Fighting the Effects of Aging with Weight Training

For many people who have never seen a gym in their life, when age fifty (or perhaps even age forty) roles around they really begin noticing they are getting slower, walking up steps is a little harder, playing hockey with the boys is getting tougher as they don’t have that pop to get to the [...]

Ladder Rep Scheme

A “ladder” is a rep scheme that involves working up from one number of repetitions to another over a series of sets.  This is a very effective method for building strength.  A common example is to use a load that allows you to comfortably perform 5 reps, and then choose how many ladders you want [...]

Weight Training for Skiing

Have you hit the hill this winter and felt lackluster in your performance?  Maybe you feel you are getting too old for this skiing thing?   Not true, you just need a properly designed weight-training program to help you get the most from your weekend trips to the hill.  This type of training will also significantly [...]

Improving Your Golf Game in the Weight Room

Let me be as clear as possible, NOTHING will replace the time spent on the golf course practicing and honing your craft!   However, that is not to say a well-designed lifting program will not help your golf game.  My clients average a 20 yard increase in driving distance under my program.

The areas golfers need to [...]

Breaking Plateaus

Having trouble performing a clean and press with a heavier kettlebell?  Or would you like to add 5-10% to any barbell or dumbbell lift?  Try this method, known as Density Training.   Two key components of any training program are volume and intensity.  The goal of Density Training is to maximize the volume of work done [...]

How Do You Treat Your Body?

I would like to share the following article with you.  It is written by Mike Boyle, a leading expert in the fields of Strength and Conditioning, Performance Enhancement and general fitness.  It really puts the importance of effective training, proper diet, and regular prehabilitation practices into perspective!

Imagine you are sixteen years old and your parents give you [...]

Super Food

Many famous athletes who take it regularly for strength and endurance have popularized bee Pollen. It has been used successfully to treat many aliments including allergies, asthma, menstrual irregularities, constipation, diarrhea, anemia, low energy, and cancer, rheumatism, arthritis and toxic conditions. A Russian study of the inhabitants of the province of Georgia, where many live [...]

Spinning For Fat Loss?

Q:  Clance, Why don’t you like spinning for fat loss?
 
Spinning is high speed, low tension, and high repetition exercise with out eccentric loading. This is tiring work, which gives perception by depleting calcium pump at the neuromuscular junction without inroad into hormonal levels that are necessary for metabolic changes. Spinning will likely do more harm [...]

Women Should Lift Heavy!

Q: Clance,
One of my female friends just attended your Strength Training for Women seminar and she said, ”It was great!” She also told me you said, if women do not want to bulk up, they should lift heavy weights.
 A:  When I tell women they should lift heavy, they look at me like I am crazy. It’s as [...]

Advantages of Interval Training for Sport

 Q: My name is Ted Evans and I was a three time OFSAA champion in wrestling.  While I was wrestling I did a lot of running when I could. However, when I couldn’t get out to team practice or run because I worked after school, I would use my job lugging boxes and stacking skids as fast [...]