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(This is from my web novel which can be found on https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/70797/bane-of-the-old-guard. If anyone is interested you can find the next 90 chapters over there. Decided to try to post one or two on this blog to see if… Read more: Bane of the Old Guard: LITRPG Chap 1: GAME OVER

If Looks Could Kill They call me The Wishmaster. Pilgrims of the world seek me far and wide. They scour the mountains and the forests and the glades. On a whisper they sail across the sea to foreign lands… Read more: If Looks Could Kill

My description for Bane of the Old Guard: Spade the Thief is dead. In the world of Esem, where players are spawned with no memory of what came before, there is one guild which stands supreme. When one of… Read more: Royal Road Story

I love meat. I love how meat tastes, I love the texture, and especially cooking it. When a slab of beef is sizzling in a pan there is no better and more satisfying feeling in the world. That slab… Read more: Carnivore Diet: The Way to Go?

When summer began I had a fantastic five day split planned. My plans were that by the end of summer I would have burned fat and gained muscle. These are common plans, unfortunately they came screeching to a halt… Read more: Training With an Injury

Fitness is not my career, merely my hobby and a topic of this blog. I have a full time job that is not related to working out and of course numerous other things in my life which demands my… Read more: My Perfect Week of Fitness

There are two main goals most people share when it comes to what to eat. People either want to get bigger or want to get smaller. Throughout my 12 years of fitness it seems that half the year I… Read more: Size/Shred: 5 Methods of How to Eat

The perfect workout likely does not exist, however, sometimes I like to write down a workout that could be perfect for me. I think the exercises I have included can be performed by most people and, barring advice from… Read more: 10 Essential Exercises

These days big arms are not my priority, but once upon a time I was a high school student whose only desire was to be big. I was going five days a week and lifting weights at our local… Read more: How to Get Big Arms (3×8)

The year is coming to an end and with the dawning of 2022 many people will be making New Years resolutions. The majority of these resolutions are all fitness based and since that has been the majority of my… Read more: Getting Back on the Wagon

A few days ago I wrote about why so many fail their New Years resolutions to get in shape. Today I thought it appropriate to write a post about an easily achievable and detailed method to get into shape… Read more: Staying on the Wagon (New Years Resolution Fitness Advice)

Yesterday I wrote about my favorite resistance band exercises for arms. Today I am tackling the worlds second favorite show muscle: Shoulders. What’s better than having those bowling ball shoulders that dreams are made of? Arms can be covered… Read more: Resistance Band Training: Shoulders

Resistance bands are some of the most affordable, convenient, and effective pieces of workout equipment you can own. I have owned a set of four since the end of summer and I have found numerous times during the week… Read more: Resistance Band Training: Arms

Five years ago the conventional wisdom was that any serious workout on an empty stomach was detrimental to your gains. Without food in your belly, your body would actually devour your muscles and you would never become strong. This… Read more: My Experience with Fasting and My Protocol to Lose Fat Fast

Instead of writing a long story, I just have an idea I would like to share. First, tell me whether this interaction sounds familiar: Friend: “That person who doesn’t like you is going to be at the party tonight.”… Read more: How to (Not) Care: A Paradox

The greatest strength of genre fiction is also its greatest failing. Genre provides a form and a precedent for a writer to explore and write a story or a poem or a play with a common set of conditions… Read more: Review of “The Chronicles of Amber” by Roger Zelazny

Life is a complex thing. We are born into this world with no instructions but what is encoded within our DNA. Science can tell us what those helix strands mean, but it us up to us as individuals to… Read more: 3 Facets of a Fulfilling Life

Sauron from The Lord of the Rings was a villain with an unusual appearance. Though he had once possessed a body in Ages passed, Tolkien decided to give him an ethereal form. The titular character was a great, flaming… Read more: Concentration In the Age of Information

I came to China in March of 2019 to teach ESL at a training center. The city I chose was Shenzhen-the current technological hub of the world-and many good things happened in a year. I have learned about teaching,… Read more: Life in China During COVID-19

Looking at oneself critically is a difficult task. It is not an ability I claim to have mastered so if this article comes across as holier-than-thou please excuse my tone. I am merely writing about an observation I have… Read more: The Dark Side of Empathy

For years I have been scouring the internet for the most superlative piece of fitness equipment in the effective/efficient category. Kettlebells seemed to me to fit the bill nicely. They are small and, though heavy, compact enough that storing… Read more: Resistance Bands: King of Home Workout Equipment?

