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When It’s Okay to Workout While You’re Sick
First and foremost, if you go to a gym to work out, the answer is never. It is never ok to drag your sniffling ass in there and infect every machine, bar and bench in the place. If you’re going for a run, or you have a home gym, go for it. You aren’t showing…
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How to Fix the Most Common Push-Up Mistakes
Push-ups are a deceptively easy movement. Everyone know thinks they know how to do one, but when asked to perform most people display sloppy form which can reduce the effectiveness of the exercise and in the long run cause injury. The classic example is the ROTC kid who can bust out 150 of the shittiest…
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How Marijuana Affects Your Workouts
This video brings me back to seeing dudes at the powerlifting gym I used to go to in college, they would smoke either crack or meth (not sure, not really an expert on the smell, but the glass pipe was a dead giveaway) before hitting the weights. They sweated a lot, looked like they were…
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Cardio Before Or After Weights?
When’s The Best Time For Cardio? The question that’s been asked for ages, should I do cardio before or after lifting? There are two camps; do it before because it acts as a warm-up and do it after and use your good energy for lifting. So, who’s right? Turns out those who say to wait…
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Stop Obsessively Counting Everything And Listen to Your Body
I sat down and watched Pumping Iron recently because I love watching Arnold be and ass and I love the mystique of golden age bodybuilding, but one thing stood out to me this viewing. Paying close attention to the training sequences I noticed something, no one was counting. Arnold didn’t count to 8 reps, put…
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How To Ride Any Zwift Course at Any Time on Mac or PC
I love Zwift, simply put it has revolutionized indoor training. The days of purposelessly spinning pedals while I watch old TV episodes or tour stages are behind me. In this brave new world I can compete, train and just get a spin in on a great course that feels very close to real life. There…
