Hey Goal Diggers! Anyone who has ever started a diet or had a resolution to work out and lose weight or gain muscle has probably thought to themselves at one point or another this is too difficult, I can’t do this or this isn’t working….
What are compound exercises? The short answer: Compound exercises are movements that involve multiple muscles and joints. Regardless of your primary fitness goal (weight loss, muscle gain, performance etc), compound exercises should make up the majority of your workout. Isolation exercises (exercises that involve only…
In addition to traditional primary lifts like weighted back squats and dead-lifts, I like to include auxiliary exercises to my leg days to target the glutes and hamstrings especially since I compete in the bikini division of the NPC. I have posted some other fun…
The other day I met with my coach to discuss the plan for the next few weeks. My off season is officially over! After my last competition in November 2013 the plan for “off season” was to put on more muscle in preparation for 2014…
…I love that movie… (Forrest Gump) 🙂 Anyway, when I began my fitness journey in 2010, I started running, well, more like walking with seconds of running mixed in. My goal was to lose weight, eventually complete a 5K distance run and perhaps compete in…
In my last post “Against the Grain”, I spoke about the Paleolithic, Paleo, or Caveman Diet and why it makes sense to me. Essentially the Paleo diet is a clean eating approach that helps to remove guess-work on what you should or should not eat….
An Overview of Eating Clean and the Paleolithic Diet aka Paleo or Caveman Diet (Disclaimer: I post this, not to state that one method is better or more correct than another however I primarily want to highlight how important it is to make thoughtful choices…