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Recovering Your Metabolism: Do You Need to Increase Or Decrease Calories (Part II)

We’re going to dive right back into Lucas Serwinki’s article on metabolic damage. For those who missed Part I you can play catch up HERE. There was some great discussion and commentary with part one, and I suspect the second half will be no different. Enjoy! So, It’s the Carbs, Right? I’ve actually been asked […]

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Recovering Your Metabolism: Do You Need to Increase Or Decrease Your Calories? (Part I)

Today’s guest post comes from personal trainer and strength coach Lucas Serwinski. Some of you may remember his name from an excellent series of articles he wrote for my site last year titled How Did Your Food Live? Know the Health Behind Your Food Parts One and Two. He did a bang-up job with that […]

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My Five Most Influential Books (

Today’s post really has nothing to do with fitness – at least not directly anyways. Call me crazy, but I don’t feel I need to be some fitness RoboCop* where all I do is write about strength curve continuums, muscular imbalances, protein to carb ratios, and/or deadlifts. I do have a life outside of the […]

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Miscellaneous Miscellany Monday: Oscars!, Deadlifts, and Myths of Stretching

1. Raise your hand if you stayed up last night to watch the entire broadcast of the Oscars. *Sheepishly raises hand* Yes, I stayed up till just past midnight to see 12 Years a Slave win Best Picture and to watch director Steve McQueen and company be handed the statue by Will Smith. I know it’s […]

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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: CrossFit “Elitism,” 10 Do’s of Mass, and Superhuman Strength

I wanted to start things off today with an interesting conversation I had with a friend/colleague of mine concerning CrossFit. I can sense the eyes rolling already. There’s enough CrossFit bashing on the interwebz to feed a small country (<—- that doesn’t make sense but I’m rolling with it), and I’m certainly not immune to […]

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