Don t be held hostage to the obligatory holiday weight gain. Instead, melt the fat by sculpting your own fitness and nutrition program. If you feel that you need earmuffs and blinders to withstand the blizzard of health and fitness information, use these 5 simple tools from personal trainer and sports nutritionist Lynn VanDyke to chisel your perfect body.

Tool 1- Strength Training: Every pound of muscle burns 35-50 calories per day. Adding lean muscle mass is the best way to kick-start your metabolism, fight osteoporosis and melt the fat. Try doing 3 sets of 12 repetitions for each major muscle group. Sprinkle in different exercises such as bicep curls, lunges or tricep kickbacks. Work

each muscle 1-3 times per week and always use perfect form.

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In this article we will go over some concepts that are contained in the R.I.P.P.E.D. Weight Training weight lifting book, but nowhere near the power of the information contained in the book itself. Weight lifting can protect you from devastating fractures in several ways. Weight lifting, when done properly will increase your lean muscle.

Lifting

Lifting weights is probably the best medicine to enhance you’re health. Lifting weights is an effective way to burn calories because increasing muscle mass may help to increase your metabolic rate. Lifting weights doesn’t burn many calories, but it does rev up your metabolism. These principles must be organized in a weight lifting program that allows you to grow consistently

and build muscle. Smart weight lifting, intelligent nutrition and quality rest are the real keys to optimal weight lifting and building muscle.

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The Quest For The Ultimate Athletes Workout Routine

When I want to improve my golf game and I want a workout routine that is specific to the sport of golf, why can’t I find any? The Internet is completely inundated with general workout plans and body building workouts, but finding an excellent workout plan that you can trust for each of the different sports is more than difficult, it’s almost impossible! It’s amazing to me, but in today’s health conscience society, in a health industry full of specialists, why is physical fitness training still back in the stone age? Why is it so hard to find workout programs designed for each individual sport? If you have a bad

back you don’t go to a general M.D., you go see an orthopedic doctor. If you have an impacted wisdom tooth you don’t go to a general dentist, you see an oral surgeon. If you suddenly develop double vision you don’t go to your local eye glass store, you see an ophthalmologist.

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Have you ever scanned through the race results of a recent event and noticed that some individuals have 30-40 second transitions from the bike to the run? It’s time to go to speed school and learn how you can have the same splits. Here’s how to do it (written for right leg dominant athletes, just switch sides if you’re left leg dominant):

About 10-30 seconds before dismounting, reach down and unstrap your right shoe and slip your foot out (while stabilizing the shoe with the loop on the back of the shoe). Make sure your right leg is at the top of the pedal stroke, so your foot is within reach.

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Before reading this article, please understand that there is no such thing as “perfect” running form. Since everyone has different limb lengths, varying muscle fiber sizes and angles, diverse masses, and separate running distance requirements, no single athlete will run the same. But there are *characteristics* of a good runner that remain fairly constant from person to person. Allow me to introduce you to four, and include a drill to improve each.

1. Increase knee range of motion during the swing phase. This means that your right knee should be more flexed (towards your butt) when your right thigh is flexed forward during the run, as opposed to your right knee being more extended (away from butt). Same goes

for the left, of course. Think of it this way - if you were swinging a weight attached to the end of a stick, you could move the weight faster with less effort if the stick were shorter. In this case, the stick is your leg, and the weight is your foot. By having your knee (the stick) more bent (or shorter), you are able to move the weight (your foot) much faster with less effort. The result will not only be a faster swing time (meaning a faster foot turnover), but also reduced fatigue in achieving the desired stride length.

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