Category: Fat Loss / Weight Loss
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Warm-Up Type & the Interference Effect: Jogging VS Cycling Before Weight Training
Aloha my friends! You may have heard about something called the Interference Effect, which is a phenomenon where doing cardio prior to weight training decreases your power, explosivity, and strength, and lessens the hypertrophy stimulus you get from that weight training. (It was actually the topic of my very first Fitness-Tip Friday tip!) It’s also one reason why I…
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Boost Testosterone by Eating Orange… PEELS???
Aloha my friends! For this week’s tip I’ll be continuing to share some of the content that I had to cut from my upcoming YouTube video on how to naturally optimize your anabolic hormone levels (because it would’ve been far too long). This time it’s to eat orange peels!!! Or the peels / rinds of any citrus fruit (e.g.…
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The Incredible Health Benefits of Gratitude!!
Aloha my friends, and Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! I hope everyone who celebrated it had an incredible day yesterday. In honor of the holiday, I wanted to re-share a short list I created of some of the incredible health benefits that come from simply having an “attitude of gratitude”, which I first shared in this newsletter exactly…
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E.R. Bar Pull The At-Home Face-Pull Alternative
Aloha my friends! The face-pull (see GIF #1 below) is one of the best exercises that exist for overall shoulder health — partly because it works the usually under-developed shoulder external rotators so well, including the essential teres minor rotator cuff muscle. However, what do you do if you don’t have access to a cable machine? There are…
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Muscle Activation of Hip Abduction VS Hip External Rotation
Aloha my friends! Most people work hip abduction fairly consistently, yet tend to neglect or underwork hip external rotation — perhaps thinking that both movements work the same muscles the same way, so it isn’t necessary to do both. That would be very, very WRONG! In fact there isn’t a single muscle that is worked the same with both movements, and not working…
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Use This Simple Trick to STOP OVEREATING & LOSE WEIGHT!
Aloha my friends! Many people struggle to maintain a healthy weight / body composition… and simple overeating (ingesting more food than your body needs) is a common culprit. In one of my older YouTube videos I give one easily-applied strategy for preventing this that involves understanding how the hunger & satiety hormones (leptin & ghrelin) work. But today…
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How to 4X Biceps Activation in a Pull-Down Exercise!
Aloha my friends! It’s been a while! I apologize for that. This is the first time I missed sending out a Fitness-Tip Friday newsletter since I started it more than a year and a half ago… and I missed three in a row! The reason was that I was traveling through some small islands off the…
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The Most Important Functional Exercise You’re NOT Doing – Dead Hangs! (With 9 Variations)
The dead hang is a foundational exercise with wide-ranging benefits, from improving grip strength to relieving lower back pain and enhancing shoulder mobility and posture. Variety in techniques and regular practice are key.
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Neuroscience-Based Brain Hacks for Goal Achievement: Endowment Effect + Loss Aversion!
In preparation for the New Year, a 3-part Fitness-Tip Friday series offers neuroscience-based strategies for successful goal-setting and achievement without relying on willpower. The second strategy combines the Endowment Effect and Loss Aversion to create a fail-proof system. This entails rewarding oneself with a significant amount of money for achieving a goal and establishing a…
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10 Thanksgiving Health & Fitness Facts! 🦃
The post discusses the health benefits of Thanksgiving foods like turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, cranberries, apples, and green beans. It also touches on the average weight gain and its relation to muscle.
Dr. Gains 