Weight lifting offers participants a chance to pursue clear and measurable goals with outcomes that can be traced directly back to oneself. In his book “Shop Class as Soulcraft,” the philosopher Matthew Crawford writes that “despite the proliferation of contrived metrics,” so many activities in the modern world suffer from “a lack of objective standards.” […]
How Do You Feel After Training? Do you experience joint pain? Prolonged soreness? Injuries that refuse to heal? Maybe you think you haven’t been taking your recovery strategies seriously enough. You wonder if you’ve been shortchanging your sleep or not foam rolling or stretching enough. But what do you do if you get plenty of […]
Node Smith, ND A recent study suggests that resistance exercise – lifting weights – for less than an hour a week may reduce heart attack and stroke risk by 40 to 70 percent. “People may think they need to spend a lot of time lifting weights, but just two sets of bench presses that take […]
[Photo: Tonal] But Tonal, a new strength training device that uses an engine to create resistance instead of heavy metal disks, looks just like a vertical flat screen television and wouldn’t be out of place on the wall of your apartment. When you’re ready to work out, you turn on the device and pull out two […]
Former UFC knockout artist Anthony “Rumble” Johnson is now huge after discovering weights and looks like he could fight at super heavyweight.
Even a short period of strength training could improve the long-term health of obese people, if results achieved in mice scale up to human levels. In a paper published in the Journal of Endocrinology, scientists led by Leandro Pereira de Moura of the University of Campinas in Brazil detail the results of short-term work-outs given […]
When you are new to strength training, the weight room can feel really intimidating. Whether you’re completely baffled about which weights to use for which exercises, or confused about how to contort your body to fit into a machine, there’s a lot of unknowns to figure out. As a certified personal trainer, I’ve noticed that […]
Along with eating a balanced and healthy diet, getting plenty of exercise is the key to getting fit, toned, and strong. Whether you want to build muscle, or simply lose some serious weight, getting enough physical activity in during the day is paramount to becoming healthy and fit. But, as with anything, there’s a bit […]
Which is better, bodyweight exercise or weights? The argument between bodyweight exercise enthusiasts and weight lifters has raged on for years. BW exercisers say that when you lift heavy weights over a long period of time, it ends up destroying your body. But weight lifters point to well established research and say, “You can’t get […]
Weight training can seem counterintuitive to runners: The more muscle you have, the heavier you are, thus the more weight you have to carry around when running. While that’s true, it doesn’t mean you should swear off weight training all together. In fact, runners need weight training even more than you may realize. “Strength work […]