McGWIRE SQUANDERS CHANCE TO COME CLEAN
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
Spare us the tears, Mark. It’s 2010 and nobody is buying the pathetic nonsense that you didn’t take steroids to help you hit home runs. Furthermore, if it weren’t for steroids – not androstenedione, creatine or any other supplement – Mark McGwire would have been out of baseball around the [...]
Tiger Woods: Adding Muscle Mass Is Always Welcomed By Athletes
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
As the New York Times reports that Dr. Anthony Galea, a physician who has treated Tiger Woods, is being investigated for providing Performance Enhancing Drugs to athletes, debate is being waged on sports talk shows across the radio dial; did the revealed-to-be-a-horn dog golfing great use steroids or human growth [...]
The Ugly Runner
By Sal Marinello
We’ve had some nice fall weather over the past few weeks here in New Jersey and that means joggers are out in force. It’s very similar to what happens when spring springs and the first batch of 70 degree sunny days show up after a long, ugly winter; joggers take to the roadways [...]
Searching For Body-Building Secrets Exercise In Futility
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
Despite reams of evidence to the contrary too many personal trainers and consumers still think bodybuilding is a valid method of training. There are no such things as “bodybuilding secrets.”
Actually the secret of bodybuilding isn’t really a secret; anabolic drugs – steroids, human growth hormone, insulin and a whole host [...]
Tax Sodas: More Stupid State Interventionism
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
The Health Commissioner of New York City and a Yale University professor look to expand the nanny state with proposal to tax soda and sports drinks that contain sugar.
In the attempt to save us from ourselves two so-called public health officials have written a paper published in the New England [...]
Learning Self-Defense Through Krav Maga
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
Israeli Krav Maga is the official self-defense system used by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and descends in its current form from Krav founder Imi Lichtenfeld’s original organization, the Israeli Krav Maga Association (IKMA).
While there are other Krav organizations, Israeli Krav is recognized by the Israeli government as the authority [...]
Weight Training Guidelines For People With High-Blood Pressure
The American Heart Association in association with the American College of Sports Medicine recommend RT programs that feature lower weight and higher repetitions for people with high blood pressure. Cardiovascular exercise should be performed 20-60 minutes per session, 3-5 days per week at a 40-70% or maximum oxygen uptake.
Personal trainers and fitness consumers should be [...]
Angel Presinal is Not a Personal Trainer
The Alex Rodriguez’s steroid scandal continues to unfold and now we know that he has a relationship Angel Presinal, a fitness huckster who has been banned from major league baseball clubhouses since 2001. He has worked with athletes from different sports and has described himself as “a doctor of MLB teams.”
Presinal is not a personal [...]
Final Verdict In On Multivitamins?
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
An eight-year study that looked at the effects of multivitamin use in older women found that the pills did nothing to prevent heart disease and cancer. The collected data is of an observational nature and not the result of rigorous scientific research, yet being that these results echo similar results [...]
Health and Fitness Advice: Personal Trainers need to do more
Personal trainers need to do more than count reps, fix the seat and adjust the weight stack on equipment during a workout. Personal trainers need to be more than a valet. Tune in to get details.
