Wednesday, October 27, 2010

How to keep motivated when your fatloss results aren't showing

Training and looking after yourself can be a down-right bitch a lot of the time.
You can pound the iron 6 days a week and eat like a sand-fly with barely a rumble in the belly fat let alone dropping a jean size.

All too often, we look at this as

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Hilarious training gimmicks – #4 The Power Plate

Another week, another ridiculous pile of excrement.
Today, I'm going to focus on the Power Plate.

As you can probably tell, The Power Plate is a sh*t-load of awesome
You can hold yourself in ANY one position and melt away the adipose fat aro

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Which is better, cardio or resistance training?

There's currently a lot of hype in the media right concerning which is better, cardio or resistance training.
I read a LOT of fitness related press and blogs.
They all seem to offer the same inane point of view which is masked in a layer of fluff

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Top 5 douche-bags you'll find at the beach this summer

As we're all aware, there's an ample supply of douche-bags in the gym.
What happens when these crazy bags of douchiness break free from their natural health-club habitat and descend upon the masses at the beach?
You get a whole bunch of new ways t

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

5 Muscle building myths that couldn't be further from the truth (guest post)

Today’s guest post is by Rafi Bar-Lev.
He's a fitness fanatic and the founder of the community fitness site, Passionate Fitness - Fitness Tips.
He recently wrote about the top 15 exercises to lose weight as well as interval training in a nutshell

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Monday, October 11, 2010

If you got a dog, you got a gym!

Thankyou Phon for bringing this video to my attention.
It certainly sounds a lot like a certain REAL gimmick that I talked about on this blog recently :)

Enjoy!

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Clint's current workout: Phase II of Visual Impact

As you may have read previously, I'm currently the test dummy for Rusty Moore's Visual Impact program.
I don't adhere to fads nor gimmicks (how'd you guess that?), so i was skeptical at first, but then I got to know Rusty and his style of teachi

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

The man who really invented bodybuilding in an age before steroids

In today's world, there is a significant freak-show aspect brought about by steroid use, where-as in the days before steroids even existed, the worlds biggest and strongest man was a lot smaller and would barely be a pimple on the back of Ronnie Cole

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

New study: Not getting enough sleep limits fat loss and strips away your muscle

I take most 'new' studies with a grain of salt, but this one seems interesting enough for me at least to post about.
It appears to be nothing new in regards to information, but certainly gives ammunition to the age-old argument of getting a decent n

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Training for muscle growth whilst losing body fat at the same time

This is a highly controversial topic which seems to pop-up on the radar more often than man-boobs show up at the beach.

Is it possible to add muscle whilst losing body fat at the same time?
Some would argue it isn't, but au contraire mon frere,

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