Always Be An Athlete with Judd Lienhard
Here to help you maintain athleticism at any age—and use it as a foundation for life. Training, health, fatherhood, faith, and lessons from my childhood in the Midwest, as well as my time in the military, all shape my approach to strength and resilience.
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Cardio Won't Kill Your Gains (opens the original)
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How to Train While Cutting Without Losing Muscle (opens the original)
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No one would deny that diet carries the lion’s share of the burden when it comes to getting lean. And lately, recovery and other lifestyle habits, like sleep and stress reduction, have started to get their due as well. But just because we can all acknowledge that when getting lean the importance of the training takes a back seat to nutrition, and possibly to sleep and other recovery aspects, that doesn’t mean how we train during that phase doesn’t matter.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-i
How to Lean Out for Good (opens the original)
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Get your claws out, because you’re about to need them. Calorie intake has never been the primary cause of obesity. Fat gain is caused by two things: an increasing imbalance between calorie intake and energy availability, and poor nutrient partitioning.Most people that are over fat didn’t gain that weight in a matter of weeks, or even months. They often gained it over the course of several years. The scale creeped up. Simple math suggests that overweight people are not in a very large calorie sur
The Five Universal Priorities of Fitness (opens the original)
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Every so often I get excited talking to someone new to fitness and start explaining physiology to a person that just wanted to know how to lose their love handles. Twenty minutes later, despite their best efforts, their eyes start to glaze over. They don’t care how any of it works. They just want it to work. And I know exactly how they feel.I am uniquely bad at “the technology”. I tell people this frequently, trying to warn them. But they never fully get it. It’s not their fault. How could they
Functional Fitness Is Dead (opens the original)
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