This Week Last Year: Dogs, Boston and Being Lost

by | Last Year

This week last year used a few anecdotes to get some points across and commented on some recent news. Sometimes (usually) it is not such a bad thing to get lost on a run; it can help you learn new routes. When you have trouble with dogs, it will usually because the...

New Rules of Lifting (For Women)

by | Books

A couple of years ago, I reviewed The New Rules of Lifting by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove. It is one of my favorite exercise books and I have tailored quite a few of my lifting routines after ones that were provided in that book over the past couple of years. A...

How do you do the “300” workout?

by | Workout Tips

I wrote a month and a half ago about the “300” workout, which was a rite of passage for actors in the movie after they got in shape. The workout consists of the following exercises done back to back to back: 25x Pull-up + 50x Deadlift @ 135lbs + 50x...

Nutrition Information for athletes

by | Websites

I just discovered the Precision Nutrition Forums through Alwyn Cosgrove. The forums used to be a bonus for paid customers of John Berardi’s Precision Nutrition program, but he recently opened the forum up to the public. It has a lot of e-books, exercise...

Getting in shape for the movies

by | Fitness

I read the other day about the making of a Spartan, where Chris at Strength News pointed out some articles about how the actors trained for the movie 300. This morning, Alwyn Cosgrove wrote about the 300 Workout, which is relevant as he was one of the trainers....