Author: Jerry Pitman

Want to achieve a greater, personal record-breaking power lift while simultaneously increasing your overall strength? Learn to warm-up cleverly. Warming up properly or improperly can make or break some workouts. As a new lifter, many years ago, I used to think that warming up was mostly for older folks who needed it so that they didn’t injure their joints. Man, was I wrong. Done strategically, a great warm-up can do a lot more than spare our joints. Here is one of my own ground breaking strategies that you can use for yourself. This method is probably most useful for compound…

Ever had an overuse injury? If you have not then consider yourself fortunate. An overuse injury can be every bit as bad, if not worse, than an injury that happens quickly. Overuse injuries occur whenever we use a certain part of our body for an extended period of time or number of repetitions that exceeds a normal range of use. This can occur in either the joints or the muscles of the body. Overuse injuries typically occur in the elbows, knees or back. Once they occur, they can be debilitating and very painful, and may become a chronic condition. The…

When I began training people for fitness, more than a couple of years ago, I was quickly disenchanted. It did not take more than a couple of months for me to lose a lot of my initial excitement at the prospect of helping people to finally achieve their hopes and dreams. I was not only disenchanted, I was downright astonished and discouraged. Why? Because it didn’t take long at all for me to realize what the largest problem of our society really is; what the number one contributing factor to people’s health issues and obesity really is. And, what I…