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Inside the Mind of a Rep

April 11th, 2012

While I was away last week on vacation, I got to catch up on some reading of old books that I had not read in a few years. One of the great influence’s in my strength training philosophy was Scott Abel. Scott was my Coach for over a year and I found him because after doing some research during my contest prep in 2008, I found that I shared many of the same philosophies as him, but he had been in the game 20 years longer than I.

Scott taught me the proper way to perform a rep and the experience of a rep. I see it far too often where guys and athletes are just trying to get through a rep and discard it as nothing more than a quantification or number. You know what I am talking about, the 10 rep rule, where you see people stop when they get to the 10th rep, regardless of how they are feeling. I could give someone the same exact workout, but the student that has been taught the proper way to perform the rep will make constant improvements in their strength and physique, the other guy will just stagnate.

Ok, so what does it mean to experience the rep? A rep must be performed with the intent to explode and move it with speed. Now, if the weight is on the heavier side, the weight will not appear to be moving fast, but the intent is what matters. This has to do with the principle of Maximal Voluntary Contraction (MVC). MVC is the complete or maximal recruitment of a motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers that it innervates. If you perform a rep slow intentionally, you are doing yourself a great diservice. I have experimented with lactic acid training and different tempos, but I don’t feel that the supposed increase in growth hormone is enough to warrant this approach for the majority of the people.

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Body Odor Treatment

April 11th, 2012

In a layman’s language by diffusing the multiplication of bacteria on the surface of your skin, the problem of bad body odor can be solved. Several medical conditions at times are responsible to bring about a typical smell in the sweat like a fruity smell can sometimes indicate diabetes and bleach like smell can indicate liver or kidney dysfunction. Apocrine glands are primarily located in the armpit area. Hence by keeping these clean and dry you can find a cure for body odor. In today’s fast pace life everyone wants to look good and make a mark for themselves and not everyone is willing to spend a lot of money on expensive cosmetic items to get rid of bad body odor.

This problem is usually faced when you take public transport to travel to work or from one place to another. By the time you reach the destination, you will be dripping with sweat. No matter how much you may have dressed up but you may end up looking dull and if you have bad odor it makes things worse. Hence they visit the dermatologists with only one question on their mind as to how to cure body odor? There are some short term and long term solutions given by the practitioners to the patients to deal with the problem on a daily basis.

Medically one remedy for body odor is aluminium chloride; it is an active ingredient in most antiperspirants. It helps to prevent the production of sweat when used regularly for some time. Roll-on antiperspirants tend to be more effective in heavy sweating cases. Aluminium chloride solutions include Anhydrol Forte and Driclor. They can be usually applied every night before you go to bed, and then wash it off in the morning. By doing this you can stop sweating while you are sleeping, for the whole night the solution can seep into your sweat glands and block them. This reduces your sweating for the next day. As and when the product starts to take effect, you can reduce its usage -every other night or once or twice a week. A general practitioner or a pharmacist can advise you best on the various products available in the market.

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Health Clubs – Healthy Foods For Families Increase Profits

March 3rd, 2012

More health clubs are catering to families today, realizing that keeping members and their families together can be an effective strategy for maintaining membership. Many clubs already offer child care, but an increasing number are carving out valuable real estate for kid’s programs, which can be marketed as a value added luxury to help attract parents to a facility. This includes offering healthy foods for kids and their parents.

Nutrition for Kids

In today’s hectic world, busy parents often succumb to the pressures of time by satisfying a child’s hunger at the local fast-food joint, all because they didn’t have time to plan, and no healthy alternative was readily available. Let’s face it, sometimes the tail wags the dog and life takes over!

Health club owners who already have a juice bar or café can seize this opportunity to reach members who are zipping away after a workout with kids in tow; adding healthy shakes and snacks for the kids can dramatically increase profits. This piece of your club’s real estate could yield a tangible return on your investment while you offer your members and their children superior nutrition.

Why do Kids Need Nutrition?

Kids constantly need nutritious food because they are growing at an incredible rate; nutrients in food are the building blocks of strong cells that lay the foundation for a healthy body. A well balanced meal promotes healthy growth both mentally and physically.

Nutritious Foods are Important for Adults Too

Although eating nutritious foods is especially important for kids, adults need them almost as much. Some may suggest “Our bodies are already well developed, so we don’t need nutritious foods; our bodies can adjust,” but that’s an unwise argument. The cells in our bodies have a limited life span and continue to regenerate. Each cell lives a maximum of one year; most of them less. In fact, 98% of all cells in our bodies will die and regenerate in one to nine months at least once. Just consider the cells that line your stomach; 50 million of these cells die and are recreated every two days!