What is Olympic Lifting?
Every four years, the Olympics come on television and between the 100m and archery you come across something like this:
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The Olympic lifts are the Snatch, and the Clean and Jerk. Despite their incredibly unfortunate names, these [...]
The “Carbs are Bad” Myth
This past weekend I attended a Crossfit Level 1 Certification. I had a great time and learned some new teaching techniques, but I was disappointed with the lecture on nutrition. Crossfit has long been associated with Barry Sears and the Zone diet, which preaches a balanced carbohydrate to protein intake. In practice this leads to a restrictive [...]
Strength Training or Cardio for Fat Loss?
Alan Aragon has a ton of great resources on his website and he’s a fantastic writer on fitness, nutrition, and training. In an issue of his Research Review from 2008 he brought attention to a study done in 1999 comparing strength and endurance training for obese dieters. You can read the abstract here. If you [...]
Two Personal Training Myths
1. Do High Reps to Tone Your Muscles
Usually aimed at women that want to get tighter midsections and more toned arms, these workout programs usually prescribe lots of reps (hundreds of crunches) with very low weights (20+ dumbell curls with 5lbs). The fact is, a muscle’s appearance (on both men and women) is a [...]
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