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There’s no such thing as a magic exercise,
But there are exercises that fit certain parts of the strength curve better than others.

This variation is one of my favourites for loading the biceps through the mid to shortened range while taking momentum out of the equation.

Lock your chest into the bench.

Keep your upper arm fixed.

Control the eccentric.

Squeeze hard at the top.

Nail those four things and your biceps will do the work instead of your shoulders!

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The goal isn’t to see how quickly you can get to your working weight.

The goal is to keep progressing for years without constantly dealing with preventable aches and niggles.

Train like someone who wants to be lifting in 20 years, not someone trying to impress everyone in the first five minutes.

Who else remembers being 20, walking into the gym, throwing four plates on the bar with zero warm-up and somehow getting away with it?

Now if I skip my warm-up, my knees, shoulders and lower back send me a reminder before I’ve even finished my first set. 😂

Tell me I’m not the only one.

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I honestly think GLP-1s have unintentionally exposed one of the biggest misconceptions around obesity.

For years we’ve blamed hormones and metabolism as though they somehow override energy balance.

Then GLP-1s come along.

People don’t suddenly develop a faster metabolism. They’re not burning an extra 1,000 calories a day. What happens is they’re less hungry, they naturally eat less food, and they lose body fat.

To me, that’s a massive wake-up call.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I’m not saying hormones don’t matter because they absolutely do. They play a huge role in hunger, cravings, satiety and ultimately how easy or difficult it is to stay in a calorie deficit.

But that’s exactly my point.

Hormones influence behaviour… they don’t exempt us from energy balance.

I think for years we’ve overcomplicated obesity. Instead of explaining that hormones make fat loss harder by driving appetite and reducing satiety, we’ve almost created this belief that hormones somehow break the rules of fat loss.

They don’t.

GLP-1s haven’t changed the physiology of fat loss. They’ve simply made one of the biggest barriers to fat loss and hunger far easier to manage.

Calories didn’t suddenly start mattering because GLP-1s came along.

They always mattered.

I think that’s one of the biggest lessons we’ve learnt from these medications, and it’s a conversation we need to have more often because understanding why they work is just as important as knowing that they work.

Curious to hear your thoughts because I know this one will divide opinions!..

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