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Yoga Back Bends – A Safe Progression

March 18, 2011

Modern life has declared war on your back. Okay, I admit that may sound a bit dramatic. But we do spend more and more of our time hunched over a desk, slouched in front of a TV screen, or bent double in a half-sized economy class seat. Live for too long in that position, and [...]

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New Bodyweight & Suspension Training Programs — WIN One Of These Workout

March 10, 2011

Adam’s quest for summer slimness is now in full swing. Like many of you, he’s been using baggy winter clothes to mask the slow and insidious creep of corpulence. In plain English, he ate a pile of bread over the winter and got a roll. Not a dinner roll but a pudge. Okay, to be [...]

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Dumbbell Squat – A Versatile Anytime, Anywhere Option

March 8, 2011

The Dumbbell Squat is a simple way to increase the challenge of your lower body training sessions. But a lot of people mess it up because they don’t understand the proper fundamentals of a good, safe squat… It’s essential that you master the Bodyweight Squat before putting this movement under any sort of load. Be [...]

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Fat Burning Spices — Dave “The Metabolic Cook” Ruel Shares His Top Five Spices To Accelerate Fat Loss

March 5, 2011

What if we told you that eating for fat loss does NOT have to be boring? You’d think we were crazy, right? Not just “Ryan’s a bit maladjusted” crazy, but full on delusional? If you believe the hype, then by definition “diet food” has to suck. That’s just the way it is. Endless platters of [...]

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Eating For Fat Loss — Art Or Science?

February 26, 2011

Is eating for fat loss an art or a science? Actually, it’s a bit of both. Every body reacts differently to food. Food can trigger hormones and neurotransmitters in varying ways for different people. Unfortunately, this means there’s no easy “recipe” that you can follow A to Z to get results. Eating properly means that [...]

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Bulgarian Split Squats and Smitty’s Sneaky “Deficit” Method

February 25, 2011

Our friend Smitty is back by popular demand with another great BodyweightCoach guest spot. This time he’s talking about Bulgarian Split Squats — a killa exercise for tightening that tush, carving those calves, and honing those hammies. How’s that for alliteration? Okay, so you’re probably asking, “Why Bulgarian?” We have no idea, actually. That’s just [...]

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Kettlebell Swing — Hit Your DELTS With The Kettlebell Shoulder Swing!

February 24, 2011

This exercise is a shoulder assassin! It’ll carve up your front delts with surgical precision. It’ll also sculpt your shoulders into a form Michelangelo would be proud to render into stone. You may think you’ve seen this one before under another name, but the Kettlebell Swing is a slightly different exercise. (We show you the [...]

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Funky Bodyweight Exercise — The Spinal Wave

February 21, 2011

One of the things we love about bodyweight training is the ease with which we can add layers of skill, timing and coordination to our workouts. There are so many dimensions to what you can do with nothing but your own bodyweight! A few weeks ago we looked at the handstand push up, but with [...]

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Push Up Workout — Mechanical Advantage Drop Sets With John “Roman” Romaniello

February 19, 2011

John “Roman” Romaniello is a trainer in NYC, physique model, literature geek, great writer and all around good guy. Oh, and he can do a mean push up. But that’s not why we like him. As fitness pros, we’re drawn to John because of his rare combination of muscle and movement control. Roman is the [...]

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