The following is a guest post from Jon Anthony, from Masculine Development – a self-improvement blog designed to help you become the best man possible.

Everyone wants to get shredded and cut fat, but if you look around you, you’ll see millions of men that are drastically overweight. Why is this? Well, part of it is a lack of discipline – but a big part of it is also a lack of understanding.

Getting shredded is a science, and like any science, with enough research, it can be understood. That’s why I’d like to offer up my top supplements for cutting fat and getting shredded today – all of this is based on research and experience.

I’m not going to sell you snake oil, or some stupid body building supplement that over promises and under-delivers. Instead, I’m going to give you a list of the best supplements so you can get absolutely shredded in time for spring break.

So, with that in mind, let’s get to it.

Cutting Best Practices

Before we get into the most effective supplements for burning fat, I first want to explain something very clearly – you CAN NOT avoid putting in THE WORK!

Too many guys these days think you can just take a pill or a potion, and it’s magically going to help you go from being 50 pounds overweight to being a shredded behemoth that makes women wet by just taking your shirt off.

Losing fat and getting shredded is always going to take work, and most of your efforts are going to come from the fundamentals. Things like counting your calories, having a good workout routine, and recovering enough are critical.

With that in mind, these cutting supplements are meant to be an addition to your regular healthy routine, to give you a nice little boost in fat burning. Don’t get me wrong – some of them are extremely powerful.

Always remember, though – nothing will work if you don’t.

Best Cutting Supplements

Now, let’s get on to the good stuff. I’ve been in the fitness industry for a while now, and in my experience, these are the top supplements for burning fat.

I’ve ranked them in order of “most effective” to “least effective” – but even the ones at the very bottom are still going to be 50x more effective than most of the overpriced garbage they’ll be hocking you at GNC.

Here are the best cutting supplements in 2021:

1. SARMs
2. ECA Stack
3. Fat Burner
4. Pre Workout
5. BCAA’s

If you want to really crank up the fat burning, you can try combining some of these supplements with intermittent fasting. Remember though, the top three are extremely powerful so use them with caution.

SARMs

SARMs, short for “Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators,” are one of the most cutting-edge and powerful supplements on the market these days. In fact, they’re so effective that they’re currently undergoing FDA Phase III Clinical Trials as a treatment to help cancer patients build muscle, and avoid withering away. [R]

When I first wrote about them three years ago, I essentially compared them to legal steroids (which they are). Very few people had caught on at that point – but thanks to social media, they’re becoming more and more popular each day.

It’s important to note that there’s many different types of SARMs, but the best SARMs for shredding fat (in my opinion) are Ostarine and RAD 140.

Don’t take my word for it, though. Just take a look at the SARMs results I got.

ECA Stack

Another one of the most effective supplements for cutting fat is called the “ECA Stack,” which is short for Ephedrine, Caffeine, and Aspirin. This old school body building stack has been around for decades now, but is highly potent.

The ECA stack has the potential to push your fat burning into over-drive, and while it certainly isn’t without its potential side effects, the upside is huge.

In fact, a study conducted at Harvard Medical school found that test subjects who took the ECA stack burned a whopping 246% more fat than the placebo group. [R]

Here are some benefits of the ECA Stack:

• Suppress Hunger (Great for Fasting)
• Increase Metabolism (Burn Fat Faster)
• More Energy (Combat Lethargy on a Cut)
• Improved Focus (Great for Getting Work Done)

This potent stack of fat-burning substances has a catch, though – while the caffeine and aspirin are readily available to buy, the ephedrine has to be purchased in the form of “Bronkaid” which is under the counter in the USA.

Fat Burner

Funny how a fat burner comes in ranking at #3 in a list of the best fat burning supplements, isn’t it? The reason is that all the good stuff is in a legal gray area, but even still, there’s some legitimately powerful fat burners out there.

As a side note, DO NOT take a fat burner with the ECA stack. You should either take on or the other. If you take both, your risk of side effects goes way up.

