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I Can Feel Your Pain but… Just Walk Away and Never Look Back…

Someone can’t handle their juice… and I don’t mean orange. The moral of the story is… If you are remotely serious about strength training and really want to make the most of your potential, then these kinds of diluted, fru-fru, ho-hum, frilly gyms aren’t for you. Go find you a serious gym with serious lifters [...]

Strength Building Tip: Pull Up Training

For those who can build up to a 30 second lowering phase (eccentric) on the pull up / chin up, you can be sure that the concentric phase will have gained one rep.

Heavy Front Squats

This is how it should be done! The front squat is a basic movement and should be done hard and heavy and rarely is. We at ICON learn to master the front squat before we teach and push the back squat. For full thigh development without depending on any mis-engineered hack squat machine (just waiting [...]

Bodybuilding ICON Larry Scott Audio Interview – Parts 1 & 2

Larry Scott Bio Larry Scott, “The Legend”, established and personified bodybuilding’s beach Adonis image, and duly became the sport’s Golden Boy after winning the IFBB Mr. America title in 1962 and the IFBB Mr. Universe in 1964. He was the first-ever IFBB Mr. Olympia in the contest’s initial two years of life, 1965 and 1966. [...]

Dr. David Jenkins – Next Nutrition Founder Audio Interview – Parts 1 & 2

For over 20 years, Dr David Jenkins, Nutritional Scientist at the University of Toronto (UofT), and Canada’s largest food distributor, Loblaws Companies, have worked together to create appealing product lines with healthy food ingredients. “Dr Jenkins’ research is different because he is working at a clinical level to see how food ingredients affect people’s health,” [...]

Peanut Butter: A Super Sports Food

In this day and age of energy bars, protein powders and weight gain shakes, many athletes forget about “real” foods, such as peanut butter. Peanut butter, in my opinion, is one of the best sports foods around. It’s tasty, inexpensive, satisfying, nourishing and even good for our health. But all too often, I hear athletes [...]

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