How Much Protein Do You Need Per Day?
When it comes to losing fat, building muscle, or manipulating your body composition in any way, there is no greater nutritional tool in your arsenal than protein. Dietary protein heavily influences...
View ArticleHow to Get Smaller Calves: The Definitive Guide to Slim Calves
Say Goodbye to Cankles Calves are arguably the most stubborn body part to manipulate through diet and exercise. If you’re unhappy with the size or shape of your calves then I’m sure this isn’t news to...
View ArticleWhy You Should Throw Out the Scale
Many people, and in my experience this is particularly true with women, get completely hung up on their weight on the scale when trying to get in shape. Some will even check their weight multiple times...
View ArticleHow Much Exercise is Too Much? What Research Says in 2015
Sometimes more exercise really is better. Like when you get on the floor and try to push out 10 sit-ups, and you only do 2 and call it a day. Or when you walk outside with the intention of going for a...
View ArticleWarm-Ups and Cool-Downs: Are They Really Necessary?
Delayed onset muscle soreness, otherwise known as DOMS, is simply a fact of life. The older you get, the more you know this to be true. No longer can you run around the field playing a game of tag...
View ArticleAre Ab Exercises the Key to Great Abs?
A frequently made and innocent enough assumption is that by working out a certain area of your body, you will increase the muscle definition of said area. In this case, people assume that if you do...
View ArticleMythBusting: No Pain, No Gain, Down the Drain
Origin The “no pain no gain” motto was popularized in 1982 by Jane Fonda who used the saying in a number of her popular aerobic dance workout videos. It’s of course applicable to many things in...
View ArticleCan You Target Fat Loss? Spot Reduction Reexamined
For those of you not familiar with spot reduction, it is the idea that one can remove subcutaneous body fat in one particular area of the body by exercising that area. For example, repeatedly doing...
View ArticleThe Broscience Survival Guide
Some of you will have heard of the term ‘broscience’ before. Some of you won’t have, but have likely come across it at some point without even realizing it. That’s the most dangerous type of...
View ArticleThe 2 Most Important Principles in Fitness
For a beginner, embarking on a journey to lose fat, build muscle, or both, can be a confusing and daunting process. Often times, people start this journey by researching fitness information on the...
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