Picking The Right Workout Split
Key Points: Working movement patterns are better than focusing on muscle groupsWorking out 3-4 times per week is going to be the bestAs you get further into lifting, you need to increase volume As I am knocking on the door of 40, I often think back to my late teens...
Do Your Muscles Need To Be Sore After A Workout?
Key Points: Your muscles being sore after a workout isn’t a good indicator of progressYou can and should workout when sore, with a caveatWalking and heating pads are key for reducing soreness after a workout When I first started lifting weights, if you weren’t sore...
The Nutritional Tradeoffs of If It Fits Your Macros?
Key Points: Your diet is as hard or easy as you make itA successful diet combines what you need and what you wantIf It Fits Your Macros is a popular diet that does that You just started a diet. A few days go by. Easy peasy. Then it hits. Food FOMO....
How to Blow Up Your Upper Chest
Key Points Hitting your upper chest has a lot to do with elbow position.If you are going hard on upper chest, pull back on tricepsIf the goal is hypertrophy, aim for muscle activation When you used to study for tests back in school, did you just open the book and read...
The Subtle Art of Body Transformations
Key Points: Body transformations take a good plan and patienceExtreme workouts are piss poor for resultsLove the process Wouldn’t it be sweet if you could snap your fingers to get an internet ready body transformation? That would also suck because then everyone would...
13 of the Best Muscle Building Alternatives for Deadlifts
Key Points: Deadlifts are great for getting strong, but bad for building muscleNo exercise is mandatory, just movement patternsThe best way to make a bad back better is to work your butt and hamstrings The deadlift is shitty exercise to build muscle. Oh schnap, shots...
Weightlifting Plateau: The Simple Way To Break Through
Key Points: Make small changesWeightlifting plateaus are mostly from not recovering enoughDO NOT COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR WORKOUT Wouldn’t it be nice if you could increase every lift all the time? No frustration. No questioning your program. No drowning in information...
Your Plan to Stop Yo-Yo Dieting
Key Points Diets are like putting a band-aide on a broken legYo-yo dieting is a result of less than stellar eating habitsPractice your Nutritional Foundation and weight loss will be 100x easier Every diet ever invented has one thing in common… A calorie deficit. How...
What Exactly Is A HIIT Workout?
Key Points: Most of the stuff labeled as HIIT isn’t HIITHIIT workouts are short intense effort followed by a period of active recoveryHIIT has its place in a fat loss plan but it shouldn’t be the whole plan According to Urban Dictionary, the term catfish means:...
Exercises To Strengthen Your Lower Back
Key Points Back pain is not from a bad backExercises to strengthen your lower back should focus on glutes and hamstringsThe back extension machine might be the worst piece of equipment since the Shake Weight Back pain is a bitch. No matter what you do, it hurts. Most...