Here’s a few ingredients known for burning fat:

• Green Tea Extract
• Rosea Rhodiola
• Caffeine
• Cayenne Pepper
• DMAE
• Yohimbine

Most of your fat burners are going to have something like that inside of them – and if they only have 1-2 ingredients, that’s how you tell they’re very low quality.

Pre Workout

Even though most pre workout supplements aren’t marketed towards fat loss, they’re great to combine with a fasted workout, and the added caffeine will help suppress your appetite throughout the day, and accelerate your metabolism.

The best pre workout supplements are going to be clinically dosed. Here’s a huge insider secret – a lot of pre workout companies use “proprietary blends” as a legal loophole to avoid telling you that they’re under-dosing their supplements.

In other words, the minimum effective dosage of something like beta alanine may be around 3.2 grams, but a company will put in only 1 gram, label it as a “proprietary blend,” and then that way they can avoid telling you that they’re really giving you an extremely low dose of something that won’t even affect you.

Here are some good pre workouts I recommend:

• Nitraflex (by GAT)
• Gorilla Mode
• Jack3d (If You Can Find It)

Nitraflex and Gorilla Mode are my two go-to pre-workouts, that I’ll use for 99% of my workout routines. Occasionally I’ll try something new just to test it out, but over the years I’ve continually returned to those two pre workouts over and over.

BCAA’s

BCAA’s, short for “Branched Chain Amino Acids,” are your best friend if you’re trying to cut fat with intermittent fasting, but avoid losing muscle. Often this is one of the biggest challenges when you’re cutting – it’s easy to lose fat, but you will also end up losing muscle and strength.

Nobody wants that, right? Well, the solution is BCAA’s. Just one scoop of a good BCAA supplement in the morning, and it will give your body the nutrients it needs in order to prevent muscle-breakdown (without breaking your fast!). [R]

How cool is that? Personally, I use XTEND Sport BCAA’s. Just one scoop each morning, and it prevents muscle breakdown, and ensures that my body has the nutrients it needs to continually recover, without breaking my fast.

Summary

In conclusion, SARMs are certainly the most effective fat burning supplement on the market – and even though they’re not approved by the FDA for human consumption (yet), they’re completely legal to buy and sell for “research” online.

Next to SARMs, the ECA stack is going to be the strongest supplement for shredding fat, and then past that, we’ve got an actual fat burner.

Don’t neglect the last two, though – a pre workout can be a phenomenal way to boost your performance at the gym, and I personally take BCAA’s every single day to avoid going into a state of catabolism (muscle breakdown).

If you guys have any questions, be sure to let us known in the comments section down below – as always, I hope you enjoyed the article, and I’ll see you next time!

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This Testogen review is going to be honest, as it’s written by someone who has actually taken this product for several months, as opposed to someone who’s literally never taken it in their lives.

Or someone who takes it for three days, and expects to ‘feel’ a certain way – like they’ve taken Viagra or steroids.

Testogen is not a drug.

Rather it’s a supplement that uses all of the scientifically proven ingredients, and will take your natural testosterone levels as high as possible.

Assuming your diet, training, sleep, and overall lifestyle are on point, this supplement will turn you into an absolute machine.

(You can BUY TESTOGEN here.)

What Is Testogen?

As mentioned above, it’s not some kind of drug that will immediately give you unnatural erections that last for days.

IT IS NOT A DRUG.

It’s a supplement that takes your testosterone levels into the ‘higher normal’ range for a healthy male.

Which means that it will take YOUR testosterone levels from 300, 400 or 500, up to the 800-1200 range which is where you need to be as a man.

This is where you need to be if you want the testosterone levels of a high value, high performing man. You’re not going to achieve this if your T levels are that of an old man.

They need to be 800-1200 in order to:

• Perform well in bed
• Have a strong drive/motivation to pursue your mission
• Have more day to day energy in general
• Pack on muscle more easily
• Burn fat more easily
• Sleep better
• Enjoy higher sex drive (and she will enjoy it too, believe me)
• Lose the ‘Dad Bod’/estrogenic physique
• Regain that ‘Alpha vibe’

What Testogen will do for you, is it will gradually build all of the above over a period of time.

