Archive for September, 2009

The Importance of Weight Training For the Football Player

Whether you are a serious player with dreams of a football career or just play pickup with your buddies, explosive strength and speed will be your biggest ally on the field. Football is a game that requires you to explode with extreme intensity for shorter intervals.

Are You Training for Strength or Size?

It is always important to ask yourself questions to determine what benefit it is you are seeking from your training. Knowing what you want is the first step to finding it. We know of so many people that have spent countless hours in the gym doing training exercises and programs that are not giving them the results that they were looking for.

What’s the Best Weight Lifting Gear?

Our goal here isn’t to push brands or fads but rather to simply make some brief comments on a few items that we think will provide you with a tremendous benefit in the gym.

How to Build Muscle

So, you’ve probably heard it all:

“Buy our supplements if you want to get huge”.

“You have to eat 600 grams of protein a day if you want to grow”.

“You have to hit the gym 6 days a week for 2hrs a time if you want to get huge”.

“If you want to put on more than 10lbs of muscle in a year you have to take steroids / growth hormone.”

What we say to all that…..”BULL CRAP”.

How To Create Your “Gain Weight” Diet

The first thing that we tell anybody asking “how to” questions is that they have already begun correctly.

It doesn’t really matter what it is you are trying to do, asking important questions to provide your mind with facts to make intelligent decisions and planning is essential to achieving your goals.

How Your Diet Supports Your Weight Lifting

The title to this article is an understatement. It should almost read how weightlifting supports your diet.

Why You Should Not Use Weight Gain Pills to Build Muscle

The problem with weight gain pills is the same as most diet pills. Most of them don’t work or have ridiculous side effects that are not even close to being outweighed by their benefits.

How to Use Olympic Weight Lifting for Muscle Building

First, what we mean by Olympic Weight Lifting is both the kind of lifts in Olympic Competition as well as the kind of lifts used in training for Olympic Weight Lifting Competition.