Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Lifestyle-Friendly Fat Loss This T Nation member modified the popular high-protein diet to his specific needs. His results and insights are eye-opening. The Velocity Diet® always sounded intriguing: just drink protein shakes most of the day. Your calories are reduced for rapid fat loss (without […]
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more 4 Effective Supersets Here’s how to use biceps and triceps finishers to add pounds to your big lifts. Oh yeah, you’ll also build bigger arms. Some believe direct arm training doesn’t add pounds to your big compound lifts. Those people are wrong. Completely neglecting direct
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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
Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more How to Build Your Body in a Wimpy Gym Bad gym? No barbells? No problem. Build your body anyway with this machine-based plan and a couple of light dumbbells. Any training program is doable if you’re a member of a fully equipped gym. It’s a
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 Best Bench to Build Your Chest The incline bench press doesn’t do what you think it does. Choose the decline press instead for more chest growth. Here’s the science. Incline Bench Press vs. Decline: What’s Best for Growth? It’s becoming increasingly rare to see decline
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Follow @slikkfitness on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for more Leg Day without the Unnecessary Pain If your hips, knees, or lower back are aching, swap some of your go-to lifts for any or all of these guaranteed leg-builders. Training miles add up. Heavy squats and deadlifts do more harm than good when small aches
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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