THE UNWRITTEN RULES OF THE GYM FLOOR
Nobody puts these on a sign. Re-racking, wiping down, working in, where to point your camera, and why being new is never the same as being rude.
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WHAT TO DO WITH CRYSTALIZED EGG WHITES IN THE KITCHEN
It belongs in the kitchen cupboard, not the gym bag. Overnight oats, shakes, pancake batter, and where to start if you've had one sitting on the shelf.
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I DON’T TAKE A PRE-WORKOUT BEFORE EVERY SESSION
Justin on which sessions get El Chapo, which ones don't, and why he'd rather the whole thing stayed a decision instead of hardening into a rule.
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WHERE EVERYTHING SITS IN MY DAY
A walk along the shelf in our kitchen, in the order I get to each thing. Not the what, just the when, and the habit it hangs off. A routine only survives when it's bolted onto something you were doing anyway.
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WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS WHEN YOU START LIFTING
My oldest has started training, and it's had me working out what I'd keep if I only got to say a few things to someone in their first week in a gym. Six boring ones, in order, plus what I wasted my twenties buying instead.
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HOW TO PICK A PRE-WORKOUT FLAVOR YOU’LL ACTUALLY FINISH
The tub you finish is the one you liked drinking. Four questions I'd ask before picking a pre-workout flavor, and why I'm not going to tell you what any of them taste like.
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WHEN SEPTEMBER BLOWS UP YOUR TRAINING SCHEDULE
The summer schedule doesn’t break because you got lazy. It breaks because everyone else’s schedule changed. How to rebuild a training week you’ll keep once school goes back.
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WHAT ACTUALLY LIVES IN MY GYM BAG
I tipped my gym bag out on the kitchen floor on Sunday and found something that used to be a protein bar. Here's what goes back in, in the order it goes in, the stuff everybody forgets, and where the bag lives in between.
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EVERYTHING YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY FROM SWOLEAF RIGHT NOW
Most people know us for one pre-workout. There are ten things you can buy from us today. Here is all ten of them, what form each one comes in, and nothing else.
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COMING BACK AFTER TIME OFF WITHOUT WRECKING YOUR FIRST WEEK
It isn't the coming back that makes people quit, it's how the first week goes. Cut the plan in half, go more often, and let the first session feel too easy.
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ILLICIT PRE WORKOUT: IT’S CALLED EL CHAPO NOW
Illicit pre workout got renamed. It's called El Chapo now, and this is where to find it on the site, plus a straight answer on whether the original formula is coming back.
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ESCOBAR PRE WORKOUT: WHAT HAPPENED TO IT, AND WHAT I REACH FOR NOW
Escobar is discontinued. Here's the plain version of what happened to it, and the two I reach for before a session now.
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