I see this done wrong all the time. Someone at the gym will do a set, hop off their machine, step on the scale, then go back and do another set. Or, someone will step on a scale once, read the number, and then claim that as their weight for the next month. There are […]
Intermittent fasting is a pretty big buzzword in the fitness industry these days. So big, that I think this idea, and others that stem from it, are made to sound much more complicated than necessary. In this article, I hope to define what intermittent fasting is and provide some scenarios that make it simple to […]
This topic has been of utmost importance to me since the start of 2017. Just after the new year, I hurt my right shoulder while playing ice hockey. For the next few days, I struggled to lift my arm up in front of my body and out to the side laterally. After about a week, I […]
I was in the gym last week and started to have those thoughts that plague everybody from time to time. As I took a look around the gym, there were a ton of people that looked better than me, lifted more weight than me, and generally just looked farther along in their fitness goals than […]
I’m honestly not sure how widely adopted the idea of Holistic Fitness is, but it’s something I like to claim as my own through a lot of trial and error in my life of pursuing training. To me, Holistic Fitness is the idea that your training in the gym is extremely important, but it’s only one […]
A common generalization of dieting is that you have to eat extremely boring foods to get results. Rice. Chicken. Broccoli. Rinse. Repeat. False. Welcome to flexible dieting, also known as “If It Fits Your Macros” or “IIFYM.” I’ve detailed macros in previous posts. If you want to get on a flexible dieting plan, or if you […]