Author: Scott Avery

Shoulder pain from breathing wrong, really? Box breathing can help

Shoulder pain from breathing wrong, really? Box breathing can help

Posted by | Dec 12, 2017 | |

What’s the big deal with breathing? Have shoulder pain? Feel stressed anxious? How we breathe may be to blame.  This sounds crazy, but hear me out! Improper breathing techniques, known as chest breathing, causes our bodies to rely on our secondary breathing muscles more to do our main breathing muscles job. This is a term called synergistic dominance. Synergistic dominance is a term used for the big muscles becoming lazy, and the secondary muscles to do all of the work. The example we’re using here is the Scalene muscles (secondary breathing muscles). If we are chest breathing all of...

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BMI or mirror??

BMI or mirror??

Posted by | Dec 6, 2017 | |

Many folks that are confused about what they should weigh, for their height, like to base it on a BMI chart. A BMI chart is a very broad and generic tool used to tell a person what they should or should not weigh. The main problem with this is it doesn’t take muscle mass into consideration or bone structure. These two indicators can cause your BMI to be out of range and close to obese! BMI= weight in kg./(height in meters squared) example : me : weight in kilos=85.45kg  height in meters 1.77 85.45/(1.77×1.77)= 27.27 …average health range 18.5-24.9...

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quarter – full rep training for hypertrophy

quarter – full rep training for hypertrophy

Posted by | May 16, 2017 | , |

Want a huge pump and some serious DOMS? Try to take an exercise and hit the end range of motion twice and make some serious hypertrophy gains. Here is an example on the bench press. I would stay in the 6-12 rep range on these. Start with a weight you can handle for 15  normal reps and try to do 4 sets of 8-10. You will feel a HUGE burn and a HUGE pump from training like this. Enjoy adding this exercise variation to your arsenal! This movement can also be used as an assistance exercise to help the...

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Love cereal? Try to make your protein powder your milk!

Love cereal? Try to make your protein powder your milk!

Posted by | May 11, 2017 | , |

This has been a staple in my diet for years. I love cereal and always will. Most of us grew up on it. And I know many people that like to have cereal at night as a snack. Here’s a great way to feel full and have a bowl of cereal at night. Pick a cereal (if you’re worried about sugar content pick cheerios or rice flakes) Make sure the protein has xanthan gum, cellulose gum or guar gum in  it for full whip. (quest works great)Other proteins may not have this and it will not whip up. It...

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