Circuit training, cross-training, metabolic training: these are all terms for mixing up your training programs and protocols to provide a broad infusion of musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory training that you may not get if you just stick to a single fitness training program like gym weight training or running.

This sort of cross training prevents you getting stale, and it works physiologically because it involves many more body systems and processes - like stabilizer and synergist muscles -- than would be involved with just one protocol.  Try it for variety and fitness performance enhancement.

---> High Intensity Intervals and Weights

Paleo diets are recommended on the premise that we humans should eat as our ancestors did in the Paleolithic period more than 10,000 years ago. Then, Paleo advocates say, early humans ate mostly meat and vegetables and little in the way of  carbohydrates like sweet fruit, potatoes and grains, nor beans or dairy. In other words, a low-carb type of diet.

Do Paleo diets work for heavy gym trainers and athletes. Probably not if you want to be the best.

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Okay, you probably did know about some of these, but for the general gym goer, a few of them are not all that well known. Some of them are bodyweight only, and some require equipment.

And, several are tricky to perform and need a little practice and perhaps experience in resistance exercise.

---> Top 10 Weights Exercises You Never Heard Of

Climbing is not only an adventure sport, it is a competitive sport as well. Indoor climbing is popular, and the brave men scaling big walls and mountains, roped or free, never cease to amaze.

You need strength, and physical and mental endurance to to climb at the extreme end. You have to train for appropriate fitness, as you would for any other challenging activity.

---> Weight Training for Climbing Sports