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Recipes, exercises + other healthy living tips from Whitney + Byron
Maximize Your Gains!
If you’re still powering through your reps using momentum… you’re leaving serious gains on the table. 🧠💪Tempo. Time Under Tension. Pausing.These aren’t just buzzwords — they’re foundational for building real strength + muscle.
5 Reasons You're Not Seeing Progress in Gym
1 BARBELL TOTAL BODY BURN
Training with Bands
Since Tom Brady released his TB12 Method, training with bands has seen a rise in popularity. I love using bands in conjunction with traditional weight training to provide a balanced approach to strength and conditioning. This article details the types of bands, how to use them and the benefits they provide.
5 Quick Tips That Will Optimize Your Workouts
Make the most of your time at the gym with these personal trainer devised tips!!!
Are Weighted Hip Thrusts a Good Exercise?
Want to build truly spectacular glutes? You need to start doing weighted Hip Thrusts ASAP! This exercise is vastly superior to both squats and deadlifts when seeking gluteal development and strength. Use the trifecta for a solid lower body!
5 New Fitness Gadgets Worth Buying
Don't waste money on every new fitness gadget! We at Fitness and Fuel have selected a few items truly worth your hard earned $$$. Here's our top 5 favorite new fitness must haves!
5 Habits of Successful Clients
Everyone wants to get the best results out of their Personal Training sessions. Here's list of tips from our most successful clients which have helped them achieve (and maintain) amazing transformations!
Do Olympic Lifts for Power NOT Endurance
Stop doing Olympic Lifts for endurance, instead do them for their designated purpose: developing explosive POWER!!! In this DO this NOT that article we examine its importance to preventing injury and getting results!
Do Free Weights NOT Machines
STOP confining yourself to the fixed weight machines. Hit the free weights instead! You'll get a better workout, develop more muscle and work your stabilizers resulting in shredded six pack abs.
Do Deadlifts NOT Leg Curls
If your goal is to safely develop posterior chain muscles, including strong, tone, powerful hamstrings and glutes and burn more calories, choose DEADLIFTS versus LEG CURLS. Exercise physiologist and Sports Conditioning Coach Byron Paidoussi explains why.
Never Skip Leg Day, Bro!
Leg day is vital to a gym routine and should never be the workout you skip when short on time. Why? Increase testosterone. Improve abs. Prevent injury to back & knees. Yeah, look better naked! A guy with a huge upper & tiny lower body looks like a tomahawk pork chop.
5 Exercises for a Slimmer Midsection
Everybody wants a slimmer, sexier, toned midsection. Use this workout to target all areas of your abs and lower back. Destroy love handles and reveal the six pack abs you've always wanted. Make this workout part of your New Year's resolution - you won't be disappointed in the results!
Workout to Torch 350 Calories in 20 Minutes
No time for a full hour workout at the gym? Don't let that stop you. Burn OVER 350 Calories in JUST 20 minutes! Watch Exercise Physiologist & Sports Conditioning Coach Byron Paidoussi to perfect form for max muscle gains and calorie burn.
Olympic Lifts: Fundamentals, Benefits and Precautions
Olympic lifting has been thrown into sharp focus again thanks to the recent injuries to CrossFit athletes while performing these lifts. This article examines the fundamentals of Olympic lifting, it's benefits and when to add them into your workout program.
Top 10 home exercise pieces actually worth buying
STOP buying the fitness junk you see on late night TV commercials!!! Electric stimulation belts and other miracles promised on late night TV DO NOT WORK. These 10 items however will definitely help you get into better shape in the comfort of your own home.
Chiseled V Back Workout Video
Want that perfect V-shape torso? A small waist isn't enough. A well-developed back IS ESSENTIAL to get desired effect. Use this workout to fully develop your Lats, Traps, Rhomboids and Spinal Erectors to give you the lean chiseled body you've always wanted.
6 Exercises You Should Be Doing, But Aren’t (Or Do Incorrectly)
The more and more time that we spend in the gym, the more abundantly clear it becomes that most peoples workouts are either missing some very important exercises or worse yet, have really poor technique in these exercises. This can result in injuries, muscle imbalances and a lack of progress towards goals.
