Sean10mm's Fitness Blog

The persistent concern of women thinking about weight training is that they’ll get “big.” This concern is played out in how they work at t...

Today's post is just a random collection of fitness-related ideas, suggestions and goodies. :) 1) Try one-arm bent-over dumbbell rows ...

There are two broad categories of weightlifting exercise: compound and isolation . This is more than just an academic distinction, becaus...

The newbie fitness guide (see sidebar links) talks about the "Starting Strength" workout developed by Mark Rippetoe, and include l...

Fitness advice, mine included, tends to be written in universal terms. “Eat more fiber,” “get some exercise,” and so on. There are a cou...

Dealing with even the most basic supplements like multivitamins can be frustrating, because it is difficult to find scientific basis for wha...

To someone getting started with exercise, a personal trainer can be extremely valuable. There is nothing like having an expert provide han...

“What kind of question is that?” you ask. “Who wants to look like one of those huge, steroid-guzzling freaks?” If we’re talking about p...

Otherwise smart, reasonable, emotionally stable people will go bat-poop insane and try to live on cabbage and tree bark if you promise that ...

Most modern diet advice not written by morons advises people to eat more whole grain foods, and less refined grain products. Today I am go...

Why do people fail to get into shape? An obvious question, since so many people are out of shape. People giving fitness advice tend to talk...

I. Warm-up There is overwhelming evidence that doing a warm-up before performing an exercise both increases your performance and reduces yo...

Newbies are attracted to weight machines like moths to a flame. Machines seem safer and less intimidating than using freeweights, they see...

Listed below are some common diet myths that people seem to regularly fall victim to. Myth #1 – Eating fat makes you get fat. Cutting fat o...

In this post I’m going to discuss what I call a progressive approach to fitness. Because, hey, I had to call it something. There is a lot o...