Exercise is a Stressor, or Don’t Work Out When You’re Sick.

Had to take the day off today, because I’m sick. Whilst staying home in wonderment of my body’s inability to respond to my CNS commands, I thought to myself that over the weekend I had repeatedly broken one of the Cardinal Rules of Strength Training.
Namely, “Don’t Work Out When You’re Sick.”
The reason, of course, [...]

Exercise = Recreation. Or Does It?

I’m often asked by my clients why I consider “exercise” to consist almost entirely of strength training, strength training, and some more strength training. After all, all the major certifying bodies in my industry call just about any sort of activity “exercise”; who am I to buck the system?
Well, in my highfalutin’ perspective, I [...]

Pat Robertson Leg Presses 2000 lbs (Sort of).

When the New York Times reported that GNC stopped selling Pat Robertson’s protein shake, I thought to myself,
“Pat Robertson has a protein shake?”
So let’s do some fact-checking on the article:
1) Here’s a link to the YouTube video referenced in the article:
Pat Robertson Leg Pressing 1000 lbs.
Those “leg presses” are atrocious. He didn’t even put the [...]