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Top 3 Conditioning Exercises to Get Shredded
The holidays have passed and you’ve successfully added solid muscle during your bulk. Awesome, but now you have a problem: not all the mass you gained was lean, and you’ve developed a spare tire around your mid-section. This poses a few problems: You want to get bigger, not softer. The extra bo...
Should You Do Cardio Before Or After Weight Training?
The lovely world of cardio, we have to love it right? Cardio has countless benefits for the human body, so it must be good for us, right? How else do you think all the celebrities stay so skinny and “toned?” How many times have you seen people get to the gym and hop on a cardio machine and just gas...
Cheat Meal vs. A Planned Re-feed: What’s The Difference?
If you’re one who still believes in the dichotomy of “clean and dirty” foods than it may serve to your benefit to consider reading this article. Now granted some people will still want to dabble in the aforementioned debate over “clean and dirty” foods, this article will look at a more specific top...
What Is A Cheat Meal And Can It Help You Lose Fat?
Most diets these days allow for some sort of cheat meal or cheat day during the week. This makes sense because it enables the dieter to stick with the plan while allowing for some light at the end of the tunnel. A cheat meal also prevents the metabolism from dropping. It also comes in handy if you h...
The Cardio Question: What Type Of Cardio Is Best For Fat Loss?
The thought of doing cardio usually invokes strong feelings for most people. In my experience most people either love doing cardio or hate doing cardio. There are very few people that are indifferent on the subject. Some love the feeling they get from hopping onto that treadmill and working up a goo...
The Cardio Debate For Fat Loss: High Intensity Versus Low Intensity
It is a mistaken belief that long and slow, low intensity cardio is best for fat loss because it utilizes the aerobic system and burns fat during exercise. High intensity cardio is actually far superior and more effective for fat loss than low intensity cardio for several reasons. This article will...
Carb Cycling: Lose Fat And Build Muscle At The Same Time?
Brad Borland is a strength & conditioning specialist, cancer survivor and the founder of WorkoutLab. Are you tired of training your butt off to add every ounce of muscle you possibly can and then turning around and dieting it all off? It’s an extremely daunting task to try and pack on some muscle an...
Calories Count! Calories In Calories Out And Deficit Dieting For Fat Loss
I'm going to share with you the most crucial weight loss strategy that will literally make or break your success. This is the number one fat loss tip I could ever give you. If you don't get this right, you can kiss your fat loss results goodbye. This is the one absolute requirement for weight loss,...
How To Burn Fat Like A Bodybuilder (Without Muscle Loss!)
The number of strategies to burn stubborn body fat stem far and wide. All kinds of fat loss workout plans, programs and the latest techniques flood the internet almost daily making promises they can’t keep. Do you fall victim to information overload? Don’t know where to turn? Look no further than th...
How To Build Your Own Fat Loss Supplement Stack
Foreword One of the most popular categories in the supplement industry is “fat-burners”. This comes as no surprise given that most people starting an exercise routine are generally looking to lose body-fat and improve their body composition. Before we delve into what supplements you should consider...
Boost Your Fat Loss with Strongman Training
You’re cutting down fat, leaning out and generally wanting to improve your conditioning. Calorie and macro tracking is going well and you've nailed a daily energy allowance. That's half the battle already. All that you need now is a time-efficient, high-intensity workout strategy that will shred som...
What Body Fat Level Is Needed To See Your Abs?
Measuring your body fat percentage is a valuable tool to chart your progress on your quest to get six pack abs. Hopefully most people realize by now that abdominal exercises don’t burn fat off your stomach. Abs are made in the kitchen, not just in the gym. No matter how much you work out, if you don...
What's the Best Way to Preserve Muscle Mass When Dieting?
“You are cutting? You are going to lose all that muscle that you just worked so hard to gain man.” “Really? You mean if I try and lean out I am going to get weak and scrawny?” “Yeah man, that is why I live in the perpetual bulk!” Conversations just like this one are heard around gyms all across the...
The Best Cardio for Fat Loss: A Science Based Approach
So many gym goers are focused on fat loss. For some, that means adding cardio to boost calorie burn. But when you look around the gym, you'll see many different kinds of cardio. So what’s the best type of cardio for fat loss? Let’s take a look at what the research says about some common cardio ques...
Guide To Appetite Control: How To Eat Less Or Eat More
Preamble on hunger vs. appetite and eating disorders There seems to be a bit of ambiguity between the terms appetite and hunger so for the purpose of this guide we will treat appetite as the psychological desire to eat and the associated sensory cues elicited. Hunger is the physiological need for f...
Training for Fat Loss? You NEED to Know About Afterburn Training
Look down. Can you see your shoes? No? Alright then, keep reading. Everyone is looking for a “quick fix” when it comes to fat loss and body composition improvements but no one wants to accept the fact that hard work and consistency account for most of the results. However, research has shown that sp...
9 Fat Loss Myths You Might Be Wasting Your Time With
It seems that old myths never die. Despite living in an age of unparalleled information exchange, most of the same old, same old fat loss untruisms keep getting passed around. Though most of these unfounded pieces of advice are rather harmless, they may cause you to waste time on unnecessary practic...
9 Diet Plateau Hacks: Get Back On The Road To Lean
Brad Borland is a strength & conditioning specialist, cancer survivor and the founder of WorkoutLab. The devil’s in the details as the old saying goes. Sometimes the tiniest detail or the smallest adjustment can move mountains when it comes to our diet and training goals. We so haphazardly tend to t...
8 Essential Exercises That Will Help You Get You Ripped
So, you want to get lean; you want to be ripped! You have your nutrition targeted at fat loss; you have your supplement regimen all ready. Now, you just need your training program sorted, and you will be ready to roll. How DO you train for fat loss? What are the best exercises to include? What is th...
8 Fat Melting Plyometric Exercises You Should Try
With summer right around the corner, most of the fitness population will be changing up workouts to start burning fat. With this comes a lot of frustration if we don’t meet our goals. Let me save you the frustration and give you an approach that will set you up for success. I’m going to show you 8 p...
7 Articles to Help You Get Ripped This Summer
Summer is officially here. And if you’re looking to utilize this warmer weather and longer days to get absolutely shredded, you’ll want to ensure you’re doing all the right things. And while covering all the things you need to know about fat loss in one single article would be unrealistic (and too l...
6 Vitamins and Health Essentials for Fat Loss
Let’s face it - losing weight is hard. You have to train consistently, eat smart, and avoid all the temptations of eating food that you know you shouldn’t. Anyone starting a weight loss program should know two things - it will be challenging, but it’s worth every second when you hit that goal. The f...
6 Reasons Why Your Fat Loss Diet Sucks
Brad Borland is a strength & conditioning specialist, cancer survivor and the founder of WorkoutLab. Are you stuck in a rut with your fat-loss efforts? Do you watch every calorie going in, track your weight to the ounce and have the self-discipline of a well-oiled machine only to find those tireless...
6 Ab Workouts for a Visible & Brick-Like 6-Pack
When it comes to celebrations involving food, the part that always stands out is the main course at the centerpiece of the table. This is what people pay attention to the most before digging in. When it comes to your physique - big arms, a thick chest, and wide back are great, but the area that make...