Extreme Training Camp – Skin the Cat!

Fascial Stretching for Your Shoulders

Fascial Stretching for Biceps

2011 Extreme Training Camp Dates

Extreme Training Camp Dates

Jan 28-30  Level 2
Feb  4-6    Level 1
Mar 25-27  Level 1
April 22-24 Level 1
Jun 24-26  Level 1
Aug 19-21 Level 1
Sept 30 – Oct 2 Level 1
Dec 2-4 Level 2 Holiday Extravaganza!!!!

Carbs and the pump, leg press precision, best time to train etc.

Vic,

Some big name bodybuilders train at my gym. I overheard one of them tell his training partner pretty deep into a chest workout that, “I’m going to bag it now – I’m losing my pump.” What did he mean? Why did he quit training? Is it important for an intermediate bodybuilder like myself to only train when I can get a pump? If that is so, is there anything that I can do to avoid losing my pump, or to prolong the pump?

Jack, NYC

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Stress-Free Equals Body-Fat Free

By Cliff Sheats

Manage your stress to keep body fat off! Stress is your body’s response to any physical, mental, or psychological demand. What many people don’t realize is that stress can interfere with efforts to stay lean. During stress, the body tries to compensate physiologically by triggering the release of hormones that increase levels of blood sugar and blood fats. If stress continues without interruption, the body enters a state of exhaustion, which can ultimately result in disease. Stress management is thus an important factor in weight control and disease prevention.

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Tips and Tidbits November 2010

The Essential Elements of Good Form,

A Five Part Series

Element #5: Put Mental Effort Into Every Rep

To accomplish all of topics we’ve covered in this series and then some, you must exert tremendous mental effort. The degree to which you can exert yourself physically depends on your power of concentration—your mental acuity. The more concentrated your effort, the closer you can get to achieving your goals. Any bodybuilder who wants to stop before he has totally fatigued himself should work to increase his mental acuity. Mental acuity underpins everything in training, so stay focused and believe that you can go farther and harder than ever before.

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Fatigue-Busters by John Parrillo

A lot of people go around complaining that “they are tired of being tired.” Fatigue and lack of energy are among the most common health complaints I hear, even among athletes.

With work and family schedules packed to the bursting point, it’s no wonder so many people are exhausted and looking for a magic supplement that delivers more energy. Notice I said “magic supplement.” Honestly, there are a few supplements that are important sources of vitality. Since the majority of essential vitamins and minerals are involved in one step or another of the energy process, even a marginal deficiency of one nutrient can lead to fatigue.

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Training the Abdominals – Duke Nukem

Underneath all our waistline fat we all possess ripped abdominal muscles. What makes a ripped waistline a ripped waistline is not thousands of crunches or hundreds of hanging leg raises – no amount of direct abdominal exercise will force the muscles of the gut to poke through the body fat that obscures them. What makes a ripped waistline a ripped waistline is an absence of body fat overtop of the ab muscles. Spot reducing is a myth and most of us already know that. The idea that by performing hundreds or thousands of repetitions for a particular muscle melts the fat that surrounds or covers the targeted muscle is a muscle myth of the first order. Fortunes have been built by abdominal device makers perpetuating the myth of spot reduction.

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Ron Harris – A Bodybuilder is Born

It was the day after my forty-first birthday, which had been remarkably unremarkable. Hitting forty last year was a big deal and had marked a milestone in my life. Luckily, I had gone through my mid-life crisis years before, the way some women start menopause early, so I wasn’t dealing with any major angst-ridden search for the meaning of my existence or questioning choices in my mate or career. And I already had a sports car and a wife who was nearly my age but looked much younger, so my birthday was really just another day. Though I did stop to ponder that in some Third World countries, forty-one was probably the average life expectancy. If you made it that far in those rough places, you were probably a great-grandfather too by that  advanced age.

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