How many people you know start a diet, lose 10lbs in 2 weeks and then plateau? Even worse it seems the moment they break their diet they gain it all back. These weight fluctuations are the result of shifting...
Warm up.. what a milquetoast phrase. It implies something of lesser importance, something you have to do before you start the real training. Contrary to popular opinion the workout actually starts in the warm up and in fact what...
Let’s face the facts. If you eat less than you burn, you’ll lose weight. If you eat more, you’ll gain. Most people have nothing but a rough estimate of what they are eating, and usually it is way off....
The path to strength and size is one filled with injury and pain. Very few progress down that path, as bigger rewards carry with them bigger risks. At one point progress becomes simply surviving the workouts. If you’ve never...
All serious lifters find themselves at a crossroads; they just graduated from Starting Strength or 5×5 and are looking for the next challenge. Often they seek to specialize, in hypertrophy, strength, powerlifting or even traditional weightlifting. But what if...
You’re doing it wrong. If your back isn’t warped and misshapen like Quasimodo, pictured above moments before eating a live bird, then your back training sucks. It’s no shame, as not all of us spend all our lives pulling...
In his book, Wendler, an elite powerlifter, remembers a time at the zenith of his career, when he could barely walk outside the gym, his health was failing, and despite stellar equipped lifts, his unequipped capabilities were desperately weak. To...
