Calorie Calculator | Total Daily Energy Expenditure | Maximum Heart Rate | All Training Calculators Wondering how to burn more calories? Being more active is a great start. But how do you know how many calories you’re actually burning? This calculator will give you calorie burn estimates for over 100 common exercises, sports, and …
Building muscle is great, but building balanced, proportional muscle is better. It’s the difference between haphazardly lifting and eating and strategically earning your aesthetics. And for most of us, it’s not going to happen by accident. Old-school bodybuilders like Frank Zane, Lee Labrada, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Serge Nubret are all examples of men who …
Doing cardio without knowing your heart rate is like lifting weights without knowing how much they weigh. You’re training without crucial information! But once you calculate your maximum heart rate and heart rate percentages, you can customize your cardio for maximum fat loss, calorie burn, and overall health! Max Heart Rate Calculator …
“Lean body mass” may sound like the amount of muscle you have, but that’s not quite true. More accurately, it’s the amount of weight you carry that isn’t body fat. Your LBM includes muscle, but also bones, water, connective tissue, and stored up glycogen and other substances. This calculator requires two inputs from …
Trying to dial in your nutrition for your physique or athletic goals? Then you need to know your current total daily energy expenditure (TDEE), or the number of calories you burn each day. Eat more than this amount and you can expect to gain weight. Eat less than this amount and you’ll set …
The amount of protein you need depends on a number of factors, including your weight, age, goals, and activity level. The daily minimum recommended by the National Institutes of Health is 0.36 grams per pound of body weight for a sedentary person. However, if you do intense workouts, have a physically demanding job, …
In recent years, a dietary approach called IIFYM, or “if it fits your macros,” has taken the fitness world by storm. Also known as “flexible dieting,” it turns old-school, calorie-based dieting on its head by focusing instead on the amount of protein, carbohydrates, and fats making up those calories. As long as you …
The Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, is a new definition of military fitness. It is a dramatic departure from the previous Army fitness test the Basic Training APFT, which consisted of nothing more than a 2-minute sit-up test, a 2-minute sit-up test, and a 2-mile run. The new test consists of 6 …
Let's take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the … [Read More...]