How To: Pullups

by Blaine Moore | Animated How-To, Fitness

How to perform a pullup with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation. Grab a pullup bar (or a handy tree branch…) in an overhand grip. Your hands should be located right around or slightly outside shoulder width....

Thirsty People Feel More Pain

by Blaine Moore | Fitness, News

Scott over at Straight to the Bar wrote about a study stating that thirsty people feel more pain. Going without a drink can make you more sensitive to pain, a study has found. Australian pain expert Dr Michael Farrell of the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne and...

Exercise Helps Prevent Depression

by Blaine Moore | Fitness

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....

AVG Antivirus: New advertiser

by Blaine Moore | Run To Win Website

It is not particularly fitness related, but for another site I have joined a new affiliate program with AVG Antivirus and the rest of Grisoft’s products. I am a big fan of their software, and have been using their free version of their antivirus for years. I...

Anaheim is out of luck for Los Angelos Angels

by Blaine Moore | News

The city of Anaheim lost their court case against the Los Angelos Angels of Anaheim when a jury concluded that the Angels can use whatever name they want as long as the word Anaheim was in it. In a 9-3 verdict, the jurors found that the new name was consistent with a...

No More Yankees in New England

by Blaine Moore | News, Sports

The Red Sox class A affiliate, the Lowell Spinners, are trying to get youth leagues to get rid of the yankee teams in their leagues. The Lowell Spinners have offered to pay for all new uniforms for teams that change their name to the Spinners from the Yankees. In a...

Texans keep David Carr for 3 more years

by Blaine Moore | Sports

The Texans have decided to exercise an $8 million option to extend David Carr’s contract for 3 years today. A lot of people are taking this to mean that they will be selecting Bush as the first draft pick this year. I am not so sure that that is the case. I see...

Mead Memo Book product review

by Blaine Moore | Equipment, Reviews

The Mead Memo Book is a small spiral bound notebook that is just the right size for recording workouts. It is what I use for recording my weight lifting workouts. I record what I want to do before I go to the gym, writing the day on the top. I record my warm up just...

My beginner workout may not be so beginner after all…

by Blaine Moore | Fitness

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...

NFL defends the SuperBowl officiating

by Blaine Moore | News, Sports

The NFL has backed the officiating crew after Sunday’s SuperBowl. The NFL has defended the officiating in Super Bowl XL after claims that several bad calls affected the game’s outcome. […] The Super Bowl officiating crew, headed by referee Bill...