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Patio workouts for training at home with your own suitcase gym Like you, I’m doing my best to adjust to our new normal—at least what’s normal for the foreseeable future. A future without a fully-equipped health club. A fortunate few have home gyms, replete with...

Everybody's different. Men and women are different. People have different body morphologies, different circumstances, different heritages, different occupations, different hopes and dreams. Even siblings who share parents are different. So differences exist. No...

Which leg exercises work best for quad development? Leg work has become almost religion in some fitness circles. Quad-rophenia. Or maybe better said, quadri-mania. Whole social media sites are devoted to squatting. Post after post and blog after blog coach and argue...

HGS: novel and effective resistance training program Scott Abel rolled out his Hardgainer Solution workout program roughly four years ago. I was editing his materials at the time, so I fortunately got an advance look at the program during the editing process. Calling...

Knowing a little math can make your gym time more effective and get you better results. Muscles can't do math. Knowing a little math can make your time in the gym more effective and get you better results. I was never good at math, and I've been lucky to know some...

Thoughts on what the post-pandemic fitness scene will look like Fitness has taken on a whole new look during our pandemic lockdown. It's been a kind-of fitness center purgatory for the exercise enthusiast, a bonanza for the innovative, and an opportunity for the...

Patio Workout 3 Experiment Sissy squats are not for sissies Still getting used to this stay-at-home thing. I must admit I miss the gym. The people sitting on equipment checking their phones between sets. Different matter. My stay-at-home office is about 10...

Mom always said... If there's one piece of advice Mom gave that I wish I'd listened to, it's "sit up straight". With all the ZOOMing and Teaming and other video-conferencing that's going on now, I get daily reminders of how crummy my posture is, just by looking at my...

Listening when your body tells you to take the day off. I feel like working out, but my body says “no”. Or, my body’s fine, but I’m not feelin’ it. Everyone pursuing fitness has that internal debate from time to time. Got a muscle problem or motivation problem?...

More experimentation I'm still experimenting with more patio workouts for training at home. Have to admit I miss the iron and the camaraderie of the gym. (I don't miss people sitting on equipment checking their phones between sets.) After a recovery day (or two), I...

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Patio workouts for training at home

Why fitness professionals should stop saying “everybody’s different”

Which leg exercises work best for quad development

Three Tweaks to the Hardgainer Solution

Muscles Can’t Do Math

10 Predictions for Post-COVID-19 Fitness

Sissy, not sissy

One exercise every desk jockey should be doing

Muscle problem or motivation problem?

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