Tim Hendren
Uncovering the Truth about the Shape of Earth, ...

We as a human race are gullible.  Even with modern technology, satellite photos, history books, the internet, etc., there exists a contingent of human beings (click here) who are convinced that Earth is flat.  While I don’t possess the expertise to get into an astronomy debate with anyone with even a rudimentary education of the solar system, I can look at a globe and see it’s round. 

Uncovering the Truth about the Shape of Earth, The Dangers of Protein, Treadmills, and Muscle Toning.
Exercise tips
Tim Hendren
Working Out at Home: Creating Tension

Recently, I have been getting a fair amount of questions about in-home workouts.  I have been reluctant to answer because my honest response is usually “join a gym”.  Depending on where you live, there is a gym in what seems like every square mile or so.  Gyms are good, even crappy ones are still pretty good because they have weights.  The science says weights make you sexy and strong.  My advice is usually go to where they keep weights and work-out there.

Working Out at Home: Creating Tension
Motivation
Tim Hendren
Why Moderation is Bull$&#t

99% of the time, I’m an easy-going kind of guy.  I try not to let much rattle me and have adopted a “never too high on my highs or too low on my lows” type of outlook.  Every so often however, something unhinges me a bit, and most often it’s fitness or nutrition related.

Why Moderation is Bull$&#t
Tim Hendren
6 Fat-Loss Hacks You Can Add Daily

The basics of fat loss are simple.  There is nothing “quick and easy” about maintaining a caloric deficit for any length of time to drop unwanted fat, but that’s what is necessary to get it done.  Any blog post or infomercial claiming the next great fast fat loss system is usually trying to sell you something.  Or they don’t know shit, probably both.

6 Fat-Loss Hacks You Can Add Daily
Tim Hendren
Welcome to My Fitness Blog

If you've found this website deep in the nether regions of the internet, it's either because you know me personally and I sent you the link or you stumbled upon an article I have written in the past and wanted to see what's up.  As you can tell, I'm not a website designer. This modest site took me almost 8 months to put together.  In my own defense, during those 8 months I have been trying to maintain a quickly growing client load at my gym and raising a 3-year-old and an infant.  While WordPress is certainly user friendly, it's not something I recommend trying to learn in between cleaning up a diaper blowout from your daughter and playing trains with your son.  To say it's been a humbling experience would be an understatement.  

Welcome to My Fitness Blog

Exercise tips

The Zottman Curl: One Curl to Rule Them All

The Zottman Curl: One Curl to Rule Them All

It’s been a long week.  Between training clients, helping some readers with calorie tracking after reading last week's post (click here), and writing an article submission for another site, I haven’t had much time for timmyhendren.com content.  So, I did what every self-respecting d-bag does when time is limited in the gym, bicep curls.  While you’ll frequently hear experts downplay direct arm work in favor of hitting the major muscle groups with compound movements, I’ve yet to meet anyone who wouldn’t be happy with a chiseled set of biceps and triceps during tank top season.

The Mind Muscle Connection: It's For More Than Just Yogis

The Mind Muscle Connection: It's For More Than Just Yogis

It’s funny, when I think of some of the concepts I use in my training and spend long portions of the day teaching to clients, it makes me laugh.  My 21-year old self would mock the hell out of my present-day self instructing a client to “feel the lats squeeze when you drive your elbows back!” or “squeeze your butt as hard as you can at the top of the movement!”

Build the Shoulders Without Sacrificing Joint Health Using This Superset

Build the Shoulders Without Sacrificing Joint Health Using This Superset

If you are following any competent strength training program, you should be performing a variety of heavy compound movements such as bench press, overhead press, rows and pulldowns/pull-ups for the upper body.  If you aren’t, it’s time to bail on your current program and start from scratch.  Those are the basic movements of which there are a million different variations but including them is required for gains in size or strength.  My holiday analogy would be to think of these movements as the turkey and mashed potatoes of your training program, everything else is a side dish. 

Working Out at Home: Creating Tension

Working Out at Home: Creating Tension

Recently, I have been getting a fair amount of questions about in-home workouts.  I have been reluctant to answer because my honest response is usually “join a gym”.  Depending on where you live, there is a gym in what seems like every square mile or so.  Gyms are good, even crappy ones are still pretty good because they have weights.  The science says weights make you sexy and strong.  My advice is usually go to where they keep weights and work-out there.

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Alcohol's Effects on Body Composition and 5 Ways to Minimize the Damage

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Alcohol's Effects on Body Composition and 5 Ways to Minimize the Damage

Outside of the small window of prohibition, alcohol has been a legal, socially acceptable form of altering your state of consciousness that everyone over the legal age could enjoy.  Booze is everywhere, it’s been handed out at church for centuries, you can get it on a plane ride, even some grocery store chains are encouraging getting a drink during your weekly food shopping run. 

5 Movements "All Day Sitters" Need to Include Every Day

5 Movements "All Day Sitters" Need to Include Every Day

I get it, you are stuck in a cubicle and have no choice but to sit down, bang on the phone, and send emails for 8 hours a day. However, you do have the choice to do something about it.  Here are 5 movements that can be done at home (or office) with minimal equipment that you need to be doing as often as possible to negate some of the disastrous effects all day sitting can create! 

Attention Ladies! Solve Your Upper Arm Issue With These 3 Tricep Movements.

Attention Ladies! Solve Your Upper Arm Issue With These 3 Tricep Movements.

It's no secret that the weight room section of the gym is made up primarily of men.  If I had to estimate, half of those men are pumping away at their arms in hopes of getting those sleeves to fit a little tighter.  While this article will certainly work for them, I wanted to call on the ladies here to get them over to the iron and reap some of the awesome benefits.

How to Avoid Getting Hurt and Wasting Effort on the Lat Pulldown

How to Avoid Getting Hurt and Wasting Effort on the Lat Pulldown

When it comes to building the upper body, nothing beats a good set of lats.  They help stabilize other movements like deadlifts and bench press, they aid in proper posture, and generally make you look more bad ass overall.  In my opinion, when it comes to the pecking order of lat exercises, only pull-ups rank higher than lat pulldowns in terms of building size and strength. 

If you're already killing time on social media, you may as well lose body fat and increase lean muscle mass while doing it.

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