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Belly-Torching Blast W-out Program. Muscle-Building W-out Plan. Lawyers have a word for accused criminals who represent themselves in court: convicts. Similarly, trainers like me have a word for guys who write their own workouts. Several words, actually: "weak," "injured," "skinny," "fat," and, worst of all, "skinny-fat. " Why? Because it's human nature for us to make it easy on ourselves. We pick exercises we like. We design workouts that play to our strengths and ignore our weaknesses. And yet the most successful programs I've used are ones I created for myself. 1. The best workouts are built on basic compound exercises: squats, deadlifts, bench and shoulder presses, chinups, rows. SQUAT (1 or 2 times a week) Includes barbell back and front squats and all the dumbbell variations.

DEADLIFT (1 or 2 times a week) Includes traditional barbell deadlifts (arms outside legs), sumo-style (wide stance, arms inside legs) and straight-leg lifts, and more variations than most of us could do in a lifetime. 2. Muscle-Building W-out Plan. 3. How many sets/reps? Most of us do well with a mix of heavy (for strength), medium (for muscle size), and light (for muscular endurance) weights. This calls for a combination of low-rep (3 to 6), moderate-rep (7 to 10), and high-rep (11 to 15) sets. Your set count should be inversely related to your number of reps per set.

The key is to manage the total volume of each workout. That's not a magic number; you may see better results with more or less volume. 4. This, of course, depends on your main goal. STRENGTHYou measure progress by the number of plates on the bar, so you want to increase the weight on your main exercises each week. You can continue like this for a few weeks, but eventually you'll hit a point when your strength gains are smaller than the weights you can add to the bar.

SIZEMuscles grow bigger when you make them stronger, which is easy enough to understand even if it's sometimes hard to pull off. Let's say you're doing the barbell incline bench press. 5. 1. 2. Why Your Life is a Broken Record (And How to Fix It) Having a routine can help make your life easy. It can also make you very, very unhappy. If you feel stuck in a rut, I think I might know why.

Consider this: Part I: Your Life in a Loop: Groundhog Week From the day you are born, every single year is different. But a funny thing happens when you get out of college, get a job, get a place to live and/or get a steady long-term relationship. Suddenly you wake up and you say: “Today feels like a Tuesday.” When life is steady, we stop measuring our lives in years. And what do we have to show for it? What we have is the cumulative impact of living basically the same week in a loop.

What It Means to Live 100 Years When you’re living it, it’s hard to fathom what it means to live the same week over and over. Let’s say you are 25. Let’s say you drink three cups of coffee on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Let’s say you smoke a pack of cigarettes a week. Let’s say you eat fast food four times a week. Okay, but so what? How Habits Form 1. Eyegasm Galore. Shrinking the Classic Levi’s 501 STF Jeans. Your new favorite jeans cost less than $50 and will fit you perfectly.

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