Those who follow me on twitter (www.twitter.com/rickcollinsesq) or facebook (www.facebook.com/rickcollinsonline) or train at my gym know that in late January 2011, I tore my right triceps off the bone. The tendon was pulled out at the elbow, yanking out loose bits of bone and spilling what seemed like an ocean of blood within the tissue…
In a blog last month, I covered the 4 Big Benefits of working out with a training partner. But does the old maxim that “two’s company and three’s a crowd” apply to gym workouts? Some people would say so, but we all know three isn’t a crowd if it were to come to a scene…
We often spend a lot of time in the gym, making sure we have high quality workout hoodies and shorts that lets your body breath. We do the workout and feel good about ourselves but we rarely look back and think about if you’ve actually had a workout that’s beneficial to us. One common way…
It’s officially the New Year and the gyms are once again filled with the short-term commitment people. Most will be long gone by late February, and will never meet their goals of losing fat, building rock hard muscle, and getting into amazing shape. You can go to the gym and flounder around if you like. …
Over the decades in which I’ve been hitting the iron, I’ve trained alone for stretches but mostly I’ve trained with a lifting partner. The faces have changed over the years, but I’ve always consistently gotten my best workouts with a partner. Why do many people get their best results from training with a partner? Here…
FOX News Alabama has just reported on a study conducted by obesity researchers at the University of Alabama concluding, in the words of researcher David B. Allison, Ph.D., that “the usual answer of too much eating and too little exercise may be a drastic oversimplification of the true causes of obesity” and that “increasing body…
San Francisco recently became the first major U.S. city to ban toys from kids’ meals that are laden with calories, sugar and fat. In an effort to fight childhood obesity, the board of supervisors passed the measure stipulating that only meals with less than 600 calories and less than 35 percent of calories from fat,…
New fossil research conducted by British and Canadian scientists suggests that our cave-dwelling ancestors had far higher testosterone levels than guys today. The study focused on finger length ratios, a known correlate to testosterone exposure in the womb, to estimate the testosterone levels of fossilized specimens of ape-like early hominids, Neanderthals, and an early modern…
There’s no doubt that diet and exercise are the best path to major changes in your body composition — from flab to fab! But the popular demand for an effort-free “magic bullet” solution to a better body will always keep medical researchers busy. People more often opt for a tummy tuck in Newport Beach, CA…
As the obesity epidemic continues to plunge America into deeper doo-doo, along comes KFC to add insult to injury with their new “Double Down.” They take a heaping helping of bacon and cheese and shove it between … are you ready? … two deep fried pieces of chicken! The misbegotten sandwich thingy is replete with…
