November 7, 2016

Aggressive Fat Loss

When used properly, an aggressive fat loss plan, can be very effective for helping people lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time. Here are the characteristics of a good aggressive fat loss plan...
October 27, 2016

How I Got My Gains, Back

What followed however, was essentially four years of jogging in place (not literally, that’s too much cardio). I saw no gains, lost no weight, and probably left college in worse shape than I came into it.
October 26, 2016

Muscle Tension for Max Gains

Creating and maintaining muscle tension through your lifts is key to not only getting stronger, but also building more muscle, and staying relatively injury-free. Once you know how to create and implement muscle tension, you can start seeing more gains from your program.
October 12, 2016

Jorden’s Guide to Gains – The Best Chest Exercises

The chest is made up of a number of different muscle groups, but when it comes to chest training, there are really three that you’re going to focus on: the pectoralis major, clavicular head, and the sternal head.
October 6, 2016

Jorden’s Guide to Gains – The Best Shoulder Exercises

This article the first in a seven part series, focusing on the best exercises for mass. Today, we're starting at the top, with the ten best shoulder exercises...
September 8, 2016

Jorden’s Supplement Stack Series: How I Double My Productivity Every Day

I talked a lot last week about why Athletic Greens is one of the best supplements on the market, thus making it one of my favorites. But it doesn’t hold the number one spot, however. That belongs to Onnit’s Alpha Brain.
August 3, 2016

The Seinfeld Guide to Fat Loss

We live in a great age of television. Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, anything on Netflix…it’s a TV junkies dream. As a child of the 90s however, today’s television doesn’t hold a candle the all the classic shows that I grew up with; none greater of course, than Seinfeld.
June 29, 2016

Surviving Your 4th of July BBQ: A Step-By-Step Guide

One of my favorite things about summer is throwing dead animal flesh on a hot grill. The sound of the meat sizzling…the smell…I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get a little turned on.
June 14, 2016

An Alcoholic Guide to Drinking for Fat Loss, Muscle Gains, and Life

There are few things more engrained into our society than drinking. From a very young age we’re told to avoid it until we are “of age”, yet are constantly bombarded by advertisements, while seeing the party lifestyle glorified on TV and movies. So it should come as no surprise then that those of us concerned with our health and physiques wonder how drinking fits into our fitness lifestyle. After all, if we can’t get our drink on and still reach our goals, it’s not worth it, right?
May 18, 2016

To Hell and Back: My Battle With Depression

We’re all human, even us fitness professionals. We make mistakes. We have struggles in our personal lives that we deal with daily. We portray ourselves a certain way on the Internet because we are our brand, but offline most of us are just live everyone else.
May 16, 2016

The Best Exercises You’re (Probably) Not Doing

When creating programs, I’m a big fan of variety. Not because I believe muscles need to be “confused”, but rather because there are a ton of exercise variations out there that get no love. I feel bad for them.
April 25, 2016

52 Tips for Fat Loss, Muscle-Building, and All-Around Awesomeness

Everyone claims to have that one things that works better than everything else. The "one simple thing" you can do to burn more fat or build more muscle. Something that somehow only they know, and are now finally going to share it with the world...Bullshit.