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“The perfect is the enemy of the good” In the fitness world I often see people fall victim to the Nirvana fallacy, in which people never even begin an important task because they feel reaching perfection is too hard. The fall victim to the idea that you must have the
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Muscle cramps sneak up on you suddenly. You might be sitting on the couch or 25 miles from home on your bike when one strikes, regardless of where you are or what you are doing a muscle cramp can be excruciatingly painful and hard to treat. Cramps can get in
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When you leave the hospital with a bottle of medication, it comes with a warning label or two; “Don’t operate a motor vehicle while taking this medication.” When you leave the hospital with a newborn, however, you’re handed a baby and told good luck. My daughter should have
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Having trouble cultivating mass and your lifts are not progressing? You’re not alone. Despite best-laid plans and plenty of effort, most guys struggle in the weight room at some point. The following are five reasons why you may be lagging and having a hard time trying to change your
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Those of you who frequent the site know I spend some time over on Reddit. I was checking out some stuff on r/Fitness recently and I came across this Chest 101: An Anatomical Guide to Training post and I just sighed to myself and moved on. But later on
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Once you wade through the multitude of information out there about optimal protein intake the next stumbling block is what type of protein you should be using. For the most part, widely available protein supplements contain whey protein, but there are other proteins out there, specifically casein. So what are
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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’
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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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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,
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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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In 2007 I decided to get serious about weight lifting. I scoured the internet for a place to start and nearly every source pointed in one direction, Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength (SS). So what is Starting Strength, who does it work for, what are the programs’ pros and cons?
