensity and duration are related, in that the longer you workout, the less intense and effective your workout is Continue reading

I don’t know what it feels like to be 50. However, my father is over 50, and I’ve trained him in past (trying to get him back into it). He is doing a pretty decent job of maintaining his weight using some simple techniques I’ve taught.

My father works 18 hour days at a convenience store in the city. Customers have given him some light dumbbells which he uses when he has some free time. He rarely ever breaks out a sweat the way he used to when training with me, however, the basic exercises that he performs is more than enough to help him maintain his weight loss. Continue reading

One thing I’ve learned from Crossfit is that the more often you workout, the better. Now, I know a whole bunch of people are going to start talking about over training and potential over use injuries.

The reason why most Crossfitters do not burn out is simply because they train in a different manner each day. For example, one day they’ll do a high intensity metabolic circuit. The next day they’ll do steady state cardio, and on a third day, they might do heavy strength training.

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I first realized how big a role metabolism played in fat loss when I read Alwyn Cosgrove’s article on T-mag, titled the Hierarchy of Fat Loss. Cosgrove stated that the most important factor in a fat loss routine is metabolic resistance training. This includes workouts such as complexes, circuits, trisets, and supersets. The idea is to get your heart rate up and keep it up while lifting moderate to heavy weights.

I liked this approach to training much better than doing steady state cardio, and so I gave it a try. By the time I had lost 15 lbs, I had developed four methods vital to fat loss: heavy training, metabolic resistance training, aerobic training, and anaerobic interval training. Then than list was refined to include only metabolic resistance training, heavy training, and eating a lot to maximize your resting metabolic rate. Continue reading

For the past few weeks, I’ve been getting lots of requests from readers who need some help developing a strength-focused bodyweight fitness program. I decided to organize some of my best tips into a post…

Intensity and Strength

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Bodyweight Exercise Revolution is a recent eBook published by Coaches Adam Steer and Ryan Murdock. When I first heard about this eBook, I rolled my eyes and thought, “Not another Bodyweight Training eBook.”

I was very much convinced that I’d learned everything there was to know about bodyweight training. But, my willingness to explore couldn’t stop myself from grabbing a copy.

Here are the Top 10 reasons why I’ve begun promoting Bodyweight Exercise Revolution on this website, and why you should grab your copy today: Continue reading

Crossfit is the go-to place if you want truly intense workouts. What I teach through this site is honestly a dumbed down version of Crossfit. The types of workouts I see them posting on the main Crossfit site are tough, and are certainly not for everyone.

Click here to learn over 100 Bodyweight Exercises, Plus Tips and Techniques you can use to Create Safe, Effective, High Intensity Workouts in the comfort of your Own Home

There’s a lot I love about Crossfit, but there’s also a lot that I don’t like. In this post, we’ll focus on methods that can help you create your own high intensity Crossfit-style bodyweight workouts.

Crossfit Tip #1: Start from the Basics

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Image by fitness 102 I love superset workouts. Some of my favorite workouts involve combining bodyweight and kettlebell workouts. It just so happens that there is a trainer who’s come out with a full workout program that uses this strategy of superseting bodyweight and kettlebell exercises to create intense fat burning workouts.

His name is Chris Lopez, and the name of his program is Kettlebell Revolution. You definitely need to check out this guy’s program. Click here for more information.