Fasted Weight Training: Is It Killing Your Muscle Gains?
A lot of people do cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach before eating breakfast, hoping that this will increase fat loss. For sure, fasted cardio can help with fat loss, [...]
Bigger Breakfast, Better Metabolism?
It was once fashionable in the diet industry to suggest things such as “Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a prince, and eat dinner like a pauper” or [...]
Is Spot Reduction Possible After All? (What The Latest Science Says)
Spot reduction of body fat is the theory that you can burn fat preferentially from one area of the body by doing exercises which target that specific spot. The most common [...]
How To Get Great Abs
One woman recently wrote to me and said she would do anything to have a body like Miss Figure Olympia, Erin Stern The very next day, another woman e-mailed me and said, “I wanna [...]
This Type Of Exercise Is Shockingly Good For You
Many fitness enthusiasts believe that unless cardio is high in intensity (like interval training or sprints), it's not beneficial ("high intensity or nothing" mentality). In a similar train of thought. Most people believe that walking [...]
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. [...]
Antagonist Superset Training: Science, Benefits & Workouts
Even before modern scientific research on supersets was ever published, world-class bodybuilders had already figured it out. Antagonist superset training was a favorite technique of the bodybuilding champions in the 60s and 70s Golden Era, including Mr. America Dave Draper and the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is the definitive guide to supersets…
Drive By Daniel Pink: Book Review, 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 [...]
Clean Eating And Orthorexia, Part 2: The 10 New Rules
In the first part of "Clean Eating And Orthorexia" I described the growing obsession many people have with eating only the purest, healthiest foods, aka "clean eating." You'd think that nothing but good would come [...]
Clean Eating And Orthorexia, Part 1
Clean eating has no official definition, but it’s usually described as avoiding processed foods, chemicals, preservatives and artificial ingredients. Instead, clean eaters choose natural foods, the way they came out of the ground or as [...]