Why are there so many people failing to lose and maintain weight loss? Simple: Because they focus on excluding foods that aren’t high in micronutrients aka “bad” foods instead of including foods high in micronutrients. When people decide to lose weight they do what any sane person would do: Google…

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Don’t turn weight lifting into a cardio session. Keep weight lifting weight lifting — Cardio is great for your heart, mental health, and blah blah blah but please, stop turning your weight lifting workouts into cardio workouts. Here are five things that will sabotage your weight lifting progress (READ: sayonara muscle and strength gains). 1. Superset everything I touched on agonist-antagonist paired sets aka supersets in this…

Sustainable results happen only with sustainable methods — I have a long history of sucking at writing intros so let’s dive right into the main reason why people regain weight after losing it. It’s because the methods that they used to lose weight were unsustainable. …

Train for this reason instead — Weight loss is the primary motivation for exercise for most people. This is a big fugging problem because not losing weight is one of the main reasons why many people stop exercising (source):

Stop trying to cut corners by focusing on stupid shit that doesn’t make a big difference — Losing weight is not an easy ride. It’s a long, boring, and repetitive process. And for many people, things rapidly go to excrement simply because they do things that they shouldn’t do. So let me teach you 7 diet design dos and don’ts. 1. Keep it simple DON’T jump on “magic” diet regimens or…

Make sure you’re not doing these six things in your training — You’re dicking around with your training. Simply put, you probably don’t train hard enough to build muscle (like most people in the gym). So ensure you’re not doing these six things in your training and you will build muscle aka become a muscular boy or girl with smelly armpits. How…

Bodybuilders can get to 5% body fat while the rest of the world struggles to lose 10 pounds. Learn from bodybuilders, maybe? — When people see a bodybuilder weighing 250 pounds they assume this steroid-infused chap is dumb as fugg who can’t even tie shoelaces. Well, they are no dumber than the rest of the world is. Definitely no dumber than your friend that cut his finger while slicing a bagel because his…

There are two ways you can plan deloads into your training: Proactively and reactively. Which one is better for hypertrophy? — In a fitness world where men scream and go crazy about creatine (your grandma knows it as a steroid because it’s powder and it’s white) and mammoth biceps, a deload refers to a week taken off training or a short period, usually a week, of reduced training volume, load and/or…