Alarming news. It seems that many people can’t lose weight even while tracking calories and macros with MyFitnessPal. Then they clog up my Instagram’s comments section with statements like ‘hey man, calorie counting doesn’t work, I’ma do keto.’ It’s because you’re doing it wrong, maybe? It’s not maybe. It’s most…

Losing weight, dieting, call it however you like, sucks. It’s not fun. Well, it can be fun. But only if the alternative is being eaten by a shark. …

Depending on the source, within one year of weight loss, 50–70% of people will have regained all the weight. This makes sense considering how most people try losing weight — juice cleanses, keto, detoxes, fasting for 5 years straight because someone said something about autophagy or some such crap. Let’s…

For reasons I don’t fully understand (nor does the science), when you start the quest of becoming a hard-core workout warrior you also start experiencing post-exercise muscle soreness aka delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). …

For muscle growth to occur, your workouts have to be sufficiently challenging. …

Remember this, this, and this post where I said that intermittent fasting is not magic? That it’s no better than normal dieting aka daily calorie restriction for both fat loss and health outcomes? I feel that some people are still not convinced because I got comments like ‘Nah, I don’t…

If I may renew a topic found in my previous post — One Reason You Probably Shouldn’t Do Keto Diet — I have a bit more to say about the keto diet. This time, it’s about its effect on muscle growth. Does the keto diet compromise muscle gain? Those among…

Layne Norton, PhD nutritional sciences, wrote in his book: “My father lost 30 pounds on a ketogenic diet, then added back 60 pounds because he couldn’t sustain the diet for more than four months. Once he went back to eating “normally,” he rapidly packed the pounds back on.” That is…

You are in the gym, you look around at people, one of them is scrolling Instagram feed for five hours, another one is doing the stupidest exercise in the universe — burpees, another one is openly vomiting after completing four sets of Bulgarian split squats, and another one is just……