The summer is coming to an end and so that means my summer workout regime has been completed. I did not have a workout partner so I decided to opt for a body building protocol which, though I did… Read more: My Workout Regime for the Second Half of 2021

My favorite fat loss exercise is short and painful. I love sprinting on a field or having a t-shirt drenching session on a stationary bike. I have written about HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) in the past and though… Read more: Walking (LISS) is the best fat loss exercise

I have been in quarantine in China for the past couple months*. With my gym closed, I realized immediately that in order to stay in shape I would have to start a body weight regime in my apartment. Here… Read more: Solitary Fitness! Quarantine Edition

Google search “most valuable piece of gym equipment” and on nearly every list you will find the kettlebell. As home gym equipment they are effective and take up such a small storage space that many people even take them… Read more: My Simple Kettlebell Workout

When I was in college I lived at home for my first two years. While in high school I had a gym membership, I convinced my dad to get a squat rack for the garage after I graduated. I… Read more: The Most Effective Garage Gym Setup

For years I neglected cardio of any kind. I was satisfied with a general Low Intensity Steady State (LISS) incidental cardio which I would glean from walking around my neighborhood in a fasted state. Cardio to me was hell.… Read more: My New HIIT Regime

Most people over the last year and half have had to forgo the gym and buy at home equipment. I did the same thing, and after a bit of study I found a few pieces which have served me… Read more: My Apartment Gym Setup

Under the category “most useful single piece of workout equipment” the sandbag is reigns supreme. Sandbags offer some of the heaviest and most versatile movements around. My sandbag is heavier than my kettlebell and I can do many of… Read more: My Favorite (30kg) Sandbag Circuit

JRR Tolkien created the modern genre of high fantasy. This is undisputed. Though there were fantasy stories aplenty before The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings were published, none had gone quite so far into the realm of… Read more: 4 Reasons that the Lord of the Rings has never been surpassed

Recently a friend of mine asked what kind of workout he could do with only two dumbbells. I could of course recommend buying some extra at home equipment such as this: (link) but the idea really stuck with me… Read more: A Two Dumbbell Workout

I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. I know nothing about thyroid issues or gastric bypasses or cholesterol. At the end of the day, you really need to talk to your doctor about what is right for you.… Read more: Lose Weight the Simple Way

5 Fantasy Series to read before you die Fantasy is a very big genre. Just like any genre there are one or two titles that hoard most of the attention of the casual reader. Though I love The Lord… Read more: 5 Fantasy Series to Read Before You Die

A year ago I wrote an article about what were my top 5 fantasy series that everyone should read before they die. In that article I wanted to introduce some books that some people might never have heard of… Read more: Top 5 Fantasy Standalone Novels to Read Before You Die

My new 5×5 workout For the past two years I have been in a rut. My lifting session have been as follows: Day 1: Front squat, Leg press, sit-ups/lunges (superset), leg extensions, leg curls Day 2: Benchpress, incline flys/sit-ups,… Read more: My New 5×5 Workout

Everywhere I look is article after article extolling the wonders of Asheville. The great hiking, the craft beer, the folk music, the downtown scene etc. Well, as someone who was born and has lived for 25 years in this… Read more: 8 Very Good Reasons Never to Move to Asheville, NC

This will be short and sweet. High intensity interval training (HIIT) is the number one way to lose fat. Of course, having a low carb diet is more important for converting calories, when it comes to the burning process… Read more: The Number One Exercise for Fat Loss

The iPad Air 4 Is the Best Computer I Have Ever Owned The dream of replacing my existing computer (a reliable MacBook Air from 2015) had been going strong since my original iPad, the iPad mini 2. Even five… Read more: The iPad Air 4 is The Best Computer I Have Ever Owned

I have been lifting weights for over ten years. I am not an athlete, just an enthusiast. When I first began going to the gym it was not because I needed to be stronger for a sport or faster… Read more: How I Mastered Leg Day

Wizard legend has it that the most powerful wiz’ who ever lived turned himself into a rock 10,000 years ago. No one remembers his name and so history has dubbed him the Rock Wizard. He was powerful- the most… Read more: “The Blunder” A Story of The Legendary Rock Wizard