A Vegetarian Hitting Things With a Stick

To clarify: By "vegetarian", I mean two-time MLB All-Star Prince Fielder. By "things", I mean baseballs, and by "stick", I mean a baseball bat.

Last night, Fielder won the 2009 Home Run Derby knocking out 23 home runs for the night, including a 500-footer. At 260-something pounds, the Milwaukee Brewers' first baseman has maintained solid performance on the field since switching to a vegetarian diet before the 2008 baseball season.




Along the same line of the bodybuilders I wrote about during my own vegetarian experiment, Prince Fielder can be definitively added to "that list" of athletes who've adopted a meat-free nutrition plan with no negative effects on their athletic performance.

Exercise Spotlight: Overhead Press

It's been a while since the last Exercise Spotlight, but it's back with one of the best, and most basic, upper body lifts - the overhead press.

True, I already put the Spotlight on the push press and I still believe the push press is tremendous for building strength, size, and athleticism, but the overhead press is fundamental and often-overlooked, hence... the Spotlight.

I'm also skipping the usual format for the Exercise Spotlight, because the overhead press was thoroughly explained in my recent TMUSCLE article - The Overhead Press: Bodybuilding's Forgotten Muscle Builder.

That should explain pretty much everything you need to know about what to do, what not to do, how to do it, and why to do it.

Well-built shoulders are where it's at, and the overhead press is one of the best ways there.