The Traditional Cheat Day Only Hurts You

A lot of fitness gurus and books recommend that if you are on a diet, you need a cheat day every week to keep you sane. What could be so bad about that? You’ve worked hard all week and you need to reward yourself! You did those extra sprints on Friday and have lost 4 lbs this week because of your hard work! You can’t take dieting anymore and that cheat day will let you devour the foods you have been avoiding all week! What a great idea!

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What They Are, What They Do, and How to Get Them

Maybe some of you have heard of insulin spikes after your workouts, maybe some of you haven’t; regardless if you’ve heard of it or not, I’m going to write a rundown of what an insulin spike exactly is and why it is beneficial for the athlete. This won’t be too long of an article, it’ll just describe all the essentials that you need to know about post workout insulin spikes.

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Why People Do What They Do When It Comes to Fitness

No intro to this article; I’m just gonna get down right down to it. Some may be offended or insulted by this article, but unfortunately my information does not take into consideration anyone’s feelings. I’m here to give the information honestly and truthfully, because that’s what reveals character.
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Running Techniques

What is this piece about? Quite possibly the best exercise ever! If I could only do on the thing in the world, I would run (talking about working out of course. If I could only do one thing overall, I think you know what I would choose¦ Fighting, of course!) Don’t like running? I know why that is. Because when someone says run, almost 100% of people will automatically see those long tiring jogs around the track. Although long jogs are tremendous for aerobic capacity, I am here to introduce you to a world of running that you never thought was possible.

I will list every running method one can implore, why it is good, and why you should do it. This is probably going to be my favorite article, since nothing beats running in my world.

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More Supplements to consider for your Daily intake

This article “supplements” (sorry) Lush’s article on performance enhancing dietary supplements in part 1 of Supplement Rack. As Lush notes, some of the great supplements for fitness training to use on an every day basis include protein powders, glutamine, BCAAs (or amino acids), creatine monohydrate, flaxseed, and a multi-vitamin. While the products Lush mentions are of significant importance, and probably top the list, there are a couple others that I would like to talk about briefly, which are either highly recommended or highly beneficial at the least.

But first a word of warning: if you do not have your diet in check, do not waste your time with any supplements other than vitamins, protein powders, and essential fatty acids (EFAs - see below).
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Full Out Jump Rope Training

Ever get bored of the same old workout? Tired of the same old monotonous workout that you do religiously day in and day out, until you get so tired of the boredom you just don’t want to workout anymore, period. Enter jump rope training. If you get bored of training with the magical leather or plastic rope, then you really got no business in the fitness world. Seriously. The jump rope is one of the greatest inventions to ever hit humanity. It is excellent for conditioning the anaerobic and aerobic energy systems, gaining rotator cuff and shoulder strength, conditioning, powerful lower body, and so on and so forth.

There are many ways to train with the rope, but most people I know only know of one way: swirl the rope and jump. Of course most people don’t jump rope because all they do is twirl and jump. Not only is that tiring, it gets boring and then you just don’t want to do it because you feel the boredom is not worth the benefit. BIG MISTAKE!! Get yourself a rope, and read this article and you will be in better shape than anyone not jump roping.

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Enter the Animal

Did you know that out of the major predators in the animal kingdom, humans are the weakest? Funny, isn’t it? Why are humans the weakest of all animals? I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know this. The animals are obviously doing something right to have that immense strength. So why don’t we train like animals do? What is it that animals do to train exactly? Well, they walk, they run, they hunt, and they kill. That’s what. What are we going to do? We’re going to perform movements that some of the pound-for-pound strongest animals do on a daily basis. Prepare yourself for the most intense workout session you will ever have in your life, my friends.

To describe animal training with a word will be senseless, because there is no word in the languages of man to describe the ferociousness, the intensity, the sheer PAIN of animal training. I will list the moves, and tell you how to do them. After that, you are on your own.

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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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