• How does a movie star stay young and fit?

    Well known in her native country, the Czech movie- and theatre-actress Simona Praskova is a shining example of how a woman can keep her attractive looks and physical fitness all the way during a long and fruitful acting career. Actors are usually also athletes: there is a significant and …

  • Testosterone

    Testosterone is the main male sex hormone – it is testosterone that makes the man a man. Most likely, testosterone is also what makes men more muscular than women and what makes some men (presumably those with higher testosterone levels) naturally more muscular than others (those with less …

  • Advanced Resistance Training Techniques

    As our total volume of resistance training experience increases with each workout and we achieve gains in strength and muscular hypertrophy we make a steady transition from untrained to trained. Along with this transition our rate and degree of increase in strength and muscle size diminish and …

  • Mechanical Malfunction

    I have a very simple, interesting, and likely eye-opening fact about your body for you. It’s actually a central tenet of Functional Health: your body functions best when it can work like it’s meant to. Yep, that’s it. Told you it was simple. Don’t let the simplicity fool …

  • HIIT – the promises and pitfalls of the ultimate fat-killing method

    If you are seriously involved with bodybuilding, fitness or any related sport chances are you have either tried HIIT method or you are planning to. The number of existing successful scientific studies is so persuasive and anecdotal evidence so overwhelming that it seems there is no reason not to …

  • The Kinetic Chain

    You’ve probably heard that a baseball pitcher’s power comes from his legs, right? But you might not have understood exactly how or why that is. It’s hardly obvious...unless you understand how the body works, in which case, it makes perfect sense. And whether you care about …

  • Focus on function

    What were you doing the last time you injured yourself? Dead lifting in the London Olympics? Benching 300 pounds.....? Or were you actually just lifting the weight plates up to the bar? If I were a betting gal, I’d bet it was the latter. And in fact, it’s just as likely that you were …

  • Chest Training

    It seems like the most pertinent of muscles to train. We hope it enters the room a moment or two before the rest of our body follows and it seems to be the standard most people are measured by with regard to any training talk; “How much do you bench?” Let’s first consider the …

  • Periodization, Rest and Recovery

    It’s that time of year again, summers here and spending time in the gym becomes a secondary thought behind showing off what you earned in the gym – your muscles. It might be that the beach or the park is too tempting in the sunshine, or that family commitments mean you’re going on …

  • Effective Body Shaping – Women

    A hundred times you have wanted to start doing something about your figure but all that “guaranteed to work” advice from women’s magazines, web sites, forums, Facebook or friends was just so overwhelming and confusing? Let’s bring some light on the matter and sort things …