Entries by jeffhalevy

What's The Best Exercise For Your Butt?

Face it, we all want buns of steel…well, at least buns like an unripe avocado — right? The problem is, when it comes to exercise selection to sculpt the perfect derriere, most of us often miss the mark. Here is everything you need to know when it comes to targeting the glutes through exercise in […]

Baby Got Back, Man Got Front: Squat Like A Beast..Without Pain

Here’s another phenomenal guest post by Halevy Life Director of Programming and Education, Nick Johnson: Why would/should anyone ever front squat? It’s so much harder, you definitely don’t look as tough because you can’t load the bar up and muscle through it, and it isn’t super comfortable at the bottom of the lift. So why […]

Why Your Exercise Routine Will Hurt You If It's An Exercise Routine

Here’s another great guest post by Halevy Life’s Director of Programming and Education, Nick Johnson: I recently had something very foreign happen to me; my mother told me I was right. She sent this via text message from an examination room at a hospital, immediately after receiving an MRI for her knee that had been […]

Breaking Bad (Habits)

There are four easy steps to Breaking Bad Habits…check out my latest piece for U.S. News and World Report! Post by Jeff Halevy.

Should you lift weights to be a better marathon runner?

With the ING New York City Marathon just weeks away (…after some of us fought hard for last year’s marathon cancellation due to Hurricane Sandy), I figured now is as good a time as any to revisit a misunderstood and often controversial topic about marathons: lifting weights as part of your training. I figured there’s […]

My Secret Motivation: Older Women

I’m currently in LA so I’ve been hitting workouts in my hotel gym. Now I don’t know about you, but I need my space when I work out. No, I don’t need the whole gym to myself, but I just need to not feel like someone else is on top of me (besides, I spent […]

Should you incorporate Olympic lifts into your workouts?

Olympic Lifting for the Non-Athlete By Nick Johnson, Director of Programming and Education at Halevy Life As a former collegiate athlete and collegiate strength coach, I can personally attest to the effectiveness and positive influence Olympic lifting can have on athletic performance. While most research on power movements and Olympic lifting focuses on it’s ability […]

The Biggest Threat to Your Health

I recently found myself in a Twitter-debate-gone-bad with a garden variety personal trainer, referred to herein as GVPT, who labels herself a “fitness expert” for a few major-brand health magazines (though she is not listed as such on said publications’ websites). That being said, GVPT does have a “name” in the business, whatever that’s worth, […]