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Why You Can Do Full-Body Workouts on Consecutive Days

Came a question about the wisdom of doing full-body workouts on consecutive days: “Out of curiosity, could you train your whole body back to back on Saturday and Sunday? Or should you avoid training the same muscle groups on consecutive days?” In days gone by, I would have told you to take at least a […]

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Why Stretching Isn’t Killing Your Gains

How does stretching before you lift weights affect muscle growth? Does it speed it up, slow it down, or have no effect at all? To answer that question, a team of Brazilian scientists set up a very simple experiment [1]. They rounded up a group of men, and got them to train their legs twice […]

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Does Fascial Stretching Make Your Muscles Bigger? What 7 Studies Say

Some say that certain types of stretching can play a critical role in making your muscles bigger, unlocking your body’s capacity to grow and unleashing monstrous muscle growth. One article I came across claims that stretching has the potential to increase muscle mass by a whopping 318% in just 28 days. It all sounds too […]

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The Case Against the 1000 Rep Arm Workout

In which the question is asked: “I recently came across an article talking about this 1000 Rep Armageddon challenge which was basically 1000 reps split between biceps and triceps. I’m wondering if you’ve ever tried this and if so whether it’s worth my time to attempt it.” The idea behind the 1000 Rep Armageddon Challenge […]

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Chris Pratt’s Weight Loss Story: Separating Fact from Fiction

The other day, I came across an article about Chris Pratt’s weight loss, which claims to reveal “the secrets” that Pratt used to get in shape for his role in Guardians of the Galaxy. Every time a celebrity puts on a bit of muscle or loses some fat, there’s always a lot of buzz about […]

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How Many Exercises per Muscle Group Should You Do to Build Muscle?

How many exercises per muscle group should you do to build muscle as fast as humanly possible? As a rough guide, I’d suggest doing 1-3 exercises per muscle group, and somewhere between 2 and 5 sets per exercise. That’s the short answer. The long answer, as ever, starts with “it depends.” Specifically, the number of […]

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Two Upper Body Workouts That Will Make Your Muscles Grow

If you want a couple of highly effective upper body workouts designed for the sole purpose of making your muscles bigger, the two I’ve laid out on this page will get the job done. Let’s get started. The upper body workouts laid out below assume that you’re following an upper/lower split. This involves working all […]

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Stop Looking for Fitness Motivation and Do These 6 Things Instead

Most articles on the subject of fitness motivation are filled with motivational workout quotes about how “the only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen” or urging you to “do something today that your future self will thank you for.” Maybe these help you and maybe they don’t. If they do help, they probably […]

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Bodyweight Back Exercises and Pull-up Alternatives

If you’re looking for some bodyweight back exercises and pull-up alternatives that you can use to build your lats, here are some of my favorites. First up, let’s look at some pull-up alternatives. Pull-up Alternative 1: Lat Pulldowns First up, we have the lat pulldown, which is one of the best lat exercises out there. […]

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Josh Brolin’s Workout: How He Got Jacked for Deadpool 2

The other day, I came across an article describing the type of training Josh Brolin did to get jacked for his role as Cable – a time-traveling super soldier from the future – in Deadpool 2. As you can see in the video below, which comes from his Instagram account, Brolin was in pretty good […]

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Christian Finn

My name is Christian Finn. I provide science-based advice to help you separate fitness fact from fiction.

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MX4 will give you more muscle than you have right now, working out 2-4 times a week, without wrecking your joints.

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Want to lose your gut? I’ve perfected a program that will help you drop fat and replace some of that lost fat with muscle.

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If you’ve hit a weight loss plateau, and can’t seem to get past it no matter how hard you try, STUCK will tell you why it happens and what to do about it.

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