I have been getting a lot of emails from women who are either doing more than an hour of exercise a day or want to and are asking me for guidance in coming up with an extended day training schedule.  The obvious premise all these women are operating under is that if a little exercise [...]

I’m a big believer in mixing things up.  That’s one of the things I like about P90X – Tony Horton does incorporate a schedule that changes from time to time and that helps keep your muscles confused and progress moving. But even P90X as great as it is has some limitations.  I’d do some things [...]

I get asked a lot by women if they should do cardio to lose weight and my answer is always that they will see better results from weightlifting.  This is hard for them to comprehend because they feel like they are burning more calories during a cardio session than a weightlifting one. Now there are [...]

New research from Sports scientists at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro suggests that if there is a particular muscle group you want to grow bigger AND stronger than other muscle groups, you work that muscle group first. The research sprung from a study where the Brazilians recruited 31 students from the Brazilian Navy [...]

I love push ups as an all round upper body workout exercise!  No equipment is needed and you just use your body to supply the weight in this weight lifting exercise.  Push ups can be done anywhere and a series of different push up moves as you get in P90X makes a fantastic work out. [...]

Yesterday the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) put out study results in which they indicated that women, particularly us mature women should exercise 60 minutes a day just to prevent weight gain. WHAT? I don’t believe that’s true – it hasn’t been for me.  I do exercise a good 60 minutes a day [...]

I‘ve been having fun with the new Brazil Butt Lift workout. But I have to admit I was a little skeptical at first. I mean after a round of P90X, my butt was pretty toned and tight and I didn’t really expect to see much improvement with Brazil Butt Lift. However, I was wrong! My [...]

I meet way too many women who just want to do a bit of cardio for exercise and then diet to maintain their weight. Now while any exercise has some physiological (and often emotional) benefit, if you really want to change the shape of your body, you need to build muscle and that means you [...]

When I think about push ups, the phrase ‘oldies but goodies’ always comes to mind. Of course, before I started looking into push ups more closely I had no idea just how ‘oldie’ this basic exercise really is. The truth is you can find recorded mention of push ups as far back as the Roman [...]

For decades we have been told that if you wished to lose fat must you perform cardio or aerobics. This counsel was the top direction in the ’80s and ’90s and even at the beginning of this decade. However in current years, several research studies suggest that weight lifting may offer some of the same [...]