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Most people gauge their weight loss success with the bathroom scale. Step up, stand still, and boom instant feedback. However, your common household scale is about as reliable as a drunk plastic surgeon at Mardi Gras.
Scale weight can fluctuate throughout the day depending on numerous variables and they also do not provide any measurement of how much body fat you actually have.
There are a few ways to measure body fat specifically for those who are trying to reach a certain level of “leanness.”
In a nutshell, a reverse diet is a protocol where you slowly add calories back into your diet after you have been in a long period of caloric restriction.
Instead of dropping an atomic bomb of calories into your system and expanding like a mushroom cloud of fat and water retention post diet, a reverse diet Jedi mind tricks your body into accepting the increased calories.
Almost instantaneously the room erupted. The walls had seemingly given loose, making it seem as if the whole world was spinning. But after a brief moment I realized what was going on.
Bats.
Screaming. Flying. And nearly frightened as I was.
Amidst that horror I felt something transcendent burning deep inside of myself.
A calling.
In that singular moment, it became clear who I was.
Or rather… who I would become.
Okay. Maybe that story was not my own…That may or may not have been the story of Batman and the Bat-Cave.
Active rest days can be a great way to counteract your desire to train but also keep you from vegging out on the couch. You can go for a jog, play some basketball, play disc golf (or regular golf), yoga, take a hike and explore nature in your hometown, or do some sort of mobility work or corrective exercise routines.
Being outside is great, but sometimes mother nature decides to be a dick and throw a wrench in your plans with rain.
It’s that time of the year when in the hopes of attaining Captain Americaesque biceps most guys start curling every day of the week.
The real secret to getting bigger arms is to focus on building your triceps. However, there is another bicep muscle you are probably neglecting that will make you look larger.
So I decided to make a video to highlight a few of the important things I learned from my grandmother that I know impart on my clients.
People assume that alcohol is the “Angel of Death” when it comes to fat loss, that like Indy and Marion, you have to shut your eyes and not look at it (in this case drink it) to lose weight.
Restricting things from your diet will ultimately lead to failure. You do not need to give up the food you love to achieve your fat loss goals, that includes zee booze.
Madden constantly brings out my “Ginger Rage”, which is far worse than what happens when the Incredible Hulk loses a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. I have gone so far to punch my couch and storm into the kitchen loudly proclaiming I would never play the game again, only to turn it back on after I cooled down half an hour later.
Successful people tend to attribute their accomplishments to certain “rules” or guidelines that live by. These can be rules for behavior in the workplace, rules for interactions with clients or rules for how they approach challenging situations.
Truth is, when you commit to an active health-conscious lifestyle, it will be full of successes and failures. For a while, you will hit PR (personal record) after PR. You will passionately stick to your diet counting every macro or calorie. On the weekend,s you will limit yourself to one or two drinks, and you may even see lots of weight dropping off the scale!