Author Archives: Grant Lofthouse
Influencer Workouts
Have you noticed how fitness influencers always look perfect online? Shiny, pumped up, doing all kinds of weird exercises. Here’s the thing… most of those moves don’t even make sense if your goal is to get stronger or build muscle. But for many of them, fitness isn’t about results. It’s business. They need to keep…
Why Soreness Isn’t The Goal
Most people still believe muscles grow because you smash them in the gym, rip the fibers apart, and they bounce back bigger. Makes sense, right? Except it’s wrong. The real driver of growth is tension. Not soreness. Not “damage.” Tension. When you train close to failure, your reps slow down whether you like it or…
How Long Does it Take to Get in Shape?
This might be an unpopular take, but most people overestimate how long it really takes to get in shape. If you commit, it’s 6 months. That’s it. In that time, you can completely change your body and maybe even get into the best shape of your life. When you think about it that way, it’s…
How to make lifting fun again
Let’s face it. Training gets repetitive. You squat. You press. You pull. Over and over again. And well that’s kind of the point. Progress takes time. Muscle and strength come from repeating the same movements, not chasing novelty every week. But I get it, it can get boring. Sometimes it feels like “ugh, this again.”…
Trade-offs in Workouts
Everyone wants the opposite of what they’ve got in the gym. The girl with strong legs wishes her upper body looked better. The one with round shoulders wishes she had bigger glutes. The lifter with strength wants more endurance, the one with endurance wants more strength. That’s the problem, we always want what we can’t have, at…
10 Tips to Get More Pull-Ups
When I was a kid, I had this old tree in the backyard that I used to climb every day. At first, I couldn’t even make it to the first branch. But after trying (and failing) over and over, I figured out little tricks, where to put my foot, how to push off the trunk,…
Feeling Stuck
There was a woman in my Strong Not Skinny Inner Circle last year who was absolutely crushing it. Hitting her lifts, ticking off her workouts, eating solid, feeling strong. Then life punched her in the gut, family drama, work stress, a few sleepless nights, and everything felt like it came undone. She messaged me saying, “I…