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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
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Cluster Sets and Double Rest-Pause Gains stalled? Bump up the intensity with cluster sets and the double rest-pause method using these exercises. Here’s how. Forget the standard 3 sets of 10 for a while. Get stronger and boost hypertrophy with these challenging (and kinda fun)
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Testosterone is Just as Important for Women The evidence is overwhelming that TRT can save women’s lives, but most doctors still won’t budge in prescribing it. Here’s what to do. There’s this now-famous Jimmy Kimmel bit where a reporter asks men on the street to
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Younger Lifters Score Big with Omega-3s Most fish oil studies that show great results involve old people, but a new one shows dramatic effects on young, resistance-trained athletes. It’s well known that when old people combine resistance training with fish oil, they build muscle and
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Younger Lifters Score Big with Omega-3s Most fish oil studies that show great results involve old people, but a new one shows dramatic effects on young, resistance-trained athletes. It’s well known that when old people combine resistance training with fish oil, they build muscle and
