3 Worst Exercises For Your Shoulders, Ever
People, let me tell you about the rotator cuff. These little muscles are what anchor your humerus to your scapula, your arm to your shoulder, in what we folks like to call the glenohumeral joint. These little fellows are delicate, essential, and easily damaged. When you see people wincing and pressing their fingers into their shoulder joints, that's what they've hurt. Mess up badly enough, and you can tear your rotator cuff, and then you're out of the game. That's bad news, people, and yet people still insist on messing their shoulders up, right and left, with these awful exercises. Why oh why? Here are the worst shoulder exercises I've seen during all my years walking this green Earth. Don't do them people, stay away.
The Dirty World of Vitamin Supplements
Go to the supermarket and you will see a hundred thousand bazillion bottles of vitamin supplements staring down at you from countless shelves. Vitamins A, B, C, D and the rest of the alphabet. Have you ever asked yourself where these vitamins come from? If you've pictured a Willy Wonka style factory where Umpa Loompa's squeeze Vitamin C from orange slices and harvest Vitamin D from the sun, then you couldn't be more wrong. In fact, vitamins are chemically synthesized from such horrendous things as mineral ores, fungi, petroleum and bacteria. The process creates a terrible amount of pollution, and until recently was overseen by a price fixing cartel that was only taken down in 1999. Vitamins: good for you, not so good for the world?
The One Thing The Insanity Workout Is Missing
The Insanity Workout is almost complete. It's almost everything you need to effect a total body transformation in only 2 months. Including a fantastic Nutrition Plan, a host of workouts that will make you a new person if they don't break you, a wall Calendar to track your workouts, an online support community and all the information you need to begin your incredible journey, it seems like a galaxy of support and encouragement and challenge. But there's a crucial component missing. There's something that people notice a couple of weeks in, something without which leads to increased soreness, increased pain, and makes the workout harder than it needs to be. What's this crucial component? Don't laugh folks, I've received endless complaints from people who have noticed this deficiency: calf stretches.
Beachbody Coach Summit 2010
Why have I been away? The Beachbody Coach Summit 2010, is why! The whole Extreme Fitness Results team flew in to L.A. on Friday morning, and since then we have spent every waking moment (even the meals were business or getting to know you lunches) thinking, talking, living and breathing Beachbody.
Insanity and Weight Gained After Pregnancy
Different people come to Insanity for different reasons. Some are former college athletes looking to regain their strength and energy ten years down the road. Others are preparing for a marathon, or looking to drop weight gained from a life of unhealthy habits. But one of the groups I run into the most frequently and receive the most questions from are women who gave birth to kids a few years ago and have woken up one morning to have put on 60 lbs or so. These women are amongst the most motivated and determined group I have run into, and their tenacity and desire to reverse the weight gain is often the strongest. But how hard is it for them to lose that weight? Do they face extra obstacles, or is it in fact easier for them?
Kettlebells: Extreme Exercise #2
Have you guys seen these things before? As popular across the internet as they are rare in gyms, kettlebells are the province of Russians, fitness fanatics and the truly hardcore. Looking like cannonballs with handles affixed, they seem to be a curious version of dumbbells, primitive tools belonging to strongmen from centuries past. So what about these weird looking workout tools is so effective, so hardcore, so amazing? Why do people practically claim they can cure cancer, help us get back to the moon and make the most beautiful person you ever met fall irrevocably in love with you again? Read on, brave and gentle reader, and learn of the extreme nature of kettlebells, and why you should consider adding them to your workout?