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Guest Interview: Andy Slagle of BuyBulkWhey.com
August 25, 2010 in: Blog
Channel 42 Wake Up Alabama – Icon Performance Tone-Up Tip of the Week: Hard Core!
August 2, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Wake Up Alabama CBS 42 – Icon Performance Tone-Up Tip of the Week: Perfect Pull Up
July 31, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Wake Up Alabama CBS 42 – Icon Performance Tone-Up Tip of the Week: Flat Tummy Pump
July 19, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
CBS 42-ICON Performance Wake Up Alabama Tone up Tip of the Week: Stiff Legged Deadlifts
July 12, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
ICON Performance-Wake Up Alabama Channel 42 Tone up Tip of the Week: The Bicycle Crunch
July 5, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
10 Golden Lessons from Steve Jobs
June 20, 2010 in: Blog
1. Steve Jobs said: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Innovation has no limits. The only limit is your imagination. It’s time for you to begin thinking out of the box. If you are involved in a growing industry, think of ways to become more efficient; more customer friendly; and easier to do [...]
7 Things That Hold People Back From NOT Achieving Their Goals – #1
June 6, 2010 in: Blog
1. They have not clearly identified what they want. I know that that sounds pretty obvious, yet think about it. Think about how detailed you get when you make out your daily to do list (everyone does this…). Even as you are writing this list, you might even add to that list with the smaller [...]
Wake Up Alabama-ICON Performance Tone Up Tip of the Week-Muscles Don’t Stretch
May 30, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Wake Up Alabama – ICON Performance Tone Up Tip of The Week – Exercise Without Even Moving?
May 19, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Eat An Antioxidant Rainbow
May 17, 2010 in: Blog
If you’re into bodybuilding or strength training, you know how important it is to eat a variety of protein-rich foods. Each different dish provides a unique amino acid profile, and to optimize the benefits of protein muscle support you want to sample as broad a range of these amino acid profiles as possible. It’s the [...]
Top 12 Reasons To Get Your Nap On
May 15, 2010 in: Blog
Missing out on sleep lately? Check out these facts on how sleep can affect your performance. Fact # 1: A midday nap reverses information overload – those feelings of irritation, frustration and declining performance on mental tasks that set in during intense encounters with new information. Fact #2: The late stage of sleep – sometimes [...]
The Shoedini! One Step Closer to Helpless Blobs…
April 25, 2010 in: Blog
A RANT (as if you couldn’t already tell…) This a great litmus test for just how fast we are being fed-exed to hell in a hand basket as a nation hurdling toward to fat blobs, obsolete, helpless idiots in Wall-E. We are as a nation are doing our best to find anyway around exercise and [...]
Icon Performance Tone-Up Tip of the Week: Better Cardio Workout
April 13, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Icon Performance Channel 42 Wake Up Alabama Tone-Up Tip of the Week: No More Love Handles!
March 29, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Creating a Mind Muscle Connection
March 25, 2010 in: Blog
Concentrating fully on each movement. Committing to a full range of motion. Focusing on the muscle you’re working is called creating a mind-to-muscle connection, and it can boost the results of any exercise. “You can improve the quality of your workout by at least 25 percent by developing a mind-to-muscle connection,” according to The 28 [...]
Channel 42 Wake Up Alabama – Tone-Up Tip of the Week – Summer Arms
March 24, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Channel 42 Wake Up Alabama – Shoulder Stability
March 16, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Training Tip: Aerobics First?
March 15, 2010 in: Blog
Do NOT do your aerobics BEFORE your strength training sessions. It will lower you ability to recruit high threshold motor units which will hamper your strength gains.
Youth Training Tip: Martial Arts
March 9, 2010 in: Blog
The Best Martial Art for Kids Under 6 is any Style of Chinese Kung-Fu.
Congratulations! 2010 Alabama State Championships Finalists – Vestavia Hills Rebel Wrestlers!
