A simple rule for more effective living:

Every day, come what may, you have to complete at least one task that moves you closer to at least one important long-term goal. The task can be big or small, but it MUST be done before you sack out.

Strength training sucks for weight loss but is great for fat loss.

Here's why:
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It's never the single pizza, pastry, or pint of ice cream that produces noticeable weight gain. It's the consistent overconsumption of calories. What you do every day is far more important than what you do every so often.

The more you do something, the more you tell your brain that the circumstances and conduct are important. So pay special attention to whatever you repeat.

How long until it's simply illegal to possess or share information that incriminates a member of the ruling class?

Should you never eat fewer than A NUMBER of calories every day, like 1,200, 1,500 or 1,800?

Go here for the answer: legion.fitness/1200-calories-…

If you're primarily trying to gain muscle or strength and you're making major changes to your workouts every couple of weeks (different exercises, splits, rest times, etc.), you're doing it wrong. A little of the right variability is productive, but more than that is obstructive.

The key to effective maintenance training (cardio and resistance) is maintaining intensity. For instance, just two moderate-intensity cardio sessions per week can maintain endurance and just 1-to-3 hard sets (close to failure) per major muscle group per week can maintain muscle…

'Life's too short to care about calories and say no to pizza,' said the person whose life will probably be short.

What type of strength training split should you follow? What rep ranges should you work in? How many sets per workout and week should you do?

Take my free 60-second training quiz and find out: legion.fitness/training-quiz

Study: 'Diet rich in creatine is associated with a reduced risk of cancer or malignancy in U.S. adults aged 20 years and over.'

And specifically:

1. Individuals in the lowest creatine intake quartile (<10.5 mg/kg/day) had 18% higher odds of having cancer compared to those with…

Don’t fear failure. If you’re growing, you’re likely failing. If you’re not failing, you’re likely not growing.

How should you train to boost explosiveness? How much do genetics influence vascularity? Are electrolyte supplements worthwhile?

Get my answers to those questions and more here: legion.fitness/mfl-ep1142-x

In any field, the successful people always have a habit of doing the things the failures don't like to do.

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.”

—Benjamin Franklin

Don’t make money on social media from being an influencer, make money by leveraging influencers.

Yes, you can make money as an influencer, and if you enjoy it, by all means, do it.

But the real money comes from leveraging influencers.

For example, Mike Matthews runs Legion…