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

• A dietician’s look at the egg diet

• HIIT workouts perfect for beginners

• All types of push-up variations

Nutrition

If You Are the Eggman, Who Is the Walrus?

Plenty of cartoonishly restrictive diets have hit the mainstream over the years: the “Cookie Diet” was once seen as a legitimate nutritional foundation to build upon, and the Carnivore Diet still holds sway in some internet corners. Now, there’s the TikTok-famous “egg diet,” which is popping up on social media feeds all over.

At heart, this is a ketogenic diet based on low carbs, high fat, and high protein, but, as the name suggests, this nutrition regimen strives to use the egg as the body’s primary energy source. In its original text, the person behind the diet’s popularity claimed you could lose up to 25 pounds in two weeks, aka 12.5 pounds per week using this method. 

Sounds like a weird idea on the surface, but is there any validity here? We asked a registered dietician to break it all down. 

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Wednesday Workout

Beginner-Friendly Intensity

HIIT workouts are a popular way to burn calories. With the ability to stick a whole–body-blasting workout into the tiniest of available timeslots, savvy exercisers with busy lives can fit these sessions into their schedule whenever they have a chance.

But if the phrase “high-intensity” sounds a little intimidating, BarBend has some options to help you ease your way into the deep end of the pool.

If Fran and Murph seem too far outside your current level, remember that you don’t have to match elite athletes' efforts. Working in chunks of time — like 30 seconds of burpees — lets you moderate your intensity to match your body’s capabilities. When you’re ready to make the jump to a higher level, we’ve got you covered with options and ideas to bring the pain train. Remember, you can HIIT at every level.

Exercises

On Your Face!

No matter how much the fitness world changes, one exercise always remains in style: push-ups. Even if you’ve spent time in the military and learned to understand the push-up strictly as a means of punishment, you have to look back, somewhat fondly, on the number of push-ups you were capable of doing when it mattered.

There really are push-ups for every walk of life (even press-ups for those across the pond). Narrow, wide, explosive, and partial — there is a push-up style to match whatever upper-body training modality you are after. If you’ve gotten into a little bit of a rut, these push-up variations will challenge you. Once you’ve got the patterns down cold, have a loved one scream obscenities in your ear for the full push-up training experience.

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Everything Else

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• Looking for another great newsletter to hit your inbox each week? Seriously strong lifter (and writer) John Finkel’s Books and Biceps is a free newsletter helping dudes and dads read more, lift more, and live awesome. Check it out and subscribe for free.

• Standing on your own two feet vs. having to pull out a mat and lie down can be the difference between you actually doing some ab work or blowing it off completely. Try the dumbbell side bend for all of your core training needs.

• Walking backward is the “in” thing to do right now. Learn why reversing course on the treadmill could be your key to everlasting success.

• Pilates seems to be on the mind of everyone who wants to wear yoga pants more often. Find out what other benefits it has in store for curious visitors.