Ectomorphic

Yesterday I wrote about how, for now at least, building strength is taking priority in my life, and gaining weight and my overall mass will be mostly taken care of after I feel I’ve become significantly stronger (still need to define what “significantly” constitutes).
The question you may have though is, what changes? And that’s what [...]

For the past 5 months I’ve been training in ignorance. But no more!
Don’t worry, my past opinions aren’t superseded by this ignorance, but I have been impeding my own strength gains by overlooking an important aspect of strength training: warming up.
All this time I’d notice that my second sets were surprisingly strong compared to my first sets, and no, [...]

Everyday people (including myself) do things they shouldn’t be doing; and not just for ethical or moral reasons either, but because of skewed belief systems and pseudo-obligations that shape lives as opposed to an individual shaping their life themselves. This is something I find fascinating and I thought I’d ask the question:
Why shouldn’t you build [...]

Starting is the most difficult step in strength building and probably the major reason why you can’t gain weight. Humanity as a whole gravitates towards what is easy. This is nature’s way of conserving our energy and perpetuating survival in the most efficient manner possible.
10,000 years ago defaulting to easy might have been fine, but in [...]