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Hey everyone, today I have another personal fitness update for you. Since early 2009, I've been training intensely in weightlifting three to four times a week, and occasionally I do a few light cardio sessions. What got me to sign up in the first place was actually a photo my mom took of me in the garden while I was playing with the dog, shirtless. When I noticed the little love handles around my hips for the first time in the photos, I couldn't believe my eyes. One party night later, I signed up at a gym with some friends, where we initially went almost every day... Read More

I've added a new download section to the homepage of my website. I enjoy creating helpful infographics for my articles and blog posts. To ensure these don't get lost on various pages, I've bundled them together in the download section for easy access. This way, you can quickly and conveniently have them at hand whenever you need them... Read More

Have you ever felt like you didn't really remember anything after hours of reading endless pages? That's where speed reading comes in. It's a method that aims to help you get through text faster, ideally without losing too much of what you've read... Read More

You don't have to be a physicist to find quantum mechanics interesting. Some of its thought experiments are pretty fascinating even if, like me, you're looking at them as a layperson. One of the best-known examples is Schrödinger's cat... Read More

The floppy disk (which many people today only know as the save icon) was a common way to store files throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s. Then USB sticks came along with way more storage space and made things a lot easier. But nowadays, there's something even more convenient: Cloud storage. Instead of keeping everything on a physical device, you can store your files online and access them from different computers... Read More

I'm sorry, but you just lost The Game. And if you haven't heard of it before, well, now you're playing too. For the rest of your life.... Read More

I've reorganized part of the website again, mainly to make the fitness and nutrition articles easier to find. Those topics have become a pretty big part of what I write about, so I want to give them their own proper sections and keep the longer guides up to date as I learn more... Read More

The articles on Nutrition Basics and Strength Training are already online, and now I've added one about bulking phases. I wasn't sure at first whether to put it under strength training or nutrition. In the end, I decided on nutrition, because the main difference during a bulking phase is how much you eat, not that you suddenly need a completely different way of training... Read More

I've already written about the basics of strength training, but knowing the theory and putting together a sensible workout plan are two different things. That's why I've added a page with my own workout plans and explanations. You can use them as a starting point instead of trying to piece everything together from random advice... Read More

I've put together a new article with an overview of strength-training exercises. To keep it reasonably manageable, I've focused mainly on the bigger exercises for each muscle group and included a few isolation exercises too. The idea is to give you a useful place to start without turning the whole thing into an endless catalogue... Read More

It took a while, but my new main article on strength training is finally online! I've been planning this for some time, and there will be more articles on individual parts of the topic soon. For now, I wanted to explain the basics first. Things like training volume, intensity, frequency and how muscle growth actually works... Read More

Over the past few years, fitness, nutrition and health have become really important to me. I've been putting quite a bit of effort into taking better care of my body. There's just one rather obvious problem with all of that: I smoke. And I think it's finally time to stop... Read More

I recently published my big Nutrition Basics article, and now the Supplements section is finally ready too. Apparently quite a few people were disappointed that I barely mentioned supplements in the nutrition article. I got so many questions about them that it made sense to give the topic its own page. If you're expecting a list of miracle powders and pills, though, I'm afraid I'll disappoint you again. There are a few supplements that can be useful, depending on your diet and circumstances, but most of the impressive marketing promises are exactly that: Marketing... Read More

It's finally here: my Nutrition Basics article! Quite a few people have asked me for something like this, so I decided to make it a proper main article on my website rather than another short blog post. Nutrition is one of the subjects I'm most interested in, along with fitness and health in general, and I wanted to give it the space it deserves... Read More

The world is full of rumors, half-truths and people who seem very sure about things they don't actually understand. Honestly, I'm getting pretty fed up with it. Especially online, you can find someone confidently explaining almost anything, whether there's evidence for it or not. I think we should be much more interested in what can actually be tested and demonstrated... Read More