How to Overcome Your Excuses

How to Overcome Excuses

Everyone who trains for competition has had to deal with how to overcome excuses at one time or another. This is really a mental attitude topic and one that can be very difficult to deal with. I have 5 tips for dealing with and overcoming excuses. Schedule workouts like an appointment. Working out should not [...]

5 Benefits of Circuit Training

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Circuit Training changed my life!!  Previous to training in circuits I had lifted about three days a week and ran about 6 days a week.  Now I circuit train 3 times a week and that’s my cardio and my strength training all in one!!  I lost about 10 pounds, but it was all fat.  Here’s [...]

How to Use Active Stretching

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Active stretching is an essential element of your warm up routine. Active stretching involves foam rolling and stretching movements that are not static. The idea is to remove the force that is caused by static stretching, thereby reducing the potential for injury. Active stretching relies only upon the muscle being stretched. There is no additional [...]

Beast Mode is in Effect

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With 9 weeks to go until the completion of Mission Grand Prix, Beast Mode is now in full effect. I am focused like a laser. I am ready to take on any and all challenges that come my way for the next 9 weeks. The target has been very clear, but is now right in [...]

Get A Cardio Coach for Your HIIT Workouts

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When it comes to doing HIIT cardio training, having a coach to motivate you definitely helps with your intensity. However, who can afford to have a trainer standing by to push you harder? Who can afford a person to motivate you? Until now, the answer was probably “nobody”, but now we have the Cardio Coach, [...]

10 Ways to Improve Your Deadlift

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The deadlift is an incredible exercise that makes you feel like a beast after completing it. There is nothing that epitomizes “I pick things up and put them down” more than a deadlift executed properly. Human beings look superhuman when they do a phenomenally heavy deadlift. Today we take a look at some of the [...]

Progressive Overload Principle to the Max

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The progressive overload principle is one of the most important training principles to understand. It is with a good understanding and execution of this principle that you will be able to pack on a lot of mass. Today I am going to explain my understanding of the progressive overload principle and how to properly execute [...]

Mission Grand Prix Update

The Update

In 11 weeks from today, Mission Grand Prix will be over. I will have stood on stage and competed in my first bodybuilding competition. It is a day I am very much looking forward to. It means I will have accomplished one of my major goals in life. I recently looked at comparison photos from [...]

The Role of Time Under Tension

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Time under tension is yet another intensity technique that you should be working with in your training. It is a simple technique that is easy to vary, but brings about great results. In fact, there are certain muscle groups (the back for instance) that greatly benefit from this type of training. The idea is that [...]

Cardio Timing for Fat Loss

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Have you ever considered how important the timing of your cardio is? Some people are completely obsessed with the topic while others dismiss it as completely unimportant. The question today is does it matter at all? Cardio Before Weight Training Doing cardio before you train with weights is something that the uninformed gym member will [...]

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