How To: Standing Plate Front Raises

Are you looking for variety in your life?

Ha, who isn’t!

There’s only but so many times you can fuck or get fucked by the same person before you get bored and start desiring for something else to spice things up, at least occasionally.

Well, the same goes with the gym.

While it’s good to perform the same exercises each and every workout so you can progressively overload and develop actual strength and muscle, there are times when it’s good to throw something new into the mix to break up the monotony. One such exercise is the front raise if you’ve been doing a lot of shoulder pressing for the anterior deltoids. Concerning the front raise, it can be performed with a barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, or at a cable station. But the most badass looking variation is the plate front raise, which requires nothing more than a weight plate, as its name implies.¹That is, it has the potential to look badass if you’re using a big boy plate and not something like a 5 or 10 lbs one! It too works the anterior deltoids to help strengthen the shoulders while also involving the core and lower traps to a lesser degree. Continue reading How To: Standing Plate Front Raises

Is The Sugar In Fruit Bad For You?

There’s a lot of informative stuff on social media.

Like, where else are you going to learn that you never have to pay federal income tax as long as you tell your employer that you request zero-dollar tax withholding and also choose “exempt” on IRS Form W-4?¹Now, before you do that, you should know that “exempt” doesn’t make you exempt from paying taxes. Even more, you’ll be subject to paying your entire tax bill in April if you don’t have your taxes withheld during the year. Making matters possibly worse, the IRS can charge penalties and interest if you’re unable to pay the entire amount at that time.

The most recent bit of wisdom that’s been making the rounds is that fruit is bad for you because fruit contains sugar and as we all know by now, sugar is the cause of all that’s wrong in the world.²Eating too much sugar is associated with several diseases and conditions, such as weight gain and obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and mood disorders like anxiety and depression, among several other issues. That’s well-documented about sugar, so what was said about sugar being the cause of all that’s wrong in the world was said in jest not in dispute of sugar’s effect on the body but in regard to the overexaggeration of it to the point that sugar’s made out to be something to be avoided at all cost. That said, it’s not exactly hyperbole that sugar has to do with why the world is as fucked up as it is. For instance, the demand for sugar drove colonialism and slavery and brought about the loss of countless lives. The socioeconomic effects of those practices reverberate today.

That’s a world history lesson, motherfucker!

So is fruit bad for you, especially if you eat too much of it? Continue reading Is The Sugar In Fruit Bad For You?