How To Not Fall for the Next Diet or Fitness Fad

How To Not Fall for the Next Diet or Fitness Fad

In the fitness and weight loss industry, serpent lubrication sells like hotcakes. It’s capitalism run amok, and it is not helping. Billions of dollars are at stake to perpetuate the myth of “quick and easy” when it comes to building muscle and/or dropping fat from...
Should You Lift Weights to Failure?

Should You Lift Weights to Failure?

Come on, give me one more. Push it! One more rep. Do it! Training to failure, as a concept, is lifting until you can’t lift any more. If you stop at 10 reps, it’s because 11 was impossible. Should you incorporate this kind of training into your lifting regimen as a...
Your Weight Will Fluctuate, And That’s Just Life

Your Weight Will Fluctuate, And That’s Just Life

In about another month I should be able to fit into my favorite pants again. Well, they “fit” now, but they’re not as comfortable as I’d like. One more month, barring life getting in the way, as it so often does. I’m almost 50, and there is always an excuse. Sometimes...
Sugar Is NOT Toxic

Sugar Is NOT Toxic

“Sugar … Ohhhh, honey honey.” The Archies didn’t see a difference between the two when it came to some 60s hippy flower child they wanted to bang, and neither does your body. What’s the major difference? People freak out about the former and...
“Super” Foods Are Bullshit

“Super” Foods Are Bullshit

Beer is a super food. Because I say so. What makes a food “super?” Apparently being hard to pronounce. Açaí? Quinoa? Kimchi? Dafuq? And now we’ve gone beyond foods that are super into ones that are “trendy.” A few years ago, someone said, “Cauliflower is the new...