QUESTION: I’m currently working out 4 days per week and was wondering what I should do on my off days from weight lifting? I was thinking of maybe doing some cardio on those days, but I wasn’t sure if that was okay? I’ve also heard people say that the best thing to do on your…
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Let me guess. You want to lose weight, right? Cool. And if you came here to learn about starvation mode, there’s another guess I feel pretty confident in making: you’re not actually losing weight. You want to. You’re trying to. You’re doing everything you can in terms of your diet and workout to make it…
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I’d like you to meet AWorkoutRoutine.com reader Tiffany. If you follow the AWR Facebook page (and if you don’t, you should seriously start), then you’ve already seen me show off some of Tiffany’s impressive progress. Today I want to show off even more of that progress, and allow her to tell the equally impressive story that goes…
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I love when people write articles about being a hardgainer and/or ectomorph. They start off by mentioning how terrible their genetics are and how borderline impossible it is for them to build muscle or gain weight. This of course is done to make you see that they are (or were) just like you. Why? So…
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QUESTION: What do you think would be considered “strong” for my age and size? I’m male, 21 years old, about 5’10, 170lbs and I’ve been working out consistently for about 4 years. How much weight do you think I should be able to bench press, squat and deadlift at this point? What would you consider…
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I get a lot of questions about diet and fitness. No, seriously. I get A LOT of questions about diet and fitness. And I’ve consistently gotten this crazy number of questions for quite a few years now. During this time, I’ve noticed that a handful of these questions seem to come up much more frequently…
Continue Reading: How To Build Muscle And Lose Fat At The Same Time: Can It Be Done?
When it comes to losing fat, there are primarily two different categories of workouts a person might consider doing… cardio and weight training. Now in the cardio category, we can break it down even further into stuff like steady state or interval training. And while this is all wonderful stuff that I get asked about approximately 30 billion…
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QUESTION: I’ve been working out and making decent progress everywhere except for my upper chest which seems to be lagging behind. This makes my overall chest muscle look uneven and unbalanced. The lower half sticks out more than the top half because of how small and flat the upper part looks. How do I fix this? What…
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The key to getting results from your workout is progressive overload. If you’re not increasing the demands being placed on your body in some form over time, your body won’t be improving. With weight training, the most basic and common way of increasing those demands is by increasing the amount of weight we lift. So…
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I’d like you to meet my buddy Bryn. If you’ve “liked” A Workout Routine’s Facebook page (if not, you really should… go here and do it) and follow it regularly, then you probably already met Bryn a few weeks ago when I posted the very same transformation picture you see above. I’ve known Bryn for…
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