We all know how much I love bodyweight training. When I first began this blog, I was going to focus my training specifically on portable equipment such as dumbbell, kettlebells, and resistance bands. My bodyweight training consisted only of push-ups, pull-ups, squats, and sit-ups. My bodyweight workouts began to change when I started looking...
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Image by laurasmoncur This is the first installment of the “Shah Training is Not Bodybuilding” series. The name is lame, sorry. And I’m not trying to say that there is anything wrong with bodybuilding. I’m just saying that we’re a little different here. And by different, I mean that the Shah Training philosophy is...
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Neaz Noor asked: “So the Islamic month of Ramadhan is coming up in about a month, which means practicing Muslims like me will be fasting every day from sunrise to sundown for a month. Now, the fasting has several goals including gaining awareness, discipline, empathy for the poor, etc… The funny thing is, a...
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We all go through phases in our lives that prevent us from training on a consistent basis. However, the main problem is that we sometimes try to make up for the lost time and create some training program that has us do the same or more amount of work from where we left off....
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