Month: August 2018

So you’ve decided to build some muscle.  Whether you’re looking to build huge muscles or just wanting some nice tone curves, you’ll need to eat right.   The eating strategy I’m about to give you is not designed for gaining weight.  It’s designed for building muscle.

“But Mike, What’s the difference?”

An eating strategy designed for gaining weight isn’t focused on minimizing fat gain.  So if you want to just gain weight, eat as many calories as you possibly can (5000+ calories per day) and you will definitely gain weight.

But if you want to gain muscle mass while minimizing fat gain, keep reading.

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Our world is packed full of fitness marketing that promotes every cardio program someone can dream up.  Usually giving you unrealistic expectations for doing their DVD workouts, using their cardio equipment, or joining their cardio club.  With all this hype flying around, cardio must be the only thing you need for all of your fitness dreams to come true …… Right !?!?!?!?!

OF COURSE NOT, but including cardio in your fitness program does have some nice benefits.

“But Mike, I would rather catch my hair on fire than spend hours per week doing cardio.  So does that mean I should give up on trying to get fit?”

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Continuing on with the 3 Pillars of Fitness series, I will be discussing the importance of your diet and what happens if you skip this pillar of fitness.

First, I would like to start by saying I hate all fad diets you’ve found throughout the internet. (probably)  OK maybe I haven’t studied all 1,359 fad diets that exist out there, but until I come across one that makes sense I will hate them all equally.

I know we are all hoping to discover a magical eating strategy that will let us eat whatever we want and deliver extraordinary fitness results, but it’s never gonna happen.  The sooner we become OK with that, the sooner we can just start eating right.

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The 3 pillars of fitness are the factors that will account for 95% of your fitness success/failures.  They are:

1. Weight Lifting
2. Diet
3. Cardio

All three of these pillars play a crucial role in your overall fitness.

“But Mike, If you were held at gunpoint and forced to choose which pillar is the most important, which would you choose?” 

First I would need to know your fitness goal.  Assuming you took my advice and made your goal to MAXIMIZE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE through fitness, I would choose weight lifting.

So today I want to talk about the benefits of weight lifting and what happens if you skip this part of the trio.

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