Author: Dr. Steroids

It’s the year of the pitcher in Major League Baseball. Essentially we’ve seen three perfect games (Dallas Braden, Roy Halladay and Armando Galarraga — umpire Jim Joyce admitted his mistake), as well as two no-hitters. Jimenez pitches in the hitter-friendly Coors Field, which has historically been conducive to producing a high ERA. Jimenez’s record is currently 13–1 with 1.15 ERA. ESPN’s Buster Olney compares him to one of the all-time greats in a recent article. “Ubaldo Jimenez is pitching like Bob Gibson in 1968, and he’s single-handedly propping up the Rockies’ playoff hopes along the way. If the season ended today,…

The past week in baseball gave us some major shifting in the “Penthouse Power Rankings.”  Also fantasy tips—who’s most likely on the market.  Plus some “Heroes and Zeros” from across the league. The Boston Red Sox have quietly put together a great run to get within one game of the AL East leader New York Yankees. Since April 20th, the Red Sox are 39 – 19, the best in baseball. The New York Mets are trying to prove haters like myself wrong by winning 8 of 10. Their impressive 8 game win streak—which was snapped this past weekend by their rival…

Down time is such a downer, and while we were planning on migrating to a more reliable server this coming weekend, the recent aggravations with our temporary home have forced my hand. I apologize for the rocky road over the next couple days, but hey, at least you will be able to see the site, eh? I was planning on clueing you in to a few new features we have in the works with this migration, but I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag too early. Oh heck – who am I kidding? I just can’t…

It seems like so long ago. Vince Young was the star of the 2006 Rose Bowl. He led his Texas Longhorn team to a BCS National Championship—accounting for 467 yards of total offense. He rushed for 200 yards alone in that game. In 2007 he made his first start in October and led a once-floundering Tennessee Titans team to the playoffs. The very next year he was injured and Kerry Collins was in at Quarterback. The Titans had a spectacular season without Young and we started to see the signs. Vince Young may not have been the brightest bulb in the…

Image is a big deal in sports. The NFL works tirelessly to make sure its image is squeaky clean (to no avail). NBA stars want to have “street cred” — but not too much. NHL players want to be tough. Baseball players want everyone to think they work hard — even when they don’t. Here are the image levels: 1. Players who want to look a certain way — and hope it works. 2. The leagues’ and owners’ desire to NOT look like “fat cats” even — though they are. 3. The secret society of people who work to destroy…

High Intensity Resistance Training, also known as HIRT, is a different kind of strength training, and it’s making waves. Bodybuilders are finding that adding one or two days of HIRT in place of their usual split is resulting in a leaner look and lower body fat. Whether you’re cutting or bulking, you can use HIRT to elevate your basal metabolic rate (BMR), keep muscle while you’re cutting, minimize fat gain during bulking, and gain muscular endurance. The Basics HIRT is sometimes called interval training, but that’s easily confused with High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), which we’ll discuss soon. Other times…

By now most of us have heard of programs like P90X and CrossFit, and who doesn’t think getting “ripped in 90 days” sounds like a good plan? As avid exercisers, most of us use crunches in our abdominal routines. However, to avoid the dreaded “plateau,” it’s best to change your routine often to keep the muscles guessing. This article will breakdown 12 crunch-free exercises to use as a complete abdominal and core workout or to add moves your existing ab routine. In my class, we do about 20-25 reps of each exercise. It may take some time to work up to…

If you think you’ve tried everything to shed fat, you’ll want to consider the blood type diet. Today we’ll look at what it is to eat for your blood type, and discuss how type As should eat. I confess, I thought this diet was absolute quackery at first. A friend whose health philosophies and practices I respect mentioned it to me one afternoon at a birthday party, so I decided I owed it to myself to at least look into it and bring you the story. Since that day, I’ve done quite a bit more reading into the subject and,…

When Dwight Howard was drafted #1 overall by the Orlando Magic out of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, he was not the “Superman” he is today. He was a skinny, tall kid with tons of potential. Somewhere between 2004 and his current dominance “inside the paint,” he managed to put on weight and sculpt his body. How else could he handle the rigors of playing “inside” in the NBA. He is the 2-time defending NBA “Defensive Player of the Year” after all. You can’t achieve that as the scrawny kid. Dwight does many different exercises and routines that have helped take…

For some people there is nothing more relaxing than a hot sauna after lifting weights, but some new research coming out of the University of Montana is suggesting that this may not be the best time for it. Post-exercise is one of the best times to eat as you have set up pretty much the perfect portioning – almost all the calories you consume will go towards the muscle. For years magazine articles and advertisements have pushed this as the ‘window of opportunity’ and to some degree they are right. That said, ultimately total calorie intake will determine what happens…