Ken “Skip” Hill has been involved in the sport of bodybuilding for almost forty years and competing for over twenty years. Born and raised in Michigan, he spent 21 years calling Colorado home with his wife and their four children. 4 years ago, he and his wife traded the mountains for the beach, relocating to South Florida. His primary focus is nutrition and supplementation, but he is called upon for his years of training experience, as well. He started doing online contest prep in 2001 and is considered one of the original contest prep guys when the bodybuilding message boards were still in their infancy. Skip’s track record with competitive bodybuilders is well-respected, and he also does sport-specific conditioning, including working with professional athletes.
In my experience, training is overcomplicated and nonsensical the large majority of the time. Everything you do in the gym should be logical and easily justified; there should be a reason for every movement, the sequence of the movements, where you schedule muscle groups in your training split, rep ranges, etc. This is, of course, […]
Your face. I'm done. 2 words for this coach log. See you next week.Seriously, your face does irritate the shit out of me but there are other things that irritate me, too. Some will say that trenbologna sandwiches make people irritable (if you don't get the reference, that's on you). After competing for as long […]
Yeah, you read that correctly. I know I have said that I don't do cardio, but I have changed my stance just a little bit and decided to do one day of cardio per week. The reasons aren't as obvious as you might think, though, so I want to expound. Get Leaner Obviously, I want […]
I have been all stealthy over here and just getting back to grinding at 100% for the last couple of months. I have refrained from talking about what I have been doing because I wanted to get some postive progress under my EliteFTS belt, first. Now that my knee rehab is finished, I've not been […]
Times have changed. I used to train just as hard while out of town as I did while training at my regular gym. Of course, I wasn't training around injuries as much then as I am now, but I'm also smarter now than I was in the past, as well. I will share some things […]
For the last 15 months, I have been dealing with the worst injury of my 38 years of training. Even though it has continued to progress, albeit slowly, it is most certainly not 100%. It is possible that it may never be, but because of my love for training (and being stubborn), I will continue […]
After 2 years of recovering from injuries, it almost happened again. This time it was not my glute/hip or knee but a pop in my biceps while training legs.
There are a lot of variables and many facets to gaining muscle, losing body fat, or doing both at the same time (yes, you can do both at the same time). However, there is one thing that stands out above everything else and if you focus on it and look for it, you will be […]
I probably get on some people's nerves when I say that getting lean is incredibly easy. Before you blast me and say that I am always lean or it's only easy for me, you're wrong; don't say it. If it is easy for me, it should be easy for the vast majority of people because […]
I am quite sure that some of you will be irritated that I'm not posting pictures, yet. I will get to that but not until I'm leaner. We all have our shit and my shit is that I don't post pictures until I'm much leaner. I have high expectations for myself, and I refuse to […]
I have anxiously awaited this for a while now. In less than 2 weeks, I will finally get to start a cut cycle after being back to what I consider to be my "100%". No, my legs are certainly not 100% in reference to the size I had prior to my injuries that started in […]
Before any of you swingers get worked up, I'm not referring to THOSE vanilla friends. I'm talking about your friends who don't consistently work out or eat healthy. Vanilla friends like to ask a lot of questions at this time of the year. They want the best weight-training workout; they want the best diet plan […]
I don't want to go down the list of things that sucked last year and complain about how crappy the year was; I've already done that a few times. I am focused on the POSITIVE things that are happening and the things I have to look forward to this year. Suffice it to say that […]
Knee Rehabilitation I have been concerned about continuing to write about my knee issues. My hesitation was because I would prefer not to hear about someone's injury over and over. The assumption was that other people would feel the same way. After speaking with a few people I trust, I am going to continue to […]
We all have our flaws; one of mine is a lack of patience. In fact, I admit to passing this gene to my kids because they have zero patience, as well. I do not like to wait for anything, and injuries are at the top of that list. Longevity With the exception of some reoccurring […]