Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more One Advanced Training Method, Four Great Benefits Perfect your technique, reduce injury risks, build muscle, improve mobility, and get better at just about everything. Here’s how. “Accentuated eccentrics” is coachy way of saying to focus on the lowering phase of a rep to trigger certain […]
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Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more The Truth About Pesticides and Mortality Does eating organic fruits and vegetables make you live any longer than eating nonorganic foods? Here’s the actual science. Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables lowers all-cause mortality. People who consume a wide variety of them are far
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Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Develop These Skills, Lift Forever To live a long, healthy life, you need to do more than lift heavy weights. You need to develop these eight athletic skills. Most people hope to live a long life. Instead, we should be actively pursuing one. That means
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Good Exercises Gone Wrong Most exercises and training methods have their purpose and work great… unless you try using them for something else. Here are the worst examples. Very few exercises are inherently bad (except BOSU ball curls). Any exercise is typically better than no
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Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more 5 Drop Sets for Abs and Obliques Want abs? Then crank up the resistance, extend the TUT, and add a proven bodybuilding technique to your workouts. Try these exercises! At some point, you’ll need to add resistance to your ab workouts to build an actual
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more The Insulin Sensitivity Reset Here’s how to maximize the anabolic effects of insulin production, minimize the unwanted effects, and get jacked. Insulin is the hormone known for managing blood sugar, but it also helps with muscle growth. After all, anabolism is the building phase of
