I’m currently completing a program outlined by Rusty Moore over at fitnessblackbook.com called Visual Impact.
This is a program designed to give you the ‘mens health’ or ‘Hollywood’ kind of look rather than the bulky muscle-bound look that a lot of muscle hypertrophy programs are aimed at. Read the rest of this entry »
Clint’s current workout: Visual Impact
Shoulder impingement syndrome – prevention and the cure
posted in Training, by Clint Nielsen on July 27, 2010
One of the top 3, if not THE top injury to be found in any weights area of a gym, is a shoulder impingement
The most common of these would have to be shoulder impingement syndrome.
If you’ve ever felt pain in your shoulder when pressing overhead, you may very well suffer from shoulder impingement syndrome.
Lifters often get such an injury, and then ignore it thinking it’ll go away, or do exercises, which exacerbate the problem further. Bad move slick. Read the rest of this entry »
Top 10 ways to lose stubborn fat
We all want the holy grail of fat burning advice to the point where we’d probably sell our first born child, and maybe even the second one, all for a magic pill which will make that stubborn adipose tissue get the hell off our waistlines and annoy somebody else.
This article isn’t aimed at the excessively ‘large’ person, or the person just about to get up on stage and display a ‘Most Musclular’ at the next Mr Olympia. I’m talking to those that are pretty fit, but have hit a roadblock and just can’t seem to shift that muffin top.
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The best cardio for weight loss – A HIIT workout routine to burn fat quickly
posted in Training, by Clint Nielsen on July 15, 2010
The best cardio workout for weight loss – A HIIT workout routine to burn fat quickly
If your current cardio routine is ‘easy’ for you, then perhaps you’re doing it wrong. Hold on a minute matey, I’m not talking about aerobics, pump classes or anything else ending in ‘class’, but rather, I’m talking about the zombie-like crowd of gym-goers that consistently leash themselves to the nearest elliptical/treadmill or any other piece of ‘fat burning’ equipment that is hooked up to Pay TV, to run at a steady-state for 45mins or longer.
If you are training like this 5 days a week, and want to lose some body-fat, then you need to stop and think about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. Read the rest of this entry »
Top 10 traits of a gym douchebag
We’ve all experienced the dreaded gym ‘douche-bag’ and we often let it fly and don’t not say anything (Let’s face it – it’s easier to be nice and let things slide than to cause a scene).
How can you recognize one? What if you ARE one and don’t realise it? Here is a list of things that you can measure yourself against to see if you’re one of the culprits.
Note: if you like this post, you will definitely like these
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