Exercise

A Great Tool for Pull-Ups

February 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...

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The Wrist Roller Solution

December 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...

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Subscapularis Pull-Up

November 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...

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Get A Grip

October 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...

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Ring Dips Done Right

July 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...

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How to Reduce Shoulder Stress During Presses

August 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...

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Three Exercises That Beat Boring Planks

May 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...

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Chest and Back Superset

April 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...

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Full Squats with Chains

April 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...

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Heavy Hip Thrusts are Dangerous

January 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...

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Evening Yoga Improves REM Sleep

December 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...

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My 6 A.M. Medicine Ball Ritual

July 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...

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How to Balance Your Triceps Development

June 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...

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Lean Away for Six-Pack Abs

April 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...

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A Great Triceps Exercise

April 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...

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Exercise Equipment That Lasts A Lifetime

January 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 ...

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The Choices You Make in 2018

January 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...

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The Broomstick Ritual for a Bigger Bench and Deeper Squat

January 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...

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A Lateral Raise from Beyond 2001

December 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...

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Prioritize to Enter the Eye of the Storm

November 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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