You Started Working Out and Gained Weight? Here’s Why That’s Actually Normal By Marcus Cole | Workout Answers You did everything right. You committed to a workout program. You cleaned up your diet. You showed up at the gym consistently for two weeks straight. Then you stepped on the scale and felt your heart sink. … Read more
My first “home gym” was two 25-pound dumbbells I found at a garage sale and a pull-up bar wedged into a doorframe — I made that setup work for over a year, and in that time I got stronger, leaner, and more consistent than I’d ever been. But here’s what nearly derailed me: the scale … Read more
Junior year of college, I was studying pre-med and training at the same time, which meant I had to get ruthlessly efficient — every minute in the gym had to count. I was deep into intermittent fasting, skipping breakfast and compressing my eating into a tight window, and the obvious move was to train fasted … Read more
I spent two years paying a personal trainer $75 an hour before I finally started asking the questions that actually mattered — and the biggest one was why he kept telling me I had to choose between losing fat or building muscle, never both at once. Turns out, that advice wasn’t just outdated; it was … Read more
I used to stay up until 2am watching YouTube fitness videos, scribbling notes in a beat-up spiral notebook like I was cramming for an exam — and honestly, I kind of was. Back then, I was convinced that more cardio meant more fat loss, full stop, and I’d seen enough shredded runners to feel certain … Read more
When I first signed up for a gym at nineteen, I had no idea what I was doing — I spent the first three weeks just doing bicep curls and treadmill because everything else looked too complicated. Nutrition was even more of a mystery: I remember slashing my food down to almost nothing, convinced that … Read more