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• October 13, 2010

  It’s Not That Hard

  When you consider all of the possible variables that can go into any exercise program, you approach millions if not billions ways to work out.  When you consider repetition ranges, number of sets, intensity (% of 1 repition maximum), length of rest intervals, it’s easy to become confused by all of the ‘research’, news reports,…

• October 9, 2010

  Don’t Lose Your Keys, Try This Row!

    I’m in Newark, Delaware lounging on my friends futon.  Everybody else is up this early too, because it’s game day for the Blue Hens, and the UDMB starts rehearsing at 9am. Friday was a terrible day, because I both lost my car keys and had to take it easy during my workout.  After a…

• October 7, 2010

  Creatine

  Creatine.  Most people recognize the word.  Virtually none of them know how it actually works. For a large number of people, Creatine is only known due to media vilification, most recently in ABC’s account of a group of hospitalized football players.  If you’re interested, you can read about the ABC story HERE, an analysis of…

• September 30, 2010

  Randomness, 4 Days In The Making

  WOW! I had an amazing weekend road tripping to Delaware, via New Jersey, with a stop in Pennsylvania.  To top it all off, after finally returning home  around 11pm on Sunday night, I saw a huge surge in blog readership.  I couldn’t figure out why, then realized that I made it on Bret Contreras’ ‘Good…

• September 23, 2010

  The Tricky Trapezius

  The trapezius is one of the most over and under trained muscle in the body.  It is responsible for a number of actions, but is vastly overtrained in the scapular elevating motion; the shrug.  This can lead to a number of problems.  Why? Well as a muscle with multiple origins, insertions, and actions, it’s responsible…