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Diet Math: A Simple Way to Calculate Macros and Calories for Your Goals

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Everyone has their own specific goals when it comes to fitness/muscle-building whether it’s loosing fat, gaining muscle or just maintaining for performance or anything in between. Need a simple way to calculate your needs?

It’s no secret that diet plays a huge role in which direction you head and how successful you become. As one of the most talked-about and debated subjects, diet (or more simply, your eating plan) can be an incredibly confusing topic to research regarding the countless resources, outlets and (let’s not leave out) opinions of so many “experts” out there on the interwebs!

Disclaimer: I will most likely get some “interesting” comments and emails about this post. It seems so many out there have strong, passionate opinions about diet. This site is a combination of research that I have done AND what has worked for not only me but many of those I have worked with over the years. Continue reading →

Regulating Training Volume for More Muscle

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The debate over training volume as it relates to adding muscle to your bones has been around, oh, well, forever – at least forever for me. How many sets should you do? Too many and you overtrain, too few and you are not realizing your real muscle-building potential.

I see interesting things in gyms. I have worked out in many all over the world and have seen all walks of life come and go including the old guard of trainers from the old school of thought as well as the confused newbies asking no less than 50 questions each day.

One thing I see, however, is that the thinking behind volume is pretty generic. Most programs go a little something like this: Continue reading →