Using Free Weights over Machines

Oh boy, this has been a long debated topic among gyms across the world. What do I use, machines or free weights? As you guys continue reading the articles on the site and appreciate my whacky writing, you’ll learn some things along the way. Things like, that I don’t care what the popular thing is. I am blatantly honest, never hesitating to be “mean” if I have to. I don’t treat fitness as a “fun” thing to do when I have spare time, and I am ALL about hardcore optimal performance. Keep these things in mind when reading my articles. Some will say my information is biased, while others will say it is false.

Guess what? The information I give is the information that works. I never preach what I don’t practice first. So listen up, and don’t just listen, but hear me too. You won’t regret it in the long run. The only thing I’m great at is working out. I don’t want to do anything else, so I know what works and what doesn’t! Well, with that little mini biography of myself, let’s carry on to the topic at hand. A very interesting topic…

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Lift Heavy!

“DIG! Bury Me! Underneath! Everything that I am!” – Mudvayne

“Heavy! I want it Heavy!” – Disturbed

“Yeah! You push it! Yeah! You push it!” – Static-X

We all love music. I find that some bands are better used as the soundtrack to my weight training than others. While my local pussyfoot gym spins tracks from the latest Britney Spears record, in my head I’m singing Mudvayne and Disturbed tracks over and over again, hell I even sing out loud sometimes (but not too loud). Yes, I do need an Ipod Nano, but I digress.

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Review of some common, and not so common supplements

In this day and age, there are more supplements on the market than there are people to ingest all these magically enhanced, super engineered, biologically improved, and chemically re-structured pills. Yea right! Let me tell you what a supplement is, and why we need them or don’t need them. We won’t get in to much science here; I’m just going to explain what athletes actually benefit from, and what is actually bullshit.

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The Best Exercises when you can’t find a gym

So you say you’ve gone away on business and you can’t find a gym within 100 miles. Instead of complaining and retiring to watch TV for evening, you’re about to learn how to get a decent workout without machines or free weights. Now get up off your ass and try these exercises as I’m explaining them.

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The Best Lifts for Overall Strength, Power, and Speed.

There are lots of different lifts that a person can do to increase their strength, speed, and power. All kind of weightlifting is great for your body, but I prefer to not waste time in the gym going from lift to lift when you can do only a few lifts and gain a much more superior anabolic effect. After all, the whole point of lifting is to throw your body in a state of anabolism (muscle growing) to increase muscle mass and decrease body fat. You won’t get this by doing your little bicep curls and triceps extensions. You gotta hit the body as a whole, because that’s what is, a whole. While there are many notable supplemental lifts to help in overall body improvement (will be noted later), we will focus on the very best, the crem-de-la crem!

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Diets, diets, diets. Is it me, or is that all you hear anymore nowadays? Everyone under the sun seems to want to somehow improve on their bodies; whether it’s the obese, the skinny, or the already jacked and ripped people. Everyone always wants more. Nothing wrong with wanting more, but there is something wrong when you can’t get something that is so easy to attain.

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