From Nick Nilsson
Author and Publisher of BetterU News
http://www.fitness-ebooks.com

So I got a LOT of great submissions with my request for gym
fashion crimes on Friday...you're going to get some very funny
and very disturbing visuals off these, I can promise you that.

Check these out...

"A few tears and worn spots on your workout wear isn't a crime in
my book but watch what is being exposed with those open seams
PLEASE !!!"

"This one dude comes into our gym always wearing the same outfit
of nut-hugger Spandex bike shorts with suede ankle-high Ugg
boots. It's pretty distracting when you're about to get under the
squat bar and that comes strolling by you."

"Imagine a guy average weight and height sporting a late
70's/early 80's hairdo and thick bushy mustache (think Hall and
Oates). The guy wasn't just hairy. He had a PELT. Now picture
skin tight WHITE (yes WHITE) compression shorts with nothing over
top. His leg hair and "other" hair poked out like springs.
Gross."

"I used to see it a lot in the 80s, but not as much now, and that
is the shorts over the sweats look. I think Sylvester Stallone
did it in one of his Rocky movies, but hey, that was Stallone,
not some dude doing triceps kickbacks with 15 lb dumbbells."

"We got a guy in our gym who wears something like a "Borat
suit".....full body tight and small g-string kind of thing, he
has a green one, pink one, black one and one covered in sequins.
Then he wears pink and green socks with that to match the
outfit."

"Well, there's the 50+ year old fellow 'who-used-to' have a good
body, still wearing the striped spandex shorts in lavender and
turquoise, the cropped sweatshirt in purple and the string tank,
leftover from the 80s. Or the clueless fellow just starting to
work out wearing bermuda shorts, a v-necked white undershirt,
sneakers and black dress socks. Or the skinny kid wearing the
"Big By Choice" t-shirt three sizes too large doing curls in the
squat rack."

Thanks to everyone who sent one in!

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Barbell Donkey Calf Raises

This is a great setup I came up with a few years back that allows
you to do Donkey Calf Raises even if you don't have a training
partner or a Donkey Calf Raise machine. You will need a power
rack and a barbell (a calf block helps, too), but that's about
it.

I'm a BIG fan of Donkey Calf Raises (if you don't know it, it's
the one where you're bent at the waist, legs straight and you do
a calf raise in that position).

Because of your anatomy, this body position puts a great stretch
on the calves. The gastocnemius muscles (one of the calf muscles
- the other is the soleus, which is underneath the gastroc) cross
the knee joint as well as the ankle joint.

So when you're bent at the waist and your ankles are flexed, this
stretches the calves at both the top AND the bottom of the
muscles. And with calves, that stretch is one of the real keys to
results. Yep, it can be painful, but it's VERY beneficial.

If you're not currently doing Donkey Calf Raises because you
don't have the machine to do them, consider your excuse
GONE...this setup makes them pretty straightforward to set up and
do!

Here's a link to the video of it on YouTube:


==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Grc_xpCzs


And while you're there, you're welcome to subscribe to my channel
(hint, hint) if you have a YouTube account yourself! I post a lot
of great exercises on there. I think I have about 80 of them on
there right now and subscribing will notify you when I post new
ones.

Nick

P.S. Quick thing...if you're interested in muscle building and
you're starting from "skinny," got a book you should check out.
It's a 5-week program developed by Joey Vaillancourt called
"Bones to Buff." I've known Joey for quite a few years - he
actually got into the training business because of the results he
got from my own Metabolic Surge program, which I thought was
pretty cool!

At any rate, I've read through the program and he's done a nice
job with it - detailed workouts, meal plans, exercise videos, the
works. Looks very effective to me. You can check it out here:

==> http://www.fitstep.com/goto/1/bones-to-buff.htm

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