Avoiding Elbow Pain with Your Workouts

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May 082012
Avoiding Elbow Pain with Your Workouts

How Can Elbow and Forearm Pain Be Taking Away from Your Results? Guest post from my friend injury expert, Rick Kaselj of Exercises for Injuries. But first, try this little test you see in the video below. It’s an easy test, too… Last weekend, I was teaching a course at a local college and a participant in the class asked me about his forearms and elbows pain. Let me share with you what I let him know about his forearm and elbow pain. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

Posted by Mikey at 6:37 am

Do Rest Periods Really Matter?

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May 082012
Do Rest Periods Really Matter?

When I write metabolic resistance training programs, most of the time, the rest periods during the strength portion is 1 minute. For example, it will look like this: 1A) DB Split Squat (8/side) 1B) DB Chest Press (10) Rest 1 minute and repeat 2 more times. Why 1 minute? There’s nothing really “magical” about the one minute rest period.  The truth is that I’m simply trying to keep the rest periods relatively short so that you can get your workout done and get home (or work). But people underestimate the power of a rest period.  Here is where the workout goes from physical adaptation to mental adaptation.  If you do a set or even a circuit, followed by 5 minutes of rest, you are taking yourself out of your own Continue reading…

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How to Tailor a Workout Program

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Apr 252012
How to Tailor a Workout Program

Good news and bad news… the NFL schedule was released and my beloved Carolina Panthers are playing the Falcons here in Atlanta on September 30th.  Fortunately, my sister sometimes is able to hook me up with tickets.  As a matter of fact, a few years ago, my wife and I were all decked out in Panther gear and we got an amazing seat in one of the Falcons suites. Imagine all this teal in a sea of black and red, along with some snarly stares.  Ha-ha, football is awesome. Anyway, that’s the good news.  The bad news?  Sabrina’s birthday is that exact day.  So somehow, I will have to break the news to her that we won’t be doing anything on her birthday (except going to the game).  Don’t worry, Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 4:39 am

Bodyweight Exercises for Fat Loss

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Apr 172012
Bodyweight Exercises for Fat Loss

Yesterday, I started a new workout program and the finisher was this: Do the following superset as many times as possible in 5 minutes. 1A) DB Swings (15) 1B) Narrow-Stance Goblet Squat (15) AND… this was after a lower body workout.  Good times.  I left the gym feeling like I was king of the world.  Sooo, in your face Leonardo DiCaprio.  By the way, I was able to do the superset 5 times. I’m really getting into density finishers recently, and I’ll probably talk a little about this with my presentation at the TT Summit.  If you’re a trainer, you need to be there.  It will be an amazing weekend. Anyway, neither one of those exercises are bodyweight exercises, but I just wanted to brag a little bit. Moving on… Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 6:52 am

How to Train for a Tough Mudder

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Apr 122012
How to Train for a Tough Mudder

Earlier this year, I was asked to join some buddies from my church as they trained for a Tough Mudder race in February.  I declined and they gave me slack for it.  After all, I always talk about how you should challenge yourself and use social support to reach your goals. But the truth was I had too much on my plate, and second, I did a half marathon back in 2008, and after that race, I vowed to never do another one.  By the way, that last sentence had a lot of commas. Anyway, I still remember that day because I was on a little bit of a high… not because of smoking weed.  The half marathon was actually on my birthday that year.  It was a crisp fall Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 7:30 am

Work Out Like a Kid

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Apr 092012
Work Out Like a Kid

On Saturday, it was really beautiful here in GA.  The night before, the “old Mikey” came out to play and I put away about 70% of one those humungous Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs.  They are new (as far as I know), but the size of them are ridiculous. My wife could only eat a little before she said, “enough”.  I smiled, reached over and was in peanut butter heaven.  Peanut Butter Heaven (notice how I capitalized the first letter of each word – it’s that amazing) is a place where Reeses peanut butter cups help burn fat and the more you eat, the muscle you keep and chiseled you get. That’s why is a fragment of my imagination. The truth is I looked at the label AFTER I was done Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 6:41 am

Metabolic Conditioning - the new "Cardio"

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Apr 042012
Metabolic Conditioning - the new

Today is an off day for me from working out with metabolic resistance training, but I’m going to stay active.  I will either go for a light jog or a walk to clear my head.  But you can’t even pay me to go inside of a gym and walk mindlessly on a treadmill or elliptical. To me, there is a big difference.  Hopping on the elliptical bores me to tears.  How people do it for 30, 40, even 60  minutes or longer is beyond me. What does “beyond me” mean?  Who knows.  I’ve been using that expression for a couple of years and I still, to this day, have no clue what it means. Anyway, my “cardio” is metabolic conditioning.  I use it as either a metabolic workout finisher or Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 10:18 am

How to do Intervals

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Mar 292012
How to do Intervals

How to do Intervals I haven’t ran intervals in a while.  I better start.  I recently sent in my application for the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, GA on July 4th. This is my second Christmas day to me.  Last year I didn’t even train for it, but you’re pretty much packed in like sardines for the first mile anyway.  So if you enter this race for your best race time, I would suggest finding another race. If I were to prepare for it to beat a specific time, I would do intervals a few times along with one long run.  But my way of interval training used to be all wrong when I first became a trainer years ago. I used to think running at a speed of 5.0 Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 8:51 am

Home MRT Workout

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Mar 212012
Home MRT Workout

This is either going to rock, or it will hurt your feelings.  Because now, I’ve dismissed your excuse for not working out.  This awesomeness workout can be done with minimum equipment – including Grandma’s kitchen.  So say hi to Grandma, and then burn fat. This is from the Bootcamp Training Manual that Craig Ballantyne and myself have been working on since 1987.  Ha.  Seriously – it started as 31 workouts, but we got out of control.  We put together over 60 workouts you can do with minimum equipment. 10 Beginner/Intermediate Workouts 31 Advanced Workouts 10 Challenge Workouts (good times – especially the Super 6 workout) The cover even shows 31 – but we got out of control and created 61 done-for-you workouts. Let’s get to work…  Full Body Countdown Warm-up Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 5:35 am

3 Great Ab Exercises

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Mar 132012
3 Great Ab Exercises

What an epic weekend in California.  I got to meet some amazing people and I am excited about this industry.  There was so much info, I actually fell asleep at 5:30PM on Sunday from brain overload. Once the dust settles from my lack of sleep, I’ll tell you all about it. In the meantime, let’s talk abs.  I actually talked a little about this with my presentation on Sunday regarding my Ab Finishers product.  I even showed the not-so-infamous Spiderman Pushup Plank. Which brings me to this – these are 3 ab exercises you can use with your program to get your core stronger without a silly crunch or sit-up. Ab Exercise # 1 – Stability Ball Stir-the-Pot Position yourself as if you’re about to perform a Stability Ball Plank. Continue reading…

Posted by Mikey at 6:51 am
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