Weight Loss

These are some personal observations on Weight Training, and some quick suggestions on how to improve your results. Firstly, any weight loss program worth ANYTHING involves weight training. If you are not weight training in some way, you are selling yourself short. And if your goal isn’t weight loss but muscle gain, well I hope the need for weight training is obvious in this … [Read more...] about Weight training fixes for men and women

Hypertrophy requires consistent challenge to a muscle group. You could argue it takes constant unaccustomed challenge. Hypertrophy can be seen as a sort of immune response to an unfamiliar challenge. It’s how your body reacts to an attack, in this case the attack is the challenge of the workout. Increasing the load (the amount of weight you lift) is one of many ways to … [Read more...] about Hypertrophy vs Strength

Before anything else I was an artist. I loved to draw and paint and create. Still do. When I was young I drew Birds. When I got a little older I drew Ninja Turtles and Transformers. I eventually progressed to paints and pastels, charcoal and various other mediums. I did portraits and landscapes and movie scenes. You name it, I tried to create it. If I saw a blank piece … [Read more...] about Sometimes it’s art

I am not a perfectionist, and I don’t think you have to be one in order to be ‘healthy’. Sure, to get ridiculously low levels of body fat and extreme levels of muscularity, you have to be very dedicated, but once you step away from the ledge of extremes you’ll find that you can get a way with looking pretty good and feeling pretty good on a relatively small amount of work, … [Read more...] about How to be good enough

Here’s my take on the whole '5 foods to lose weight' thing List the 5 foods you know you have to eat for weight loss. They can be any combination of the daily things you eat that either A) support your weight loss efforts, or B) You need to eat in order to NOT feel like you are on some crazy restrictive diet that is slowly ruining your life and making you a miserable person … [Read more...] about 5 foods you must eat to lose weight