I’m jealous of young lifters. The average 20-something starting his or her lifting journey couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Quality information is readily available. The best of it is absolutely free and accessible 24 hours a day. You don’t even need a computer to read it -- thanks to smart phones you can have it in class, on the bus, even in the bathroom, if you’re the multitasking type....

So it’s well established that I can’t cook well. Sure, I can make a mean protein pancake and I can certainly grill a steak, but an actual, full-on Food Network type culinary throwdown? I'd fail. The good news is that I live in New York City. I can’t go five feet from my apartment without stumbling onto something tasty, convenient, and even healthy. Granted, the ratio of bagel and pizza joints to...

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, i.e., "Here’s how you use a Hammer Strength machine" guy. • Weight training tech support, i.e., "Explain how to use a Hammer Strength...

                                      Bryan  

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 of me taking out the garbage in the morning in my jammies... ...and me going all Sean Penn on them and being charged with assault.... ...and...

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 also enjoyed training quads and had mild disdain for hamstring work, which didn't help matters. As a result, I'm quad dominant. So much so that the...

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 programs, I tend to keep things simple. Vertical and/or horizontal pushing and pulling days, squat and deadlift-based days (or something similar,...