Culture & Opinion
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’
Tech & Data
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
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Should you or should you not be eating the yolk along with the whites of your egg? The debate has been going on for ages. There’s a lot to like about egg yolks. Compared to egg whites, the yolk contains most of an egg’s good stuff, including the
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Do you get through the workouts, eat the right foods and take all the supplements, but still not see your muscles growing the way you had hoped? The video above does a great job of illustrating just how important sleep is for your body when you’re trying to build
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The standard push-up is a very effective movement for building muscle and strength that is often overlooked by intermediate and advanced lifters. Past the beginner stage, conventional push-ups by themselves just aren’t difficult enough to really help build strength or muscle, which is too bad because mechanically speaking, it’
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Drop that bottle of Herbalife, it’s not the ticket to ab-city. As this video from PictureFit explains, there’s one way to get that flat stomach and it’s — wait for it — diet and exercise. Who’d of thought. You can’t remove the fat from your abs alone,
Clinical Cycling
Pokemon Go is wrecking your neck and back, there’s actually a name for it, it’s called Text Neck. Text neck is a new term being used to describe neck and back pain and damage caused by looking down at a smartphone or tablet. For the past few years
Gear Reviews
Here’s a question most gym goers have asked themselves at some point: How much weight can a barbell hold before it breaks or gets bent out of shape? Turns out it’s a lot of freaking weight. Eddie Hall, the guy who pulled a 500kg (1100 pound) deadlift couldn’
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Most of us spend far too much time sitting and far too little time walking around and squatting the way humans and our ancestors did for millions of years before the modern day. Excessive sitting makes hips extraordinarily tight, which can affect posture, ability to comfortably perform certain movements and
Culture & Opinion
The motorbike and helicopter footage we all get to enjoy on NBC at 6am is pretty great stuff, but it always leave you, the viewer, a safe distance from the action. Most of the year I hate GoPros, no I do not want to see a first person view of
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Plateaus are inevitable, you hear that? Don’t freak out! What’s important when a plateau sets in is how you choose to deal with it. Most people hit a plateau and make the mistake of overhauling their training or diet without getting to the bottom of the issue at
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If you work at a desk all day your neck, shoulders and back are likely suffering. We hunch over keyboards and our posture pays the ultimate price. If you would like to correct your posture the 30-second exercises in the video above are a great way to start. Marc Perry