As most of you are already aware… I’ve had chronic knee problems since surgery back in 2007. Actually, my knee wasn’t that bad after surgery, it was actually a year later when I was training and then the next morning I woke up and it was the size of a balloon. No idea what happened.
Last year (2010) was the worst it has been, mainly because I continued to play footy on it. After every Saturday game it would take me all week to prepare and recover just to get up for the following week.
I had scope on it September last year to give it a clean-up from all the damage I did… but it didn’t really do much.
Because all the dramas I’ve had with it, I was just way too frustrated to play footy this year and decided to have the year off to give the knee a break which will hopefully allow me to on in the future.
For once I hit the nail on the head and the decision has so far paid off.
Because off all the dramas with the knee, I have been very hesitant to go hard with my leg training.
With that being said, I got back into box squats last night and for the first time in about 2 years and hit a nice weight pain free.
I worked up to one top end set of 100 x 5. That’s nothing to be impressed with at all, but I was very happy with the number considering the circumstances…
This is a ‘I couldn’t be bothered typing so I thought I would do a video’ blog post by Grant Lofthouse Hey what’s up, hope are doing a’ ok’ It’s been about 4 months since the move to the new gym. And since I’ve been gettin’g tons of emails and comments about what the new [...]
In today’s post I’m going to give you my top 11 favourite ab exercises.
Let’s face it… having rock hard abs has got to be one the most impressive thing you can display on your body. Well, at least that’s what Jersey Shores ‘the Situation’ would say.
But he’s right. I mean, who doesn’t abs that turn heads?
As I’ve stated in previous posts, for beginners; apart from planks, side planks, prone mountains and bird dogs. All dynamic ab exercises, that I’m about to show you, are a waste of time for a couple reasons.
Beginners don’t need to perform dynamic ab exercises because…
At first; Beginners will get enough ab training from all other big compound exercises such as shoulder presses, chin ups, squats, deadlifts and pushups. They have a 2 bird with one stone effect, so why do any more if you don’t have to?
Usually all dynamic exercises are too hard for beginners to perform correctly with good technique. So until you build up your strength via body weight exercises and plank variations you won’t really benefit from doing em’.
Also remember that if you are above 15% body fat, it doesn’t matter how much you train your abs. What you need to do is focus on fat loss first and then move your focus towards getting a 6 pack. By the way these two posts should help you do that…
This is a mindset post by Grant Lofthouse [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTS6t-tpEdY[/youtube] http://www.products.cardiohaters.com/ripped-without-cardio/ Let me know if you enjoyed the post or if you had an “ah ha” moment. I will be back in a couple days with an inspiring post on how to lose the first 19 kilos. Â
Ey there I know I haven’t posted much this week,
I have been flat out with the usual xmas hype plus putting together my personal training website and also doing a bit of a renovation for my gym (it’s going to be sweet).
Anyways a friend of mine posted this video up on his facebook page. I cannot take credit for finding it so thank you Macca.
I felt that I had to show you this, it is literally the most inspirational video I’ve ever seen. If you don’t like feeling emotions or getting a boost of motivation then don’t watch it.
P.S – Make sure you have the sound turned on…
Hey hope you are doing great, if you have always wondered how to lose stomach fat without cardio then you should check out this video I have done for you…
Hey I hope you have been enjoying this little series.
So Monday I spoke about the weight training aspect which you can check out here…
4 Exercise Swaps To A Flatter Stomach Without Cardio
And you can check out Part 1 of the series here…
3 Food Swaps To A Flatter Stomach Without Cardio
Ok so far I have covered Diet, Weight Training and now I’m going to cover Cardio. So let me take you back to 7am this morning…
I woke up and remember that today was ‘cardio day’, so straight up I was…
Not A Happy Chappy!And because it was ‘cardio day’, for the entire morning I was…
Hey hope everything is going great and you are on your way to that body you have always wanted,
So last Friday in part 1 I spoke about diet and the 3 foods you can swap do to get a flatter stomach,
You can check that post out here
And as promised today I am now going to give you 4 exercise swaps.
But first here’s another reason why cardio sucks…
Lets face it, whether you are training for it or not. You want to look athletic; in fact EVERYONE wants to look and be athletic, there is just something about that long lean muscluar look that you and I dream about. Well guess what? Cardio is the one thing that will put a stop to that. Here’s why…
Traditional cardio methods produces alot of lactic acid (LA) throughout the body. Lactic acid is the worst thing for fast twitch muscle fibres (these fibres make you look and move like an athlete) and in fact LA will make you slower and less explosive during training, which sort of defeats the purpose of training in the first place.
So your next question I’m guessing is what do I do?
Well my first answer is diet, my 2nd answer is weight training. So today I am going to give you 4 exercises that you can do to start taking steps in THE RIGHT DIRECTION towards getting that flat stomach without cardio…
Hey how you doin’, hope you’re having a great day.
Lately I have been getting a lot of questions about breakfast. Should or shouldn’t I eat it?
Well today I’m going to reveal to you my importance on breakfast and whether it will help you lose weight. I warn you my answer is not typical…
P.S. If you hate reading then I have done a video or if you’re at work and you can’t have the volume on then I have written it out for you….
Enjoy!
It’s funny today for some reason I was chatting with my grandma and some how we got onto talking about standing on one leg. So I was curious and challengened her to a standing single leg comp. Guess what? I won! (was so proud of myself) The reason why I won is due to the fact that my nan could not stand on one leg at all (and because im about 55 years younger then her).
Then I asked her what she does all week. She is retired so her answer was pretty short basically to summarize, she almost did the exact same movement patterns every day. And that was walking, getting out of a chair/car, climbing stairs and ocasionlly picking something off the ground. This was her incidental exercise that she did every single day.
In fact this would also be very similar to my day minus the exercise.
So why cant she stand on one foot? Simple. She never ‘practices’ standing on one foot so she has lost that motor pattern.
The old ‘use it or lose it’ cliché.
Ok so what has my grandmas daily routine got to do with exercise?
