What an exciting time!

You've got Michael Phelps and Dana Torres, the impossible-to-predict
battle for Olympic Basketball Gold, Canada's superstar - Adam van
Koeverden, the heart-warming and heart-breaking individual stories in
gymnastics, and my favorite event, the 100 meter sprint.

I can't wait to see who will be this year's World's Fastest Man.
(Personally, I'm hoping Tyson Gay pulls off a mini-upset.)

I've been studying many of the matchups, and here are my 2008
Summer Olympic predictions:

Not a real surprise here, as Marathon runners have been
losing this battle since the inception of the Modern Games
in 1896.

Sprinters, on the other hand, have lean, six pack abs physiques and
use the training methods that will also help you get a better body,
including multi-muscle resistance exercises and short, burst
interval-type fat burning exercise.

Just like Boot Camp!

2) The Weightlifters will be strong because they use classic, multi-
muscle exercises...

... not because they have been standing on a BOSU ball
on one leg all day long, while touching their nose with one hand and scratching
their butts with the other.

And in an Olympic Shocker, we'll see dozens of strong women who lift
heavy weights and aren't "big and bulky". Instead, they are lean,
athletic and have low body fat (and they don't do long, boring cardio either!).

3) The gymnasts will ALL have six pack abs...

...but not one of them has probably ever wasted training time doing countless crunches.

So those are my predictions, and I'm betting I'm 100% right on...

But that brings up the question, if that's how lean, fit Olympians
train, then why do you see most folks in the gym doing...

a) long, slow boring cardio?

b) useless single muscle exercises that have no carry-over to real life?

c) hundreds and hundreds of ab crunches?

Listen, I doubt any boot campers are going to be competing in the
Olympics, but it doesn't mean we can't train with the same
principles to help us lose fat and get lean, fit bodies.