A lot of people try to blame fast-food restaurants for their weight gain.
Are you one of those people?
If you happen to be, your finger shouldn’t be pointed at McDonald’s or elsewhere.
Instead, it should be pointed squarely at you!
Don’t want to do cardio on a machine?1After all, there are only but so many miles you can say “FML” to yourself before prematurely stopping your cardio session to blow your brains out.
Or maybe you want to do cardio between sets to keep your heart rate elevated so you burn more calories for fat loss?2Yeah, you can actually do that instead of playing on your phone until your next set! Running in place, burpees, and other light aerobic activity between sets not only helps burn more calories but active rest has also been shown to increase exercise performance and help build more muscle.
Jumping rope answers both, as it’s not as boring as traditional cardio and you can perform it anywhere.3While jump roping can indeed be done anywhere, it must be done especially in a packed gym right in front of the dumbbell rack so people have to wait to get their weights for fear of getting whipped in the face. Either that, or smack dab in the middle of a walkway so people have to take the circuitous path around you for fear of getting whipped in the face. By no means should you jump rope in an area of the gym where there’s enough space for that shit!!! But not only does jump roping have excitement and convenience going for it, it’s also the most efficient form of cardio on the planet. Just by simply jumping over a piece of rope for a relatively short amount of time, you can get a workout that recruits all the muscles in the body, burns a shitload of calories, builds bone density, and improves your motor skills, balance, and coordination. As an added benefit, a jump rope can double as a garrote to creep up on someone from behind and then choke them out so you can easily discard them from the machine they were camped out twiddling their thumbs on. Oh, and jump roping is also low impact on the joints! Continue reading Jump Rope
Is squatting bad for your back?
You know, you’ve probably heard conflicting things from different people, with some having horror stories about how squats have destroyed their back and others saying the complete opposite. So what’s the deal? Should you do ’em?
Well, it depends… Continue reading Is Squatting Bad For Your Back?
Wanna know how to get someone to exercise?
You know, because you just made a lifestyle change and now have to do that annoying thing of trying to convert everybody on some holier-than-thou shit. As is more than likely, that person you want to proselytize is your partner so you can work out together because, fuck, it’s not like they should ever be apart from you nor have the freedom to pick and choose how they spend their time. Nope!
Anyway, whoever that person is, I bet you probably think the best way to get them to work out is to write them a report on the benefits of exercise or how working out gives you the warm fuzzies so you can compel them to want to experience those feelings too. Something else that you may find appealing is plastering their surroundings with posters of people in shape and performing great feats of strength to make them feel bad about how they look, how much they weigh, or how weak they are, in addition to making comments that serve the same purpose. Fuck, you might even want to kidnap and force them to engage in activity with you at gun point if they refuse your invites to come with you to a training session or group fitness class. While all of those ideas are good, none of them are the answer, though.
So how do you get someone to work out then?! Continue reading How To Get Someone To Exercise
Are you an addict?
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Whoa, before you answer that and possibly disclose waaaaaayyyyyyy more information than you should, please allow me to explain what I’m referring to! Continue reading Do You Have The Signs Of Exercise Addiction?
