SolidEats: Thanksgiving Dinner Dos and Don’ts
Thanksgiving dinner may be the ultimate cheat meal for some, but if you’re looking to continue pushing towards fitness goals, there’s no reason to fall off the wagon. If you’re on a bulking cycle or looking to mass gain, here are a few tips on how to approach your Thanksgiving meal: Eat heavy but do not gorge yourself. Maxing out the digestive system could lead to digestive and gastrointestinal...
Body-Solid means SWEAT!
Body-Solid means S.W.E.A.T.: Systematic Workouts and Energetic Aerobic Training. That is not official, I just made it up, but the Body-Solid products such as the free weights, the home and commercial weight machines, the treadmills, elliptical, and spin bikes are all made for one basic purpose — to make you sweat. I’m not talking about the nervous sweat that might be the result of a business meeting gone badly, or the...
Lei Liu of China Sets Bench Press Record
Hard to have an excuse after you see this incredible video. Lei Liu, who contracted polio as a young child, benches 498 lbs. beating the old record by over 58 lbs. Powerlifting for athletes with disability made its first appearance in 1964 at the second Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Only men with spinal injuries participated in this first event. Soon thereafter, ‘Weightlifting’ changed to...
BB23 Bicep Bomber in December Muscle & Fitness
Thanks to WWE superstar, lawyer, actor and former reality TV star David Otunga for his endorsement of the Body-Solid BB23 Bicep Bomber in the December issue of Muscle & Fitness. “The Bicep Bomber is a really cool piece of equipment and I always train with it to do biceps…If your gym doesn’t have one, you really should buy one." Check out some pictures from the M&F shoot as well as a...
The Top 13 Reasons Why You Need to Start Doing Bodyweight Exercises
I’ll admit it; I am hooked on bodyweight exercises. I have been working out for two decades, rotating through dozens of different workout fads but one aspect to my workout programs that have always been consistent are the use of bodyweight exercises. I never really thought about why bodyweight exercises were so important to me until I started marketing my fitness product Strength Stack 52 (currently launching on...