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Despite the fact that there’s a gym of some sort on just about every corner, and an internet brimming with everything from meathead forums to mom blogger blogs, adopting a healthier lifestyle can feel like a lonely road at times. It’s a treacherous road for most desk jockeys. One that’s filled with foes who come as friends excited to share the sugar and carb-loaded spoils of yet another morning meeting, or a bout of colossal caloric cake consumption in celebration ...
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You’ve set your SMART Fitness Goal and set off on your fitness journey exuding confidence and determined to succeed. You’ve started eating healthier, hitting weights at the gym 4 times a week, and are actually starting to see some decent results. Then suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, your results just STOP.
You feel like you’re doing everything right, but for some reason it appears that you’ve hit some sort of fitness glass ceiling. Week after week brings lackluster results, if any at ...
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Something that many of you may not know about me is that I’m blessed, or cursed by some accounts, to call MinneSNOWta my home. Land of 10,000 fish-filled lakes, a Humphries who was fortunate enough to escape the Beverly Hillbilly tentacles of the Kardashian clan, and numerous heart-pumping, calorie roasting winter activities.
I’m a firm believer that era of obesity is nourished greatly by first being the era of doing things as fast as possible, with as little effort as possible. By ...
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Posted by: Lean Muscle Matt
I’ve received emails now from a few fellow fit desk jockeys asking for an update on my 100 consecutive push-up goal. For those of you who’ve just recently found the site, back in July I gave myself the personal challenge of being able to do 100 consecutive push-ups in a post called Power-up Your Workouts with Push-ups. Push-ups have always been something that I’ve disliked, but then again most people tend to dislike things they’re ...
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Many would-be muscle builders put the cart before the horse when it comes to building muscle by doing things like struggling like novices under the bench bar before they’ve ever even attempted a proper push-up. If you’re anything like me you still view push-ups as the sit-ups very evil twin. I know, I know. For many, myself included, the mere mention of the word ‘push-up’ conjures up dusty memories of sadistic elementary school gym teachers yelling “Drop and give me ...
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Posted by: Lean Muscle Matt
I’ve heard sayings like “words are power” thousands of times, but I don’t think I truly appreciated how powerful they are until an experience I had recently while deep in a killer arms session.
In order to break up my routine a little bit I started doing some ab exercises. While in the midst of a burning second set I hit a point where my body started speaking to me. Starting in barely a whisper “Ooooh, this burns”, and then at ...
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