Paleo Quick Tip Of The Day

This sounds crazy, but it’s not- you really can get the best workout of your life by not moving a muscle! How?  Isometrics. Now isometrics has gotten a really bad rap for a long time, the reasons for which are quite convoluted.  Back in the 1960’s (I’ll try to make this really short), Bob Hoffman, editor of Strength and Health magazine, was a proponent of isometrics.  He was also a big proponent of barbells, and so he incorporated barbells into isometric training with use of a “power rack”.  A power rack is a very useful piece of equipment, much more useful to my mind than barbells, and I have one in my training dungeon basement!  It is a large steel “cage” that can support thousands of pounds, and has steel pins that can be set at any height to hold a barbell.  This can save you if you “miss” a lift, that bar cannot come crashing down! Also, however, you can press a barbell into the pin, pushing as hard and as long as you like, thus giving you a great isometric workout. Bob Hoffman had his athletes train wit