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Look, I'll be honest with you - I used to be that guy who'd walk into the gym with a perfectly calculated spreadsheet, knowing exactly that I needed to hit 82.5% of my 1RM for 4 sets of 6. Felt super scientific, right? Except half
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I remember sitting in my car outside the gym, staring at my phone screen. Another certification course ad had just popped up — "Master Functional Movement in Just One Weekend!" My finger hovered over the "Buy Now" button for the seventh time that month. Sound familiar? Here&
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Why I Bombed My First Strongman Contest (And You Should Too) Picture this: Me, standing in a parking lot at 6 AM, staring at a 400-pound Atlas stone like it personally insulted my mother. Three attempts. Three epic failures. The crowd of maybe twelve people (including my disappointed girlfriend) watching
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Why I Stopped Fighting About Tape Three years ago, I would've rolled my eyes so hard at a kinesiology tape discussion that I might've needed medical attention myself. As a biomechanics researcher who spent way too much time in labs measuring force plates and EMG signals,
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Why I Quit the Gym Rat Race for Kettlebells (And You Should Too) Let me paint you a picture. It's 2018, I'm 35, and I'm standing in a commercial gym feeling like a absolute fraud. Around me, twenty-somethings are deadlifting twice their bodyweight while
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Why Your Handstand Fear Makes Perfect Sense (And How to Debug It) Let me start with a confession that'll probably make you feel better about your own handstand journey: I once spent twenty minutes psyching myself up to attempt a wall handstand, only to chicken out and do
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Stop Treating Your Body Like a Rental Car I used to deadlift 500+ pounds and thought I was invincible. Then my L4-L5 decided to have a conversation with me that lasted six months. Turns out, vertebrae don't negotiate. That injury taught me something most lifters refuse to accept:
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Why Your Fitness Plan Keeps Failing (And the Stupidly Simple Fix) I used to be that person who bought a gym membership in January, went twice, and then spent eleven months feeling guilty about the $50 monthly charge on my credit card. Sound familiar? For years, I collected fitness plans
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Stop Starving Your Workouts (And Start Getting Results) Let me tell you about the dumbest thing I ever did in pursuit of abs. Picture this: 22-year-old me, fresh off the football team, convinced that eating like a monk was gonna get me shredded. I'd show up to the
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Why Body Recomposition is the Worst Advice I Ever Followed Let me tell you about the six months I wasted chasing the fitness equivalent of a unicorn. Picture this: Me, a 28-year-old software engineer, 40 pounds overweight, spending every lunch break watching YouTube videos about "simultaneous muscle gain and
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Why Choosing Between Sports is BS (and What Actually Works) I'm staring at my workout log at 6:47 AM, coffee getting cold, trying to decide if I should do the CrossFit Open workout or stick to my marathon training plan. Again. Sound familiar? If you've
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The Unglamorous Truth About Building Strong Glutes Let me paint you a picture: It's 2019, I'm hunched over my laptop for the tenth hour straight, and my lower back feels like it's being slowly tortured by tiny demons with pitchforks. My glutes? What glutes?
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Why I Stopped Copying Rich Froning (And You Should Too) Let me tell you about the time I almost puked on a millionaire's shoes. It was 2019,esome fancy CrossFit seminar where everyone was talking about "strategic pacing" and "training like the pros." I&
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Your Body's Free Health Monitor (That You're Probably Ignoring) Last week, my buddy Jake dropped $400 on a fancy HRV monitor. The week before that, he signed up for monthly blood panels that cost more than most people's grocery budget. Why? Because he'
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The Sitting Epidemic is Real, But You're Solving It Wrong Let me guess—you've probably read about how sitting is "the new smoking" and immediately felt that familiar pang of guilt as you shifted uncomfortably in your chair. Maybe you even bought a standing
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Why Your 20-Year-Old Self Would Hate Your Workout (And That's Perfectly Fine) Remember when you could sprint up three flights of stairs without breaking a sweat? When recovery meant grabbing a beer and some pizza after a game? When the idea of "modifying" an exercise was