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Targeting excess facial fat is tricky as evidence that you can spot-reduce body fat remains limited [1]. The good news is there are a handful of studies suggesting facial exercises can help define and rejuvenate facial appearance by strengthening muscles of the cheeks and jaw [2]. However...

Have you ever wondered how many calories are in a pound of fat? While this generalization is reasonable, it is not very precise. So, how many calories does a pound (of body fat or muscle mass) really contain? Does a static model make sense for projecting calorie intake to lose weight? Let's...

Go to any gym these days and you see most trainees doing an endless number of reps all in the hopes of attaining the oh-so elusive and fleetingly short pump. Blame it on Arnold who, years ago in the movie "Pumping Iron," said that getting a pump was as good as coming, or, in Arnold-ese, comink...

If you’ve picked up a dumbbell or any weight, you’ve probably heard the term “isolation exercise” tossed around. In theory, isolation exercises are meant to target one muscle group—in reality, that’s not normally the case. No single muscle truly works in “isolation” because the human body is a...

Hi guys this is my first post. To start off im 42 years old 5’4” and weight 185. Currently less than 8%. Im on TRT from dr. Test cyp. 250/100mg deca nandrolone blend a week i split sun/wed. Been on TRT since 2015. So i wanted to do a blast which i have experience with but my main question was...

"WHAT'S A GOOD FAT LOSS TRAINING ROUTINE?" Train yourself to push your fork away from your mouth. Neither weight training nor cardio do a whole lot to create an energy deficit compared to not eating that piece of salted caramel cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory: Salted Caramel Cheesecake: 990...

Science can make nutrition complicated. Measure the glycemic index of this, the glycemic load of that. How much omega-6's in this? What about omega-3's? While a deeper level of nutrition knowledge can certainly be useful, what we often get through the media are little bits of information that's...

YO-YO DIETING Dieting is a chancy undertaking. The sad truth is that most people who attempt to lose weight end up gaining it back. In fact, at last count, there are only five people on the entire planet who have permanently lost weight, but even that pathetically small number is suspect...

ARE MY CREATINE GAINS JUST WATER? Most people gain weight so rapidly after starting to take creatine that logic tells you that the weight gain is almost all water. That may be largely true after you first begin taking it, but even then, the increase in weight appears to be proportional to the...

With the 2/1 technique, lift the weight using two limbs and lower the weight with one limb. For the leg press, you'll lift the weight up with both legs, lower slowly with one, then repeat, alternating legs. Accentuating the eccentric (negative) stress will lead to more strength gains. The...

UPPER BODY EXERCISES THAT IMPROVE EVERYTHING Want to build more muscle, get stronger, increase athletic performance, and strengthen your tendons? Then you need to focus on eccentric training and use these upper body exercises. Mechanical eccentrics are a great way to introduce a form of...

We all know that, in order to achieve the physique of our dreams, there comes a time where (hopefully) we’ve already explored our genetic potential to a decent extent with proper training and dieting, and must resort to something extra, in the form of androgenic-anabolic steroids (AASs). AASs...

Way back in 1995 or so, a fresh-faced Canadian strength coach named Charles Poliquin, wearing the native moose fur and antler hat that is emblematic of his countrymen, gave me an article (written on maple leaves) about something called "German Volume Training." I cast aside my initial...

One of the best pieces of muscle-building is that you must row to grow. You may have heard this before, but it bears repeating because too many lifters still focus on the mirror muscles. Training the posterior delts, upper back, and lats must be a priority when muscle and strength are your...

Even with a fantastic exercise like the deadlift, things can go wrong and a great movement can become a dumb training tool. Avoid these mistakes: 1 ▶️ Bouncing a Touch-and-Go Deadlift We've all seen it. Someone struggles mightily to complete a single rep on a heavy deadlift. The lifter's eyes...

Eighty percent of men started lifting weights because they wanted big arms. The other 20% are liars. So why do we see so many lifters with puny arms? Doing more on the big lifts will work if you're genetically gifted for building arm size. But most people won't build a set of powerful-looking...

Stubbornness goes hand in hand with competitiveness. This is why most of us will look for ways to keep squatting and deadlifting even when we're banged up. I get it. My father, a champion distance runner, ran with Achilles tendinitis for 20 years. How did it finally clear up? Ice and rest – he...

If you have been watching the Olympic games and marvelled at some of the athletes on show in sports such as sprint cycling and track sprinters in athletics, it certainly looks as though weight training must play a significant role in the training of these athletes based on the muscle mass that...

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW... Don't discount the leg press just because it doesn't involve a barbell. Every variation can help grow massive legs. The escalating leg press is one giant set with micro-stops. The banded leg press makes the eccentric or negative phase more challenging. The drop...

When my editor explained that there was an assignment with my name on it—just down the road, nonetheless—which would require me to ditch the keyboard and work out with two of the world’s strongest men, the Stoltman brothers: Luke and Tom Stoltman, I leapt at the chance perhaps fortunately...