A couple sites worth your attention - Nutrition and Strength Training

by Mike

Now that most of the interesting stuff on De Vany's site is now behind a pay wall, so...not much going on there. Here's our review of the cool stuff you missed. Haven't seen the DVD, so I can't comment on that, but instead of sitting through eight hours of that, I might just wait for the book. In the mean time, there's a ton of great information out there, ready for you to discover.

There's always the great debate of, "should you just go pay $30 for a book or is it more worthwhile to spend tens of hours of your time trying to piece the same information together on Web sites of varying quality?

The answer, of course, depends on where you fall in the money vs. time spectrum, but here's a listing of a few sites that I keep in my RSS aggregator, or otherwise visit every now and then just to see what's up.

Testosterone Nation: T-Nation is a sprawling site with articles on strength training, conditioning and nutrition focused on bodybuilders, power lifters, mixed martial artists and "guys who want to look good naked." The articles range in specificity from, high-level "take my word for it - this stuff works" to getting pretty in-depth with the science. The only downside to the prolific nature of the site is that there are a lot of articles that repeat themselves, especially when you've been reading it for a couple of years.

The search tool is atrocious and you can get lost in the archives while you review minutae of hand positioning for any lift you can think of, signing up for their forum will get you the "weekly dose" email that summarizes what's gone on during the past week. The guys on the forum are pretty helpful with questions if you have any.

Mark's Daily Apple is a fun site with a similar mindset to what De Vany and the Evoutionary Fitness folks have. Mark's a little more accessible than De Vany and has a variety of articles covering exercise, green/less-toxic living and more. These articles are generally interesting or good overviews, but his best articles are his nutrition articles which spotlight certain foods and provide recipes or recipe ideas.

Nutrition Facts is probably the most in-depth database of nutritional information. On top of good info, they have lots of colorful graphs and charts of varying utility.

Exrx.net is the most comprehensive collection of exercises that I've yet seen. It also probably has the worst navigaiton of any site that I've yet seen. While there is lots of information on workout construction, rehab and etc., the list of muscle groups and exercises to work those (as well as what exercises work which muscles) are where the real value of this site is. You'll probably want to start on this page and go from there.