Male or female, the Angles90 grips are a great tool to use for pull-ups. Pick up a pair today! Visit http://tinyurl.com/Angles90Grips and use coup...
Read MoreFebruary 09, 2021 | John Paul Catanzaro
Male or female, the Angles90 grips are a great tool to use for pull-ups. Pick up a pair today! Visit http://tinyurl.com/Angles90Grips and use coup...
Read MoreDecember 17, 2020 | John Paul Catanzaro
Last week we looked at a great forearm training tool called the Formulator. Today, we’ll look at another good one, the wrist roller. With this t...
Read MoreNovember 19, 2020 | John Paul Catanzaro
A great exercise to pair with incline or standing presses is the subscapularis pull-up (also known as a lean-away pull-up). To do it, pull yourself u...
Read MoreOctober 24, 2020 | John Paul Catanzaro
IronMind implements are a great way to improve your grip. Here I’m using a pinch-grip block, but there are many more tools that you can use. ht...
Read MoreJuly 11, 2020 | John Paul Catanzaro
Doing dips on rings will heighten stabilizer activity. If you do a phase of these and then return to parallel-bar dips, you should notice a nice boos...
Read MoreAugust 02, 2019 | John Paul Catanzaro
Yesterday we looked at a simple fix to decrease the stress on your hips during wide-stance squats and deadlifts. Today, we’ll look at a way to de...
Read MoreMay 02, 2019 | John Paul Catanzaro
The front plank is a popular exercise to promote core stability. Sure, it carries some benefits and there are ways to make it more difficult. Problem...
Read MoreApril 27, 2019 | John Paul Catanzaro
A “super” combo to finish off an upper-body workout involves the standing cable crossover and the bent-over dumbbell lateral raise. Do 3 sets of...
Read MoreApril 22, 2019 | John Paul Catanzaro
Different strokes for different folks. I prefer high-bar, ass-to-grass squats. If you’re not used to doing full squats, you can use chains to ligh...
Read MoreJanuary 27, 2019 | John Paul Catanzaro
On an episode of the Live Life Aggressively Podcast, guest Jerry Brainum talks about the dangers of hip thrusts. He describes a report where a 36-ye...
Read MoreDecember 14, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
Normally I do yoga on a Thursday afternoon, but on October 26, I did it in the evening, around 7:30 p.m. and then went to bed shortly afterward. Th...
Read MoreJuly 31, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
When the weather cooperates, I love to get outside for some conditioning work. That's what I do pretty much every Saturday from May to September, a...
Read MoreJune 06, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
In order for you to develop a muscle completely, you must hit it from all angles with various set/rep schemes using a multitude of multi-joint and si...
Read MoreApril 16, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
The lean-away chin-up is a great exercise not only for your lats and biceps but also for the subscapularis, serratus anterior, triceps and believe it...
Read MoreApril 11, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
One of my favourite exercises for the triceps is the 60º Incline EZ-Bar Triceps Extension. I picked this one up from Randy Roach, the author of M...
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
Take a look at the photo above. That's a client's home gym. He and his wife have trained with me for over 20 years. At first, they had only a small ...
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
Every day we make thousands of choices – some big, some small – and every one of them can influence your life. Even the most minor choice you mak...
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2018 | John Paul Catanzaro
Sometimes to hoist big numbers in the gym you need to start with weights that are light, really light, as in broomstick-light! Believe it or not, a s...
Read MoreDecember 11, 2017 | John Paul Catanzaro
If you've been doing lateral raises for years but your shoulders haven't budged, then science may be able to help. You see, muscle growth requires a...
Read MoreNovember 15, 2017 | John Paul Catanzaro
If you place yourself in the eye of a storm, you can have all kinds of chaos going on around you, but you'll stay centered and in control. If you ste...
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