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Some amazing jump rope skills!

27th June 2010

This is one of the most impressive athletic performances I’ve seen:

This is the Firecracker jump rope team made up of 4th through 8th grade students.

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Good deadlift instructional videos from Mark Rippetoe and Crossfit

27th June 2010

Great explanation on how to position yourself for a deadlift here:

If you don’t already know the exercise well, this alone is not nearly enough to start pulling real weight off the floor safely. I’m not going to try to teach the deadlift (especially online) but there are plenty of videos if you want to [...]

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Ankle stability exercises

29th May 2010

Interesting article here with some exercises for ankle stability. This is an issue for me (martial arts stress my ankles) and the article gave me a couple of additional ideas:
Tree pose (yoga) – a bit harder than simply standing on one foot.
Juggle on one foot – probably a bit more advanced than catching a ball [...]

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Lower Rectus Exercises: dead bugs and more

27th April 2010

Here’s an article that talks about some exercises for strengthening the core. These are done in addition to ab isolation exercises like crunches and in addition to glute activation work and are said to improve core strength, posture, and physique:
The goal of glute activation work isn’t just getting the glutes firing; it’s actually fixingthe postural [...]

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Protein shake before or after cardio when cardio follows weightlifting?

11th April 2010

So we’ve all heard to do cardio after weightlifting to burn fat. We’ve all heard to drink a protein shake after lifting to build muscle. But what if we want to drink the protein shake to build muscle and do the cardio to lose fat?
Two ways of looking at the problem: drink the shake after [...]

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Rest time between sets & prohormones vs. steroids

18th September 2009

This article concludes with the obvious “vary your workout routine for best results” but it does survey some interesting research on rest time between sets. For a few weeks you can spike testosterone and HGH with shorter (1 minute) rests between sets. However the difference declines by 5 weeks into a routine. Over 10 [...]

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Vin Diesel workout information

17th June 2009

Pretty tough finding information on Vin Diesel’s workouts. Ive gathered online that he likes free weights, compound movements, yoga, and pilates.
I also found that he has trained in MMA, specifically Kali.
Q: What is your Riddick workout?
VIN: The Riddick workout started before I went up there. I was training with a UFC guy, Ultimate Fighting Championship [...]

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Keep your hands healthy and your grip strong

27th May 2009

Nice site here on hand health. You may want something simple like a stronger grip but training grip only leads to imbalanced hands and raises the potential for injury so like it or not, you have to train the hands in all kinds of different ways.

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The importance of strong glutes

25th May 2009

Interesting article here on the importance of glute strength and there are several tests you can do to find which stretches / exercises you need to balance your glutes / hip flexors / etc.

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Training one leg at a time?

23rd May 2009

Interesting article here that makes a strong case for doing 1 leg squats because these involve more muscles and are more functional than traditional squats.
Also mentions 1 leg straight leg deadlifts and slideboard leg curls (which seem to require some fancy equipment I’ve never seen before).

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