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Athletic Fat Loss & Three Days vs. Four

12. Jun, 2010 9 Comments Fat Loss, Strength & Conditioning

Here’s the next installment of my interview with CB…

Craig Ballantyne: Now, I know you don’t specialize in fat loss, per se, but over the 15 plus years of training people, what have you noticed and what lessons have you learned from training athletes that might help average people and some of my readers lose fat more efficiently?

Jason Ferruggia: Athletes that train intelligently always seem to be able to get down to single digit body fat fairly easily. Then you have the average guy going to the gym struggling and he’s [...]

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“I Don’t Do Dat, Baby”

10. Jun, 2010 9 Comments Fitness Business Info, Strength & Conditioning

In Part 4 of the interview I did for Craig Ballantyne last month we discuss training females and a few random business tips for trainers and strength coaches.

Craig Ballantyne: Let’s transition back into some training stuff. Now, your gym isn’t just for guys, right? There are girls that train there also, correct?

Jason Ferruggia: There are a few girls, but that’s not my focus or main specialty. My first priority and focus is getting guys bigger, stronger and faster and just improving their overall performance. That is my true passion. We [...]

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High Intensity Conditioning Methods

04. Jun, 2010 28 Comments Fat Loss, Strength & Conditioning

Here is part 2 of the recent interview I did for Craig Ballantyne. Click HERE for part 1.

Craig Ballantyne: Tell us a little bit about some of the unique conditioning that you do? Obviously you’ve got the prowler, you guys do sprints, but what else do you have in Renegade Gym that you guys do?

Jason Ferruggia: First of all, it should be noted that not everyone needs to do conditioning. Typically the most explosive athletes do the least amount of conditioning. These would usually be throwers. But if [...]

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How We Do It At Renegade Gym

03. Jun, 2010 2 Comments Strength & Conditioning

Today I have part 1 of a recent interview I did for my buddy Craig Ballantyne.

Craig Ballantyne: Jay, why don’t you give us a little bit of background about who Jason Ferruggia is? Some of the readers may not be familiar with your stuff, so just give us the Renegade Strength Coach background.

Jason Ferruggia: Sure. I’ve been training people since the early 90’s. In 1994 I opened up Renegade Gym in New Jersey with the money I had saved up. I was actually still going to school at the time [...]

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5 Ways to be a Bigger, Better Athlete

28. May, 2010 25 Comments Football Training, Strength & Conditioning

It’s almost impossible to imagine it today, but there was a time, many years ago, when athletes avoided strength training like the plague for fear that it would make them slow and “muscle bound.”

Fortunately we have long since discovered that that was a myth and nowadays just about every athlete on the planet, from tennis players and golfers to football players and wrestlers, participates in some type of strength training program. This is frequently talked about by the announcers and highlighted in pregame videos.

How the sporting world has changed over [...]

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How to Stay Hydrated

27. May, 2010 3 Comments Nutrition, Strength & Conditioning

Question: What is the best way to stay hydrated during training camp and two-a-days? Is there a certain hydration “procedure” during hot weather workouts, which may or may not be limited to a certain form of drink mix.. ( ie, fruit, vitamin supplements, change of food intake, etc.. )

Despite the best efforts of football staffs, we seem to hear of disasters in this area every year……I want to just try and give my son every advantage that I can…

Answer: The best thing I’ve found, that I I’ve used with [...]

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Big Calves & Athletic Ability

14. May, 2010 12 Comments How to Build Muscle, Strength & Conditioning

In between sets of box jumps recently one of my athletes asked me why we don’t train calves.

“You wanna train calves?” I asked.

“Well, I’d like to have some bigger calves. I mean, mine look kinda silly, being so small and all.”

“Have you seen mine? Not exactly what you’d call huge. More like tomato cans.”

“There not as small as mine, though.”

“Yeah, but I’m 30 plus pounds bigger than you. Proportionately they’re the same.”

“So, you don’t train your calves?”

“Nope.”

“Why not?”

“Well, first of all, I hate training calves. I hate all isolation movements [...]

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Transformations, PR’s and 12 Bananas!

03. May, 2010 34 Comments How to Build Muscle, Motivation, Strength & Conditioning, Videos

The Men’s Fitness video crew stopped by Renegade Gym on Saturday to shoot some footage of Sean Hyson’s amazing transformation and his attempt at a new PR in the squat. Sean is the fitness editor at Men’s Fitness magazine and has been taking the train out from New York City to train at Renegade Gym on the weekends for over a year now.

On top of that we also had a visit from one of my favorite guys in the entire fitness industry, none other than the owner of Monkey Bar [...]

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7 Ways to Fix Your Shoulders

27. Apr, 2010 33 Comments How to Build Muscle, Strength & Conditioning

As you may know by now I suffered a torn rotator cuff and labrum that required surgery. The injury was a long time in the making and the destruction of my shoulder began many years ago when I was doing stupid things like isometronic training in the power rack and other high risk, low reward methods.

Before surgery I was sitting at about 227 pounds. After several months of being incapacitated and eating like a normal human I was down to 179! Like I’ve always said, my hardgainer genetics are freakishly [...]

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5 Big Reasons Why Everyone Should Train Like Athletes

10. Mar, 2010 11 Comments How to Build Muscle, Strength & Conditioning

Guys, I’ve been saying it for years- you gotta train old school and you gotta train like an athlete, no matter what your goal. Someone who wholeheartedly agrees with me is my buddy and professional strongman competitor Elliot Hulse, who is also the co-creator of the Lean Hybrid Muscle System (which is on sale for 50% off until tomorrow, by the way).

Check out this killer post by Elliot below…

If you’re like me, you probably want nothing more than to feel like a ’super-stud’ every time you take your shirt off [...]

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