5 Reasons the Leg Press Sucks:

1. It puts you in a ludicrous position! I can’t really think of a time where you will need to be pressing at an incline with your legs. Seriously though, look at the inverted picture of the leg press. ??? It doesn’t even mimic a squat pattern in the least. It actually looks more like a mutated deadlift. Do you want to be a mutant? Huh? Do you?

2. The Leg Press not only increases compressive forces on the lumbar spine but also the shear forces. Simply put, you may be chasing down a couple of your vertebrae after they blast through the back of the leg press and go bouncing down the gym floor.

3. The beginning position of the leg press has you already in hip flexion. Most people lack the flexibility and motor control to go through more hip flexion as they move through a repetition, making them compensate by using their lumbar spine. Thus producing lumbar flexion instead of hip flexion. Doh!!! There go’s those vertebrae again!!

4. It is an ego booster exercise. And ego booster exercises suck!! Sorry, just because you can leg press 600 lbs. doesn’t mean you can squat it. I would bet my head in a guillotine that a 600 lb leg presser couldn’t even squat 225.

5. It is a machine and 99% of machines suck. Folks, WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE SEATED POSTION AND OFF OF MACHINES!! We need to learn how to learn how to move like human beings again. Squat, Lunge, Deadlift, etc.

It’s the 180 rule: Do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Everyone is leg pressing so start squatting.

DN

How to shorten your hip flexors in 3 minutes:

Would you like to shorten your hip flexors?

Would you like to cause burning back pain?

Would you like to create a posterior herniated disc?

Or maybe even pull your rib cage closer to your pelvis so you can look like a cave man?

Well then do I have a solution for you!! You can have all this and more in ONLY 3 minutes!! All you have to do is what the pros in the NBA do!! Boy those Phoenix Sun Trainers are some smart fellas ;)

Seriously though, watch when he stands up. He has shortened his hip flexors so much that he can not even stand up straight!! FOLKS, DO NOT DO THIS!!

DN

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Its in everything. Its in your juice, ketchup, bread, cereal and the list goes on! Hell, its even in most of the “health foods” out there like the so-called nutrition bars and meal replacements.

Some of the problems associated with high fructose corn syrup:

• Increased LDL's (the bad lipoprotein) leading to increased risk of heart disease.
• Altered Magnesium balance leading to increased osteoporosis.
• Increased risk of Adult Onset Diabetes Mellitus.
• Fructose has no enzymes or vitamins thus robbing the body of precious micro-nutrients.
• Fructose interacts with birth control pills and can elevate insulin levels in women on the pill.
• Accelerated aging.
• Fructose inhibits copper metabolism leading to a deficiency of copper, which can cause increased bone fragility, anemia, ischemic heart disease and defective connective tissue formation among others.

Beware of all the different names that HFCS is now going by: Crystalline fructose, corn enriched fructose, and just plain fructose.

So if HFCS is as bad for us as we are hearing, who is benefiting and who is behind it? (Insert scary music now) The Government!! Check out the following link: HFCS Cost