A woman’s workout should consist of leg raises, biceps curls with soup cans, and triceps kickbacks with water bottles. Can you believe that silliness? Neither can I, but that is what passes for “professional fitness advice for women” these days. I could see this info being accepted in the 1930′s (maybe?), but in the year [...]

The Top 10 Best Advanced Bodyweight Exercises 1) Pull-ups (If you want to build muscle, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how hard pullups can work your chest!) 2) 1-Leg Squats (This is advanced, but you can practice by squatting back onto a bench.) 3) Spiderman Pushup (A TT classic! I know you love them!) 4) [...]

There are so many fat loss myths out there in “exercise-land” that I was hired by Men’s Fitness magazine to write about one myth each month. After all, by now you’ve probably heard that if you don’t do 60-minutes of cardio in your fat burning zone on an empty stomach while Venus is in line [...]

Here are the 10 best beginner bodyweight exercises I would have used with this woman instead of advanced athletic movements and generic machines. 1) 1-leg lying hip extension 2) Plank 3) Stability ball leg curl 4) Side Plank 5) Stick-up 6) Low Step-ups 7) Bird Dog 8] Kneeling or Incline Pushup 9) Stability Ball Hip [...]

Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has tried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn’t add up. After all, some men and women do cardio 6 hours, 9 hours, or more per week, and still have [...]

You cut calories and you exercise. You do exactly what the articles say – Your calories out are greater than your calories in. You should be losing fat. But if you aren’t, perhaps you’re still not paying attention to an often forgotten factor of fat loss – your metabolism. Your metabolism is a measure of [...]

Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me for 3 of my best fat loss secrets. Since most times the magazines just don’t have enough space to run my full tips, I thought I’d give you a more detailed explanation of my secrets here (plus a few extra bonus tips that I didn’t send to the magazine). [...]

I often get asked, “What’s the best way to burn fat and lose my belly?” People want to know if aerobics is better than strength training, or if traditional cardio exercise is better than intervals. Well, to say I’ve done them all would be an understatement. With over 15 years experience helping others, training myself, [...]