Blog — iron vic steele

Dumbbells Hello Iron Vic, I am a 44 year old mother of three and a longtime fitness fanatic. I am 5-4, I weigh 145 pounds and would really like to drop 20 pounds of fat. I enjoy weight training and can bench press my bodyweight. I have no problem with cardio. I jog on my treadmill every day while watching the TV news. What messes me up is sweets. I love chocolate! I don’t drink or smoke and other than eating sweets I eat pretty “clean” to use your word. My problem is I am absolutely addicted to chocolate. I...

Vic, My training partner is driving me nuts: he has made some nice gains and good progress – I keep telling him if he would just throw caution to the wind, take that extra step, commit another 5-10%, this guy could be incredible! He must have a low pain tolerance. He has become predictable: when things start getting tough, you know on the last few reps of the top set, he will quit! When it comes to the final tough reps at the end of a tough set he bails out. He does this about 50% of the time. As...