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Photography Guide: How to Master your DSLR Camera - Dam
You spend a lot of money buying a DSLR camera. <i>Wouldn’t it be great to learn how to use it so that you can leave auto-mode behind for good?</i><p>Yes, I …
How to Tie Lashings | The Art of Manliness
The number of ways a person can tie things together is more or less limitless, from the thousands and thousands of legitimate knots and roping …
How to Build a Stylish Octagonal Firewood Rack
Keep your wood dry and ready to go.<p>After you've made your outdoor fire pit, it's time to build a proper firewood storage rack. You can opt for a large firewood shed, or go with this beautiful cedar firewood rack that works inside or out.<p>Mark Clement of MyFixItUpLife, built this octagon firewood …
How to Build a Weightlifting Platform | The Art of Manliness
It’s been exactly a year since I started working out in my garage gym and I absolutely love it. Going to the gym is just a trip to my garage and I …
How to Build a Longboard
Building a longboard is usually cheaper than buying one, and it can be a lot of fun to make your own a unique board. You will need a bit of wood …
The 5 Pillars of Athletic Training
The world of strength and conditioning advice is full of impossible promises and complicated programs and methods. <b>Every athlete presents a unique</b> …
The Turkish Get-Up: A Beginner's Guide by Juan Lugo
What if I told you that you could work on strength, stability, mobility and flexibility all in one movement. That you could make your body more …
How to Hold Your Breath Longer | The Art of Manliness
Thousands of years before SCUBA or even rudimentary mechanical diving apparatuses, human beings plumbed the ocean’s depths with nothing but …
How To Build a Fire Pit in Any Shape You Want
Mold your own concrete bricks into any shape you want.<p>Backyard fire pits make for great evening entertainment. If you're looking to build one with a bit more flair and can work a CNC router, then you've got all the tools you need to shape a custom fire pit.<p>The people at Home Made Modern designed …
The Kettlebell Swing & Goblet Squat Workout
Kettlebell Essentials: Swinging & Squatting<p>The kettlebell swing and the goblet squat are two fundamental exercises in kettlebell training. One …
Kaizen: Get a Little Better Each Day | The Art of Manliness
It’s happened to all of us.<p>You have a “come to Jesus” moment and decide you need to make changes in your life. Maybe you need to drop a few pounds …
Fitness: Why bigger isn't better in weight training
When it comes to building muscle in the weight room, size doesn’t matter. So before you grab the biggest weight in the rack, consider the latest …
How to Turn Up Your Gains
The Total Volume Strategy<p>Your Training Program: 3 Crucial Variables<p>What are the three most fundamental variables of training programs?<p>Intensity. To …
GVT Revisited
Way back in 1995 or so, a fresh-faced Canadian strength coach named Charles Poliquin, wearing the native moose fur and antler hat that is emblematic …
What you need to know about fascia — Shrugged Collective
<i>Dr. Eric Hefferon is a Physical Therapist, strength & conditioning professional, and a competitive fitness enthusiast from Glendale, Arizona. Today,</i> …
The Top 7 Bodybuilding Methods of All Time
Tested, Proven Hypertrophy Techniques<p>The 7 Best Muscle-Builders<p>I started training athletes and bodybuilders over 17 years ago. My own passion for …
Why Buy a Belt Sander When You Can Build Your Own?
It's always better when you do it yourself.<p>Master woodworker Matthias Wandel has been slowly building out his workshop with more and more homemade equipment. Last time it was a lathe, and now it's a belt sander. And if you want to follow in his DIY footsteps (who wouldn't!) his latest video on his …
The Easiest (and One Of the Most Important) Fitness Tests You’ll Ever Take
Before you lift another weight overhead, do this first<p>Overhead pressing—like military presses, push presses, and seated dumbbell presses—can turn your shoulders from pebbles to boulders.<p>And who doesn’t want a strong, chiseled set of shoulders that will make your T-shirts look like they’re all from …
The Greatest Philosopher You've Never Heard Of
Let's be honest. When most of us talk about philosophy — the hard-core, name-dropping, theory-quoting kind — we're talking about a particular lineage that traces back to the Hellenistic Greeks.<p>But consider, for a moment, the fact that over the last few thousand years there've been a whole lot of …
Bodybuilding's Best Kept Secret
Olympic Gold<p>Bodybuilding may never make it to the Olympics, but I believe that Olympic lifting will make it to <i>bodybuilding.</i> In fact, I've always …
Spring DIY: 5 Tips on Making Your Garden Magical
In Personal Development-speak, we are always talking about goals, outcomes, success, desires and dreams. In other words, all the stuff we want to do, …
3 Meditation Methods for those who Insist They “Can’t” Meditate.
It’s no surprise to those that meditate that meditation might just be the lynchpin to success in solving some major problems of the mind.<p>Even beyond …