EUGENIZATION.

It’s often said that living a healthy lifestyle means staying active. Well, with springtime comes flights of fancy, rebirth, and (of course) spring sports, like golf and tennis. Along with spring sports comes their corresponding injuries and over the next few weeks I’d like to offer up some strategies to prevent these from [...]

My friend and one-time training partner Gary Valencia used to talk derisively about the concept of the “Weekend Warrior” - the 5 day a week Nine to Fiver who, come the weekend, engages in strenuous physical activity all weekend (as if he were a top-notch athlete in prime competitive condition). Of course, being a [...]

Men’s Health magazine did a story some time back about bad trainers, the shining example being a trainer who pushed his client so hard that he developed exertional rhabdomyolysis, a condition where so much muscle fiber is broken down that the myoglobin from the muscle tissue clogs up the kidneys, ultimately causing kidney failure if [...]

What’s more important in terms of getting results from your workout program, technique or intensity?
In other words, what matters more, working as hard as possible or performing the exercises as perfectly as possible?
If you ask 100 trainers and/or exercise enthusiasts, I have no doubt in my mind they would answer that intensity is the better [...]

Above: Don’t be this guy.
Most of my clientle are damaged. By that, I mean (this figure is not meant to be accurate so don’t quote it) 90% of the individuals I work with sustained their particular injuries or ailments through mundane circumstances. For example, close to 100% of the folks I train [...]