ProSource Media Talks Exclusively With Hugh Jackman at the World Premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine
It’s not true that Hugh Jackman owns the entire world, these days. It just seems that way.
The accomplished actor and reigning People Magazine “Sexiest Man Alive” has appeared in a string of critical and commercial big-screen blockbusters in recent years and is now poised to cement his reputation as a supreme “A-list” leading man with his newest and biggest movie yet … X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Even as Jackman’s popularity has soared among moviegoers, he has developed a huge fanbase among bodybuilders and athletes who admire the star’s commitment to a rigorous workout regimen and his ability to transform his physique to match specific movie roles. Recently, for instance, Jackman trimmed down and leaned out to the extreme to portray a cattle drover in the Outback romance, Australia, then added several pounds of rock-hard muscle to prepare for his latest screen turn as the dynamic and conflicted Wolverine in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Raves for the First Summer Blockbuster of 2009
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The Face of Women’s Fast Pitch Softball: Jennie Finch
The Olympic gold medal winner talks about the sport she loves and shares some of the secrets to her success
By: Daniel Collier
Jennie Finch is perhaps the most well-known and celebrated women’s fast pitch softball player of all time. With her athleticism and competitiveness on the ball field only matched by her grace and beauty off it, Jennie has vastly helped to move women’s softball into the mainstream public eye. At age 28, her list of career accomplishments already reads like the stuff of legend. As a young girl growing up in La Mirada, CA, it was very clear from a young age there was nothing this tall athletic blond couldn’t do on a softball field. Finch displayed excellent hitting and base-running skills and was an absolutely dominant pitcher. After a magnificent high school career in which she went 50-12, with six perfect games, 13 no-hitters, 784 strikeouts, and posted a 0.15 ERA in 445 innings, Jennie moved to Tucson, AZ to play her college ball for the University of Arizona Wildcats. Playing under Team USA head coach Mike Candrea, Finch solidified her status as a young phenom by becoming a three-time All-American and winning the Honda Award as the nation’s top collegiate player her sophomore and junior seasons. She also helped lead the Wildcats to the NCAA championship title as a junior by going 32-0, and setting an NCAA record for consecutive victories, with an astounding 60 wins.
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Better Golf, Renegade Style
By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training
When I wrote my first book on Golf, “R-Factor for Golf“, a number of years ago, much of my typical audience was surprised with my choice of topic. In writing the book, it was my intention to address the needs of the sport as well as dispel the myths associated with an endless array of training gadgets and questionable ideas.
Like many well intended volleys, it came on the heels of the constant barrage of hype that surrounds the game. Even as some in the exercise industry have made a “meal” out of golf preparation by slapping the prefix “golf” onto a myriad of exercise classes and resistance approaches in an effort to dupe the public, the current economic downturn has done an efficient job of weeding many of those snake-oil salesmen out of the exercise game. However, getting factual information out to the golf-playing public is still no easy matter.
The essential peculiarity of golf, or “training for golf,” is that regardless of how you train off the course, if you do not carefully monitor your swing, your efforts will be largely wasted. To suggest to the untrained reader anything to the contrary is to display a practical lack of playing knowledge of the game and of the latest technological advancements. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise. It simply means that you should exercise correctly.
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The Evolution of Golf: with Casey Martin
How Tiger changed golf into a fitness-minded sportBy: Daniel Collier
Men’s Fitness magazine recently released their 2008 poll of the top 25 fittest men in America. The list consists of all types of men of various backgrounds and from vastly different industries. Several of the athletes gracing the list are not so surprising such as basketball big man Dwight Howard, Philadelphia Phillies agile second baseman Chase Utley, and ripped up Browns quarterback Brady Quinn. Some of the other guys featured may not seem as familiar and quite frankly not as deserving (a.k.a. reality TV chief Curtis Stone…Who?). But perhaps the biggest surprise to some may be the man featured in the #1 spot and selected as the fittest of the fit, Tiger Woods. What, a professional golfer? He doesn’t deserve the honor of the fittest man in America, does he? YES he most certainly does!
