Posts by Craig Ballantyne
What to Do With All the Email
You have too much email. I know. And it’s your fault. You are to blame for your too much email problem. Here’s why: 1) You treat email like text messaging when you should treat email like faxing. When you send someone a fax, they don’t fax you back a thank you. And you don’t fax…
Read MoreFrom the Ground Up
Last Friday afternoon down in South Beach, Florida, I spent the day with a group of like-minded men and women in a group called Maverick Business Adventures (a unique organization started by one of my mentors, Yanik Silver). We had the pleasure of hearing from a unique individual and true maverick, Frank McKinney. I had…
Read MoreChest Development and Quick Workouts with Turbulence Training
Chest development is not a topic we spend a lot of time on here at Turbulence Training, but we’ll cover that plus workouts that save you time, and show you how to do supersets in a busy gym. Question: “Hey Craig, love the workouts but I’m having a real hard time doing some of the…
Read More9 Fitness Predictions for 2012
Fitness predictions are always fun to do, and CB loves to look into his CB. That is to say, lil’ ol me loves to look into my crystal ball and try to predict the future. I’ve actually been right about some big trends in the past and so today we’re going to focus on the…
Read MoreWhat Successful People Don’t Do
An alcoholic walks into a bar. An hour later, he’s drunk. Two hours later, he stumbles home. Um, alright, that wasn’t a very good “guy walks into a bar joke”, I’m sorry. But it is an excellent, albeit extreme example of a point I want to make today. If we have a bad habit, putting…
Read MoreHow to do more chin-ups and M-MRT
After yesterday’s article, one TT reader emailed in to say: “I used Ben’s squeezing techniques in my workout today and I’m feeling it. Loving the tip.” Glad you are…but today is the last day for the sale on his program and my bonus gift to you of ALL eight TT Meatheads programs. Just grab Ben’s…
Read MoreOne Exercise Tip to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle Over the Holidays
I literally just woke up from a dream about how you can lose fat and gain muscle over the holidays. It’s 4:43am and I just had a dream that a client was struggling to keep the fat off over the holidays. So, I got up, petted the dog, gave him a belly rub, and then…
Read MoreFat Loss Workout Overload
Every Monday at my gym, our supplement rep comes in to go over the order. Once he and I go over it, I usually get either some free samples or a t-shirt… and sometimes both. My wife loves it when I text her, “just got another t-shirt”. She thinks I need more t-shirts, too. She…
Read MoreMobility and Tissue Issues
As we finish up this interview series, Alwyn gives us a low-level stressors exercise that should be added to your daily training. However, before you read on jump back to part 3, where we took a look at boxing from a business point of view with fitness expert Alwyn Cosgrove. *************************** Alwyn Cosgrove I’ve told…
Read MoreThe Fastest Way to Build Your Business
Here’s the situation. You want to be an entrepreneur and to start a new business because you know that this is the fastest way to building wealth. You even have a good idea, but how on earth do you get customers when starting from scratch? Well, the correct answers are rarely the ones you want…
Read MoreBoxing and Mixed Martial Arts
Foam rolling exercises are a great for tune-ups between workouts as fitness expert, Alwyn Cosgrove shares with us in part 2 of this interview series. Today, we are kind of switching gears and getting Alwyn’s point of view about boxing. *************************** Craig Ballantyne: So the UFC fight, you were talking a little bit about that…
Read More3 Ways to Make Your Workout Harder
Happy Thanksgiving to all American readers, and Happy Weekend to everyone else. Let’s get lean… Question: How can I make my workouts harder? – Mark Answer: There are 3 simple ways. First, use more weight in each exercise, if you are doing dumbbell exercises. You should be working to just one rep short of failure…
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