QUESTION: I was just wondering what your thoughts are on working out when you’re sick? Especially when it comes to weight training and cardio? What do you recommend to others and what do you do yourself in cases like this? ANSWER: Let’s start out with the first and most obvious part of what’s truly being asked here,…
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Let me guess. You can’t sleep, can you? Maybe it’s something that’s always an issue for you, where your sleep has consistently sucked for a long time. Or, maybe it’s just something that comes and goes. Meaning, you sleep a lot better than you presently do most of the time, but then you go through stretches…
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(The following article is an excerpt from my new book, Superior Muscle Growth.) Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Your goal is to gain muscle. Nice, lean, awesome-looking muscle. So, you come up with the perfect workout program, set up the perfect diet, and then proceed to put them both into action to the…
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1 month of planning. 8 months of writing. 2 months of editing. 14 years of learning, experimenting and perfecting. And now, it’s finally here. Allow me to introduce the greatest muscle building program of all time… Superior Muscle Growth. Now I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t that a bit of an exaggeration? Yup. And isn’t my opinion slightly…
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Between emails, comments, and messages on social media, I get asked a scary amount of questions on a daily basis. Most of these questions tend to be about diet and fitness related topics, while others are sometimes about me or this website itself. Since many of them seem to come up over and over (and over)…
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Whenever I write about injuries, I always like to remind everyone that I am not a doctor nor am I any kind of physical therapist, injury specialist or anything similar. What I am is a regular person just like you who has been weight lifting since I was about 16 (I’m 31, you do the…
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QUESTION: Do you think it’s better to do biceps curls using the EZ curl bar or the regular straight bar? I’ve heard people say the straight bar hits your biceps a lot better but the EZ curl bar is safer for your wrists and elbows. Which do you recommend and why? ANSWER: Just to make sure we’re…
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Let’s get something out of the way up front. If you want to build bigger, stronger, better looking triceps, the various compound pushing exercises in your workout routine will play the largest role in making that happen. Why? Because the triceps muscle is involved during any exercise where your elbows extend. This includes all of the…
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I’ve probably used traditional weight lifting straps for around 10 years or so. You know the type. You loop one end around your wrist and wrap the other end around the barbell, dumbbells, handles, etc., thus basically attaching the weight to your wrists/hands. Doing so improves your grip on the weight you’re holding and helps…
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QUESTION: I calculated that I need to eat 2000 calories a day to lose weight, but what about the calories I burn during my workouts? Should I be eating back those calories? For example, if I burn 500 calories during my workout today, does that mean I can eat 2500 calories instead of 2000 and…
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