The Forgotten Muscle – An in Depth Forearm Workout Guide

Posted by Chris on May 21, 2009 in Workout Info | 0 comments

The Forgotten Muscle? What Do You Mean?

In my experience the most under used and under worked muscle group is easily your forearms. How often to you actively think of working just your forearms? My guess is not often. The problem with ignoring your forearm muscles is simple: they play a vital role in your grip strength and how much you can lift with free weights for many different workouts on other body parts. So lets recap quick:  Read more here...

• Forearms are often ignored
• Forearms help increase grip strength
• Forearm strength/size is esthetically pleasing

Labor Unions

Posted by Chris on May 20, 2009 in Misc Thoughts | 0 comments

My Understanding

So I heard today that labor unions have had a new bill passed that makes it so they do not have to do the “silent vote”. As far as I understand the new law means that if somene from a company is solicited by a union and they decide to join the union, then everyone who works for that company also has to join. Now I don’t know much about unions but from the sounds if this it is extremely unfair.

Of course I could be wrong and have misunderstood this law but the way it sounds so far is very unfair for people who don’t want to join a union.  Read more here...

Blogging about blogging

Posted by Chris on May 19, 2009 in Misc Thoughts | 0 comments

The Joy of Blogging

I am taking a break from fitness information to post about something else. I have recently, 2 days ago, quit smoking. Yes I love fitness but I was a smoker. This has been made sufficiently easier since I started this blog.

I have discovered a love for writing in blogging here at my website. I suppose I have always enjoyed unforced creative writing but just the idea of being able to spit out all of the ideas I have has helped me enjoy writing.  Read more here...

Creatine Breakdown – Ethyl Ester vs. Monohydrate

Posted by Chris on May 19, 2009 in Supplements | 0 comments

What is creatine?

Creatine generally is sold as a powder or a pill. The use of creatine extends back many years and has been found in the human body as a naturally occurring substance. Creatine is store in our bodies, and our muscles, as energy. The creatine helps to generate the muscle contractions, which take place when working out. Creatine helps to provide burst muscular activity, or more simply said, creatine allows our muscles to have a burst of energy. There is a very scientific reason for this, but that is the general idea behind creatine.  Read more here...

The Art of the Bench Press

Posted by Chris on May 18, 2009 in Workout Info | 2 comments

For those about to bench…

Bench Press

Like most things in life, you have choices. You can choose to do things any old way, or you can choose to do things the right way. When it comes to weight lifting ensuring proper technique is used will help to keep ones body away from injury. Injury is a nasty thing, especially once you start seeing good results. The bench press is your staple chest workout, it is a ‘ruler’ used by many people to measure ones strength. Think back to when you first started lifting, what did people ask you? Most likely they asked how much you could bench. There is good reasoning behind this question, quite simply the bench press requires more upper body strength than any other upper body workout, note leg work outs do require even more strength.  Read more here...