Here is a selection of back exercises: Wide Grip Pullups Lat Pulldown Bent Over Barbell Rows Seated Rows T-Bar Rows One Arm Dumbbell Rows Barbell Shrugs Wide Grip Pullups Works: Lats and middle back How to do it: Hold the overhead bar with your hands wide apart. Start lifting yourself up till your chin passes…
Scroll down to find some abdominal exercises you might have forgotten about. Crunches Roman Chair Crunches Cable Crunches Reverse Crunches Hanging Reverse Crunches Hanging Leg Raises Machine Crunches Crunches Works: Upper abs How to do it: Lie down on the floor. Place your calves on a bench in front of you. Your hands should be…
Yes, it seems it exists… I just recently found out about it… and I already ordered a bottle. It’s called Palatinose. The chemical name is Isomaltulose. Palatinose is actually as close as it can get chemically to table sugar – sucrose. The only difference chemically is a little tweak with the bond between glucose and…
I was just reading an article about the damages in the muscle during an eccentric muscle contraction compared to concentric contraction. I’ve known for a long time that eccentric contractions cause a lot greater micro damages in the working muscle. I also knew why that happens – because during the eccentric (negative) phase of the…
Spending so many hours a week as an employee at the Vitamin Shoppe oftentimes gives me the time to read and research supplements and supplement ingredients. The other day, following the request of a customer, I read about Acai – the popular drink with high antioxidant properties. I read something that made me continue my…
British researchers found that boiling cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower) destroys the glucosinolates, contained in them. In the body glucosinolates are converted to isothiocyanates – fighting compounds. Their study showed that stir-frying, microwaving for up to 3 min or steaming for up to 20 min didn’t show significant reduction in the amount of…
I was reading recently my fitness magazine and a stumbled upon a little not, mentioning several websites, each of them providing some type of cool service for active people, who travel a lot. One of them was the google’s gmap pedometer. I have to admit that it took me a few minutes to figure out…
One of my members asked about Russian Lunges the other day. He said he’s been doing forward and reverse (backward) lunges, but he didn’t know what Russian lunges are and how to do them. So, I thought I’d post here quiclkly a short description if you happen to wonder the same thing (I’d much rather…
I remember about 7 – 8 years ago I used to train in the evening and there was nothing that could make me change my habit. That’s what I thought… I don’t remember exactly but it must have been an evening job that made me re-train myself and start training early in the morning. I…