“Exercise machines suck.” “Exercise machines don’t build muscle.” “Exercise machines don’t build strength. “Exercise machines aren’t functional.” These are just a handful of the things I hear on a regular basis regarding exercise machines and their use – or lack thereof – in an exercise routine. Now, I’m all for compound, barbell exercises, and I […]
Holiday Weight Gain – Why One (or Five) Meals WON’T Hurt You
The holidays are here! Mid to late November (or mid to late September for all of you holiday lovers like me) marks the start of amazing time spent with family and friends, great tunes, tons of eggnog and pecan pie, and – if you’re a college student named Nick Smoot – a month and a […]
Don’t Get Married to Percentages
Percentages are awesome. I use them in nearly all of the training programs I write – both for myself and for my clients – and not only do they allow you to regulate the weight/intensity used on a given exercise (and control the progression scheme moving forward), but they give you an idea of […]
What Dragon Ball Z Taught Me About Strength Training
If your childhood was anything like mine, it was filled with epic pizza parties, video games, chasing women (that’s right, little Smoot was a playa …not really), and spending every Friday night in front of a TV screen watching Dragon Ball Z. I LOVE Dragon Ball Z (DBZ). I’ve seen all of the episodes, all […]
The Number One Fat Loss Mistake
I was looking back through my old articles yesterday, and a few things caught my attention: 1.) My writing has improved (at least in my opinion), and I’ve gone from sounding illiterate to slightly less illiterate. 2.) I said some really dumb things in previous blog posts (thank God for science and research). […]
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