Review: Nick Tumminello’s Warm Up Progressions 1 and 2
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS Training without properly warming up is like bungee jumping with a cord sprayed with liquid nitrogen (OK, maybe not that severe, but just go with it). My clients will usually spend 10-15 minutes warming up including foam rolling, muscle activation, and dynamic movements. When a new resource comes out that can help my clients (and myself) warm up more efficiently I usually get really excited. Nick Tumminello of Performance U and NickTumminello.com put together... Read More
Review: Under The Bar
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS I don’t usually write posts about books I have just read, but this book is different. I feel lucky to have talked to the author of “Under the Bar,” Dave Tate in the past for the 1-year anniversary of The FitCast. Dave is a straight forward, no BS kind of guy, in today’s world you really appreciate that. “Under the Bar” is a kind of like a life manual that contains all of the lessons Dave has leaned in his lifetime (as... Read More
I Was Once Fat…What’s Your Story?
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS Some of you have heard my story, but I found some old pictures and I thought it would be a good time to retell it. When I was a freshman in high school I clocked in at just under 210 lbs. I was unhappy. I can home from school and just ate food all day until I went to sleep then the cycle started all over again. How did I end it? One day something just clicked, I don’t remember exactly what it was but it was something like I ate so much I couldn’t... Read More
Episode 142: What Up Leigh?
Get this Week’s Episode: MP3 Download/iTunes/RSS/Odeo Hosts: Kevin Larrabee (Twitter), Jonathan Fass, and Leigh Peele Sponsor BlackStarLabs.com (Home of ICE BCAAs and Ultra Peptide 2.0. Tell them The FitCast set you!) FitCast News Blogs Destination Abs Update Yoga Aftermath KevinLarrabee.com What up Leigh? Destination Abs Podcast (Psychology of Fat Loss) Dan John Book/T-shirt Winner Hi Kevin! I wanted to enter the contest, and I sent $50.00 to St. Jude, a childrens... Read More
Yoga: The Aftermath
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS Last Friday I blogged about my thoughts on yoga and that I would be participating in one of the classes on Sunday. Well, I did, so now I have some things to day. 1. I did enjoy the class, it was relaxing while still being challenging enough to make some sweat slide off my head and onto the purple yoga mat. But, I feel relaxed and the endorphins flowing when I do heavy deadlifts too. 2. Yes, there is a lot of lumbar flexion and rotation in some of the yoga... Read More
Destination Abs: Day 134 (Picture Update)
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS It has been a while since I have posted pictures for the Destination Abs project. After taking a few days completely off of training I hit it hard for three days with a refeed and on Monday I went back to the normal schedule of lifting. So just to recap, in this phase the goal is to continue to put on lean muscle while limiting fat gain. The process of doing this is pretty delicate but Leigh has been a great help locking in the calories. I am still... Read More
Episode 141: It’s Not Your Session w/ Nick Tumminello
Get this Week’s Episode: MP3 Download/iTunes/RSS/Odeo Hosts: Kevin Larrabee (Twitter), Jonathan Fass, and Nick Tumminello Sponsor BlackStarLabs.com (Home of ICE BCAAs and Ultra Peptide 2.0. Tell them The FitCast set you!) FitCast NEWS Blogs Cheat With This Destination Abs Update Yoga Winner of Dan John Book and T-shirt is: Kyle Snay Last Discussion on Censoring Black Star Labs Advertisement Questions for Nick: Nick, you are kind of known for creating new exercises,... Read More
Yoga: So I am Taking a Class on Sunday
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS Yoga…Well…Yoga is… OK, I will admit, I am not a huge fan of yoga. It isn’t because I don’t think it is a good form of exercise because I do. It is defiantly better than nothing. It isn’t because I don’t want to have “better sex” (see picture to left). It isn’t because I think it is exclusively for women. I am not a big fan of yoga because people taking the classes could may hurt themselves by: Becoming... Read More
Destination Abs: Day 129 (Goals, Plans, and Lessons Learned)
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS It has been 129 days since I started this with Leigh Peele. That is over 4 months! In that time I have made some major body composition changes but the best part of the experience came from what I learned. I learned that you can get incredibly fast results (I mean 3+ lbs a week) when your program nutrition and training correctly and see a drastic change in the mirror. That really is important, seeing the fat-loss reflecting back at you in the mirror,... Read More
Cheat With This: Orville’s Smart Pop Kettle Korn
By: Kevin Larrabee, CSCS It will eventually happen. You will cheat, no one is perfect. Diets tend to be difficult and appropriately so as your body is craving nutrients that you aren’t giving it due to the calorie deficit. If you are going to cheat you should at least minimize the damage to your fat loss goals. When I was a kid, we went through microwave popcorn like it was water (or Juicy Juice). I would even get excited when we got the Pop Secret Pop Qwiz popcorn that was... Read More
