Sweat Is Not Related To Fitness Results
In most situations, sweat isn’t well correlated with the quality of your workouts or the results you’re getting. In fact, in many cases, chasing excessive sweating could result in decreased results, if you were trying to optimize for sweat alone.
Post-COVID Exercise Planning
Post-COVID, the risk of various health issues is increased, and it is not a good idea to directly return to high activity levels right away. In this post, I cover some of the most important elements to avoid in training to ensure that you have a smooth transition back to full ability.
Falling In Love With Walking For Cardio
While running gets a lot of attention as the easy, no-equipment cardio method, I’ve found that walking is a lot more useful. Here’s the story of how I came to love going for a simple walk.
Core Training That Doesn't Suck
Core training, the way most people do it, gets very boring very quickly, because all you do is add reps and time. I’ll admit I was one of those people for many years. Knowing a few of these variations can make core training a lot quicker and more fun.
Can You Just "Lift Weights Faster" For Cardio?
It’s commonly said that you can just “lift weights faster” for cardio. While it’s possible and in some cases useful, I’d say that for most people it’s suboptimal.