How To: Dumbbell Overhead Triceps Extension
How to perform a dumbbell overhead triceps extension with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation.
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Workout Tip: Eat Breakfast
Anybody that knows me knows that I am not much of one to miss a meal, especially breakfast. Any nutrition book or article that you pick up is most likely going to recommend that you eat something first thing in the morning, and I am no different. Occasionally I will just get up and go…
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How To: Chinups
How to perform a chinup with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation.
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Nike sues Adidas over patent infringement
Nike is sueing Adidas over the Nike Shox shoe patent, which Nike believes was stolen to be used in many of Adidas training shoes.
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Workout Tip: Negative Pullups
Earlier this week I explained how to do pullups using a pullup bar. But what do you do if you are not strong enough to do a pullup yet, and you do not have a machine to assist you? You can do what is known as a negative pullup.
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How To: Pullups
How to perform a pullup with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation.
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Thirsty People Feel More Pain
Scott over at Straight to the Bar wrote about a study stating that thirsty people feel more pain.
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Exercise Helps Prevent Depression
The Health & Fitness blog discusses research on how exercise can combat depression. Quoting Briley: “exercise is not only cheaper than antidepressants (or the alcohol or illegal drugs many depressed people turn to for relief), its benefits are immediate. The drugs typically take at least two weeks to begin working, and significant relief often doesn’t…
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My beginner workout may not be so beginner after all…
I recently put up a retooled version of my beginner/rusty lifter workout. I wrote that workout in response to the less than ideal layout of my new gym. What I wanted to do was my original resuming weights after time off (or having never lifted) workout, but I couldn’t get my heart rate up since…
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How To: Dumbbell Bench Press with 1 arm
How to perform a dumbbell bench press with one arm with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation.