Tag: fitness
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3 Ways Squats Build Bigger Biceps
Want more upper body strength? Squat. Are these claims backed by comprehensive studies? Fuck if I know. All I know is they’re true. Three ways squats build bigger biceps: Squats work the biggest muscles directly (glutes, quads). This sends a loud signal to your body to grow. Squats don’t just trigger growth in the primary…
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“An object in motion tends to remain in motion…”
I really enjoying training, and feed off the momentum of a disciplined regiment, but sometimes I do it too much. Usually excessive intensity without sufficient recovery. Here’s some strategies and tactics I use to to accommodate this addiction.. Shorter workouts, with a limited focus. I enjoy full body training, and still prioritize compound movements (multi-joint…
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Learning to Write
One of the drivers motivating me to start this blog was my desire to improve my writing. Somewhere to post frequent writing on a topic that interests me, in this case fitness. At this point, Salt & Iron has viewership hovering close to zero, and that’s okay. Of course I want people to read these…
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Two Birds Stoned at Once
For the past year or so I’ve been diligently stretching most evenings. Typically, if my wife and I were to go to our basement to watch an episode of say, Narcos, I’d make sure to spend a brief 5-10 minutes moving through a number of stretches before getting too comfortable on the couch. A small…
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Peak Athletic Expression – Breakdancing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Can we please take a brief moment to acknowledge one of the most impressive examples of athletic expression; breakdancing. Modern day b-girls and b-boys (female and male breakdancers, respectively) have been rocking backspins and windmills on cardboard and linoleum for small crowds for decades, and now have provisionally been given the world stage to show…
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Embracing Extremes
Stress is part of life. We need stress. In the right dose, we strengthen our body and mind from exposure to stress. But what kind of stress are we actually talking about? And in what dose? When we speak of stress, we can classify it in one of two categories; acute stress and chronic stress.…
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A Quick Note on Barbell Training
I only really started training with a barbell regularly two years ago. Although I dabbled previous to this, I never engaged in any sort of disciplined, consistent training. And of course there existed years on end with little to no exercise at all, let alone any sort of barbell training. Barbells have always been the…
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