How To Track Weight Loss With Your Clothes

For a bunch of reasons I won’t get into here, the scale isn’t the best measure of weight loss success. It’s as trustworthy as the motherfucker you’re romantically involved with.¹ They had to work overtime last night…and you bought that shit?!?!

Yeah, you definitely deserve to be lied to.

Damn, have some dignity!

Get off your knees and stop begging and pleading for me to tell you why you shouldn’t rely on the scale. Fuck, I already said I won’t get into it, and that’s that!!! By the way, here’s a fucking tissue to dry your eyes!²Just because I won’t tell you doesn’t mean I won’t tell these other people that one issue with the scale is that it only measures body weight, not the body’s muscle-to-fat ratio.

Anyway, if the scale can’t be trusted, then what’s a better barometer? Continue reading How To Track Weight Loss With Your Clothes

Why You Should Plan Your Meals

Wanna know the one thing you can do to make sure that you lose weight?

Huh, do ya?

Well, stop eating so much.

Hardy har har!!!

But seriously now, there’s something that you can do to help you with weight loss.

Care to know what it is?

Of course you do! Continue reading Why You Should Plan Your Meals

Why You Should Cook Your Own Food

According to the stats, ninety percent of people avoid cooking by outsourcing all their meals or they like cooking sometimes and do a mix of it and ordering out or dining in at restaurants. Only 10 percent love cooking enough to do it often.

If you fall into the former camp because you’re pressed for time or lack confidence in your cooking skills, that should probably change. Continue reading Why You Should Cook Your Own Food

How To Barbell Squat Correctly

How difficult can squatting be?

After all, you squat every time you take a seat to sit down. In fact, you’ve been squatting since you were a baby, as it’s the first thing you had to learn how to do before you could stand or walk.

However, as simple as squatting appears to be, it’s actually quite technical and easy to mess up, especially when the movement pattern is performed as exercise in its most popular variation, which is the barbell back squat. Just go to any gym in any city in any country at any time on any day and you’re sure to find people butchering the exercise in any number of ways and then complaining about some kind of pain or not seeing the results they want. That’s to be expected because the risk of injury is increased and the benefits are reduced when barbell squats are performed how most people perform them. But when done correctly, the barbell squat is safe and one of the best exercises for building strength and size.

Barbell squats are great for getting stronger and putting on muscle but that’s not only in the glutes, quads, and hamstrings. Nope, those benefits extend to the entire body as well. That’s because squats are a compound movement that require other body parts to perform it, such as the back, core, and obliques to stabilize the weight and the delts and traps to hold the barbell in place. All of those areas will develop in addition to the muscle groups in the lower body just by doing squats. But that’s only by doing them correctly! Continue reading How To Barbell Squat Correctly