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Renegade Rope Skip
Opening my morning email I received a request from a major fitness group asking my opinion of the business’ “next big thing.” After going through a number of points including the deeply troubling world’s economy and the return to a notion of “value for service”, the conclusion was the “next big thing” was in-fact a return to tried and true methods and fun exercises that harken back to games of our youth.
While fitness professionals start to re-learn the “fun” side of exercise through the next decade, this is something that my group of training professionals embody, as we take what some consider drudgery and have turned it into a destination hobby. Although the notion of “fun” has long since been taken out of much of the industry whereby many are handcuffed to a treadmill, the newest craze is a step back in time and rope skip.
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The Muscles from Brussels is Back!
At 48, Jean Claude Van Damme reflects on life, fitness,
and his most praised film to date ‘JCVD’By: Daniel Collier
Action movie star and former international martial arts champion Jean Claude Van Damme is making a big screen comeback! In his recent film ‘JCVD‘, Van Damme portrays…well, himself, an aging action movie star whose B-list status has fallen so far he’s even losing roles to Steven Seagal. Here’s a short synopsis: After a failed custody battle over his daughter, Van Damme retreats to his Belgian hometown only to stumble into a hostage situation at a local bank. His cinematic martial arts moves are no match for real bullets, and to make matters worse, the police and the public believe he’s the culprit, not the victim.
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Upper Deck Power, Part 2
When I begin to write an article, I often sit and try to find a motivating factor. Yet now as I write of baseball, it is not only the easiest topic for me to discuss, but the most daunting as well. With this in mind, please let me explain something that I should have told you in my opening piece in this series.
To my left sits an old catcher’s mitt on the book shelf, worn and battered through time and service. It is a reminder of the past. Decades ago, this mitt and its pint-sized predecessor that I grew out of, would come along everywhere I went: to school, to the run-down old lot and to the driveway, where I would await my Dad’s return home and the start of the nightly ritual of “catch.” Baseball wasn’t just a game, then. It was part of the fabric of your life and conversation that needed no introduction.
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The 2009 Product of the Year!
BetaStax Revolutionizes the Thermogenic Category with its
Extreme Fat-Burning/Energy-Boosting Multi-Pathway Matrix
When we at ProSource received our first advance samples of BetaStax in the spring of this past year, we knew right away that we were witnessing a momentous event in the evolution of thermogenic science. Here was a totally new kind of weight-loss/energy-boosting technology, not dependent on the usual mix-andmatch combination of caffeine, yohimbe and/or green tea, and entirely free of compounds (HCA, Hoodia, cortisol blockers) that have proven to be scientific dead ends for so many manufacturers. Instead, in BetaStax we found a revolutionary matrix of ultrabioactive, premium-grade energy factors combined with a primary weight-loss technology that delivers dramatic results by regulating levels of circulating plasma CCK—a unique mechanism of action that is generating some of the most remarkable results ever seen in this category.
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Get On the Ball
By Michael Berg, NSCA-CPT
These 5 exercise-ball moves are so effective, even a guy would do them
You’ve surely seen them in the gym. Maybe you’ve even given one an irritated kick out of the way as you made your way through the free-weight area. The fact they’re reminiscent of that old childhood toy the hippity hop (sans handle) doesn’t help. Nor does the fact that the way many people use them is a bit suspect. Torso twists? Seated dumbbell curls? Oh, please.
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Upper Deck Power – Renegade Style
By John Davies, Founder Renegade Training
Within the sporting world the notion of sport-specific training or training for sport is packed full of fallacies. Spread over rock-solid facts on how to train properly for sport is a vast array of clichés and slick marketing lines. Possibly the sport most plagued with highly questionable “training advice” is baseball.
Baseball, the grand old game, is a sport that I grew up on. The ball and glove were part of my make-up and rarely out of reach. The days and nights were filled with the game but the game was more than that, it was part of our heritage that connected with the past. I grew up hearing of stories of what it was like to dig into the batters box against a barnstorming tour of future legends pre-WWII. Regardless of how the game changed it, always maintains a brilliance that is challenging to describe.
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