Exercise Update

Dumbbells have a lot of advantages over exercise machined including the major advantage of being the same wherever you workout. Whether you workout at home, at the gym, or at friends house a 30 pound dumbbell will always weigh 30 pounds. This may seem so obvious but choosing dumbbell exercises over machines means that you [...]

If you have used a treadmill, then you might have noticed a display for METs. You might also have been confused as to its meaning. Let’s solve that mystery for you once and for all.
Actually, METs is an acronym that stands for Metabolic Equivalents. If this still sounds like Greek, then this explanation should help: [...]

By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training
Just over a year ago I was in Tampa, Florida, at another fitness seminar.
Between sessions, a physician from Georgia stopped me in the hall and said, “Hey Craig, you were right about those crosstrainer machines. I’ve had your program for a few months now and I’m getting better results with metabolic resistance [...]