A little over a year ago, I wrote an article that contained 11 mostly-sarcastic-yet-entirely-accurate reasons for why a person can’t lose weight. It has since gone on to become one of the most popular articles I’ve ever written. Which is nice. You know what’s less-nice? When I STILL get 40 emails/messages/comments a day from people who STILL…
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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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QUESTION: I wanted to know how much cardio you recommend doing a day to lose weight? Like how many minutes a day? How many days per week? What intensity? What kind of cardio exercise? And how much would you consider to be “too much?” ANSWER: If you’re a regular reader of mine, then you probably…
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Some of us might want to build a little bit of muscle or a lot of muscle, or lose a little fat or a lot of fat, or get stronger, improve performance or something similar. But, there’s one thing that damn near all of us have in common… We all want to lose our belly…
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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 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…
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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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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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QUESTION: My main goal over the next year or so is to lose weight and keep it off, so I’m planning on doing some form of cardio workout on the days I don’t do any weight training. My question is, what form of cardio exercise should I do? I find the treadmill to be very…
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