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The Quick-Switch Cycle: A two-part plan for bulking up and leaning out
We’re all familiar with bulking and cutting. Typically a program is done for one to three months (or more) with a focus on bulking or cutting. However, the Quick-Switch Cycle will put your body through change and variation much more frequently with the goal of stimulating muscle growth while also keeping you lean. The Quick-Switch […]
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The 10×10 workout plan to give your muscles an unexpected jolt
German Volume Training, or GVT for short, has been around the weightlifting world since the 70s. The idea between GVT is to overload your muscles with extreme volume, but with fewer exercises. The traditional setup you’d see would most likely be three main, compound exercises performed for a total of 10 sets at 10 repetitions […]
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The Hurricanes: 5 high-intensity interval workouts for fat loss
There’s not a whole lot more that can be said that hasn’t been said already. These 5 routines are not your standard “straight sets” where you do an exercise for 10 reps, rest of 60 seconds, repeat it for another 3 sets, then move onto the next. For these intervals or circuits, you’ll be performing […]
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The 4-week Body Reconstruction plan
This will be the year you dramatically change the composition of your body. A couple weeks in, take a look into the mirror, you’ll see noticeable differences in all the right places. Your face and jawline will show signs thinning; your shirts will tighten up in your chest, back, and shoulders. You’ll have visible veins […]
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Redemption: The 6-week workout plan
The Redemption workout plan was original published for Men’s Fitness magazine in January 2016. We’ve all limited ourselves, missed opportunities, or let time slip by. It’s never too late to redeem yourself. Redemption is more than workouts. It’s about finding the right state of mind, and igniting what triggers your motivation. For 45-60 minutes per day, […]
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The 6-week Unlabeled workout plan
Over the last several months I got back into an old habit of writing my exact workout for the day on my to-do list. I hadn’t done this is quite a while, in fact, years. Similarly to the piece I wrote on intuitive eating, as you could imagine, my training tends to be intuitive at […]
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The 4-week Winter Bulk Up workout plan
Winter does have its advantages. And one of the best is that you can set yourself up to be your at your biggest and leanest once the warm weather swings back around. The trick is to use the winter to Bulk Up, then transition into an aggressive shred during the spring. This gives your body […]
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3 inspiring weight loss stories from men that lost over 100 pounds
Transforming the human body is far from easy. It takes hard work, commitment, and strong willpower. These are three men we got to meet over the last year to discuss their ups and downs. Their stories are proof that anything is possible. #2. Lionell Dixon, 150 pound weight loss Lionell Dixon (@LonnieFresh84) didn’t have it […]
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8 high-intensity fat-burning workouts to work off holiday weight gain
Let’s face it: there’s no out-training a bad diet. You just can’t do it. No matter how hard you try—at the end of the day—the war on extra weight is won in the kitchen. But a couple big holiday dinners aren’t a bad diet—they’re just a couple big holiday dinners. You can put those to […]
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The 5-day holiday workout schedule for staying in great shape
Yeah, we get it: you’ve got to live a little, enjoy a cheat meal or two, hell, maybe even a couple of drinks. Finding that balance, they say. But the truth is: if a lean physique is your number one priority then you’d better believe that back-to-back-to-back binge dinners and hard partying can do some […]
