When You Get Back To The Gym
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So now that you’ve been working out at home for two months, it’s likely going to be time to shift gears soon and get back to the gym. Many places around the country are slowly beginning the process of gradual re-opening of businesses such as nail salons, barber shops, retail stores, and even restaurants and bars. Gyms and fitness centers will be opening in many parts of the country soon.
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So what do you do next? Well, the first thing to remember is that you don’t have to go to your gym right away even if it re-opens. Most Americans (64% by one survey), at least initially, feel that the re-opening of these businesses is premature. So you don’t have to go, it just may be an option to do so.
If The Gym Is Closed
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Gym closed? Join the crowd that was sent home. For many, working out at a commercial gym is an important facet of a fitness lifestyle. Having access to good equipment and traveling to a place dedicated to exercise helps form and keep up the habit of working out. There’s also the social element, undeniable, which some care more for than others. Serious lifters, bodybuilders and athletes can be among those who share each other’s interest in serious training, which makes working out harder, well, easier, or at least motivates you more.
But with the current coronavirus pandemic, now stretching into more than six weeks and counting, you have to find other alternatives to get your workout in. For many under stay-at-home government orders, the logical—and maybe only—answer is working out at home. If you have a home gym set up already, or at least a workout area, great. You’re a long way to solving your workout problem. But what do you do if you don’t have a home gym setup, with ample weights and maybe even a choice of a few machines?
In Troubled Times
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These are difficult times for everyone around the world as we face what was once an unknown enemy, the novel Coronavirus Covid-19. Now well known and in full bloom, the virus has attacked people all around the globe, as we have watched the virus wreaking havoc with health everywhere. No one seems to be beyond its reach.
The media is filled with reports 24/7 with harrowing details of how the illness has spread to just about every city and town in our country and most of the world. It’s easy to get caught up in a litany of panic or despair as we watch one discouraging report after another.
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The Black Prince 2: Diary of a Bodybuilder
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The Black Prince 2: Diary of a Bodybuilder is the second book of old-school bodybuilding legend Robby Robinson, AKA The Black Prince and Mr. Lifestyle. It is a collection of Robby's 50+ years of bodybuilding and lifestyle wisdom. It will send you through all three of the crucial tenants of muscle building and health: Nutrition, Training and Recovery as well as the competitive prep methods that won him numerous bodybuilding titles over his long career. This book is an excellent reference and a must-read for anyone serious about bodybuilding and an overall sustainable healthy life!
Spring Thing
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Ron Kosloff, A Life in Nutrition & Bodybuilding
The bodybuilding world lost another leading light when Ron Kosloff died in August 2019. He was not a big-name competitor so many don’t even know who he was. Nonetheless, he was an important figure in the sport.
Ron Kosloff, who lived in the Detroit, Michigan area, was a nutritionist and bodybuilder, but he was foremost an ardent teacher and passionate advocate of the training and nutrition principles of Vince Gironda. Decades ago, Ron went out to California to Vince’s Gym and spent an intensive six weeks learning under the Iron Guru, Vince Gironda. It changed Ron’s life.
Training & Eating the Vince Gironda Way
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Vince Gironda—the name resounds throughout bodybuilding, still. This accomplished bodybuilder and master trainer left a wealth of ideas and methods on training and nutrition that still has relevance today. Though many of Vince’s concepts are known, they’re often not well understood.
That’s where this little book comes in. Originally written as two separate articles on Gironda’s training and nutrition, they’ve been combined due to readers’ requests. This modest volume of concentrated material gives a condensed introduction of Vince’s principles on training and nutrition for beginning bodybuilders, yet there are also surprising insights on Vince’s methods and ways to apply them even for advanced bodybuilders.
The Value of Vince Gironda
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There’s still a lot of interest in Vince Gironda these days. Many bodybuilders are intrigued by Vince’s methods and views on bodybuilding, while many other bodybuilders who are more familiar with his work have a vivid impression of him. After all, Vince Gironda was bombastic, opinionated and strong willed. His views on squatting and dieting have become legendary. He voiced his opinions as if they were holy writ, so his emphatic views usually provoked an equally strong reaction in those who heard of them. You can find controversy surrounding his methods and practices as people still debate them today. Vince Gironda was a polarizing figure in the history of bodybuilding.