Because your body is about 50-55% water, you can temporarily stage-manage your weight with diet pills and fad diets but, you cannot manipulate your body fat percentage. Body fat percentage is a more meaningful metric for gauging physical fitness than what you can get out of height and weight tables.

Do you pass by the magazine stands in the store and envy the bodies of the cover models? More and more women today are coveting this body type; strong and muscular while still being feminine. Gone are the days where strong women are seen as too masculine and unattractive. The female fitness body is here to stay!

While some individuals are strictly interested in obtaining muscle for aesthetics, for most people, this isn’t an interest. Instead, you’re more interested in knowing what health benefits weight lifting will have for you…

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

I’m often asked what my body measurements are and/or what are the ideal measurements for a bodybuilder or a classical muscular male physique. Believe it or not, there are actually many formulas for determining the “ideal body proportions.” On the other hand, you might want to take them with a grain of salt…

How to Sculpture the Body…

We all wish we had the perfect body. Unfortunately, life does not deal all of us with the same deck of cards!

As we are young we sometimes take for granted that our bodies will remain healthy and fit, yet when we grow older, we watch those strong men and women walking by and wondering how they achieved their sculptured physique. The fact is some of the people you see with sculpted bodies worked out hard to achieve their body, yet what most didn’t do was take the time to understand the sorts of … read more