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I haven't tried it because I'm not a woman. However, I own the original NROL. If NROL for Women is written by the same person and the workouts were designed by Alwyn Cosgrove or his wife Rachel, they're top notch.

Because I can't just let things go: Here's a response to the topic of overtraining from Robert dos Remedios, MA, CSCS; 2006 NSCA college strength coach of the year, Director of strength and conditioning at College of the Canyons in California. If you won't take my word for it, listen to an expert in the field and someone…

You don't need a phd to recognize that human body is more resilient than anyone gives it credit for. Here's one, instead of succumbing to those symptoms, push through them and experience what it's like to overcome an obstacle. People in general would rather be lazy than tough. If overtaining is so easy, why do Dos,…

Exactly, those are also symptoms of depresssion, hypothyroidism, influenza, and about a thousand other illnesses. If you want to take a day off because you don't feel well, by all means, but don't call it "overtraining" just because you want to justify taking two or three days off a week.

Because using "overtraining" as an excuse to skip a workout, is lazy

That's a list of symptoms that everyone goes through from time to time. It's a LOT harder to "over train" than most people think. That list sounds like the list of side-effects you see on medication commercials, complete overkill.

How about goblet squats with the bowling bowl. Hold it with both hands in front of you like you're gazing into a crystal ball, flare your knees out a little, your elbows will tell you when you've gone deep enough, then stand up.

Do your cardio WITH weights. Heavy complexes will kill your cardiovascular system.

' I agree, but sometimes you have to do SOMETHING and you don't have another option. This is just great reference for those times when "life" happens.

It's actually quite similar to the cardio-style strength training that is becoming very popular. It's grounded in scientific evidence that shows that high-intensity interval training causes an afterburn effect and is much more efficient than steady-state cardio for burning calories. What happens (and the book can probably…

The high school showoffs- Two kids who come in every night about the same time and do the same three exercises: bench press, barbell curls, military press. I wouldn't care except they monopolize the only squat rack in the gym for an hour doing it. Last night they loaded a big 185 on the bar for sets of 2 on bench presses.…

What are the principles behind it? I will tell you if it's legit.

Check out "Eat this not that" series from Men's health. They have a restaurant survival guide that is quite useful on the fly.

Ditch crossfit and try anything by Robert Dos Remedios. coachdos.com is a great site and well-worth what I pay for it. His two books, Men's Health Power Training (you probably won't be interested in this) and Cardio Strength Training (the Bible of metabolic resistance training) are outstanding reads as well.

You can actually burn a great deal of calories doing weight training if done properly. Your husband needs a new trainer. He also needs to know that the number of calories he will burn during his exercise routine if only weight training will be smaller than those of someone who does aerobic-type exercise; however, anaerobic…

Do yourself a favor and don't use "thirst" as a measure of how much water you need. Your body is well on it's way to dehydration by the time your brain tells you that you are thirsty.

You can get very usable results in four minutes using a TRUE tabata protocol. Check out the actual research articles conducted by Tabata, et al. The true Tabata protocol relies on "negative" rest periods meaning you do interval training and rest for less time than you work. The true Tabata protocol also relies on ALL OUT…

I would say it's probably less than that, but that's still not much.

Can you give more of a description of what he's doing? If it's EDT (escalating density training) it's the real deal... If it's some new fad plan, it's probably not.

BTW: If you're fairly new to this type of cardio training using heavy weights you might want to bring a bucket. Even though I'm about 100 pounds overweight I'm fairly active when it comes to lifting and throwing things.....I was ready to hurl after my first density session. I walked out of the gym and could barely speak to…

Let me suggest an even better plan. Escalating Density Training. Originally created by Charles Staley years ago and brought back to the forefront in recent years. Pick five exercises 1) an explosive movement such as a hanging clean, jump shrug, power snatch, dumbbell snatch, etc 2) a knee dominant exercise such as a front…

I don't want to discourage you, but I also don't want you to be disillusioned into thinking this is going to happen. I'm not saying it's impossible. I think it's very probable that you can achieve half of that stated goal. Your body relies on a calorie deficit to lose fat and requires a calorie excess to build muscle.…

If you're working out late at night and want to maximize your results your post-workout nutrition needs to contain some mix of whey and casein protein. Whey protein will digest more rapidly and provide for immediate post workout recovery. Casein protein (cottage cheese is a great source) digest more slowly and will provide…

I'm right there with you

Mideon is dead on accurate... reps in the 8-12 range...muscle mass is all about the right amount of volume Take in a lot of protein, if you're destroying that much muscle tissue in the gym, your body has to have the right nutrients to repair itself and adapt I recommend any article you can find by the guy I've quoted in my…

I think it's probably based on the notion that every 3500 calorie deficit you create is supposed to equal one pound of weight loss. So if you have your goals set for 2 pounds off per week, the calorie goal is designed to give you 7000 calories of deficit every week based on your projected BMR + calories burned from normal…

Try them with the weights in different places. For example, if you normally do a typical barbell squat with the weight across your traps/shoulders, place the weight across the front of your shoulders and do front squats. pick up a dumbbell by the end with both hands and let it dangle between your legs with a super-wide…