http://blog.fitbeast.com Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:32:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pt. 3 Probably the last of the biggies falls under both gym safety and gym etiquette… and is: Put away your weights.  Barring the safety aspect, there is really nothing more annoying than to finish up a set of 200 presses with 6000LB dumbbells (warm up of course) and picking them ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/10/26/gym-etiquette-pt-2-2/ Pt. 2 So last week I touched on gym safety, this week I’m going to brush the surface of gym etiquette. Probably the most annoying thing for me at the gym are the grunts that are, in all likelihood, audible from space.  The expenditure of air from your lungs while you’re in ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/10/12/gym-etiquette-pt-2/ So Nick and I both agree that gym etiquette and safety need to be discussed just to lay down the best practice rules for those that are painfully misinformed. First of all, please make sure that you’re using clamps to hold the weight on your barbells… I can’t say how many ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/10/02/gym-etiquette-pt-1/ In this endless hunt to find which supplements offer the best effects with the least amount of side effects, here is my assessment of the best “become so extreme that you explode” N.O. / pre-workout additions, I mean seriously… don’t we all want to look like a giant veiny/arterial aliens? My ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/09/08/thumbs-up-to-gaspari/ So, America is fat.  Occasionally this fact will be broadcast on the news, but the fact of the matter is, this is a serious matter. 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese (around 101 million people) The population of the United States is around 304 million 1/3 people is at ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/08/24/americas-financial-and-biological-deathbed/ Now that the two core steps have been covered we can get to the benefits of healthy living!  Obviously if you have a healthy physique you look better… everyone looks better with muscles rippling as they move and the sun glinting off of perfectly tanned skin, but there are even ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/08/11/hooray-fitness-pt-3/ The second part, in my opinion, is the most fun of the two, namely physical activity.  The physical activity keeps your muscles strong and growing (because let’s face it, no one wants to cut down to their “ideal” weight and be blown over by a hefty gust of wind because ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/08/06/hooray-fitness-pt-2/ People are forever looking for ways to lose weight and bring out their inner “six pack,”  the problem is that when people lose things they virtually always find them again (the same is true with bodyfat).  The problem is that the majority of those in search for perpetual muscularity don’t ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/08/01/hooray-fitness-pt-1/ This year’s Tour de France has been pretty exciting so far. For one, there haven’t been any doping positives(yet) – which is a plus – And there have already been several breakaway victories – most notably by Thomas Voeckler, who has been a personal favorite since he held the yellow ... http://blog.fitbeast.com/2009/07/12/tour-de-france/