CEC Articles
Written by Rob Wilkins
In gyms around the world, nothing is feared or ignored more often than intense leg training. How often have you seen someone with a Herculean upper body mismatched with legs that would embarrass an ostrich? Nothing demands your attention more than a massive set of legs, but how many of us are willing to put in the effort to get them?
Written by NFPT Staff Writer
The popular notion that success in dieting depends mostly on how hard one tries is widely regarded as sound thinking. But a new study shows that the perceived complexity of a diet plan's rules might also key play a role in the success rate for participants.
Written by NFPT Staff Writer
We know that muscle will grow when properly trained and when proper nutrients are supplied. But what biological system is responsible for this growth stimulus? Is it one or is it all of them? Is growth caused by the forces applied to the muscles through weight training , or on a more cerebral level, is resistance exercise merely a means by which we expose, through recruitment, as many muscle fibers as possible to some other stimulus responsible for growth?
Written by Rodney Carson & Michael Nichols
As the economy continues to sputter through the largest downturn since the Great Depression, in all aspects of life, people are looking to maximize their returns on money invested in various endeavors. Expenditures on health and fitness activities can range from a few hundred dollars for basic PT gear to thousands of dollars to outfit a modern gym. From the standpoint of both a proprietor and a student, Boot Camp fitness programs are ideal venues for providing and achieving high-level workouts at fractional prices.
Written by Rob Wilkins
"In the United States, even the Grim Reaper is flabby." - Dr. Frank W. Booth, University of Missouri-Columbia
Being fat and physically inactive now has a name -- Sedentary Death Syndrome or "SeDS." Approximately 2.5 million Americans will die prematurely in the next ten years due to SeDS, a number greater than all alcohol, guns, motor vehicles, illicit drug use and sexual behavior related deaths combined.
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