Does Carb Timing For Insulin Sensitivity Matter?

2019-10-06T14:28:11-04:00January 5th, 2016|Categories: Bodybuilding, Diet, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Nutrition, online coaching, Personal Training, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Since I’ve been looking at carbs in my last couple of articles I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a look at another topic heavily debated in the fitness world. That of insulin sensitivity and exactly how much stock should be placed on carb timing. Or even if these theoretical times exist.

For many […]

Don’t Lift Weights Over One Hour

2019-10-06T14:36:47-04:00May 14th, 2015|Categories: Bodybuilding, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Personal Training, Powerlifting, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Training|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you been around the weight lifting scene for a decent amount of time there is no doubt you’ve probably heard of or even had someone tell you directly that you shouldn’t lift weights over one hour. As if there is this timer that goes off in your body after an hour that says “no […]

Is Growth Hormone From Training Anabolic? Part 2

2019-10-06T14:35:35-04:00March 3rd, 2015|Categories: Bodybuilding, Diet, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Personal Training, Powerlifting, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In my last article we looked at numerous studies that all pointed to exercise-induced hormones not having a role in muscle hypertrophy or strength. The evidence was pretty clear that growth hormone and testosterone that is produced DURING training was not anabolic and did not have an effect on protein synthesis. […]

Is Growth Hormone From Training Anabolic?

2019-10-06T14:35:09-04:00February 24th, 2015|Categories: Bodybuilding, Diet, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Personal Training, Powerlifting, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When it comes to getting the most out of your training one of the most important factors is to optimize your body’s hormonal response to training. Or at least that’s what a lot of people tell you. We hear all the time what to do to increase testosterone or growth hormone during our workouts. It’s […]

Sample Muscle-Building Routine Using All Rep Ranges

2019-10-06T14:34:28-04:00February 17th, 2015|Categories: Bodybuilding, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Muscle Building, Personal Training, Powerlifting, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training, Workouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When we last left off during this muscle-building series we were discussing which rep range was the best for building muscle. If you missed it I’d suggest taking a step back and going through that before continuing on but for the sake of time I’ll provide a […]

Grip Strength For Deadlifts, Or To Live?

2019-10-06T14:33:07-04:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Bodybuilding, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Injury, Muscle Building, Personal Training, Powerlifting, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Training|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

grip strength 2We all know by now if you want a strong deadlift you need a strip grip (unless you like using straps all the time which I don’t recommend.) Strong grip strength will help you perform better during many exercises in the gym […]

Best Rep Range For Building Muscle

2019-10-06T14:50:04-04:00January 6th, 2015|Categories: Bodybuilding, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Personal Training, Powerlifting, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training, Workouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you remember when we last got together we talked about training to failure, whether you should do it and if so how often. After looking at a lot of evidence I came up with my opinion based on the data we have available. If you missed it be sure to check […]

Why Training Over Fitness?

2019-10-06T14:51:56-04:00December 29th, 2014|Categories: Diet, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Personal Training, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training, Workouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Why Colin DeWaay Training and not Colin DeWaay Fitness? It’s a question I’ve been asked a few times. Most people tend to put fitness at the end of their name. It makes sense, fitness is a word that can be used to describe just about anything regarding, well, fitness. Just look at some of the […]

Is Training To Failure Necessary?

2019-10-06T14:42:15-04:00December 15th, 2014|Categories: Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Muscle Building, Personal Training, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training, Workouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Welcome back to the series going over all things related to muscle-building. In the first article we kicked off this muscle-building series by discussing many of the elements that factor into muscle growth and more specifically the importance of volume. In the second article we discussed the importance of

Progressive Overload For Continual Improvement

2019-10-06T14:41:03-04:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Health, Injury, Muscle Building, Personal Training, Strength Training, Tips, Weight Lifting, Weight Loss, Weight Training, Workouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When we kicked off this muscle-building series we talked about how when volume is held equal rep ranges didn’t make a difference in terms of actual hypertrophy but that lower rep ranges led to greater strength gains. We talked a lot about the importance of volume when it comes to building muscle […]

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