February 28, 2010 in: Athletes to Watch, Blog
5th Place Match – Alex Whitehead (Vestavia Hills) 37-14 won by pin over Johnathan Mitchell (Central-Phenix City) 5th Place Match – Shane Martin (Vestavia Hills) 31-21 won by decision over Jiamante Moore (Lee-Montgomery) 27-16 (Dec 7-1)
6A 135 – 1st Place Match – Geoffrey Bostany (Spain Park) 50-3 won by decision over Parker Grissom (Hoover) 42-9 (Dec 6-2)
February 28, 2010 in: Blog, Events
Congratulations to Geoffrey Bostany for winning State Wrestling Championships! 6A 135 lb Class.
ICON Performance on CBS 42 Wake Up Alabama – The Lunge/Squat Complex
February 26, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Muscle Building Tip: Strength vs Size
February 23, 2010 in: Blog
A weight increase of 10 pounds in reps for a major lift (squat, bench, deadlift, row, etc.) translates into a gain of one pound of lean muscle.
If this doesn’t motivate you… nothing will.
February 20, 2010 in: Blog
Ellen Demonstrates This Ludicrous Exercise Chair!
February 14, 2010 in: Blog
Cool Exercise Ball Trick!
February 14, 2010 in: Blog
You got to see this cool video! Please don’t try this at home!
ICON Performance and Murphree’s Produce Valentine’s Day Special!
February 9, 2010 in: Blog, Events
CBS 42 Wake Up Alabama Tone-Up Tip of the Week: Med Ball Knee Hug Wall Ball Squats
February 9, 2010 in: Blog, In the News
Be sure to tune in every Monday morning at 5:30 and 6:30 am on CBS 42 Wake Up Alabama with Alexa Jones for the ICON Performance Tone-Up Tip of the Week with Jeff Green MS,CSCS,USAW,USATF
Larry Hobbs Audio Interview – Parts 1 & 2
February 4, 2010 in: Audio Interviews
Did you know there is a diet pill that not only causes weight loss, but also reduces cholesterol, reduces blood pressure & reduces the risk of heart disease? Did you know there is a diet pill that not only causes weight loss, but also reduces the risk of cancer? Did you know there is a [...]
Dr. Barry Sears Audio Interview – Parts 1 & 2
January 31, 2010 in: Audio Interviews
Dr. Barry Sears grew up in Long Beach, California, where he exhibited both an athletic and scientific bent. After graduating from Palisades High School at the age of 17, Sears went to Occidental College to major in chemistry. He played both basketball and volleyball in college, and even after he earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry [...]
Old Dr Dan Gwartney Audio Interview – Parts 1 & 2
January 30, 2010 in: Audio Interviews
Daniel L. Gwartney, M.D. has consulted for numerous companies within the sports nutrition field. He has aided in product design, raw materials sourcing and technical writing for several dietary supplement manufacturers. Additionally, he excels in novel product applications for proprietary and patented materials. Dr. Gwartney brings his knowledge and skill as a clinical pathologist and [...]
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Daily Tip: Peri Workout Nutrition
August 17, 2010 in: Daily Tip, Nutrition
For a simple answer, however, I suggest starting out by sipping 0.8g of carbohydrate/kg and 0.4g of protein/kg diluted in somewhere around 1L of water (5; 17-20).
Interesting Sources of Protein
July 18, 2010 in: Nutrition
If you aren’t adverse to seafood, reach beyond the everyday salmon and tuna to try swordfish. Often sold in thick, round filets that resemble a white and pink pie chart as a result of the wedge-shaped section removed during cleaning, they’re great for grilling during the warmer summer months. Try wiping a thin coat of [...]
Top 6 Foods to Help You Sleep
July 12, 2010 in: Nutrition
We know that certain foods give you energy, but did you know that there are foods that can help you sleep? Here’s the scientific bit: typtophan is an amino acid that is used to create serotonin, a neurotransmitter that slows down nerve traffic, thus aiding relaxation. Vitamin B6 helps convert tryptophan into serotonin. With this [...]