The company has done exactly what I would have done if I was running a supplement company. It’s taken ALL of the scientifically-backed testosterone boosters, and blended them altogether into a powerful supplement.

Let’s explore some of these below…

Testogen Review: The Ingredients

As I said, all of these ingredients are legitimate, and science-backed. Most have actually had meta analyses done – so you know EXACTLY what you’re getting with this stuff.

First up:

Vitamin D3

Vitamin D3 is becoming more and more important for mens testosterone levels, as we spend more time indoors. Seasonal Affective Disorder is also a very real thing, that’s a leading cause of depression in many countries in the northern hemisphere.

Studies show that it’s essential for sexual function in men, with a very close link to total testosterone levels.

Another one found a 20% increase in testosterone levels over a 12 month period, after taking 3,300 IU’s of vitamin D3.

Do you see why I say it’s a long game, and that expecting results within days is insanity?

In Testogen, vitamin D3 is dosed at 50mcg (2000 IUs). There is also Vitamin K1 dosed at 20mcg to enhance the absorbtion of D3.

D Aspartic Acid

Bodybuilding.com has been talking about this one for a while now, and with good reason. While I do think some of the studies might be slightly biased, and that the extreme results are not necessarily going to apply to you reading these words, there’s certainly some promise here.

For example, this study which reported a whopping 42% increase in testosterone from most of the participants, within a few weeks(!)

This one found an incredible 30-60% increase in testosterone over a 90 day period. Pretty impressive, and definitely worth a shot if the potential results are that powerful.

In Testogen, this is dosed at 2352mg.

Magnesium + Zinc

Magnesium is yet another one that’s incredibly well-researched, with the main purported benefits being improved sleep and relaxation. Zinc is potentially even more powerful, depending on the individuals needs.

This study concluded that magnesium supplementation could well increase testosterone levels in athletes, but it would depend on whether or not there’s a deficiency there – similar to studies done on zinc.

Anecdotally however, I have always found the zinc and magnesium combination to help with recovery post training, and sleeping better at night. It’s worth looking into.

In Testogen, this is dosed at 200mg, and zinc is dosed at 10mg.

Boron

There’s been a surge of fairly recent studies on Boron, which look really promising from a male health standpoint. It’s a natural mineral found in deposits in some vegetables, and also helps with vitamin D3 effectiveness.

See how a lot of the ingredients have a synergistic effect?

This study reported findings that boron increased free testosterone (the marker that REALLY counts, more so than total testosterone), and reduced estradiol significantly.

This one noticed a significant reduction in estradiol also, so you could think of boron as an ‘estrogen blocker’ to some extent.

In Testogen, Boron is dosed at 8mg, which is right at the sweet spot in between the doses used in the above studies.

What Others Are Saying

Will (43) says:

“I purchased Testogen when you made a post on Twitter a few months ago. I had been trying to play basketball 3 time a week for 1.5 hours. But after 20 minutes my legs would seize up, my lower legs especially. I also would end up tweaking or pulling a hamstring. I quit playing, saw your post, then took Testogen for a couple months.

One day I decided to go play again and told my self I was just going to have to take it easy, carefully jog and be a set shooter from three-point land. But now I have played for over a month and haven’t had any problems. I frankly don’t know if its help in other ways but my legs working again was like a new testament miracle.”

Matt (39) writes:

“Great product. Within about a month my testosterone levels had shot up from 450 to 650. This product actually helped me to sleep better, train better etc. So it’s not always a case of your sleep, diet and training coming first.”

What Are The Testogen Side Effects?

I’ve been taking this for several months now, and there have been a grand total of ZERO negative side effects.

So if you’re looking for a ‘downside’ to the product, it’s that it will not act like viagra or a steroid cycle, if that’s what you’re expecting, which would be absolutely insane.

But what are the positive results after 3-6 months of taking Testogen?

