If you can get through hard sets of squats or deadlifts first thing in the morning everything else you deal with throughout your day will seem easier.

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Whatever diet or method of eating you’re employing you’ll do better the more you stay around the perimeter of the grocery store where you’ll find fresh foods your grandma would recognize, and avoid the isles with foods that require marketing.

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You can get bigger, faster, stronger with almost any diet. But you won’t get there without exercise.

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Hate the barbell. Go to war with it.

If you want to lift more create more tension throughout your body. In a bench press: Prior to the lift grab the bar and press your shoulder blades together as tight as you can. It’s ok to arch your back - shortening the path the bar has to travel up will only help your lift. Engage your lats for stabilization. Do some sets of lat pull downs prior to the lift to feel a slight pump and to prime your body. When lifting, drive down with your legs and press your upper back and shoulders into the bench. Always avoid flaring out your arms.

If you’re new to exercise find something you like you can stick with long term. Forget about whether it’s the best workout. It doesn’t matter. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Just move.

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Lift weights and extend your health and lifespan. Stack weights, stack days.

If you don’t have a little feeling of dread before a workout, you’re probably not pushing yourself hard enough.

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When it comes to gym equipment you definitely get what you pay for. It’s one thing to cheap out on storage racks but consider US steel especially for the things that matter and take a beating like barbells and power racks.

Generating proper tension in lifts: Even for exercises like a pull-up, tension is key. Don’t put your legs back in a disengaged position. Extend the legs and engage them with your glutes and keep your body tight as you pull up to the bar.

Protein intake and protein absorption Have a goal of consuming 1g of protein per pound of body weight per day especially if you’re exercising. If you’re 160lbs consume 160g of protein. Muscle protein absorption is limited to around 40-50g per sitting. This means you need to consume 40g of protein 4 times throughout the day. Don’t try to consume it all in one or two sittings as your body will process much of it for energy rather than for building muscle.

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Tension is key when lifting. For squats generate initial tension by pulling the weight down on your back and “bending the bar” around you in the standing position. The weight as you squat should not all be on the lumbar spine. It should be distributed throughout the back. Tension will help with the distribution.

Muscles are the largest and single most important sink for glucose. Having larger and more metabolically healthy muscles is the difference between being able to tolerate glucose/maintain homeostasis and getting diabetes.