Real World Strength Training

Maybe you’ve seen me swinging some “weighted bats” in some of my videos. Or, maybe you’ve never even heard of clubbells before. Watch this video to find out what clubbells are, where they came from, and what you can use them for…

Clubbells: a Review about Modern Indian Clubs by John Sifferman


Your Question of the Day: are you more old-school or new age when you exercise?

To your health and success,

P.S. Please post your comments by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom.

I walked over a mile through some freezing wind to bring you this important message today. Enjoy!

Finding a Training Partner for Accountability

Your Question of the Day is: what do you do to keep yourself accountable?

To your health and success,

Fitness Professional and Wellness Warrior

P.S. Please post about how you stay accountable by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom.

This week’s Q+A is all about vibration training. You may have seen those snazzy vibration plates that you stand on during exercise - and this video is not about those machines, but about the theory behind them.

I’m in favor of low tech, high payoff simple exercises over high tech, low payoff machine-based exercises. For decades, fitness equipment inventors have been trying to create a strength training machine that will mimic real life events - and they have failed miserably every time. Those vibration machines have the same story. And I have to ask myself, why would I pay thousands of dollars for one of these things, or pay a hefty gym membership fee to be able to use one?

You can achieve the same results without any equipment at all, using some old-school, Russian-based sport science techniques. Here they are…

Basic Vibration Drills for Relieving Tension

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Here is a quick video about exercises that are better alternatives than the norm for your legs.

“Better Alternative” Leg Exercises with John Sifferman

Your question of the day is: what is your current training cycle goal?

To your health and success,

Tom Venuto - the fat loss coach

I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. “Big losers” don’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. “Weight” could be composed of mostly lean tissue, or it could be mostly water weight. In fact, I would go a step further and point out that rapid loss of bodyweight correlates very highly with a greater chance of relapse, weight re-gain and long term failure.

So what does impress me? What gets my attention?

I pay attention to what the “long term maintainers” have to say - those are the people who have maintained an ideal weight for over a year… preferably even 2-5 years or more.
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So, I was going to post a training-related article today, but something came up last minute at my local YMCA today, and I don’t think I could live it down if I didn’t share it with you.

Galactic Acid - can it help you get HYUUGE muscles?

Your Question of the Day is: what other funny gym stories do you have?

Please post your comments below!

To your health and success,

One of your fellow readers asked me about what my normal training session looks like, and here is my official answer:

Typical Strength Training Session w/ John Sifferman

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Designing effective strength training programs from scratch might seem complicated at first, not to mention a lot of work. But after reading this tutorial, you’ll understand how to change your workouts at just the right time in order to avoid plateaus and keep the results coming, week after week. All it takes is an understanding of two essential training tactics: progression and variety. By balancing both of these variables, you will achieve consistent, repeatable results over time. The trick is to stay on the same training program long enough to allow positive changes to occur, while changing your program often enough to avoid stalling or progress plateaus.
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President Elect Barack Obama will be our nation’s next leader, and I pray he will make honorable decisions while in office. For this brief article, I will put aside all differences in opinion and just focus objectively on the health views of our next leader.

In all honesty, while I find Obama’s HealthCare plan interesting to read about, I judge a man’s health views based on his own health.  Someone can talk my ear off all day about how to get and stay healthy, but if they aren’t walking the talk, I can’t take them or their policies seriously.  I found an article detailing Obama’s own personal exercise routine, and I wanted to give you the cliff notes.
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I just finished working with our graphic and PDF designers over at www.burnthefat.com to have this special report created. This is a PDF report about how to get six pack abs fast. My friend, Tom Venuto, needed to give an official answer since he gets so many questions about how to get six pack abs fast. So, to answer this question once and for all (probably not, but we’re hoping!), Tom wrote up this special report, and I had it turned into a PDF for you.

Tom Venuto - the fat loss coach

In case you don’t know Tom yet, he’s a wealth of fat loss knowledge, and he’s also a man who walks the talk.  He’s not only been a fitness trainer and fat loss coach for the past 20 years, he’s a champion natural bodybuilder (the one’s that still look like humans - not the massive behemoth’s that juice on steroids), and he’s been training nonstop for 25 years.  Tom has written hundreds of articles for websites and major magazines such as IRONMAN and Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness.  He’s also the author of the #1 best selling e-book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle.  Also, Tom just recently had a hardcover book published called The Body Fat Solution, and it will hit stores on January 9, 2009. (press release here)

Tom is one of the most respected experts because he’s never sold supplements, so you’re not going to hear about “magic weight loss pills” from him. Tom has never said that weight loss is easy so you won’t be hearing about any “magic solutions” or “rapid weight loss crash diets” either, because even if they do work, the results don’t last. What you will hear from Tom are the facts about fat loss and information on a simple program that virtually guarantees NATURAL and PERMANENT fat loss.

So, here is a brief introduction for the Six Pack Abs Revealed special report from Tom Venuto….

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“After 18 years in the fitness business, “How do I get great abs” is still BY FAR the most frequently asked question I receive out of the over 30,000 emails that come into my office every month. No doubt it’s because abs are the one body part that most people are the most frustrated with.

Although their questions are often phrased differently and each person’s situation seems unique, my answer to “How do I get great abs” is almost always the same…and you’re about to hear it…”

Please download your copy by clicking on the spiral notebook image. Or, right click, and select “Save Link As…”

You can also click here to download your copy.
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