When you look in the mirror, do your shoulders look more like tiny pebbles you could use to skip across a lake? You’ve tried to build bigger shoulders for years, and yet you’ve never developed…
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Why It’s Important to Practice Basic Lifting Patterns Everyday
I felt no pain at first. But once I saw the blood, dirt, and sweat coalesce, that’s when I felt it: A searing sensation that surged from my lower body to the back of my…
How to Isolate (and FEEL) Your Chest While Bench Pressing
You’ve been in the gym for a few months now. And so far you’ve: Lost 12 pounds Increased your total body strength (which makes climbing stairs or carrying groceries easier than ever) Your shirts fit…
Do, or Do Not: Which Do You Choose?
Do, or do not. There is no try. This could be the third most well-known line from Star Wars. But there are a hundred different meanings you can take from this line. For the most…
How to Increase Your Mind-Muscle Connection
You can feel it, even hear it whispering from the depths of your mind. But you’ll never admit it. Still, it’s there, inspiring you every step of the way; a mental image you use as…
61 Life Lessons I Would Deliver to Younger Versions of Me (And Wisdom You’ll Find Useful as Well)
They say it’s important to reflect on your birthday; to ponder what you’ve learned during your latest orbit around the sun and to contemplate how you can make the next year of life better. Well,…
9 Things You Want Out of Diet and Exercise But That You Won’t Get
Do you remember your first school-age crush? You know, that one person you were so infatuated with in high school that you wrote in your journal, “if we don’t get together I’ll die.” (Well, apparently, you…
How to Be More Successful at Anything
Be honest, you and I both aren’t fans of making decisions. We’ll do everything we can to circumvent or even push back the most stressful decisions of our lives. The act of taking action is…
How to Fuck Up Some Commas: Or, The 9 Keys You Need to Make Your Writing Great
170. No, that’s not the number of video games I’ve beaten in my life. And it sure as hell isn’t the number of women I slept with before my wife (that was less than 10)….
7 Powerful Ways to Stop Overeating After Workouts
One of the biggest problems I’ve had to overcome when training intensely, is overeating. During my years as a college football player, coaches lead me to believe that after a tough workout, there was no…