How to Build Muscle, Gain Strength & Become a Better Athlete

Big Blue Sale

19. Sep, 2011 0 Comments Football Training, Strength & Conditioning

To celebrate the Giant’s home opener tonight I’m running a one day sale on Renegade Football Strength. This guide is chock full of in season workouts to keep you or your athletes strong throughout the season and has an entire off season plan that you can get started on in the winter.

Check it out at RenegadeFootballStrength.com

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Strength Training After 40

19. Sep, 2011 5 Comments How to Build Muscle

When you get to be my age (37) or older you need to make some changes to your training to ensure continued progress and to minimize the risk of injury. For more on this topic check out my article today at the Huffington Post by clicking HERE now.

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Volume vs. Strength Gains For Hypertrophy

15. Sep, 2011 19 Comments How to Build Muscle

Things have been nuts the last few weeks and I’ve been crazy busy at Renegade which is why I haven’t posted in a while. Today I’m gonna share with you guys a discussion from the Renegade Inner Circle on volume vs. strength and what is most important for hypertrophy.

First of all let me state that weaklings get nothing out of bodybuilding style or traditional hypertrophy work.

So first and foremost you need to get strong for a couple of years.

Then at that point you will need to incorporate more traditional rep [...]

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How to Box Squat Properly

29. Aug, 2011 24 Comments How to Build Muscle, Strength & Conditioning

The box squat is a great tool for teaching people how to squat properly. A lot of people can’t squat with passable form their first time out but just about everyone can box squat, as long as you set the box to an appropriate height. That means the point at which they can maintain a neutral spine or where they start crashing into the box due to weak hamstrings. It also teaches people to sit back a bit more and helps alleviate some of the knees forward, quad dominant squatting [...]

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The Hidden Benefit of Barbell Training

25. Aug, 2011 22 Comments Fitness Business Info, How to Build Muscle

By now we all know that in order to get bigger and stronger you have to use a barbell in your training. This is obviously not any kind of new and exciting revelation. You want bigger legs you squat. You want bigger shoulders you overhead press. You want a bigger back you deadlift.

Now, to play devils advocate I could make a valid argument why the only barbell exercises you truly need are the squat and deadlift and why for the upper body you could get away with dumbbells and bodyweight [...]

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Dress For Success

23. Aug, 2011 15 Comments Fitness Business Info

This info is for trainers and coaches but really applies to every business where you will be interacting with people.

One thing I will never do when training people is wear old school sweatpants or those swooshy wind pants that trainers love (nobody hates those more than my buddy, Craig Ballantyne, just FYI). It just seems so 90′s. I mean, why not add a fanny pack while you’re at it?

When you look like everyone else you will get grouped in with them. You need to stand out and look professional. Especially [...]

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How to Run a Successful Training Facility

18. Aug, 2011 26 Comments Fitness Business Info

I started training people when I was nineteen years old and still in school. After working in the college weight room I got out on my own. At first I was working with adults in a one on one setting for twenty bucks an hour. Eventually I worked that up to fifty and had a pretty good base of clients. They were all the average fat loss personal training client, however, and that was really the last thing I wanted to spend the rest of my career doing. I wanted [...]

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Essential Equipment for a New Gym

17. Aug, 2011 9 Comments Fitness Business Info

Today’s post is from a forum discussion in the Renegade Inner Circle.

Question:
Jay,
I’m opening a new gym and I want to run group training out of it and set it up “Renegade style” as I have a lot of old clients and leads who are interested because I use to teach similar type group training at my old globo-gym.

My question for you is what baseline equipment do you recommend getting for it. I know prowler, tire, kettlebells etc. Just wanted to see what your recommendations would be. It would be [...]

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My Three Years as a Vegetarian

12. Aug, 2011 54 Comments Nutrition

Fourteen months ago I ended my three year stint as a vegetarian. Here are the reasons why…

Firstly, I debated about even writing this article at all because the last thing I want is to start a whole debate about the morals and ethics of eating meat. For some reason a lot of people take it more seriously than religion and I don’t really want regular visitors to this site getting all fired up and arguing with each other about something so trivial.

But the fact of the matter is a lot [...]

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The War on Raw Milk

09. Aug, 2011 58 Comments Nutrition

Last Wednesday I drove over to Rawesome in Venice, like I do every week, to pick up some meat, produce and a little raw butter, cream and goat yogurt. I arrived at the tail end of a government raid in which the LAPD and government officials poured out all of the raw dairy and left with a flat bed truck full of produce, nuts and bison steaks.

We all know that it’s not in the best interest of big business/ big pharma for us to be healthy. Apparently selling healthy, organic [...]

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