🥶 can cold showers burn fat?

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Welcome to The BarBend Newsletter! Here’s everything going on in today’s edition:

• Cold showers, weight loss, and you

• 5 arm routines for massive guns

• The science of creatine timing

Weight Loss

It Was a Pleasure to Burn

Cold water exposure isn’t the new kid on the fitness block anymore. Heralded in podcasts and social media channels for long enough to become entrenched in popular vernacular, cold, like Hansel, is “so hot right now.”

So what’s the deal with it, anyway? Can something as simple as a cold shower help you burn fat?

Cold showers offer a convenience and economy unmatched by expensive or unwieldy ice water immersion units and may offer the same types of benefits. If you've been curious about trying cold therapy but have been unsure if you're ready to, uh, … take the plunge… read up below on how turning your shower dial to the right might be the perfect solution to your thermogenesis needs.

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Workouts

Join the Arms Race

A big back might fill out your T-shirt, and strong glutes might let you move more weight than anyone in the gym, but deep in your heart, you know you still feel the green monster of Envy when you realize you don’t have the biggest arms in the room.

Arm training fills a special void in the hearts of everyone who lifts weights, so grab a shovel and start overflowing that void with 10 ultra-pumpy exercises, and five complete arm workouts with which to utilize them.

Biceps training sometimes overshadows the rest of arm day (after all, bis are best), but you’ll have to train the entire extremity to inspire fear and awe in arm-gazers all around you. For the workout above, this means combining hammer curls for biceps and close-grip bench press for triceps on the same day to achieve well-rounded success. 

If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to burst through the seams of a Bob Mackie Original, click below to get the only guide you’ll ever need for building bigger arms. 

Supplements

Schedule Your Creatine Appointment

Creatine is a popular supplement for a good reason: it has more scientific backing than most of the rest of the industry combined.

Is there a way to get more out of your creatine? BarBend explores the possibilities by teaching you the best ways to time your creatine usage.

Pre-workout and post-workout are popular times to get some creatine in your system, but popular knowledge says you just need to saturate your body with enough of the stuff to keep your gainz up to snuff. Find out if you have been missing out and get aboard the change train.

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Summer Goals

Quick Hits

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🧪 Science This: Heir to Mr. Wizard’s throne, ‘90s icon Bill Nye (a.k.a. “The Science Guy”) stays in shape using his understanding of biology. Here, he takes you on a tour of his fridge to show how he uses strong food choices to stay healthy.

💪 Use Viking Power: With the physique of a bodybuilder and static strength rivaling the all-time greats, Svend Karlsen was once one event away from (at the time) being one of only two men to win the WSM and the Arnold Strongman Classic. His Svend Press is a deceptively simple chest exercise worthy of his Scandinavian fame.

🐇 Hop Around: “Program hopping” gets a lot of well-deserved derision, but, as with all things, the poison is in the dose, not the substance. Find out how jumping around between different programs could work out to your advantage if done correctly.

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