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Water & Scale Weight Fluctuations

by Swole Mike

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...

The Ultimate Warm Up: Reducing Injury and Getting Swole

by Swole Mike

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...

Hard Truths that Set You Free: Fast Food Reloaded

by Swole Mike

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....

Live to Fight Another Day: Tips to help you avoid and survive injury

by Swole Mike

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...

TSR: a new routine for muscle and strength gain

by Swole Mike

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...

The Swoleback of Notre Dame: Back training revamped

by Swole Mike

You ever get called a hunchback and have a mob chase you away back to your dark hovel? No? Well we introduce three methods to use for a bigger, fatter, stronger back, guaranteed to incite disgust and revulsion from...

5/3/1: Jim Wendler’s theory of strength

by Swole Mike

Frustrated by lack of progress? Sick of convoluted strength protocols with their meso cycles and dynamic effort days? Well Jim Wendler is here to save you with his 5/3/1 routine. Spread the SwoleEmailPrintShareDigg

Fast vs Slow: Tempo demystified

by Swole Mike

Confused about Tempo? Ever see 201 and wonder what units it’s in? Negatives bringing you down? Well confusion be gone. This article, we tackle lifting tempo and dissect each part, fleshing out exactly what, why, and how. We also...

The Partial R.O.M

by Swole Mike

Ever wonder about secret exercises? Do you feel like you’re training the same movement ten different times in the same day? Find out the guaranteed way to blast through plateaus and build huge mass. Spread the SwoleEmailPrintShareDigg

The S Word

by Swole Mike

You heard about em, the news told you they are one of the most dangerous substances around, your best friend’s cousin’s uncle took them and either got swole or had a heart attack. So you google but end up...

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