Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas from John Sifferman

Your Question of the Day is: Do you have any special plans for the holidays?

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To your health and success,

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What Muscle Does THAT work? Clueless gym trainee strikes again!

It was destined to happen, and I can’t say that I’m surprised. While swinging my clubbell the other day, I was asked the dreaded question of “What muscle does THAT exercise work?”

Now granted, I get asked this question a LOT. It seems that whenever I set foot into a health club, I get [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from John and his dance partners: you've got to see this perfectly choreographed video!

Happy Holidays From Tom Venuto, Kyle Battis, and John Sifferman From Burn The Fat: Inner Circle

Brought to you by the Burn The Fat: Inner Circle

Merry Christmas everyone!

To your health and success,

Fitness Professional and Lifetime Aspiring Dance Athlete

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Specificity in Training – How much carry-over does weight lifting have in real life? Will your time under the iron help you on the field, on the mat, or in the ring?

I have read numerous studies that have concluded that specific weight lifting activities have very little, if any, carry-over to athletic activities. It sounds crazy, I know. Believe me, I was pretty skeptical when I started reading these research abstracts myself. How could getting stronger hinder an athletes performance? Isn’t it the biggest, strongest, fastest athletes that are always the best? These questions were racing through my mind, and I had to ask myself, “how much does my training help me perform?”
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Body Transformation with CST and Clubbell Training: Day 11 – watch John Sifferman transform his body with clubbells

Day 11 – High Intensity Day (12/16/08)

Today’s session got squeezed in at the end of the day (it’s 10pm now).
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Tuesday Q+A: FlowFit help, how to setup a beginners program by John Sifferman

FlowFitQUESTION: Hey John, how are you?

That video of you performing the flowfit exercise is intense! I can’t do that haha, anyway i was really hoping you could please help me out choosing my routine. I just bought the dvd and on it it says its a 4 phase program but Scott did not specifically tell you which workouts to do or what routine to follow. On the dvd, there are 7 exercises and 4 flow exercises. For a couch potato such as myself, which exercises do i do and for how long? thank you very much for your help!

-stab

Here’s the video I think Stab is referring to:

FlowFit Circuit Training

ANSWER: Hey Stab,

That’s a good question because Sonnon does leave it a little open-ended as to how to begin with the FlowFit program.
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Squat and Pushup Circuit Training with John Sifferman

Squats and pushups are what I like to call big bang, or money-maker exercises. Both of these bodyweight exercises cover a large area of the body since they are compound exercises. I like to combine bodyweight exercises like squats and pushups into a circuit, doing one exercise after the other with little to no rest. It offers great strength training benefits, but it also supercharges your metabolism. This is why circuit training is often called “metabolic conditioning.”

Here is an example of just that.

Squat and Pushup Circuit Training

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