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Your muscles don’t know how much weight you lift, they only know how much FORCE they produce. (Read more about mechanical tension here). So if you have 100kg on the bar and move it so horribly that your chest contributes ‘x’ units of force, and the next guy has 70kg on the bar performed well enough that his chest contributes ‘x+50’ units of force, then clearly the second person is going to make more chest gains even though the first one used more weight. Hence the truth behind more is not always better. More weight isn’t better if it causes one to change the movement, recruit unwanted muscles, recruit momentum and take advantage of gravity and basic physics.

Lately, I’ve been cooking a lot of my own food and eating the same thing over and over again. When I’m achieving results, i personally love this lack of thought. But a lot of people would cringe at the idea. As when it comes to dieting, there are a few kinds of people: Macro Trackers, Meal Planners and intuitive eaters. All have their own merits and all resemble zealous religions with how people follow and defend them. I’ve pretty much done everything minus the sacrificial rituals you’d expect to accompany each of them.

I couldn’t think of a worse time to write about the benefits of ice baths. Ten years ago you might find a few elites like Tony Robbins and super humans like Wim Hof swearing by cold plunges. But today, every weirdo and his dog harps on about cold water exposure, alongside their (supposedly deliberate) manic breathing episodes. Sadly, I guess I am one of those weirdos now even though I’d love to distance myself as much as possible from those kind of people. You know the kind, the ones that perceive their own farts as bad energy expelling from the body and let out a smile and a deep inhalation as the air escapes through their pursed gluteal eye and enters their nostrils.