Assuming you’re sleeping properly, are not an alcoholic, and you’re lifting weights, then you can expect your testosterone levels to either:

A) Be in the 800-1200 range, or;

B) Within striking distance of the ideal male range (800+)

Please get your blood work done before and after, so that you can see what I’m talking about in this Testogen Review.

Noticeable Benefits

In terms of noticeable, day-to-day benefits, you can expect to notice the following after 3+ months:

• Improved mood and sense of well-being (and more of that ‘masculine energy‘ that comes from being a higher testosterone male)
• Improved sleep & recovery from training
• Faster muscle growth
• Increased frequency hitting personal records in the gym
• Easier time losing body fat (higher metabolism, better insulin sensitivity from D3) – Phen Gold will also help you if fat loss is your primary goal
• Increased sex drive (but this does not happen overnight – it’s not some quick fix!!!!)

Another nice side benefit is that Testogen offer you a 90 day money-back guarantee, which is far more applicable for a supplement that takes months to work (they all do!) 30 days just isn’t long enough.

Where To Buy Testogen

I personally got mine from their website right here:

BUY TESTOGEN NOW

The whole buying process was incredibly simple, and the website layout is very easy to follow. The only thing I don’t like is the way they charge you for delivery on 1 month’s supply, but they don’t for 2 or 3. It almost ‘forces’ you into paying more.

But morality aside, I would advise you to just suck it up and pay for the 2-3 months option, as you end up getting way more than that (3-5 months supply), and the supplement will actually benefit you and improve your life over this kind of timeframe – 1 month just isn’t going to cut it.

So, to set your expectations:

Combine this bad boy with the right sleep, diet and training, and you can potentially transform your physique and your health within ~6 months.

Nothing happens overnight.

You will notice benefits within 2 months.

But the real transformation starts around 3 months in, provided you’re also putting in the work.

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Phen Gold Review: What Is It?

Phen Gold is something I’m excited about for my Intermittent Fasting journey, as I believe it has the potential to be one of the best fat burners out there, and will allow men to stay at 10% body fat year round with ease. So today, I’m going to do a Phen Gold review.

This is a fat loss supplement that works via several pathways – increased energy, reduced appetite, and improved performance in the gym.

It’s also a natural product that’s not the same as drugs like clenbuterol, or the ECA stack that bodybuilders use, and it’s also not designed to make you ‘feel’ like you’re on drugs either.

What Phen Gold DOES do, is give you an extra ‘kick’ in a sustainable manner (rather than yo-yo-ing up and down), and it’s an incredibly effective appetite suppressant – this is where the real magic is.

The cold, hard truth about fat loss is that the best fat loss regimen is the one that you’re going to stick to. And at least 50% of this is determined by how well you control your appetite/cravings.

Now, you still need to NOT consume sugar, and have a strong hold over your dietary habits before supplementing with anything. No supplement will make up for a diet of burgers and ice cream.

With that said, I believe Phen Gold may just be a huge contributor to your success with appetite control, if you’re already on a good diet like Intermittent Fasting.

Is Phen Gold Safe?

It’s made from completely natural ingredients like coffee, green tea, and L-theanine. So you’d have a hard time overdoing this and running into problems.

As I said, this is nothing like a drug called clenbuterol which bodybuilders use (and end up damaging their heart), as there’s been literally no reports of people expanding the size of their heart using green tea or coffee.

Therefore this is a long-term sustainable supplement you can use as part of your fat loss lifestyle, whereas something like the ECA Stack would NOT be long-term advisable if you care about your heart.

Phen Gold Ingredients

Alright, this is the good part. Let’s have an in-depth look at some of the ingredients in this powerful fat burner, which uses all the science-backed stuff:

Caffeine

So this is the one that everyone’s familiar with, and this is what’s going to be responsible for giving you the energy every morning, and keep you burning more calories despite being in a calorie deficit.

This is also the reason for Phen Gold having the potential to be an effective pre-workout as well as a fat burner.

The caffeine is dosed at 142.5mg, which is a nice solid amount to give you an extra kick, without overdoing it and giving you ‘jitters’ if you were to take something like ECA or the old-school Jack3d (from years ago, remember?)

