Quads, hamstrings, calves – read how gyms and members are making mistakes while training these large and powerful muscle groups.
My wife’s high-end health club has an indoor waterfall behind the front desk. It’s the kind of place where you might find an empty Perrier bottle left on the gym floor. I wouldn’t want to be a member, but I’d love to try it out with one of her guest passes. Unfortunately, she forbids it….
One actual contribution of mine to the world of fitness has been promoting my shin protection method for the deadlift. Proper deadlift form requires that you drag the bar up your shins. For some body types, like mine, this movement involves painful scraping of your skin. My solution is: create thin but sturdy shin guards…
In spite of the hustle, the folks waiting outside my gym every morning at 4:59 am don’t look particularly fit. And though they have the willpower to roust themselves out of bed, their overall training intensity is surprisingly low. The trickle of members at this hour makes it easy to pick out new faces. One…
At work, when my department holds its weekly Zoom team meeting, the format is for each person to share two things: something that made him or her smile, and then a work update. Last week we held the meeting in person over a holiday lunch. We joked that as we all cruise into middle age,…
My son, camp counselor and green team leader, lost a closely contested Color War competition last summer. The outcome of the entire tournament came down to the final event – a tug of war. Independent of strategy and heart, the other squad was just stronger. At such moments, there’s little comfort that a dad can…