by Mens Health | Oct 30, 2017 | Fitness
Bro wisdom says that if you want to get big, you have to lift heavy. But emerging science begs to differ. In a new study from McMaster University, researchers put experienced lifters through a resistance training regimen for 12 weeks. They all did the same workouts: a...
by Mens Health | Oct 30, 2017 | Fitness
I’d spent the good solid part of a quarter century glued to a couch or slouching over a desk actively trading muscle mass for new episodes of Narcos or Game of Thrones. The result? I wasn’t exactly rocking a pair of guns – it was more like a limp...
by Mens Health | Oct 11, 2017 | Fitness
Do you even lift, bro? Maybe you do but, after finding out what you bench the next question is, what’s your form like? Many guys get complex (and sometimes even the basic) exercises wrong and it can have negative impacts on your joints, muscles, and bones. Make...
by Mens Health | Oct 1, 2017 | Fitness
A year ago, Jonathan Montgomery, a 37-year-old firefighter with the Hillsborough County Florida Fire Rescue, was overworked, overweight, and sluggish. “I was strong, but slow and fat,” he said. Fast-forward to today, and Montgomery is a physical specimen. See the...
by Mens Health | Nov 24, 2016 | Weight-Loss
The fitness industry has fat loss programmes backwards. We’ve been programmed to think that in order to lose fat, you need to elicit a kilojoule deficit. This is true. I am not one of those fitness conspiracy theorists who tell people to eat more to lose weight....