QUESTION: I’m a 24 year old guy who wants to get lean and build muscle, but the problem is that I don’t want to build TOO much muscle and get TOO big. I’m not interested in looking like a bodybuilder, powerlifter or anything even close to that. I’m trying to get more of a lean fitness…
Continue Reading: I Don’t Want To Get Too Big: Lean Fitness Model Body vs Bulky Bodybuilder
Two topics I purposely left out of my guide to creating The Ultimate Weight Training Workout Routine are time under tension and rep tempo. Why? Mostly because I didn’t feel they were important enough to include. Plus, I just didn’t think people would actually care about them. I still think I’m right about that first part, but…
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Let me ask you a question. If you had the choice between eating brown rice or white rice, which one would you choose? Many people would probably pick brown. Why? Because… But is any of this actually true? (Spoiler: it’s not true.) In this article, I’m going to do an unbiased, evidence-based comparison of brown rice…
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The problem with articles like this which aim to compare any two things in the diet and fitness world is that the person doing the comparing is usually biased from the very beginning. So it’s usually less about a fair comparison and more about showing you why their way is right. And by usually, I…
Continue Reading: Clean Eating vs IIFYM: Which Is REALLY Better?
Whenever you see a before and after picture showing someone’s amazing progress, your first thought is almost guaranteed to be “what did this person do to get these awesome results?” What workout did they use? What diet were they on? What supplements did they take? What approach did they follow? What methods did they employ?…
Continue Reading: The Truth About Before & After Pictures, Progress And Results
Some of us might want to build a little bit of muscle or a lot of muscle, or lose a little fat or a lot of fat, or get stronger, improve performance or something similar. But, there’s one thing that damn near all of us have in common… We all want to lose our belly…
Continue Reading: How To Get A Six Pack And Lose Belly Fat: A Guide To Ab Workouts
QUESTION: I’m currently working out 4 days per week and was wondering what I should do on my off days from weight lifting? I was thinking of maybe doing some cardio on those days, but I wasn’t sure if that was okay? I’ve also heard people say that the best thing to do on your…
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Let me guess. You want to lose weight, right? Cool. And if you came here to learn about starvation mode, there’s another guess I feel pretty confident in making: you’re not actually losing weight. You want to. You’re trying to. You’re doing everything you can in terms of your diet and workout to make it…
Continue Reading: Starvation Mode: Is It A Myth? Is It Real? Is Your Body In It Right Now?
I’d like you to meet AWorkoutRoutine.com reader Tiffany. If you follow the AWR Facebook page (and if you don’t, you should seriously start), then you’ve already seen me show off some of Tiffany’s impressive progress. Today I want to show off even more of that progress, and allow her to tell the equally impressive story that goes…
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I love when people write articles about being a hardgainer and/or ectomorph. They start off by mentioning how terrible their genetics are and how borderline impossible it is for them to build muscle or gain weight. This of course is done to make you see that they are (or were) just like you. Why? So…
Continue Reading: Ectomorph Workout & Diet Guide And The Skinny-Fat Hardgainer Solution