Xvest Weighted Vest
Weight vests are an amazing way to increase resistance in your strength and conditioning workouts. If you are working out at home, these vests can add weight to your bodyweight exercises. A weight vest is a bit more comfortable than sticking weights in a backpack and the weight is evenly distributed which works [...]
Tito Ortiz UFC 84 Walk-in Shirt
UFC 84 is perhaps the last time we see Tito Ortiz in the Octagon. The former light-heavyweight champion has had several great years in the UFC with some memorable fights. Like him or not, Tito Ortiz has been an important part to the success and growth of MMA. It’s too bad that Tito and the [...]
BJ Penn Signature Fight Shorts by RCVA
BJ Penn just solidified his status as the lightweight champion of the UFC with his impressive tko victory over former champ Sean Sherk. BJ is a very exciting, talented and dynamic fighter, and with talks and hopes of him fighting welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, he is going to be a central figure in [...]
Lyoto Machida Walk-in T Shirt UFC 84
Above is a picture of Lyoto Machida’s walk-in T-shirt from Bad Boy MMA .
Lyoto Machida continued to build on his undefeated record with his 13th straight win over former light-heavyweight champ Tito Ortiz in UFC 84. I was impressed with his technical style that is very elusive and proves to be the key to [...]
Elite Rings II by Ringtraining.com
These rings by ringtraining.com are very high quality, durable rings that you can do a large amount of exercises with. If you are pressed for space for barbells and dumbells, these are a great alternative for a full body workout. Standard exercises like dips, push ups and pull ups become much harder to do on [...]
Affliction Expands to the Fight Promotion Business
If you don’t already know, the popular Affliction clothing company has expanded to hosting their own MMA events. Their first event is entitled “Affliction: Banned” and will take place on July 19, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The title “banned” comes from the situation where Elite XC banned Affliction from advertising [...]
Sneak Peak at Sprawl’s New Shorts
Sprawl released a picture and some info about their new shorts, and they are a bit different than expected. The shorts do not have features like split seams, flex panels, or grip panels like the
V-Flex or
G-Flex, but rather two pockets, one smaller for a phone/mp3 player, and a larger pocket. Both [...]
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
Starting Strength by Mark RIppetoe is THE book to get if you want to get into weight training for the first time. Rippetoe’s workout consists of mainly of the big three (bench, squat, deadlift) along with a few supplemental exercises in a 3 set 5 rep fashion.
Starting Strength is recommended by people everywhere. [...]
The Grapplers Guide to Sports Nutrition by John Berardi
John Berardi is a well known and respected nutrition expert. It’s difficult to browse topics on nutrition on forums without hearing his name mentioned several times. Berardi has written several books on nutrition and has an excellent site at johnberardi.com
One of his books is The Grapplers Guide to Sports Nutrition, cowritten by Michael [...]
Parallette Bars
Many people believe that bodyweight exercises (calisthenics) will not help with strength building. These people are misinformed. Sure, maybe if you take a common exercise, the pushup. Some people find it easy, even doing 100’s of repetitions at a time. People think of that as the end all of bodyweight exercises.
However, [...]
