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Foods with a high glycemic index (GI) are often associated with contributing to obesity. The glycemic index is the degree to which a food will incr...

Creatine is widely used in athletics as a way to increase energy to muscles over short term bouts of exercise. Creatine has been thoroughly support...

I have been an athlete my entire life, and never had a problem with anxiety until weightlifting. When I wrestled I never thought much about it just...

Squatting and How It Relates to Olympic Weightlifting Olympic weightlifting is a very technical sport. Technique is king, but you still need to be...

The postpartum period can be difficult for many women. Often times women (and some men) suffer from, “the baby blues” or a more serious postpartum ...

Training Prevention: ACL Tears With sports in full swing for the year, ACL tears are one of the most common season-ending injuries for any athlete...

Can you Overtrain? There is always a lot of questions about whether overtraining is a big issue in weightlifter. I would say if you are an elite a...

Three Snatch Variations to Improve Back Strength and Feel the Knees Back Pause Below the Knee Snatch: The pause below the knee snatch is very go...

I had a doctors appointment the day before thanksgiving. I asked to be checked and have my membranes swept if there was any cervical dilation. The midwife said the cervix was 2cm dilated and membranes were fairly separated already so the sweep wouldn’t have much effect, but she did it anyway. I had an induction scheduled for the following week, and I knew that if labor didn’t start on its own the end was near. Later that afternoon contractions started. They were not too intense or regular so I didn’t bother timing them, but they weren’t going away so I asked my parents if they could come up to stay overnight in case we needed to go to the hospital. 

Selecting the right rep scheme is just as important as exercise selection when tailoring a program to a specific type of athlete. The typical break...

Jokes were made prior to the birth of our twins about our selected names. No one knew what they would be, people wanted to guess and question what crazy names we would come up with and what contrarian aspect we would use for naming them. Naming kids has always been enjoyable to me, something that brings excitement to the entire process and is always a crazy time as the parents bounce ideas off one another. In all reality, I always feel like children really “take on” their names. They embody the name and very rarely do I find myself meeting someone and thinking, “Boy, that person should have been named X instead of Y.”

Many of you know about Anton, you have seen him moseying around the gym, sleeping on his bed or taking a poop on the turf to spite DJ. He had a serious run. I adopted Anton in 2004 when he was two years of age. I had been arrested for fighting at Penn State and needed to serve community service to expunge my record and decided to do so at the Humane Society. Anton (Trouble was his name at the shelter) was there the entire week. His card said he was not good around other dogs or around children. By my last day at the Humane Society, Trouble (Anton) was still in the slammer. He was due to be put down the next day if no one adopted him. I felt bad for him. Every day he would lick my fingers and sit there and shake while I pet him. So I did what every naive college student would do. I decided to adopt him.