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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe age old question: Do you need a calorie surplus to build muscle? Some will tell you yes – it’s absolutely essential to add any muscle at all. Some will tell you no – it’s just a myth and a surplus will do nothing but add fat that you have to diet off again later. […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesI get asked a lot of the same questions all of the time. How much protein do you need? What’s the best exercise for chest/glutes/biceps? And so on. There’s no such thing as a stupid question, but if there was one question I’m frequently asked that annoys the hell out of me, it would have […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesNeedless to say, it’s been a while since I’ve dropped a fresh post or article on the site. After months of consistent writing over fitness, the mind, and life, I haven’t written much of anything for a few months. Why? Let me tell you what’s up and where we’re going now. The head injury In […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesImagine for a sec that you’re back in the 1500s. You have no idea about any of this scientific stuff, but you are smack dab in the middle of The Renaissance and want to create an aesthetic physique by building muscle and dropping fat. Better yet, picture yourself as Leonardo da Vinci himself looking to […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn my post over the Driver, I went into detail about how You are distinct from your mind and body. They are at your service, not the other way around. But most of the time they sure don’t feel like it, do they? Especially your mind. Thoughts and emotions pop up all the time and […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesAll right, so I’ve got a story for you guys. Back when I first got into bodybuilding, I remember mixing up gatorade and whey protein post workout to get a big insulin spike to shuttle the amino acids into my muscles and get more jacked. Yes, it was nasty as hell. But yet it was […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat’s up! Hope you’re having a kickass weekend. Just wanted to drop a quick post letting you know that I’ve just started up a Youtube channel. Here is the first video: The article “Should You Have a Calorie Surplus on Rest Days?” is one of the most popular here on the site, so I figured […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn my last post I addressed the question “Do You Need to Count Calories?” The answer was yes – in one way or another – if your goal is to make changes to your physique optimally by adding muscle or getting leaner. But I also mentioned that contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t have to […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesLook around you, wherever you are. Now tell me: What does it all have in common? Think long and hard. The answer is that everything you see was once nothing but a thought. This sentence, what you’re wearing, even you (!) Everything begins in the mind. The mental creates the physical. The invisible creates the […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhere you place your attention is where you will place your life. It’s the most valuable thing you’ve got, and nothing can ever affect or ‘exist’ to you unless you put your attention there in this present moment. Let that marinate for a few. What you focus on will expand and set the gears in […]