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Jeremy Gray 27 Fitness Terms a Gym Newbie Needs to Know If you've never stepped into a gym, it's pretty intimidating. Beyond physical intimidation, you'll probably hear other people in the gym talking like they are using a different language. It's not secret code, it's just a few fitness terms...

To make gains in the gym, you have to push yourself... Hard. If your muscles are aching, your lungs are burning, and sweat is oozing from every pore of your body, you know pretty darn well that you’re bringing it in the gym. Could you push yourself even harder? How do you know you’ve really...

Jeremy Gray Does Knowing Your Heart Rate During a Workout Matter? It's unlikely you're going to go up to your friends and tell them how you've hit 85% of your max heart rate for 12 minutes. If you do, they will probably look at you like you are crazy. Sure, it's important THAT it is beating...

When we look at a workout, we see sets and reps. Something often overlooked is how much rest between each set you take — and that matters, too. The time we take between each set can affect our result, so having a goal in mind when exercising is vital. Your rest times are based on what you're...

The BMI test has long been seen as a misleading marker of our true health status, but a new study on “Fatty Muscle Fraction” may have superseded BMI when it comes to determining the state of our bodies and our prospects for longevity. The Body Mass Index has always been a crude calculation. It...

The Best Supplement for Heart Health? The occasional lone study suggests that fish oil doesn't do much to improve heart health, but a recent meta study trumps all the naysayers. Let’s dispense with the usual statistics about chronic heart failure (CHF) that precede nearly every article about...

The Right Dosage and Ratio of DHA/EPA Omega-3s Many fish oil supplements are underdosed and made only for women. Not this one. When T Nation and Biotest launched in 1998, most of our staff took fish oil. The benefits were clear, but we didn't love the products we were using. They were underdosed...

Boners are a better predictor of future health than smoking, high blood pressure, or diabetes. Here's why. As many of you know, my long-time friend and world-renowned strength coach, Charles Poliquin, died from a suspected heart attack. Charles’s death has had me thinking a lot about heart...

How likely are you to die from a heart-related problem? Find out now. It'll only take a minute. Here’s a fun fact: Statistically, if you don’t die in some type of accident before the age of 44, you’re probably going to keel over from cardiovascular disease later in life. CVD is actually a whole...

by TC Luoma Multiple studies indicate that there's a correlation between the size of your calves and your mortality. For real. I haven’t done much direct work for my calves for years. It’s not because they were naturally big and didn’t need it. Far from it. Training them was just so…...

A group of researchers got ahold of the coroner's reports on bodybuilders who died young. Here are their grim findings. Steroid-induced cardiomyopathy. Severe cardiomegaly with concentric left ventricular hypertrophy. Sudden cardiac dysrhythmia due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease. These...

Your life may depend on doing one simple thing as soon as you wake up in the morning, especially if you're over 40. Beware of Dehydrated Monday Most heart attacks occur in the morning. If you want to get really specific about it, most heart attacks occur on Monday morning. Part of it has to do...

The Truth About Cholesterol, Fat, and Heart Disease You’re being lied to. Here’s what’s true and untrue about taking care of your heart health. Jake recently underwent heart surgery – a quintuple bypass. Amazingly, he didn’t have any of the traditional risk factors. His blood pressure and...

by TC Luoma High Cholesterol Might Make You Live Longer A couple of unheralded research papers claim that it's actually low LDL cholesterol that's bad and that statins should be discontinued. I want to tell you a story that offers up a little perspective on the topic of cholesterol. It involves...

by TC Luoma The Numbers Keep Adding Up. Why? A lot of relatively young competitive bodybuilders have died recently, but they're only the latest in a long, grim line. Here's why it might be happening. It's really weird, but I haven't had all that much experience with death in my personal life...

Strong Heart, Long Life For heart health, everybody knows about the merits of fish oil, exercise, stress avoidance, and not letting electrical appliances fall into your bathwater. But there are several equally important supplements and strategies. Here are five to help keep you alive. According...

A Supplement that Might Replace Many Drugs Nattokinase, a readily available, safe, inexpensive supplement, appears to have cardiovascular benefits that at first are hard to believe. I can’t do it. I just can’t stomach starting another heart disease article – as appears to be the custom – by...

The benefits of high-intensity interval training and steady-state cardio are similar regarding fat loss. The only considerations you need to think about are time and preference. Not whether one burns more fat or calories. It’s how much time you are willing to devote to getting your heart rate up...

How to Keep Your Ticker Ticking Most American men will die from heart disease. I’m trying very hard not to be one of them. As such, I research heart-healthy strategies that go beyond exercise and diet. I’m talking about chemical solutions: supplements that destroy plaques, energize the heart...

Ozempic: GLP-1 Drugs May Help Prevent 34,000 Heart Attacks and Strokes Per Year Share on PinterestGLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and prevent more than 34,000 heart attacks and strokes a year. Iparraguirre Recio/Getty Images GLP-1s, the...