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Tips for Pull Up Technique

It was only in the past 6 months, having been on a raw living food diet and having one intense personal training session with R. James Oliver, that I was finally able to do pull ups, an absolutely awesome bodyweight exercise. In the video below, Adam Steer, co-creator of Bodyweight Exercise Revolution, gives some useful [...]

The Chest Expander from LifeLine USA for Your Strength Workout

I recently added the chest expander from LifeLine USA to my fitness equipment arsenal and I’ve been very happy with the results. In the following YouTube video, Mike Gillette gives a quick demonstration of the chest expander from LifeLine USA and how he uses it to help gain (functional) strength: Mike’s point about timed pulls [...]

Demonstrations of three essential bodyweight exercises on Power-Fitness site

In a recent post I discussed Hindu pushups and bodyweight exercises as a way of achieving functional strength-endurance. While looking for demonstrations of the proper form for the “Royal Court” exercises as taught by Matt Furey in his book Combat Conditioning: Functional Exercises for Fitness and Combat Sports, I came across the following site: http://www.power-fitness.info [...]

Quick Review of the Power Gym Door Mounted Exerciser

As part of my plan to carry out body-weight exercises, I was on the lookout for a pull-up/chin-up bar. However, I’m currently in a rented apartment. There is no good place in my space to install a pull-up bar, especially without damaging door frames or walls. The answer to my problem was the Power Gym [...]

Body-Weight Exercises For Strength-Endurance and Hindu Pushups

Several weeks ago I came across the Matt Furey, author of “Combat Conditioning: Functional Exercises for Fitness and Combat Sports”. He advocates almost exclusive use of body-weight exercises in order to achieve strength-endurance and flexibility. After investigating some, I decided that undertaking a regime of body-weight exercises was the best path for me to a [...]