Sugar by any other name…
June 22, 2010 in: Nutrition
These are all different names for all the sugars that are listed in your prepackaged foods on the shelf at most grocery stores. Just to give you a heads up on just how much refined sugar we are actually taking in… NOTE: I am not including ingredients that include the word “sugar” in them, like [...]
Are Energy Drinks Hazardous to Your Health?
May 30, 2010 in: Nutrition
I am a real Paul Check fan. This is one of his better posts that hit right home with the large amount of youth athletes that we train and we see these drinks all the time. Soft drinks are bad enough with all the phosphoric acid content but these really are a double whammy. I [...]
Top 30 SuperFoods
April 1, 2010 in: Nutrition
The 30 Superfoods 1. Lean Red Meat (93% lean, top, round, sirloin) Fatigue, memory Beef has gotten a bad rap, probably because so many cuts of beef are drenched in saturated fat, the bad fat that clogs a woman’s arteries and leads to heart disease, colon cancer, and other ills. But, extra-lean beef has a [...]
(BV) Biological Value = Hype or Help?
March 28, 2010 in: Nutrition
One of the forms of technobabble in the supplement business involves BV (biological value). BV is an experimental approach used to determine the quality of food protein. Technically, protein quality is a function of amino-acid content, specifically, essential amino acids. However, there is more to protein metabolism than simply the amino-acid profile. Digestibility and utilization [...]
Recommended Resource – BuyBulkWhey.com
March 16, 2010 in: Blog, Nutrition
Just talked to Andy Slagle with BuyBulkWhey.com and I was very impressed with his knowledge and his passion for giving a high quality product for a low price with no chemicals, no MSG, no preservatives, and no artificial flavorings or sweeteners. I asked him what was the difference about his whey than all the others [...]
Snake Oil? Health Food Supplements Information Database
March 14, 2010 in: Nutrition
If you are a health buff or conscious about what you eat or take in, you will find this web app useful. Snake Oil is a health supplements information graph that shows the human health benefits of different substances. It shows the most popular and promising food supplements plotted in a graph so that you [...]
Fat Loss Tip: The Other Thermogenics…
March 10, 2010 in: Nutrition
A great source of non-ephedrine based thermogenic fat burners – green tea extract and cayenne pepper. Most of the weight loss research has used a dosage of around 300-400 mg EGCG or extracts containing about the same amount. This is the equivalent to around 3-4 cups of green tea daily, although the catechin content varies [...]
Nutrition Tip: Going Gluten Free
March 8, 2010 in: Nutrition
50-60% of the population is gluten sensitive or intolerant. Try to eliminate gluten, seeds and some nuts from your diet for one week and see if you don’t function better.
Top 16 Reasons to Take Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplementation
March 7, 2010 in: Blog, Nutrition
1. Lowers one’s LDL cholesterol (the bad) and raises HDL cholesterol (the good). This will reduce the chances of plaque build up in your arteries thus reducing your chances of atherosclerosis. 2. Less joint pain and inflammation (especially EPA) by regulation the body’s inflammatory cycle, will reduce your chances of getting arthritis early and keeping [...]
Website Resource Review: FitDay
January 26, 2010 in: Nutrition
FitDay is a popular online diet and weight loss tracking journal with over 2.2 million members. It lets you track and achieve your long-term fitness goals based on your daily foods and exercises. It analyzes this information and shows your daily calorie intake (fats, proteins, carbs), weight loss from each activity, long-term diet analysis and [...]
Myfoodapedia
December 28, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
This is great site for nutritional breakdown information to help design diets with and dissect current diets that you might have been given as a part of your program. It is a pretty comprehensive site that still refers to the government’s antiquated food pyramid system, yet the breakdown menus are definitely helpful when one doesn’t [...]
Eat Less, More Often
November 29, 2009 in: Nutrition
Most people normally don’t eat five or more small meals per day, but instead eat two or three larger meals for the sake of convenience and tradition. Yet studies have shown that a common American “gorging” diet – in which a person obtains total calories in only a few meals per day – may lead [...]
