In an ideal world, you would lift weights 3–5 times every week of the year. But sometimes life is designed to flood your days with unhappiness and for some reason — family, business, personal stuff, extended travel — you can’t devote much time to training until things get better. And…

You know those people (mostly crazy anti-dieters but some dietitians too) who say that all diets come without the tiniest measure of success? That 95% of diets fail? Then you become discouraged and think what’s the point of even trying? Well, it’s a load of absolute gibberish. You see, the…

You know those keto zealots who claim keto is the best diet for weight loss and everyone should do it? I know one because I gave him a box full of ‘you’re blocked’ right after I wrote my first post on Medium. …

At the time of writing this post, I’ve shared 1,191 posts on Instagram. The time I wasted making those posts… sends a shudder down my spine. You should avoid social media like the plague. Anyway, 1,191 posts:

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. …