If you’re trying to build muscle, but you’re not quite sure how many calories you should be eating, then give me a few minutes and I’ll explain more about it in this article. If you want a short and simple answer to the question, aim for somewhere between 250 and 500 calories per day over […]
The Best Muscle Building Exercise… Ever
Despite what you might have been told, the best muscle building exercise is NOT the squat. It’s not the deadlift, the overhead press or the bench press either. This exercise requires very little physical effort. Unlike the squat or deadlift, this one won’t even leave you out of breath. Yet it’s one of the most valuable […]
The Gym Where Muscles Grow 4-6 Times Faster Than Normal
If you train in a gym where the oxygen concentration has been lowered to 16%, your muscles will grow 4-6 times faster than normal. Those are the intriguing findings from a group of Japanese researchers, which I came across just the other day [1]. I’ll explain more about the study, how muscles grow and what […]
The 4-Hour Body Workout: On the Colorado Experiment and Tim Ferriss
A while back, I read a book called The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. The blurb claims that it’s the “result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of […]
