How To Make A Meal Plan For Losing Weight (And Keeping It Off)

It’s something I started doing pretty early. Probably age 18 or 19 or something. I hired a coach online who hung around a fitness forum I was hanging out in daily. I sent some birthday money, then got the starting materials, my workout and my calorie numbers. Oh, and some homework. “Make yourself a meal…

Learn How To Deadlift Properly

  What if I told you there was a lift that could do it all. Shed body fat. Improve your posture. Make you feel stronger. Save you from low back and knee problems. Put muscle where you need it the most. Especially that ass. It’ll make all your dreams come true. Hahaha kidding about the…

A Definitive Guide To The Ketogenic Diet

I actually think keto is the most popular fat loss diet ever. Without a doubt the most puzzling diet phenomenon. Like, would you be surprised after years of blaming carbs for the world’s increasing waist line we’d decide if low carb didn’t work, “maybe, just maybe, really, really low carb would”. Riiiiight. Or is it…

How To Start Strength Training

So you wanna start strength training, do ya? Maybe you’ve been to the gym for years, but spend most your time in the cardio section. Maybe you’ve wandered into the side with the weights without getting anywhere realizing you don’t know what you’re doing. A little worried about looking clueless in an area many seem…

The Main Reasons You Aren’t Hitting Your Fitness Goals (with solutions)

You know those people that are negative about everything? They shit on every idea and only focus on the negatives. All they talk about is what’s wrong with the world, themselves, or even worse, YOU. I’m about to take a page out of their book. This week, I’m gonna tell you what’s wrong with your fitness […]

How to Lose Fat and Keep It Off: For Dummies

In case you’re too busy to read – what’s inside: Burning more calories than you eat = weight loss. Weight in conjunction with high enough protein intake and strength train = fat loss The most important variable in weight loss is controlling how much you eat “Diets” are short-term fixes but your long-term habit changes dictates…

5 Healthy Foods That Aren’t Helping You Lose Weight

In most cases, when people start to “eat healthy”, they lose weight and get leaner. It’s just not a guarantee. In most cases, foods most people consider “healthy” contain protein, fibre, are dense with nutrients and aren’t heavy in calories. Most of the time, the foods people consider healthy keep you full and are hard…

The Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made in The Gym

As long as you don’t quit — the more you screw up, the more you’ll succeed. It’s a pretty brilliant way to start thinking about anything, because as long as ultimately giving up isn’t in your game plan, progression is inevitable. And long-term progress towards meaningful goals is one way to define success. I write…

My Top 12 Best Exercises For Looking Better, Feeling Better, and Getting Stronger

A personal trainers exercise library can span several hundreds of exercises and variations. In addition, there’s many ways to adapt and modify those exercises to hit the body differently. Truth is, we rely on a much smaller number than that program after program. In ideal situations, these lifts listed below are my favourites – the one’s […]

Technique of the Week: One Arm Dumbbell Press

The one arm dumbbell press is a rarely seen upper body exercise in most gyms. It’s typically left off most programs for exercises like bench presses and two-arm DB Press variations. It’s unfortunate as this one will not only provide you with a little variety, it’ll also end up making your two arm pressing stronger…