Cardio
High-Intensity Interval Training: How Much Is Too Much?
People want dramatic workout results as quickly as possible. That’s why High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has worked its way into the mainstream and was named the top fitness trend in [...]
Are Tight Hips Slowing You Down?
The "hip flexors" are the iliacus and psoas major, but the sartorious and rectus femoris are also powerful flexors of the hip and thetensor fasciae...
5 Great Fitness Gifts For the Gym Rat in Your Life
Is there a special someone who is dedicated to fitness? Do you always having trouble find the perfect gift during a birthday or the Holidays? If the...
Keys to a Successful Full-Body Transformation
So you want to complete a total body transformation? This could mean usually 1 of 2 things, either; muscle gain or fat loss, and for most people they...
Avoid These 6 Mistakes to Boost Your Athletic Power
1. Steady State Cardio: Studies have shown that longer duration steady state cardio can appropriate certain muscle fibers and use them for aerobic...
I Lift Weights But Can’t Build Muscle. What’s Wrong?
So there's this guy I used to know, he would kick ass in the gym, lift weights 6 days a week, always get his cardio in, ate only the cleanest protein,...
In Defense of Cardio
Steady state cardio has gotten a bad rep lately. With interval training taking the spotlight, and ignorant discussions of "burning muscle" plaguing the...
How Much Conditioning Do You Really Need?
The music is blaring the weights are flying, people are yelling and screaming either from the pain or to get each other motivated to keep going and in...
I Do Cardio Workouts But I’m Still Fat. What’s Wrong?
I get asked this question all the time, over and over and people seem so adamant about how hard they are working to get lean n "toned" and that they...
Get a Look at LeBron James’s Post-Season Workout
LEBRON JAMES 2014 PLAYOFF PREP WEEK, 1 OF 5 from DERICK G on Vimeo. In the first installment of a five-part video series, Miami Heat star LeBron James gives us [...]