SlowBurn Personal Training Blog

Why does the training have to be so hard?

A client asked the other day. Hard, meaning, unfun, unappealing - unlikable.

Dealing With The DOMS

A common side effect of strength training is DOMS short for delayed onset muscle soreness.

Always be Positive

One of the things that will help your training is to think positive thoughts all the time.

The Kind and Gracious Jimmy Moore

Jimmy Moore, the creator of the fantastic Livin La Vida Low Carb blog interviewed me. An honor to be sure.

Colpo Continues His Nonsense

Anthony Colpo, the self proclaimed diet and training expert from Australia who I pulverized a few months ago with a post showing his inability to decipher simple exercise studies, is at it again. He never blasted me or addressed the post because he didn't want anyone to read it and see that he doesn't know much when it comes to reading exercise research.

Statins and Strength

A friend sent me this research paper Download riechman_jgms_2007.pdf titled:

More on Cholesterol

I'm sure many of you saw this article in the Times yesterday.

Cholesterol - a natural muscle building steroid?

Well not exactly - but sorta close. Read this and you may find yourself eating more eggs and bacon before (and after) your Slow Burn workout!

A Pain In The Neck

If you have one, a recent study has come out showing that direct strengthening of the neck muscles significantly relieves neck pain - more so than general fitness training.

Wall Street Journal Article

We had an article published in the Wall Street Journal's online workout column by Jen Murphy today. Here it is.

    

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