health and fitness

Apr
26
How to Safely Get Started With Exercise - Part 1 Cardiovascular Exercise

How to Safely Get Started With Exercise - Part 1 Cardiovascular Exercise

New to exercise? Want to know how to start doing cardiovascular exercise in a safe progressive manner? This is your guide!
23 min read
Jan
11
Technical Failure vs Absolute Failure

Technical Failure vs Absolute Failure

Training proximity to failure is an important training variable. Here's the important distinction between absolute failure and technical failure training.
9 min read
May
08
The BiPolar Learning Curve

The BiPolar Learning Curve

Most people give up on goals way too soon. This is the reason why, and what you can do to stop undermining your goal striving.
6 min read
Aug
09
Fat is Essential - You Should Eat Some

Fat is Essential - You Should Eat Some

Fat used to be demonized. Now it's trendy (Keto anyone?). Like so many other topics there's more nuance than good or bad. This is about that nuance.
26 min read
Apr
18
Help! I Can't Put On Muscle

Help! I Can't Put On Muscle

Follow along as I answer a reader's question about struggling to gain mass. There is probably something in here that will help you too!
14 min read
Jun
28
Dairy: The Good, Bad and the Ugly

Dairy: The Good, Bad and the Ugly

People often ask me what my thoughts are on Dairy, Meat, Eggs, blah…blah…blah… and to be honest I’
19 min read
Mar
16

The 'Laws' of Medicine

> “In his 1934 book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, the philosopher Karl Popper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_
12 min read
Feb
23

How 'Fitness' Genes Work

[https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15027555]I got to view a wonderful TED 2016 [https://conferences.ted.
12 min read
Jan
26
The X Split Routine

The X Split Routine

When it comes to 4x a week, 2-day splits, most people think of the upper/lower split. But there are other ways to do it, and this is one of my favourites.
8 min read
Dec
16

Optimal vs Practical

[https://www.skillbasedfitness.com/?attachment_id=4761]I’ve been spending more and more time lately reading research. I’ve
6 min read