This study found a strong link between caffeine and thermogenesis (fat burning), then you have this one which concludes that caffeine literally signals to your body to burn more fat via epinephrine.

Caffeine works.

L-Tyrosine

L-Tyrosine in one word = energy.

Keeping your energy high on a diet is absolutely critical, because it stops your metabolism from crashing and it simply makes your diet more sustainabele.

You can do this via salt, fruit, and eating a ‘cleaner diet’ in general. But you can also do this through supplementing with L-Tyrosine.

It keeps your dopamine and adrenaline levels from being depleted, which can easily happens when you’re training very hard and in a calorie deficit. This study concluded that L-Tyrosine keeps you focused and ‘prevents decline in cognitive function in response to intense physical stress’.

Pretty useful.

In Phen Gold, this is dosed at 300mg.

Green Tea

This one’s an important fat burner for several reasons.

The biggest one is due the increase in metabolism that you experience, and the increase in calories out. Another major one is due to the appetite reducing effects (a very helpful drink if you’re doing Intermittent Fasting).

This meta study really delves into the benefits of green tea, and it’s a worthwhile supplement even if you’re just after the health benefits for your heart, brain and liver.

A real all-rounder.

In Phen Gold, this is dosed at a very solid 500mg.

L Theanine

L Theanine comes with a ton of benefits, from reducing anxiety to enhacing mood, to improving sleep quality.

This study looked at the anti-obesity effects theanine has, reporting a ‘limiting effect on adipose tissue build up’, reduced levels of triglycerides, and fatty acids in the blood.

It also appears to have highly synergistic effects with caffeine and green tea, all of which are included in Phen Gold.

Benefits Of Phen Gold

Before writing this Phen Gold review, I came to the following conclusions:

If you’re say, 25% body fat or more, and you’re eating junk food every night, ordering take-aways and getting drunk on the weekends, then it’s not going to do anything.

But if you’re already in a calorie deficit and you have a diet plan that you’re working on, but you just lack a bit of discipline eery now and then, THAT is when Phen Gold is going to be of major use.

Your diet is on point 90% of the time (rather than 10%), but you’re struggling to stick to it every day and sometimes the cravings get the better of you and it screws up the entire day.

This is when Phen Gold will take your results to the next level. This is why:

Your Appetite & Cravings Will Be Significantly Suppressed

I would argue that this is the largest factor in terms of dietary compliance, and Phen Gold will absolutely help you with this.

Partly due to the caffeine, somewhat due to L Theanine, and definitely due to the Green Tea. Getting your cravings down is one of the biggest keys to success with dieting. The goal is to not even want the sugary foods in the first place.

You Will Have More Consistent Energy

Or more ‘clean energy’, if you will.

The problem with some of these hardcore drugs is that they hijack your brain/dopamine response, and you feel amazing for 1-2 hours. But the problem with this is that any major artificial spike is always followed by a ‘comedown’ period of negativity and low energy.

Phen Gold doesn’t do this.

The caffeine does is moderated, and then it’s backed up with longer lasting (and natural) soures of energy like Green Tea and L Tyrosine.

You Will Burn More Fat

This of course is the biggest one, with two assumptions:

1. Your diet is at least good most of the time (and then the appetite reduction leads to increased fat loss)
2. You’re training regularly already (the cardio you’re already doing will become more effective due to the L-Tyrosine, and your workouts will be more intense due to the 100mg of caffeine).

Fat loss not only makes you look better, but it also improves just about every major health marker, especially if you’re over ~20% body fat or so.

It’s a great place to be.

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Without your health, you have nothing.

This stuff is non-optional, and food often isn’t enough to cover your baselines, especially for things like vitamin D, fish oil, magnesium, zinc and the B complex.

If you get some of the best health supplements into your routine, you can expect to make significant improvements to your:

• Blood pressure
• Blood sugar stability
• Testosterone
• Skin tone
• Energy levels
• Mood/anti-depressant
• Sleep quality
• Cholesterol/triglycerides
• Liver function
• and much more

Here’s a little more information on the specific health supplements I recommend, and the associated benefits you can expect to have from them.

