Should You Add More Weight or More Reps to Build Muscle?
Okay quickest summary ever: To build muscle, your workouts must contain some form of progression over time. It’s called progressive overload and blah blah blah I’m not going to expand…
One Thing You Need to Change in Your Training to Improve Muscle Growth
If you googled “how to build more muscle,” you would be presented with heaps of useless ways to do that — ingest as much turkesterone and BCAA as possible, eat…
STOP Focusing on Weight loss; Focus on Performance Improvements
“If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still succeed? For example, if you were a basketball coach and you ignored your goal to…
6 Things I Wish I Knew Earlier About Resistance Training
I really did suck mud at the start of my lifting “career.” When I look back on the first few years of my training (more like five years…), it’s impossible…
What’s a Discretionary Calorie Allowance? (And How it Can Improve Dietary Adherence)
Continue ReadingWhat’s a Discretionary Calorie Allowance? (And How it Can Improve Dietary Adherence)
July 23, 2021. The day that I wrote the ‘3 Reasons Why Flexible Dieting May Be Your Last Diet’ article. Obviously, I was chemically altered because howthefuckelse I would have…
Is Spot Reduction aka Targeted Fat Loss Real? A New Study Says It’s Stupid
The idea that specific exercises can reduce localized fat tissue depots is known as spot reduction or targeted fat loss. If it was true, training only one limb, say, your…
One Strength Training Benefit People Aren’t Aware Of
I have been listening to the Iron Culture podcast since I was an embryo and keto extremists were still normal human beings. The latest episode I listened to had Chad…
How to Minimize Hunger on a Diet?
There are manifold annoyances of dieting but hunger can challenge your patience and sanity nearly beyond tolerance. It makes adherence to a diet less likely which is a big fucking…
How Much Training Is Necessary To Preserve Muscle & Strength?
In an ideal world, you would lift weights 3-5 times every week of the year. But sometimes life is designed to flood your days with unhappiness and for some reason…
Do 95% Of Diets Really Fail?
You know those people (mostly crazy anti-dieters but some dietitians too) who say that all diets come without the tiniest measure of success? That 95% of diets fail? Then you…