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🏋️‍♂️ 3 full-body workouts for serious gains

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Here’s what’s going on in this edition:

  • Top full-body workouts

  • 10 methods for burning 100 calories

  • Alcohol color and its effect on fitness

Bodybuilding

Full-Body Burn

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Full-body training methods force you to grow head to toe by using big, heavy, compound lifts.

While sometimes thought of as a purely “beginner” methodology, properly understanding a full-body program can let you progress from intermediate to advanced without ever having to leave this basic philosophy behind.

Each workout highlighted in the article below is designed to maximize your gains no matter where you fall on the bell curve of hypertrophic prowess. Using the aforementioned compound lifts, along with targeted supersets, will keep you pushing your muscular development to the moon. You have muscle all over your full body, so why not train it like that?

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Weight Loss

Scorch Those Calories

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Much like Tom Sawyer whitewashing a fence, burning 100 calories can seem like a momentous challenge or the easiest thing in the world. It all depends on how you look at it.

The 10 activities we’ve cobbled together all burn 100 calories in varying (quite small) amounts of time. While you might not enjoy every option on this list, odds are you can knock out the work in 10-20 minutes with a smile on your face instead of a snarl on your lips.

For example, if running a mile doesn’t provide you with a dopamine hit, then maybe taking a walk will. If ambulating isn’t your thing, then hopping on a bike while you hate-watch The Golden Bachelorette might be the very thing that gets you an extra 100 burned during your day. The world is full of options for burning calories, and with this article, there’s no reason you should keep finding excuses to stay stationary.

Nutrition

Go Clear?

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In the pantheon of strange things people tend to universally believe to be true, the health effects of alcohol, based on the color of the distilled fluid, deserves a seat of some prominence.

As Dr. Layne Norton explains, all alcoholic beverages create feelings of intoxication through the chemical ethanol. While some people report fewer symptoms of hangovers from clear alcohol like vodka, that doesn’t actually mean the potato-based liquor has a higher degree of healthiness than tannin-heavy red wine.

If you really have a beef with these findings, or you really feel like you should continue to live on vodka Red Bulls the night before a big training day, a 1.5-ounce shot of clean facts might need to be in order.

Everything Else

CBum’s Making Moves

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  • Chris Bumstead’s return to the GymShark brand is being hailed as the next biggest thing to Jordan coming back to the Bulls. Find out the details of his new ownership stake in the company.

  • After winning two Mr. Olympia titles in 2020 and 2021, it has been confirmed that Big Ramy will once again skip the contest in 2024. Find out how it impacts this year’s competitive landscape.

  • A new study finds that hamstring tightness, the scourge of so many during gym class sit-and-reach tests, might be caused by your genetic makeup.