Tag: health
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Workout Timing: Is Morning or Evening Better??
Aloha my friends! I’ve been working for several weeks now on my next YouTube video, which will be on all-natural strategies for optimizing each of the 8 anabolic hormones that determine how easy or hard it is for us to gain muscle and lose fat! There’s so much to go over though that I eventually realized if I covered…
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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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The Food Item that Triggers Fast-Twitch Hypertrophy & Conversion! (& More)
Aloha my friends! Apologies for missing last week — I was vacationing with my family in Hawaii! In honor of the spearfishing I did while I was there (there are few things as deliciously satisfying as eating fresh fish you speared yourself from the ocean just hours before), I thought I’d share some of the incredible fitness…
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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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Why & How to Stretch Your Lats!
Aloha my friends! Most people aren’t aware that many shoulder injuries are caused — or at least partly caused — as a result of having lats (latissimus dorsi) that are too tight! This is particularly common among weightlifters, since most work their lats frequently, yet rarely if ever stretch them. Tight lats limit your overhead range of motion, and chronically depress and internally rotate the…
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The Most Important Supplement You’re NOT Taking: MAGNESIUM!!
Aloha my friends! The benefits of magnesium supplementation are wide-ranging and incredibly powerful — especially for weightlifters! To name just some of them: Most people do NOT get enough magnesium from their diet, and therefore need a supplement. And on top of that, studies show that weightlifters or anyone engaged in consistent training should be consuming at least 20% more magnesium…
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The Optimal Incline Press Angles for UPPER CHEST vs FRONT DELT
Aloha my friends! Have you ever wondered what the optimal angle is for an incline press?? Well it turns out that — as with most things in physiology and exercise science — the answer is it depends! In this case it depends on which muscle you want to optimize gains for. While there are several muscles engaged in an incline…
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Build Your “OUTER” Triceps Via This RHT Technique!
Aloha my friends! This week I have added over 30 new modules to the Regional Hypertrophy Training (RHT) section of the All-Access Memberships… including more than a dozen techniques specifically for Triceps RHT. And today I wanted to share with everyone here how you can combine two of those principles into a single technique to effectively target & build the LATERAL head…
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How to Build a Muscle WITHOUT Working It! (The Cross-Education Phenomenon)
Aloha my friends! There are very few things that defy the normal rules of muscle growth. In fact, in my opinion at least, there are only three: 1. Anabolic Steroids (which you should never use) 2. BFR (Blood Flow Restriction Training) 3. The Cross-Education Phenomenon Today I want to tell you about the third! The Cross-Education Phenomenon, which is also known…
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