Believe it or not, your sleeping position can affect your abs. Sleeping on your back with a pillow under your legs will help you with that stubborn back pain. I didn’t say it will eliminate it, just alleviate some of the pain. But, it will contribute to building your abs by keeping your legs up [...]

· Crunches with your legs elevated. Keep your legs up on a couch or chair OR to make it the most effective, lift them up in the air with no support. This allows the upper muscle section of your abs to be worked more by not allowing your hip and leg muscles to assist in [...]

· Old fashioned sit-ups. This provides a lot of stress on the lower back and increases your chances of injury. They mostly work your hip flexor muscles and hardly work your abs at all. It makes it worse when you have your hands behind your head and pull. · Straight leg lifts for your lower [...]

It’s actually very easy to lose weight for the average person.  All they need to do is burn more calories than they consume on a daily basis.   That is obviously easier said than done from the statistics the news and magazines show about the obese individuals that exist in the United States.   Let’s [...]

Ok, people busted my chops about my hamburgers made from scratch. I claimed I used 16 pounds of chopped meat and stated they were 6 ounces per patty. Well, the God Damned mathematicians broke out their programmable calculators and tried to correct me that my burgers were supposed to weigh more because of all the [...]

Are you going to have a cookout this weekend for the 4th of July? I know there’ll be one at my house, rain or shine. I hope the weather will behave however, because the kids will be crazy wanting to go in the pool. I’ve been watching the weather for the last few days and [...]