Most people love to get all lubed up in coconut oil (which, by the way, is the best lube there is) and mentally masturbate themselves into a pulp about meaningless minutia all day long.

They get all stressed the fuck out about one training concept followed by the next. They can’t commit to any program because they second-guess the shit out of it.

Then, if they actually do start a program they’re constantly worried about doing everything perfectly right.

So they obsess over:

•    How many days a week should I train?
•    Should I [...]

“Ricky! What’s up, buddy? Long time, no see. Looks like you’ve been training pretty hard. Your entire torso is much thicker than the last time I saw you.”

“Thanks for noticing, Jay. I’m trying, man. Been following the programs you laid out for me and it’s really working.”

“That’s great to hear. Hey, I’m actually heading to the gym in a couple hours. Did you train yet today?”

“No.”

“You wanna jump in for a session with me?”

“Seriously? You think I’m ready for that?”

“Dude, you’re the size of Arnold. You’re jacked. You’ve [...]

Guest Post by Renegade Inner Circle Coach, Keith Scott

Most of the shoulder injuries that I have seen and treated in my career from weight training come from pressing or pushing exercises.

While shoulder problems can occur from pulling types of movements, in general, the shoulder is much safer and we see fewer injuries from most pulling types of motions.

Many pressing movements can place the shoulder joint in a much more dangerous position. It is essential that people learn to do things to properly safeguard their shoulders as much as possible during [...]

If you’re picking teams for any type of sport choose the guy with the big hamstrings and J-Lo ass. You know he’ll be powerful.

If you wake up one day in some Game of Thrones type world and have to fight a guy to the death in order to have your life spared choose someone with no hamstrings and a pancake ass. If his feet are pointing out to the side like Donald Duck, instead of straight ahead, that’s a pretty good sign that he’ll be easy to bring down.

Hamstrings and [...]

No, it’s not.

Overtraining is real and does exist. It’s what holds back the majority of people who can’t get results.

But to really reach a true, deep state of it is way harder than most people think.

We, in the fitness industry, use the term because it’s easy to understand and it helps us guide you in the right direction.

Skinny hardgainers actually do need to “fear” overtraining when they’re starting out because it gets them on the right path. We don’t want those guys doing three hundred sets a week and training [...]

Let me start out by saying that this post is not for beginners. If you’ve been training for less than two years most of what’s written below will not apply. As a newbie you need to learn proper technique and stick to the basics. Once you’ve built your foundation and packed on your first 15-20 pounds a plateau is sure to rear it’s ugly head at some point.

So if that’s where you’re at right now and are wondering why you’re not gaining any muscle read on and hopefully you’ll find [...]

Guest Post by Renegade Inner Circle Coach, Keith Scott

If you are not doing a good, quality warm up before your training session you are missing a HUGE and extremely important component of training.

By “missing” this, your performance will suffer and you will get injured at some point. I don’t care how young you are, how “tough” you think you are, or how much smarter you think you are, you will suffer in both areas.

That’s just the way it is…

Over the years I have found that there are a few different [...]