Daily stretching is an important component of the V-Bodies Method, and flexibility is crucial for you to achieve your tallest posture, lean muscle development, and joint health. To sculpt a lean, long body that looks slimmer on camera, I teach a creative style called Flow Stretching. We begin with basic stretches using a fitness bar [...]
V-Bodies Dream #101: Naked Olympians?
V-Bodies Dream #101 This morning, as I was laying in bed considering the future of V-Bodies, I was struck by a vision from the future. It was the year 2030, and I was a transcendent trainer and able to see inside all the gyms in the USA. What did I see? Every gym had junked [...]
A good place to start losing weight….Calorie Calculator!
Whether you’re trying to lose significant weight, or that last 5 pounds off your beach body– knowing your personal calorie expenditure is very helpful. Plug your numbers into the Harris-Benedict calculator and find your basal metabolic rate and the number of calories you burn in a day. Then you can make sensible food and exercise [...]
Why does the camera add 10 pounds? Here’s what we do about it…..
Last year, one of my top girls told me, Matthew– “My hips and thighs look too big on camera. We have to slim them down, they look bulky!” She had 88 cm hips– tiny, by most women’s standards– but when I looked at her photos, her hips and thighs did look too big for her [...]
Booked in New York, London, Milan, Miami! How do I eat on the fly?
You know that a healthy diet will help keep your waistline trim, and it’s easy to stick to a diet plan at home… But how about on the jet-set? Can you keep your body lean and skin clean, boost your immunity, and prevail against the stress of travel? Yes, it’s easy! Just use the Golden [...]
Interested in a Diet Book? Check out these Reviews
Hey V-Bodies Team, I know the diet books are everywhere. And it’s confusing. Since I’m not (yet) a Registered Dietician, I can’t legally script you a diet plan. (Neither should your local Nutritionist, Health Counsellor, or Holistic Therapist). But if you want to know more about the next hot diet book, promoted by a sexy, [...]
This is interesting: Energy Density of food….how many calories per pound are you eating?
A new report published online today in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends Americans to consume a diet low in energy density (ED). The review concluded that there is strong and consistent evidence in adults showing that consuming a diet higher in ED is associated with increased body weight, while consuming a diet [...]
V-Bodies’ Muscle Memory vs. P-90X Muscle Confusion
Last night, my roommate AJ and I were watching some junk TV and the P90X commercial came on. This was the first time I had seen it since leaving for Africa, and my first thought was–wow, this commercial is impressive! AJ and I were mesmerized– 12 flaming DVD’s stacked up on top of each other, [...]
V-Bodies Golden Rule of Weight-lifting
Its pretty easy to spot the bench-pressers as they totter like Frankensteins around the weight room. Or the ‘leg-guys’ who work massive 800 lb leg press sets and forget to rack their weights….. Why do these imbalances look awkward? Because the bodies have been trained out of proportion, with too many ‘isolation’ exercises and too [...]
Checkpoints 4 Perfect Joints
Hey guys and gals, I’ve been teaching body-weight-lifting and iron-weight-lifting for a long time, and I’ve seen every bad technique in the gym. You wanna move your body with perfect technique, and develop the right muscles in the right places? Follow these Joint Checkpoints…..every lift, every move, every time! When you are applying [...]
