EUGENIZATION.

One fear that clients (particularly older individuals) have regarding strength training is the integrity of their joints:  “Won’t I hurt my back (or knee/elbow/shoulder) lifting weights?” 
If you’re concerned at all about joint integrity on a resistance training program, don’t be.  Assuming you choose weights that are appropriately heavy, your joints should get stronger.  Here’s why:
First, [...]

Thomas, my aforementioned gregarious meat monger, asked me today,”Is it better to use dumbbells or barbells?”
There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not asked this exact question or some variant of it.  While it is true that there are different advantages to each training implement, the honest truth is this:
What you use doesn’t matter so [...]

Having trouble with exercises that involve grip? Specifically, exercises where your grip gives out first, such as chinups or deadlifting?
Over grip. Use your best GiJoe kung fu death grip on the bar. Squeeze that bar like you’re trying to make the metal ooze out between your fingers.
This will have the added benefit of [...]

Yesterday I was sent three different links to the same compelling study (thanks guys):
Fast/Glycolytic muscle fiber growth reduces fat mass and improves metabolic parameters in obese mice.
which I’m sure sounds exactly like something you’d want to read about in your spare time. 
Let me cut to the chase: the mice in the study were fed the [...]

“Hey, whadduya bench?”
What if you never tested your max?
What if you didn’t care to?
One of my clients asked me recently what I thought he could maximally lift in bench press based on his current level. While it’s impossible to know what his true one-repetition maximum (the maximal amount of weight he can bench just [...]