QUESTION: What do you think would be considered “strong” for my age and size? I’m male, 21 years old, about 5’10, 170lbs and I’ve been working out consistently for about 4 years. How much weight do you think I should be able to bench press, squat and deadlift at this point? What would you consider…
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I get a lot of questions about diet and fitness. No, seriously. I get A LOT of questions about diet and fitness. And I’ve consistently gotten this crazy number of questions for quite a few years now. During this time, I’ve noticed that a handful of these questions seem to come up much more frequently…
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When it comes to losing fat, there are primarily two different categories of workouts a person might consider doing… cardio and weight training. Now in the cardio category, we can break it down even further into stuff like steady state or interval training. And while this is all wonderful stuff that I get asked about approximately 30 billion…
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QUESTION: I’ve been working out and making decent progress everywhere except for my upper chest which seems to be lagging behind. This makes my overall chest muscle look uneven and unbalanced. The lower half sticks out more than the top half because of how small and flat the upper part looks. How do I fix this? What…
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The key to getting results from your workout is progressive overload. If you’re not increasing the demands being placed on your body in some form over time, your body won’t be improving. With weight training, the most basic and common way of increasing those demands is by increasing the amount of weight we lift. So…
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I’d like you to meet my buddy Bryn. If you’ve “liked” A Workout Routine’s Facebook page (if not, you really should… go here and do it) and follow it regularly, then you probably already met Bryn a few weeks ago when I posted the very same transformation picture you see above. I’ve known Bryn for…
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QUESTION: My main goal over the next year or so is to lose weight and keep it off, so I’m planning on doing some form of cardio workout on the days I don’t do any weight training. My question is, what form of cardio exercise should I do? I find the treadmill to be very…
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I’ve tried all kinds of different workouts and diets over the years and played around with a variety of methods and approaches to them. Some were good, some were bad. Some were great, some absolutely sucked. I’m talking like laughably ineffective. Fortunately, one of the few smart things I’ve done since day one is a…
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If you do anything long enough, you’ll eventually (err, hopefully) get better at it. When it comes to weight training, the “better” we’re usually referring to is stronger. But there’s actually another kind of “better” that comes with experience… smarter. Not just in terms of learning right from wrong, effective from ineffective, and truth from bullshit,…
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Being injured sucks. Even if you can still get in the gym and continue training around the injury, it still sucks. Working out at anything less than 100% just isn’t fun. Do you know what’s even worse? When the injury is something that forces you to stop working out completely. No going lighter. No training…
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