Tag: resistance training
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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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Lift heavy. 💪 Eat heavy. 🍴
Cardio can crush a gazillion calories in a single session, but building muscle through resistance training can be a much more enjoyable route. Muscle is metabolically active. It requires energy at all times. What does that mean in practice? More lean muscle on your frame equates to a greater proportion of consumed calories being directed…
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Getting Jacked in my Thirties
Lessons from the First Half Originally posted on Medium on September 3, 2020. My Trajectory When I was a teenager I was relatively slim. I took up Karate when I was around twelve years old, unable to perform a single push-up. Thrice weekly Karate classes soon changed that. A few years later, I could easily…
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2020 Vision
It’s been a while since I’ve written. I don’t exactly know why I stopped, but here I am, once again posting. Something triggered me to write today. I’m not going to dwell on what that trigger was, I’m just going to ride this motivation train, and see where I end up. See if I can…
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Practicing Patience: The Road to a 400 lb Deadlift
For the past year or so I’ve been working towards achieving a 400 lb one-rep max deadlift. This would represent a fairly significant lift for me, coming in at roughly 2.5 times my body weight. Thus far, however, the lift has eluded me. In November 2018 I thought I was coming close, pulling 385 lbs…
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