Alot of people go through elaborate mechanics trying to secure a door gym chin up bar in their home or apartment. Some people get out the screw driver and drill and suspend a simple length of pipe in a door frame and they are good to go. However, I wouldn’t suggest that everyone take this route.

When you are thinking about doing chin ups or pull ups as part of a regular easy at home exercises, you will want to be sure that the bar you’ve put up is secure. But, you’ll also sleep better if you didn’t have to drill some holes into your wall or door too. A really simple solution is to get a door gym chin up bar like the Iron Gym or the P90X chin-up bar.

Each of these portable gyms will allow you to do even more than just pull ups. There are push ups and sit ups that you can use either for too. You can actually do all the essential home exercises with only one piece of equipment.

There are other ways that you can get some pull ups in, but it would probably save some time and headache on the front end by just getting a door way chin up bar that you can use without having to permanently drill it into place.

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In each season TUF pits two fighters as team coaches against each other. The teams are comprised of roughly 14 fighters each who get to live together much like the MTV reality show whose title escapes me for some reason. Each week we get to see how the fighters are coached and trained. We then get to see competitions between two hand picked fighters in several weight classes. This goes on until there is 1 champion in each weight class. There can be only one, you know.

In addition to the behind the scenes look at how fighters are trained and groomed both coaches get to fight after the season ends. And this season is going to be culminate in the highly anticipated welterweight championship between challenger Koscheck and the reigning champ ( and arguably the best pound for pound fighter in the UFC) Georges St. Pierre.

To add to the fireworks, each fighter already has sort of a alternate persona. This is probably due mostly to the way each fighter carries themselves. St. Pierre is looked at as the “good guy” and that leaves Josh Koscheck with the short stick. These perceptions are not without warrant though.

St. Pierre carries himself as someone who aspires to improve himself in all areas. He appears humble and modestly confident of his prowess. Josh Koscheck, on the other hand, seems like he has nothing better to do but be vulgar and offensive to most anyone he feels differs with him.

Their fight is to be held in December of 2010 in St. Pierre’s home town of Montreal, Quebec, Candada. Ironically, after Koschecks last victory over Paul Daley in Montreal, he, apparently without thinking ahead and for whatever reason, felt it necessary to tell the Montreal crowd the Pittsburgh Penguins would beat the Montreal Canadians in the Stanley Cup in a not so nice way. He then felt that this wasn’t enough and taunted them that he would beat home town favorite St. Pierre. After those two thoughtless comments, this guy invites the “fans” to his after party!! What a freakin’ moron.

Whether you like Josh or not, it’s silliness like this that actually will make you root for the other guy, whoever it is.

Stay tuned as I will keep track of how things are stacking up with these two.

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I generally tell them that it's fairly easy to stay in shape doing a workout without weights and that the hard part is committing themselves to a regular program. It's hard to keep yourself accountable when you have no incentive other than personal health! That may sound bad but it's the truth. My patients generally have to have permission from their boss, doctor, or family, to take responsibility for their own health.

Regularly performing 5-6 simple exercises will go a long way to ensuring that you will not develop conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. A good home exercise routine will include exercises to all major muscle groups. However, unlike most of the popular concepts of fitness, you don't have to kill yourself trying to reach some imagined sense of perfection or unrealistic goal for your physique.
Push ups, pull ups, and squats are the foundation of any good home exercise program. If you perfect these and a couple of other movements, you will be amazed at the difference they will make in your life.

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Strained my back over the last weekend by doing too much on too little sleep. Low back, right side. Kills me trying to straighten when getting up from a chair.
I put of for a couple of days the exact thing that I knew would be the best thing for it (yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am a health care professional), because I absolutely HATE ice. But that’s what I finally decided to do.
I usually use an ice massage on my patients with strained muscles. This involves freezing water into a easy to handle block of ice that can then be applied directly to the tender points moving in a small circular pattern. Yep. I apply the ice directly to the skin as long as the person does not have a severe reaction to it.
I talked my wife into torturing me for about 6-7 minutes right on the most painful part of the spasm and voila!, about 75% better. That doesn’t mean that I am going to continue my workouts though at this point because I am not out of the woods yet. But, it does mean that I can actually do some stretching and distance walking just to stay limber without it killing me.
Ask your doctor or health care professional prior to attempting any treatment for a severe muscle strain. You don’t want to make it worse!

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