Common Rowing Mistakes

I would argue that rowing or pulling is not done enough in most workout programs. There’s usually lots of pressing and biceps curls 🙂 It’s a shame because rowing is very important to posture and shoulder health. Many jobs now-a-days have you sitting down hunched over at a computer for most of the day. Even…

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One Simple Nutrition Tip For Better Results

Nutrition is usually the limiting factor towards any fat loss goals. It can be easy to go to the gym, but where the wheels tend to fall off is around one’s personal eating habits. It can be hard to trade that piece of cake for an extra serving of vegetables, right? That’s why many people…

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What Personal Training Is Really Like

With all the tv shows and movies out there today, personal training has gotten a bad rap. Think about it. In every movie that has a personal training character, they usually are some sort of drug dealer or creep looking to hustle people. And I know you have seen the tv shows like biggest loser.…

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Resistance Band Workout

Getting to the gym can be tough. There are only 24 hours in a day and it often seems like we can’t get a spare minute to ourselves. Working out is sometimes the last thing on our mind even though we know how important it is. So, what are we to do? Well, this is where resistance bands…

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The Importance of Taking Action

It’s easy to become really comfortable in life. We get in a daily routine and it becomes hard to deviate from that. This can be problematic when we have a goal we’re trying to accomplish. A goal is something you want to achieve but haven’t yet. It requires work, patience, and sometimes sacrifice. It also…

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3 Tips For Improved Shoulder Health And Function

The shoulder complex is comprised of several different joints. The glenohumeral joint, or what most people think of as the “shoulder” is one of the primary components. This joint has two main players, the humerus and the glenoid fossa. The head of the humerus is larger than the glenoid, which it sits on top of.…

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How To Improve Consistency

We all know exercise and eating better will do wonders for our health. With all that life entails though, it’s easy for these things to be pushed to the side. We become more focused on our jobs or our families, instead of making time to better ourselves. When we actually do schedule gym time or…

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The Benefits of Protein Powder

Supplements are often overrated. They are marketed in really shady ways, and sometimes provide you no additional benefit. And yet supplement sales hit $11.5 billion dollars in 2012. That’s pretty remarkable. But it begs the question, why do people pay for supplements? I believe there are two answers to this question. The first is that…

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Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness

Delayed-onset muscle soreness or DOMS is a natural occurrence in the world of weight training. It’s that soreness you feel the day after you work out. You tend to feel it a little more when you are new to lifting weights, but it still occurs whether you’re a newbie or a veteran lifter. In this article,…

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The Myth About Breakfast and Weight Gain

Breakfast has been widely touted as “the most important meal of the day”. We’ve all heard it. But the question remains, Is it true? One of the biggest components of this argument is that there have been studies showing a correlation between skipping breakfast and weight gain (1,2). Notice though, I said correlation not causation.…

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