Can You Get Big With Calisthenics?

Wanna put on some serious size and become brutally strong?

I bet you think you need to waste money on a gym membership. Maybe even buy your own fancy equipment in order to work out from home and further limit interaction with other human beings.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

My friend, calisthenics are all you need.

Cali-what-what?!, you ask.

Calisthenics, I said!

If you don’t know what that is, calisthenics is basically the use of your body weight to exercise. That’s right, it’s nothing more than a fancy way of saying “bodyweight exercises”. As for what the exercises are that you can do with your body weight, think back to gym class and some of the sucky shit your gym teacher used to make you warm up with to kill time while they came up with what you were doing for the day at that exact moment.

Now that we have that explained, calisthenics are all you need to get big.

Just your body weight?!, you ask.

Yup!

Burpees, push-ups, pull-ups, wall sits, air squats, and all sorts of body weight exercises are going to get you big!

…or at least that’s what cultists from the body weight movement would have you believe. Continue reading Can You Get Big With Calisthenics?

When To Stop Chasing A Goal

Quitting is for losers.

…and winners, too!

As much as it’s instilled that one should never give up, there’s nothing wrong with waving the white flag when it’s called for. Sure, you could persevere and ultimately succeed with your objective but you can just as easily continue trying to push through and fail, with that failure then leading to possible issues with your confidence and self-worth.

So when should you stop chasing a goal and call it quits then? Continue reading When To Stop Chasing A Goal

How To: Conventional Deadlift

Do you want to improve your posture? Have developed glutes and hamstrings? Reduce or eliminate back pain? Maintain bone density? Have a stronger grip? Increase hip mobility? Burn calories? Build mountain-sized traps? Possess more overall strength? Be impressive from the back with bulging muscles when you take your shirt off?

If you answered in the affirmative to any of those desires, then allow me to introduce you to the conventional deadlift. Continue reading How To: Conventional Deadlift

Does Not Eating Meat Help You Lose Weight?

Does not eating meat help you lose weight?

I take it that you must be desperate to drop a few pounds if you’re seriously thinking about dumping delicious meat in favor of not-so delicious food that isn’t meat for that express purpose.

Well, will doing that work? Continue reading Does Not Eating Meat Help You Lose Weight?

The Brick-By-Brick Goal Approach

As said by John Heywood, Rome wasn’t built in a day.¹Who the fucking bleep is John Heywood?!?!, you ask. Well, have you ever said or heard the expression, “Better late than never”? “Hit the nail on the head”? “A penny for your thoughts”? “Beggars can’t be choosers”? If you’ve said or heard any of those sayings, then you’re familiar with John Heywood because he’s the English playwright who came up with those and many more turns of phrases that are used in ordinary conversation. So that’s who the bleeping fuck John Heywood is!

It was built brick…²Take a guess what comes next.

…by brick…³Take another guess what comes next.

…by brick!!!

A brick was laid every hour for days, weeks, months, and years until the patricians, while on break from one of their famed orgies, looked up and saw there was a city and then gave the go-ahead for the slaves to stop building.

Yup, Rome didn’t just magically appear out of nowhere…unlike the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt that are clearly the result of ancient aliens, of course.

So what’s the takeaway message here? Continue reading The Brick-By-Brick Goal Approach