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Tip #1: The two most important factors in your vertical jump is horsepower and movement efficiency. Strength per pound of bodyweight is the horsepower-movement efficiency is how well you can carry out the movement. You put those 2 things together and they determine the height of your jump

Mountain Dew Ingredients: Ingredient #1: Sodium Benzoate Number 1: One known cancer danger exists related to sodium benzoate. If you combine ascorbic acid (vitamin C) with sodium benzoate and potassium benzoate (another preservative), you get benzene. Benzene is a known carcinogen Number 2: Sodium Benzoate chokes out your body’s nutrients at the DNA cellular level [...]

Tip #1: This spice acts as a diuretic. It also encourages our bodies to sweat and get rid of harmful toxins. Tip #2: Black Pepper actually contains sodium. But, it’s a minuscule amount. There are about 10 milligrams of sodium in 100 grams of Black Pepper. If you’re wondering how much Black Pepper that is, [...]

Number #1 – Three miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups—the kind you find in office candy bowls and trick-or-treat-bags—fill your belly with more sugar than a glazed doughnut. Number #2 – Half a pack of Skittles has more sugar than a scoop of Haagen-Dazs Cookies and Cream Ice Cream.  Number #3 – Nine Twizzlers carry as [...]

Reason #1: Carnitine promotes fat oxidation and endurance performance in athletes, especially when the combined with caffeine Reason #2: Try 1-3 grams of Carnitine w/ Breakfast, Pre & Post workout meals. Carnitine increases fat transportation to the mitochondria.

Reason #1: Jogging on a treadmill is not a natural motion because the moving track decreases the work of the hip extensors, e.g., hamstrings and glutes. The resultant training effect could lead to structural imbalances, such as an increase in forward pelvic tilt due to tightness in the hip flexor muscles (e.g., the psoas), which [...]

NOTICE! *This is a article on CORE not six pack abs. I will do further articles on six pack abs, but this is for CORE (with rectus abdominus is just one muscle out of many in the group of CORE musculature) But if you want less injuries, better athletic performance and better spinal stability, than [...]

Number 1. It improves your memory. Your brain makes sense of all that you did and learned throughout the day while you’re sleeping. Number 2. It helps regulate your weight. Sleep deprivation causes poor regulation of the hormones that control your appetite. Sleep is also the ever important fasting period of the day – if [...]

Tip #1: Myth: Margarine is healthier than butter-Truth: It all depends on the margarine. If it is hydrogenated-put the stick down Tip #2: According to Menzies School of Health Research-Replace butter/margarines w/ olive oil, cheese/dairy fats w/ nuts-and lose weight effortlessl Tip #3: Depression would become less common if we were all to stop using [...]

Lyle McDonald/Dan Duchaine both suggested using an Isocaloric diet if one is shifting from a high carb, low fat diet into a ketogenic diet # Ketogenic diets for endurance energy-the body requires at least a 2 week acclimation period to wean athletes off their carbohydrate diet # ICON Twitter Updates for 2012-10-09: 10 Things YOu [...]