Articles Index
What You Need to Know About Muscle
Understanding what muscle is and how it repairs and grows can help you with your weight training.
Weight Training Reduces Risk of Dementia
More evidence that weight training reduces the risk of dementia. We speculate why this may be so.
Training for Balance in Senior Years
Falls can be dangerous for seniors. Muscle strength and balance is important for preventing falls.
Weights and Running
Many people train with weights and also run or jog. What's the best way to do it?
Understanding Sets and Reps for Weight Training Goals
How do you decide how many repetitions and sets of repetitions you need to do to achieve a particular weight training goal? Follow some simple rules.
Secrets of Body Fat and How You Can Control It
All about body fat and how to keep it under control.
Carbohydrate Secrets for Weight Training
Carbohydrates in the diet are essential for energy in hard training athletes. Explore the lesser known aspects of carbohydrate nutrition.
Weight Training for Bowling
Bowling requires a set of complex physical skills. Improve your bowling by doing weight training.
Protein Secrets in Weight Training
Protein is essential for life processes and athletes and heavy exercisers need a little more. But don't overdo it.
Muscle Up - 12 Pounds of Muscle in 12 Weeks
If you train hard, with the correct techniques, you could put on a pound of muscle each week
From Fat Belly to Flat Belly in 12 Weeks
Learn How to Lose that Belly Fat Fast
Pyramid Training with Weights
Pyramid training is a weight training methodology for varying and progressing workout loads in order to improve results.
Weight Training for Field Hockey
Field hockey requires a combination of strength, speed and endurance. Weight training can improve strength and speed.
Building Variety and Progression in Weight Training
While routine is good for commitment, sometimes you need to alter your weight training routine to freshen up the workout, and to progress.
10 Things to Stop Doing When You Train with Weights
Don't do these 10 things at the gym or anywhere else you train with weights.
Advanced Training with Supersets
Supersets are exercise that use opposing muscle groups, done sequentially. Use them to fine-tune your weight training.
What You Should Know About Your Metabolism
Weight training is supposed to be good for speeding up your metabolism, but it's a little more complicated than that.
Prevent and Manage Back Injuries in Weight Training
The lower back is susceptible to injury from lifting heavy weights or using incorrect lifting technique. Learn how to protect your back from injury and make it strong.
Low-Carb Diets Revisited
Low-carbohydrate diets are losing popularity as evidence accumulates that they don't improve your training or your health
Paleo, Warrior and Cave-man Diets - What You Need to Know
The Paleo diet is a popular diet based around estimates of what early humans ate over 10,000 years ago. But are they just another fad?
Knee Pain and Injury in Weight Training
Knee joints under the stress of weightlifting can develop injury and pain. Here's what to watch out for.
Weight Training for Adventure Racing
Adventure sport racing or recreation can include trekking, running, cycling, kayaking, swimming and climbing. You need strength and endurance. Here's how to train.
Injured Rotator Cuff of the Shoulder
The rotator cuff is the combination of three muscles and tendons that controls shoulder movement. Rotator cuff injuries are common among sports and non-sports people alike.
The Ultimate Bodybuilding Program
You can use and adapt this bodybuilding program to build a great body.
Weight Training for Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding can be a recreation, a competitive sport or a supplement to sports training. See how it's done.