I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.
Boxing Training at Home: Essential Equipment | Boxing Equipment 24/7
Check out this informative guide to see which equipment is absolutely essential for boxing training at home and effective boxing workouts. … One of the main questions people ask is if they should lift weights for boxing. Well, you can avoid the problem in large par by using pull up bars to pack on strength in your back, core and arms all at once. 8. Medicine Ball: A medicine ball is a very versatile piece of equipment. You can do a huge variety of abdominal exercises, …
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This post is strictly for the fitness/nutrition geeks.
All sorts of neat-o research studies.
Enjoy

The Nutrient-Rich Foods (NRF) Index is a new, objective, science-based way to measure the total nutritional quality of foods and beverages…link to the research, Nutrient Rich Foods Coalition
Urban Farming? – Will Allen – creator of Growing Power, FoodCycles – Toronto’s Urban Garden
Millions Of U.S. Children Low In Vitamin D – Increased risk of bone and heart disease – all due to sunscreens and a fear of the sun? – link to the research
More Evidence Of Fish Oil’s Heart Health Benefits – There is mounting evidence that omega-3 fatty acids from fish or fish oil supplements not only help prevent cardiovascular diseases in healthy individuals, but also reduce the incidence of cardiac events and mortality in patients with existing heart disease. link to the research
Caloric Restriction reduces the risk of Breast Cancer – link to the research
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Are you tough enough to handle one of my custom HIIT/HIRT workouts?
hiit
And by handle the workout, I don’t mean just survive the workout.
I mean, can you push yourself harder than you ever have before?
Can you kick my ass at this workout?
Well, can you…punk?
The Workout
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Part 1 – The HIIT
.
30 minutes of HIIT sprints on a Stationary Bike

10 min Cardio – Moderate level of intensity (12-13 on Borg Scale)

5 min of HIIT Sprints – 10 Sprints – (10 sec sprint : 20 sec active rest – Level 20 on the Borg Scale)

5 min Cardio – Moderate level of intensity (12-13 on Borg Scale)

5 min of HIIT Sprints – 10 Sprints – (10 sec sprint : 20 sec active rest – Level 20 on the Borg Scale)

5 min Cardio – Moderate level of intensity (12-13 on Borg Scale)

Note:
These are short duration sprints – 10 sec. As such, they are to be performed [...]

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Leg strength conditioning? leg strength training? speed improvement?
I need some good references for:
- leg strength conditioning
- leg strength training
- speed improvement
- speed training
- jump improvement
I have been training for months now and want to know if there is any exercises or even programs that can help me.
Thanks,
Bobby
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Breaking news: Matt Costa’s exclusive Beach Bootcamp is now available to everybody – KnuckleUp members or not – and we’ll pay for your first class.

You got it right: KnuckleUp will take the charge so you can experience Matt’s revolutionary training. The first class will be 100% on us!

And we’re not limiting the bootcamp to members anymore. Non-KnuckleUp members are more than welcome to take the training with no strings attached.

Now there’s absolutely no excuse – Set your alarms clocks and get to KnuckleUp no later than 5:45AM on Thursday, August 6th, with the following:

Swim suit
Towell
Dry change of clothes
Cereal bar
Bottled Water

And get ready to rock!

The session will take approximately 50 minutes, and it all takes place at the beach.

Best of all: Matt will work with you no matter what – All conditioning levels benefit tremendously.

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Fitness training isn’t rocket science.
Good training & nutrition decisions produce good results.
Poor training & nutrition decisions produce poor results.
So, how come when I go to the gym this afternoon, I can pretty much guarantee that I am going to see a lot of intelligent, well-educated, gainfully employed people making some pretty stupid training decisions?
Maybe fitness training is rocket science?
Maybe I am some sort of fitness training genius.

So, as a public service to all of the non-fitness-training genii out there, here is a list of some of the training mistakes I will probably see at the gym today.
Try and avoid them.

Doing Cardio Training before Resistance Training
Doing Static Stretching before Resistance Training
Training Core before Legs
Chugging a Gatorade while reading a book on the Exercise Bike
Thinking that the Inner Thigh (Adductor) Machine is going to work some sort of magic.
Ignoring your Weaknesses and over-training your Strengths
Believing that Core Training is all about Crunches [...]

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Several readers have recently asked me about good bodyweight exercises to stay in shape while on vacation. While I could come up with a good routine or two that I have used in the past, my buddy Adam Steer is the master of advanced bodyweight exercises. I asked Adam to kindly do a guest post on this topic and give you an intro to what he is all about. Make sure and ask him questions in the comment section. He can certainly help tweak your bodyweight program to get better results.

[Gymnasts display incredible muscle tone largely from doing body weight exercises. I used to make the mistake of only using free weights to increase muscle tone and muscle definition. I believe the best way to that slim and ripped Hollywood physique is a combo of using weights along with body weight work.]
Advanced Bodyweight Exercises: No Gym, No Problem!
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HELP!!! (Martial Arts/fitness)?
I need to loose weight. To do this I have been looking into martial arts as I know they are good for fitness.
I am looking for a traditional, external, striking martial art which obviously has a large fitness component.
Please help!!!
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The basis of Tabata Training is 4 minutes of intense interval training. What you are doing is taking an exercise we’ll use sprints as an example here. Sprint as hard as you can for 20 seconds Walk for 10 seconds Repeat 7 more times for a total of 8 sets. So what you have is a total of 4 minutes workout time. Tabata Training can be done with a number of different exercises the idea is to use an exercise that gets the whole body involved or at least the major muscle groups.Tabata Training can be done with Barbells, Dumbells, Kettlebells or just Bodyweight exercises. I’ll give you some other exercises and routines to try in a minute but first let me give you some background and how Tabatas work. Tabata Training was developed by Izumi Tabata (imagine that) at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. [...]

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