I recently discovered the No Excuses Gym website, which is written by a Las Vegas personal trainer that has relocated to southern California. The site is about a year old, and provides a lot of articles about training and nutrition.
In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about exercise equipment throughout the month of January. Scott starts the year off with an excellent glossary of weight lifting and strength training equipment. He describes things such as dumbbells, kettle balls, squat suits, racks, bands, chalk, power racks,…
Resolutions at the new year are bad you. I do not like making new year’s resolutions, and I advise against them for anybody that bothers to ask me. This is not to say that the end of the year is a bad time to plan the upcoming year; I just mean to say that making…
2006 has come and gone, and 2007 is about to start. This year, I ran just shy of 1370 miles. Not a lot of miles, but enough to have kept me busy. I suffered two injuries, one of which was running related. In mid January, I pulled a muscle in my neck which delayed my…
This morning I woke up to snow and some rapid accumulation. It has snowed before this year, but it had all melted before I began running again after my last marathon. As such, today has to be the latest in the season that I have ever had a first snow run; that includes when I…
This week last year had a lot of opinion pieces from myself along with the usual smattering of workout tips and sports news. I continued my animated series by demonstrating how to do a crooked arm lateral raise with dumbbells. I also suggested that you loosen your watch band when lifting weights to prevent cutting…
The Giants get the week started out on Saturday this week, and I think that they will continue to implode. Dallas is going to overcome their horrendous performance last week, though and will beat Detroit. New England does not have anything to play for this week, and the Titans are not mathematically eliminated yet. I…
I was looking around at Active this morning, and saw an ad for team sponsorships through Polar, Aquaphor, and Snickers Marathon bars. All three companies are looking for top age group athletes for their 2007 teams. Responsibilities include promoting the products at local races and retail events, and may include cash payouts for getting a…
Chris Schauerman, one of the Coast to Coast runners, recently made his way into the news because of the undergraduate research that he has been doing. The experience of running across the country with the team really brought home to Chris how important teamwork is in accomplishing a goal. “How hard do you want to…
In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we wrote about workout locations for the month of December. One thing that can often derail an exercise regimen is figuring out how to keep in shape while you are on vacation. There are a few different ways to tackle vacations and how…