No-Bake Protein Cookies Recipe
October 31, 2009 in: Nutrition
Ingredients: Make 4 Cookies – 1.0 Cups Old Fashioned Oatmeal (raw) – 4 heaping tablespoons Omega-3 Peanut Butter – 2 Scoops your favorite protein powder (Chocolate might work better here) – 1/4 Cup Water / Skim Milk to allow for mixing Breakdown per cookie: Cal: 212 Pro: 13 grams Carbs: 18 grams (3 fiber) Fat: [...]
Antioxidant Armor
October 25, 2009 in: Nutrition
Research shows that free radicals can wreak havoc on muscle tissue health, slowing recovery and impairing performance. With the right diet, athletes can take advantage of antioxidant power to ward off these effects. By Lisa Dorfman Lisa Dorfman, MS, RD, CSSD, LMHC, is Director of Sports Nutrition and Performance and an adjunct professor at the [...]
Top 10 Positive Consequences of Recovery from Food Addiction
October 14, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
An actual “gratitude list” from a recovering food addicted individual: 1. My clothing always fits – I’m in no danger of dying by strangulation. 2. The comments I get from people are so funny I laugh all day 3. I really love those comments from women – I never get tired of hearing “You look [...]
FatBurgr: Fast Food Restaurant Nutritional Guide
August 16, 2009 in: Nutrition
Fatburgr is a fast food nutritional guide which gives you information on nutritional content (calories, fat, carbs, fiber) of the food you order in your favorite restaurants. Currently information is available for popular restaurant chains like McDonalds, KFC, Wendy’s, Burger King etc., with new ones added daily. Browse nutritional content of menu items by restaurant [...]
New Diet Helper Online Database-Nutrition Toolbox
August 9, 2009 in: Nutrition
NutritionalToolbox is a comprehensive food nutritional information database which lets you look up information (e.g. calories, vitamins, minerals) on more than 40,000 foods including brand name grocery items and fast food products. You can browse foods by categories (fish, fruit, beverage etc) or search with keywords. There is an “Add to total” button next to [...]
Weird Nutrition Facts
August 2, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attack than the Aussies, British or Americans. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attack than the Aussies, British or Americans. African drinks very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attack than the Aussies, British or Americans. Italian drink large amount [...]
Eggs… Nature’s Protein Pill
June 21, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
How many of you out there enjoy your eggs? Good, as a matter of fact that’s great, keep it up and continue to read on because you may very well be on the road to increasing your egg intake and thus increasing your muscle mass. But what about all you out there that are neglecting [...]
The Fizz May Taste Good Going Down but…
June 14, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
Carbonated beverages have been around quite a while. But the side effects of these fizzy drinks are far more than we were led to believe. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, nor do I think out government or more specifically, the FDA, is actually out to get us. I believe, they are smart enough, just don’t [...]
Avoid This Popular Diet Snack Like the Plaugue!
June 8, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
I was sitting here today thinking to myself, what’s the very worst food you can eat if you’re trying to lose weight, burn fat, tone up, etc? One food that is often eaten by dieters, but ironically works against them in losing weight is rice cakes. Yes rice cakes! You are probably eating one right [...]
Top 6 Six Simple Yet Powerful Things You Can Do To Jump Start Your Fat Loss Program
June 3, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
1. A Gallon of Water a Day. 128 ounces that’s all. It’s imperative that one gets plenty of the life giving substance that has so many functions that pertain to fat loss and muscle accrual that there is no room for discussion. Split the gallon up evenly as you can during the day. Don’t fret [...]
How To Make “Cheap” Creatine Chews
May 29, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
Those little Creatine Chews sure are great. Makes it easy to get plenty of creatine – especially in the loading phase. But they’re pricey. So I’ve put together a recipe for creating your own creatine candies at a price that’s less intimidating. However, if you’re short on time, spending the few extra bucks for the [...]
Soy: the Toxic Health Food
May 5, 2009 in: Blog, Nutrition
It’s been spread around the world like wild fire—‘Soy is healthy and good for you.’ That’s what a billion dollar marketing campaign will do. And that’s what the soybean industry has done. They have spread the word of soy being good for you. All it would take is a quick search online and you will [...]
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