Why Kicking Your Ass During Training Isn’t Helping

            By Eric and Chris Martinez January 2016-   The Biggest Loser, Insanity, P90x, Jillian Michaels DVD’s, and other exercise programs advocate kicking your ass during your training. They advertise this perception that if you don’t walk away after your workout saying “god that workout kicked my ass” then you didn’t train hard enough, you … Read More

How to Spot a Bad Fitness Plan

          By Eric and Chris Martinez January 2017-   We get it…getting results from a nutrition and training program isn’t easy…but it’s not your fault. And here’s why. The reason you are failing is because of the bad plans you are being given and you don’t have any chance to succeed off of them. Do these … Read More

Improving Weak Points in the Squat, Bench, and Deadlift

How’s it going Train Loco readers! Today we have an awesome guest blog by Strength and Conditioning-USA Weightlifting Coach Luke Propst. Luke has his masters in exercise physiology and we are big fans of his programming work. So we asked him to spread some knowledge with the Train Loco readers so you all could get into the weight room and … Read More

8 Ways to Improve Your Iron Game- Part 2

    By Eric and Chris Martinez-   Time after time we are all making mistakes here and there; after all we are humans at the end of the day. The beauty of making mistakes is the fact that we learn from them and find ways to improve so that it doesn’t happen again. In part one of our 8 … Read More

8 Ways to Improve Your Iron Game

    By Eric and Chris Martinez   This article isn’t meant to make your jaw drop or teach you a bunch of new stuff. Instead, look at it as a friendly reminder to start doing some of the small stuff you haven’t paid attention to much. As we continue to learn more, we’re finding that constantly reminding ourselves and … Read More

2-for-2 Method

“Train Loco” Issue# 12 The 2-for-2 Method can be used to increase an athlete’s training loads (weight). If the athlete can perform 2 or more repetitions over his or her assigned repetition goal for a given exercise in the last set in two consecutive workouts, weight should be added to the exercise for the next training session. Example: Let’s say … Read More

Drop Set Science

How’s it going Train Loco readers! Today we have an awesome guest blog by Dan Ogborn, one of the industry’s top experts on the effects of strength training on skeletal muscle. We’ve read Dan’s blogs before and we are big fans of his work because he uses science to back up his claims, so we asked him to spread some … Read More

Mock Wingate HIIT Protocol

“Train Loco” Issue# 11 What’s up Train Loco-er’s and Loca-er’s! Thanks for taking the time to read the 11th Train Loco Issue and be sure to check out Issue 10 HERE. Also, if you would like to receive future Train Loco issues, click HERE and subscribe. In this issue we have a fat blasting exercise that will leave your legs … Read More