Creatine is supposed to be the boring supplement. Five grams, white powder, no flavor, no marketing. So when Clean Nutraceuticals sent me their Creatine Complex — the one they call Muscle Surge — my first reaction was skepticism. This is not a plain tub of monohydrate. You still get your 5,000 mg of creatine per…
It is hard not to weigh yourself every day when you are trying to lose weight. I will admit it — I weigh myself twice. Once before bed, once when I wake up, just to see how my body reacted to whatever I did the day before. And every fitness person on the internet will…
About nine months ago I put out a video explaining how I was using my Apple Watch, my iPhone, and the Activity tracker app to chase my fitness goals. Plenty of people asked the obvious follow-up question: okay, but did it actually work? Fair question. So this is the update — where the numbers landed,…
There is a fantastic app sitting on your iPhone right now that hardly anybody actually uses. On older versions of iOS it was called Activity. Apple has since folded it into the Fitness app, but it is the same thing under the hood — and when you pair it with an Apple Watch, it turns…
The Unive Fitness F4 packs a Smith machine, power cage, squat rack, cable crossover and pull-up station into one footprint. Here is my honest garage-gym review.
If you’ve had your Bowflex for a few years, you’ve probably noticed something: the first second or two of every rep feels like nothing. You start the movement, there’s a dead zone where the rods aren’t really fighting you, and then somewhere in the middle of the range the resistance finally shows up. That’s not…
I’ve gone through a lot of shaker bottles. Plastic ones that cracked, metal ones that held onto the smell of last week’s protein no matter how many times I washed them, and a whole pile of the little wire-ball ones that never fully broke up a scoop of anything. So when Voltrx dropped a limited…
Here’s the thing nobody tells you about working out at home: the machine isn’t what’s holding you back. Your rest times are. I’ve been training on a Bowflex for years now, and the single biggest change I ever made to my home workouts had nothing to do with rods, attachments, or a fancy new program….
I have put a lot of squat racks in my garage over the years, and most of them have one thing in common: the moment you actually load them up and start moving real weight, they start talking back. A little shimmy on the rack pull. A creak when you re-rack a heavy squat. That…
I just finished my first 30 days — technically 31 days — of the carnivore diet. How much weight did I lose? How did I feel? Could I, you know… poop? I’m going to cover all of it here, because if you’re thinking about trying carnivore yourself, you deserve to know what you might actually…
