The Fitness Fluffer

The Fitness Fluffer

The calendar doesn’t lie. I’ve been in the fitness industry for 25 years. In that time I’ve worn many different hats. • Front desk attendant and, “Please remove your weights from the Hammer Strength machine” guy. • Fitness assessor. • Lousy personal trainer,...
Eat This: Power Pancakes

Eat This: Power Pancakes

I’m not a great cook. I will never be on Iron Chef, unless it’s to watch from the stands or better yet, be a celebrity judge. But that would require me being a celebrity, which invokes visions of weird guys with cameras hiding in bushes trying to snap pics...
Day 5: Hamstrings, Lower Back, Calves

Day 5: Hamstrings, Lower Back, Calves

Okay knuckleheads, here’s day 5, the final day of my current training split. I’ve always had good quad development. Virtually anything I threw at them — leg presses, leg extensions, split squats, and of course, squats — would make them grow. I...
Day 4: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps — Pump

Day 4: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps — Pump

Here’s day four of the big, fat workout — chest, shoulders, and triceps. Those of you glued to this blog (ha!) might find this entry peculiar. Chest, shoulders, and triceps, again? Didn’t we see this movie already? Here’s the deal. In strength...