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When someone asks you to flex, you don’t flex your legs or your back. You flex your ARMS. Arms make your physique look complete. Without big arms, you don’t look like you lift weights. As a skinny-fat teenager I was always self-conscious about the size of my arms. When I flexed my biceps, nothing would happen. I …
This article was inspired by a blog post at Danger & Play: How I Train. “Oskar, what training routine and diet do you follow?” This has been a difficult question to answer, since I don’t follow a traditional diet and training routine. I don’t count calories and I don’t weigh my food. I don’t go into the …
You want to gain 30 pounds of muscle in your first year of training? If you’re skinny-fat, forget about it! When I started training, I thought I would gain 20-30 pounds of muscle in my first year of training without adding any body fat. That’s at least the idea I got from reading countless bodybuilding forums, transformation …
At the end of 2011 I made the switch to bodyweight training. My first routine consisted of chin ups, diamond push ups and single legged squats. However, after doing diamond push ups for over 8 months my body stopped responding to it, therefore I had to find a way to progress. At the time I …
Fitness can often appear complicated. There are so many variables that people think will give them their dream physique faster. For example, hitting each muscle from all possible angles with 10 different exercises, counting macronutrients, weighing meals and so on. Those kind of things only do one thing for you: they make fitness rule your …
To become aesthetic the goal should be to get an X-shaped body; strong legs, small waist and wide shoulders. A skinny-fat guy typically has wide hips and waist combined with narrow shoulders. To fight the skinny-fat sufferers natural shape, it’s vital to develop: the lats and shoulders to maximise upper body width upper chest to create …
Recently a reader emailed me about his success with frequent workouts: Oskar, I don’t know how to thank you ! My progress are slow but continuous. Your two exercises (close-grip chin-ups and the diamond push-ups) are doing the job greatly. In my case the way to follow is HIGH FREQUENCY (EVERYDAY, SOMETIMES MORNING AND AFTERNOON). …
Recently, a reader asked me to write an article about “how fast” I perform my repetitions when I train. I promised him to get this done, so here it is. First of all, I will refer to the tempo of repetitions as Time Under Tension since that’s usually the term used for this purpose. Time …
