Join us Monday 9/26 at 5p when we welcome Charles Staley, a fitness and training industy icon, to Teamworks/CATZ Acton for a rare hands-on workshop.
The workshop will focus on two specific areas:
1) Olympic Lifting Competency in a Day – Learning, adjusting and using olympic lifts safely in your training/fitness program. The olympic lifts [...]
It’s a short post, but PLEASE read this and understand just how important the concept of play truly is, and do something, anything to honor it -
An important 2008 report by the American Academy of Pediatrics helped American parents take play seriously. It begins:
Play is so important to optimal child development that it has been recognized by [...]
When you are at the gym, what is the environment like? Are you surrounded by droves of hapless individuals who mindlessly trudge away on the latest cardio equipment while watching endless Oprah reruns, never to even break a sweat?
What about those lost souls who simply rip through a few stretches and then a couple [...]
15-minute Fitness
Snowed in and can’t make it to the gym? Well that’s no excuse to sit on the couch all day…There is still plenty to do within the confines of your own home! Here’s a great bodyweight workout that will kick your butt quick and leave you amped up for the rest of [...]
A few really simple fixes and some quick food swaps can save you thousands of calories on game day, without the burden of sacrificing foods you like.
Their are so many ways to improve your workout, on a daily, weekly, and even rep by rep basis. Change the scenery, try something new, get a partner, get some new pump tunes on the IPod, all simple fixes. For some other really neat tricks of the trade, check out the article that myself and some [...]
Sometimes the simplest way to achieve new gains and add a little life to your workout, is to make small changes to what you’re already doing. We all know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. It’s very true for training, and its easy to get caught in a routine. [...]
The video was made as a pilot for the upcoming Rodale/MSN Health and Fitness partnership, and I featured my friend and biomechanist Aaron Brooks’ Versus Apparatus from Myoforce.net. Check it out.
If you’ve ever played golf, you know that it all starts at the tee. If the club face strikes the ball even a fraction of an INCH off upon contact, it can result in your ball being 30, 40, 100 YARDS off when it lands. Its a tremendously complicated skill that avid golfers and world class professionals [...]
