Olympic Lifting Edits

Added some more links and video to the Olympic Lifting Series we have going. The start page is right here. I will be continually adding video of Derek and I as we go through so that you can learn from our workouts. In the meantime, if any movement is giving you grief, just let me know and I sort you out.

Working Out At Home For Beginners

Some of you may be looking at the website and saying, “I can’t make it to a gym to use the weights” or, “I can’t lift that much weight.” The truth is that you can manipulate some of the weights and use different things other than weight room weights to work out.

For instance, here are 5 things that you can use if you are just starting or can’t get to the gym:

1) If the workout calls for 100 push ups and you can only do 10 then make 25 your goal. No where does it say, “YOU ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO STOP TRAINING!” or, “YOU MUST DO..” You have to make the goal a little difficult or you will never see results. However, if you do 10 and have a quick rest and do another 10 and rest and then do 5 then you will have a difficult workout that isn’t going to keep you bedridden for the next day. Make your goals attainable but difficult FOR YOU. This way you can add on 5-10 reps each day or a couple of pounds every few days. Build your confidence slowly.
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Nutrition For Busy People

Sometimes it’s hard when you are at work and you don’t have a lot of time to stop for food (truckers and office workers). The easiest thing to do is to stop at a fast food place and get a burger and fries and wash it all down with a soda or even order something in. If you are looking to improve on that situation then try the diet that I have been working on the past few weeks.
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Handstand Pushups Video - HSPUS

Here is a video of me explaining the workup for HSPU’s. The article below will explain more.
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Stretching Guide

STOP!- If you don’t like to read..there WILL be pictures

Now onto our stretching primer.

It’s important that right from the beginning to work on strength exercises as your flexibility improves. Increasing your joints range of motion and flexibility without also improving the strength of the surrounding muscles can be an invitation for injury.

When you improve your flexibility to the point where an additional range of motion exists, the stretched muscles now have a reduced amount of overlap between the muscle fibers, resulting in a substantial reduction in strength. Strength exercises and flexibility programs should be done together to avoid this problem. Read more

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