SGT Peterson RSSThe purpose of this post is to show people with injuries the options they have to workout. We will go over various types of exercises and different techniques one can use to stay moving when you are injured or plagued with disease such as arthritis. With that said let’s start with a few types of [...]
The purpose of this article is to show the improvements of the New Army Physical Fitness Test by the Army Physical Fitness School. First we’ll go over the improvements in strength in respect to muscle length-tension relationships. It will also go over the improvements in dynamic agility. Let’s take a look at the difference between [...]
This article was inspired by an older woman that spoke at the Minneapolis Antlers Toastmasters Group on 7-20-2011. The woman went on to speak about how much care went into taking care of the horses in the cities when the heat index gets over 100 and the dew-point reaches 75 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. She [...]
White lab coat wearing PhD types seem to be so concerned with their research on actin and myosin and how it works on a cellular level, that they have no idea what it’s like to get regular people moving towards results. What I have found in my fifteen years in the industry is that nearly [...]
America is always reinventing itself. Let me paint a picture for you. When I get old I will sit on my porch after mowing my lawn in the summer and shake my fist at the teenagers racing up into the air of my suburban neighborhood with those “damn flying cars! These kids have no respect [...]
PRESS RELEASE : 6-29-2011 The majority ownership in SGT Peterson’s has been sold to an investor. The investor, who wants to remain nameless, has sold the rights to Bally Total Fitness without SGT Peterson’s knowledge. The 51% stake in the company has been purchased by Bally Total Fitness for $350,000 US dollars. Unfortunately SGT Peterson [...]
What will it take for the fitness industry to change? Well if you believe in history repeating itself it already has. America has revolutionized the world with our version of democracy, military technology and with our fitness industry. Over the last 200 years or so the world has followed in America’s footsteps. America is about being the [...]
You’ve heard it said, ‘you need energy to burn energy’ and you might even know that you should eat something before a workout…or is that after a workout? That’s the problem… you’re not sure what to eat and when to eat it! In this post I’ve put together some guidelines that can help you make [...]
As a former high school football coach I would often see the other teams in our division doing what seemed like 60-90 minutes of warm-ups before the big game. If they overdue it during the game like this, can you even imagine how much they are over training on the practice field? What I have [...]
Is GNC the modern day American snake oil salesman? Well, to start off with they have quite a few questionable products. In all reality, almost 80% of their products have no clinical proof that they work or if they are any different from the other hundreds of products that are pedaled by retailers or independent distributors like the [...]