From Jon: Each Sunday thePTDC publishes a list of the top articles from around the web in 5 different categories: bodybuilding, general health, fat loss, strength training, and nutrition.
We scan the net, but if you'd like to submit your article for consideration, please send it to [email protected].
Our Choice for the Article of the Week
Unconventional Trap Bar Exercises -- Ben Bruno
The trap bar is an amazing tool for beginners and advanced lifters alike. The simple tool allows coaches so simplify the deadlift and give clients more variation in training. But what else can I use this bar for? If you just said deadlifts you would be dead wrong. Ben Bruno lays out 10 different ways to use this bar to add some fun and pain into your training and the training of your clients. You can either thank Ben or curse him, either way your going to be in for some fun.
Bodybuilding
How to Hip Thrust - Bret Contreras (Our choice for bodybuilding article of the week)
Your Definition Of "Aesthetics" Is Incomplete, Junior: The Missing Link - Josh Hamilton
How To Get Bigger & Stronger Quads - Matt Mills, Lift Big Eat Big
Why 10 x 3 Is Best for Strength and Size - Andrew Read, Breaking Muscle
How to Breathe When Lifting Weights - Part 1 - Jordan Syatt
General Health
Embracing the Flexed Lumbar Spine in Lifting - Andrew Lock (Our choice for general health article of the week)
Supramaximal Interval Training vs. High Intensity Interval Training - Nick Tumminello
Getting Control of Overhead Movement: 5 Basic Drills to Prepare the Body - Lauren Beasley
Cellulite, Stretch Marks, and a Love Your Body Challenge - Molly Galbraith
Are You a Strength Coach or a Life Coach? - Lee Boyce
Fat Loss
Conditioning Stations for Fat Loss - Dan Blewett, T-Nation (Our choice for fat loss article of the week)
The Surprising Truth about Sugar and Weight Loss - Christian Finn
Double Your Weight Loss in 3 Minutes a Day? - Yoni Freedhoff, Burn the Fat Blog
Recovering Your Metabolism: Do You Need to Increase Or Decrease Your Calories? (Part I) - Lucas Serwinski, TonyGentilcore.com
Recovering Your Metabolism: Do You Need to Increase Or Decrease Your Calories? (Part II) - Lucas Serwinski, TonyGentilcore.com
Strength Training
6 Challenges You Must Accept and Beat - Dan John (Our choice for strength training article of the week)
Cardio and Lifting - Cardio Wont Hugely Impact your Gainz in the Short Run and may be Beneficial in the Long Run - Greg Nuckols
Are You Tucking or Flaring? - Erik Eggers, Elitefts.com
Improve Your Double Kettlebell Snatch - Artemis Scantalides
Five Plateau-Busting Bench Press Tips - Joe Schillero
Nutrition
Help! My Personal Training Clients Won't Follow Nutrition Advice - Jonathan Goodman (Our choice for nutrition article of the week)
High-Protein Diets Linked to Cancer: Should You Be Concerned? - Spencer Nadolsky
Is Nutrient Timing Dead? And does "when" you eat really matter? - Brian St. Pierre
The 11 Most Nutrient Dense Foods on The Planet - Kris Gunnars
Does Protein Timing Really Matter? - Scott Stevenson
