EUGENIZATION.

There’s almost nothing quite as frustrating or annoying as feeling as though you’re making progress, then getting sick. Worst part is, if you try and force the issue, it’s all too easy to make yourself even more sick and lengthening your infirm time, setting you back even further.
Here’s a multi-part plan for you to [...]

Benchmark yourself.
That’s right; hold yourself to your progress.  What I’m asking you to do is to test yourself.  Not in the Marines’ “Everyday you don’t test yourself is a day wasted sir!” way, but by performing a workout that tests your current ability against your past ability.
The athletes reading this post are all slapping their foreheads [...]

Medhi writes, “The exercises you struggle with are the exercises you need to do.”
Truer words never spoken.
If you’re like most people, you tend to gravitate towards and perform exercises that “feel good” to you.  If you’re a guy, for example, you may enjoy performing barbell bench press or dumbbell biceps curls.  If you’re female, your preference may be [...]

Does the exercise order in a workout matter? Yes.
You have more energy at the beginning of a workout than at the end, so you will tend to do best on exercises that come sooner in the routine.
Case in point: A trainee who always starts his routine with bench press and always ends with leg [...]

As we discussed in yesterday’s post, the initial step in achieving your goals is, of course, having them in the first place. However, while setting goals is important, the key to success is continued action in the direction of your goals. Unfortunately, I’ve seen countless trainees struggle with workout plans that [...]