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Building a Home Gym

March 13, 2010
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Having worked out at various gyms over the years, from the high school gym to many public gyms, I finally decided this year to make the switch to a home gym. Note, that this home gym I’m speaking of is specific to strength training purposes. It addresses my needs perfectly, and leads to much more [...]

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Warming up for Exercise – A Layperson’s View

March 6, 2010
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Today’s topic ties in with a recent post of mine, ‘Can You Run Safely?’ Part of staying injury-free during exercise is to ensure that your body is prepared for the forthcoming exertion. This preparatory phase is known as the warm-up. Why I want to address this topic, is simply because the layperson doesn’t seem to [...]

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Can you run safely?

March 2, 2010
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When I say running, I am referring to middle to long distance running at a slow to moderate pace (which most people can sustain for a considerable period of time, from as low as 15 minutes, to as long as several hours). Jogging may describe the activity better, but most people like to refer to [...]

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Sports for Life

January 26, 2010
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All too often we see fitness enthusiasts recommending dedication to a certain lifestyle. But their missing the point. The point is: The Goal of Sports training is to become good at the sport, Not to get healthy [1] Remember that, and never claim that your sport is the path to being healthy. There are other [...]

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Training with weights: Do it right from the start

January 21, 2010
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When I started out training with weights for my sport when I was 13, I had no clue about how to go about doing it. Unfortunately for me, my coach had no idea too. We hammered on with the notion that more is better, training 5 days a week, doing 10 sets on the bench [...]

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A Basic Weights Room Routine

January 11, 2010

This is a related post to my original post on “The Most Basic Beginner Routine for Sedentary Folks without Weights” This time though, we’re going to bring in weights. While I support many routines like ‘Starting Strength’, they are largely catered towards people pursuing fitness goals. In this very long post, I describe a routine [...]

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Training For Yourself

January 8, 2010
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Often people train to impress, but lifts often regress. Trying to find the ultimate secret, yet never looking inward. The fact is that you live your life, make your own decisions, bask in your own achievements. Take people’s advice, but charge forward own your own device. Charge forward, Show Yourself what you can do.

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The 1 Important Thing to Constantly Ask Yourself During a Workout

December 9, 2009
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This is a short post, because its only about one thing that everybody should be asking themselves during their workout. And the question is: “Is it safe?” Is the next rep going to be safe? Can I sustain another 5 mins at this pace? What does hitting my PRs today mean in the long run? [...]

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The Right Beginner Training Mindset

November 5, 2009
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As a beginning trainee, regardless of your age, goals and background, the smartest thing that one can do is to adopt good practices from the start. Very often, this is not the case. I attribute this mainly to the fact that adverse reactions from training are not seen until years later. For example, the High [...]

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Body Mechanics – Why it is important to know your own if you want to lift safely

October 15, 2009
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Let me say first that the reason I write this post is because I have sub-optimal lifting mechanics for the kind of lifting that I do. This is also more relevant to those people who are actually involved in such activities, namely, weightlifting and related stuff like bodybuilding. The other reason why I write this [...]

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