FitBit Charge 4 Review
While the Apple watch has taken over in the marketplace as the number one smartwatch, the Fitbit Charge series has remained one of the most popular fitness tracker bands ever. [...]
Drive By Daniel Pink: Book Summary And Discussion On Intrinsic Motivation
As far back as the 1940s, psychologists knew humans had two types of drives. One is biological drive, which includes motivation to eat, drink, and reproduce. Another is external drive [...]
How Lifting Weights “Backwards” Helps You Keep Gaining Muscle And Lifting Pain Free For Life
There are standard guidelines for choosing all your weight training variables. Traditional trainers and textbooks advise us to follow these rules if we want the best results in strength and [...]
Why It’s Possible To Gain Muscle Lifting Light Weights For High Reps… And The 1 Key To Making It Happen
Most people believe that if they don’t lift heavy, they’ll never gain any muscle. High rep, light weight training has always been thought of as only for endurance or “toning.” [...]
The 10 Biggest Fears About Fitness And Weight Control During The Coronavirus Outbreak… And How To Deal With Them
There’s no sense in denying the facts or trying to sugar coat it. We are in the middle of a pandemic unlike anything our generation has ever seen, and it sucks. People are dying. [...]
How To Make Push Ups As Effective As Bench Presses
Despite the popularity of body weight training, questions and controversy have remained about how effective body weight exercises really are… […]
Hang In There. The Pandemic Will Pass. Stay Strong.
During a time of crisis, I think the first important thing to remember is that it will pass. So hang in there and stay strong. The second thing is that staying [...]
Losing Weight Slower Helps You Keep It Off Better: Fact Or Myth?
You’re supposed to lose weight “slow and steady,” aren’t you? Everyone knows that losing weight faster does bad things to your body and increases the chances of weight regain, right? [...]
I Told You I’d Be Back (To Terminate Even More Fitness B.S.)
Burn the Fat Blog was on hiatus from early 2019 until the spring of 2020. We are back, but pardon our dust – we’re still rebuilding. Here’s where we went, [...]
The Ultimate Home Gym For Maximum Muscle… It’s Not What Most People Think
You don’t need any weird contraptions or fancy infomercial machines to transform your body at home. There are only four must-have pieces of equipment you need in a home gym, [...]