5 Big Lies Personal Trainers Tell Their Clients
Everybody has their own idea about what are the biggest untruths that the personal fitness industry tells. Most lists mention spot reduction, a pound of muscle burns 30 calories a day, you can turn fat into muscle, etc. All myths, for sure. And I am sure there are trainers out there who don't mind crossing their...
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Spotting Bad Fitness Articles: A Study Said This
Raise your hand if you have recently read a news or magazine article, on the web or elsewhere, explaining the results of one study and making concrete conclusions based on that one study. Yep, all of you. I figured as much. A study in Australia revealed that young women fight off colds better than young men. Case...
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Fitness: All Encompassing Means Paralyzing?
So in the last post I presented the talk by Dr. Barry Schwartz regarding “The Paradox of Choice”. Also of late I have been speaking about having specific goals in our training and making specific choices about the direction our training should take. If you read my piece on the concept of fitness you’ll see that I...
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March 15, 2010: Fitness, Oxidative Stress, Vitamins and Contralateral Strength Differences
// Jacks of All Trades and Masters of .Fitness? Not to long ago Leigh Peele, on her blog, was complaining about all the controversy she was stirring up. She felt like she couldn't say a word without getting someone pissed off. I felt like asking her to send some of that my way. I refrained as that wouldn't...
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Knowing Too Much
Yesterday, my cousin asked me what he should do to gain weight. It’s a simple question but it stumped me. I am so used to reading things to help me progress towards my goals I have completely forgotten how to help people who are just getting into this. So, my initial reaction was to tell him that firstly it would...
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Drop The Labels
By Eric Troy Labels are for boxes. In the case of strength and conditioning they usually decorate our excuse box. I have never heard a trainee pin a label on themselves when it wasn’t the preamble for an excuse of some kind. But labels are also multi-taskers. They can provide a sense of identity in a homogenized...
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Fitness As A Goal Or Strength As A Goal: Fitness Writ Large
By Eric Troy You may have noticed this site is about strength training. I have a confession to make. I don't know how to give fitness advice. Because I cannot clearly conceptualize fitness. I can understand exercise for health. I cannot understand exercise for fitness unless fitness is another word for health. But...
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The Fitness Skeptic
By Jamie Hale Reprinted at Ground Up Strength with permission. Visit Max Condition “Coach Hale why are you so skeptical?” “Why do you have such a negative view of the fitness industry?” “You are so cynical.” I hear these types of questions and statements on a weekly basis. The people that approach me with...
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