by Bryan Krahn | Jul 5, 2021 | Fit Notes
Muscle needs “incentive” to grow. Asking it to do the same work it’s successfully done before won’t cut it. You gotta ask for more — lift more weight, do more reps with a given weight, do more (productive) sets — for your muscles to wake up and lay down some new...
by Bryan Krahn | Jul 2, 2021 | Fit Notes
Approaching what’s usually a sunny long weekend filled with food and family, I wanna take aim at some “health advice” I truly hate: “Don’t celebrate special occasions with food. You’ll just build unhealthy associations between the day and eating too many...
by Bryan Krahn | Jun 28, 2021 | Fit Notes
I’m not a fan of the zillions of diet challenges you see all over social media. I get the reasoning behind them from a marketing perspective, but I’m more a case-by-case, individualization-is-numero-uno kinda guy. Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates wouldn’t...
by Bryan Krahn | Jun 21, 2021 | Fit Notes
Happy Father’s Day. But I’ll get to that later. First, a lot of people in the fitness space are in pain. Not just physical but emotional and psychological. Some hide it well, under a steely facade of ego and a bit of bluster, to make it through the day....
by Bryan Krahn | Jun 14, 2021 | Fit Notes
Last weekend I went for a walk with Maverick and Goose on a gorgeous spring morning. I wore my prized green Turbo J’s so I grabbed a photo. This is now the last picture I have of Maverick alive: He suffered a heart attack around 15 mins into the walk. I noticed he...
by Bryan Krahn | Jun 7, 2021 | Fit Notes
There are many programming tweaks and tricks you can try to address a weak bodypart. However, since genetic structure is such a key factor, much of the voodoo you read will achieve — for you — sub-par results at best. As for things that DO appear to work? It can be...
