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Straight From Our Kitchen: Complete Meals July 2016

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:27:00 GMT

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Get More From Your Ab Workouts!

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:22:00 GMT

Straight From Our Kitchen: Complete Meals June 2016

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:19:00 GMT

Welcome to the first installment of a new feature you’ll find on allstrengthtraining.com, where we’ll be giving you the recipes and cooking instructions for meals that Christine and I use ourselves.

Up today is a relatively simple combination of grilled chicken breast, roasted red potatoes, and steamed broccoli. Doesn’t sound like much, but one of the biggest takeaways we hope you get from this feature is that eating healthy, performance- and physique-friendly meals doesn’t have to be complicated.

Fitness is a Skill, and It’s Okay to Suck at It

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:05:00 GMT

Ever learned something new? Of course you have, you’re sitting upright and reading this in English, so already we’re looking at three things I’m assuming you weren’t able to do when you were born. Too simple? Okay, do this for me. Close your eyes and try to remember the first time you did any of the following:

Single Leg Glute & Hamstring Triset

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:56:00 GMT

Friends or Foes?

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:55:00 GMT

Today is January 13th, which means for many of you, we're now 13 days into the annual undertaking that is the New Year's Resolution. You know, those things you commit to at the end of a bit of a (sometimes alcohol-induced) retrospective sometime in late December where you're going to make it happen this year, goddamn it.

Meal Preparation: The Key to Sustained Success

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:52:00 GMT

This is an excerpt from the 2016 edition of the All Strength Training Ultimate Challenge Body Transformation Guide, but I liked it so much after I wrote it that I couldn’t help sharing it with you all.

Tri-Sets for Shoulders

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:50:01 GMT

Diet Buzzwords & Fat Loss

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:50:00 GMT

Optimizing Shoulder Training

AST — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:49:12 GMT

Many people want well-developed shoulders, but few know how to train them appropriately. Whether you’re male or female, developing the complete deltoid aids in creating an aesthetic, tapered torso, especially when combined with a low-enough bodyfat to make the waist look proportionately tiny in relation to the shoulder girdle.

Holiday Body Composition Rescue Strategies

AST — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:49:00 GMT

As we’re currently in the swing of the holiday season, with a little over a week until Christmas day as of the time of this writing, I wanted to share a few of the strategies I have been recommending to clients as they begin their travels and their preparation for what to do when confronted with a seemingly limitless number of high sugar, high fat treats and desserts, whether it be at the office, at social gatherings, or at family dinners.

3 Keys to Overcoming Roadblocks

AST — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:46:00 GMT

Doing a photo shoot has always been one of those things that I thought was for “other people”. I always had excuse after excuse of why I could never do one – I will never have the right body, I completely lack the confidence, and what if I get bloated the day before! I never set out to do a shoot, it just kind of . . . happened.

What Nobody Tells You About Body Transformations

AST — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:45:00 GMT

Let me start off by saying that I do really enjoy seeing impressive transformation photos – I think that any example of the human body being pushed to its limits can be a very inspiring thing. However, thanks to social media, this notion that anybody can lose 25, 50, maybe even 100 pounds in a matter of months has permeated our senses to the degree that it’s expected by many uneducated observers to be the rule, rather than the exception.

Quick Tip: Limit Caffeine Post-Workout

AST — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:39:00 GMT

For many people, a morning cup of coffee is a bit of a ritualistic experience. All you have to do is spend 10 minutes inside a Starbucks at 5am and take note of the number of mental zombies rattling off an order so complicated you’re not sure if they’re getting a cappuccino or giving nuclear launch codes.

A Reaction to the Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Read

AST — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:38:00 GMT

If you’re not familiar with Tracy Anderson, consider yourself blessed. If you are, you probably know that she is probably one of the worst influences to come out of the fitness industry since the advent of “finger down throat for reps”. Besides being a woman of questionable business practices, she also happens to be Gwenyth Paltrow’s trainer, which unfortunately, gives her terrible advice more weight. Because nothing bad happens when you combine dense with denser.