fitness – Page 2 – Jack H. Woods

January 19, 20230Comments

How To Guarantee Getting Ripped Even If You Have No Idea What You’re Doing

I stumbled on a big lesson recently that underpins much of the success I've had with strength and fitness: You need goals that are achievable. By that I don’t mean modest and

strength

January 12, 20230Comments

How I get 12 hours’ training done in 30 minutes (every week)

In strength training, less is more. People often think you need to slave away in the gym to look decent. Work out 5 days a week, for at least an hour,

strength

December 1, 20222Comments

How To Pack on Muscle in Minutes

Strength is a skill. You get really good at it, and the byproduct is muscle tissue. To get really good at strength, you don’t actually need to do heaps of work every

nutrition

November 24, 20220Comments

How To Get Ripped Without Tracking Calories

What I eventually realised, with enough experience, was that all diets are the same. Sticking to one set of foods guarantees no more results than any other set; there are just dosages. You can overeat on any diet, you can undereat on any diet. Or you can get the balance just right, for your goal at the current point in time (e.g., fat loss).

strength

November 4, 20220Comments

How I Built 10kg of Muscle With a Set of Gymnastic Rings and 40 Minutes a Week

The beauty of this is that strength goals are purely functional goals, but they guarantee aesthetic results. In fact, they’re the only way to do so. The challenge is to find a model for training towards those goals that’s simple enough so you can execute it every week, and know with absolute clarity that you’re getting stronger over time. If you can do that...

psychology

October 27, 20220Comments

How I Built My Dream Body By Doing Less – The Minimum Viable Effort

When we haven’t achieved something yet (e.g., building our dream body, reading 300 hundred books, meditating daily for year straight) we often think that doing so requires a heap of

nutrition

strength

October 11, 20220Comments

How I Transformed My Body in 40 Minutes a Week

Here’s what no one seems to be able to wrap their head around: You can’t speed the process up. You can only make the process happen. Stick to it. And let years pass. Once you’ve accepted that, then the goal posts move from “How can I blitz my training and nutrition, give it everything, and do as much as possible...

psychology

strength

June 1, 20220Comments

Your Brain Wants Results – Why Productive Efforts Feel Good

Your emotional and motivational system is your ally, not your enemy. It wants what’s best for you, even when you don’t agree rationally with it on what that is. Your intuition is telling you something about those jogs, or those classes, or whatever screwed up program you’ve been spinning your wheels at lately.

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