Best Supplements To Improve Health

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Phen Q is a powerful fat burner.

It will help you to burn fat faster and easier than before, mainly due to increased energy levels, reduced appetite, and enhancing thermogenesis (body temperautre).

What’s more?

It’s all completely natural ingredients. Including caffeine, L-carnitine, nopal, and chromium picolinate (useful for eliminating those sugar cravings!)

I recommend taking this in the morning (not in the evening!), and this can potentially be used as an excellent pre-workout too, so you can get that extra intensity in the gym.

BONUS: Combine this morning routine with green tea post workout and around midday, for a potent fat loss set up.

Here’s what you can expect from using Phen Q:

1. Reduced appetite
2. Reduced cravings
3. Increased energy levels & body temperature/metabolism
4. Reduced fat storage after meals

So there’s a real blend of potential fat loss pathways that you can take advantage of with this product, and get speeding towards 10% body fat.

If you’ve hit a wall with your fat loss results, this will help you to bust through that (although I still recommend fixing any dietary issues – sugar, oils, poor digestion etc.).

Click here to read more about Phen Q, one of the best fat burners I’ve seen on the market.

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Ashwagandha

The Best Testosterone Boosters

#1. Testogen

Testogen is the product that I’ve been most impressed with, in terms of an all-round testosterone booster.

They’ve done exactly what I personally would do if I had a supplement company, and have taken the legitimate testosterone supplements that are actually backed with scientific evidence, and combined them into one product.

Genius.

In case you’re wondering, these include:

• Vitamin D
• Magnesium
• D Aspartic Acid
• Zinc
• Vitamin B6
• Boron
• And more

Pretty much all the testosterone boosting supplements I talked about in this thread on Twitter.

I highly recommend Testogen for all men who want to boost testosterone, but Men Over 40 in particular who are not going down the TRT route, and want to max out their ‘natural test’ and see how far they can go without any injections.

(Even if you are on TRT, this would still be a good overall male health product – just look at the ingredients!)

Click here to read more about Testogen.

#2. Ashwagandha

Again, this is a supplement with plenty of science to back it up, and I included this in the list because it’s the only supplement that Testogen is really missing.

I believe that if you combine this with Testogen, you more or less have the perfect natural supplement stack for testosterone.

Click here to read more on the properly-dosed Ashwagandha supplement that I recommend.

#3. Vitamin D3

D3 truly is a ‘superman supplement’, especially if you live in the northern hemisphere or live an indoor working lifestyle.

From boosting testosterone to reducing insulin resistance, and from aiding calcium absorbtion to simply improving your mood, the benefits seem endless.

I’ve included this in the list for men who are looking exclusively for this ‘king of supplements’, whether it’s because they’re already on TRT, or winter is coming and they’ve suffered from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) in the past.

Click here to learn more about this high strength vitamin D3 supplement.

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Testosterone is THE male hormone, and when you get it right, it bleeds into all other areas of your life.

Get it wrong however, and it leads to a hell of a lot of problems, as we’re currently seeing with most modern day men, even much younger men.

Including:

• Lower confidence
• Poor relationships
• Muscle loss
• Fat gain
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Worsened mood
• Lethargy
• And much more

So it’s important that you get your testosterone on point, and I’m going to give you several very effective tips that you may never have heard of or thought of.

Consider this article a follow up to this one. I also recommend checking out this excellent article for fifty (yes, fifty) tips on how to increase testosterone naturally.

In no particular order:

#1) No Fap

Something that’s gained a lot of traction online recently, is the concept of not masturbating. Ever.

And it works.

Now, you could argue that these guys just need to get laid and that’s their main problem, and I would agree. BUT, this stuff does work on top of getting laid.

So yes, stop watching porn and stop masturbating.

#2) Power Poses

This is something that is relatively new to me, but boy do they work. Studies have been done on this, and they absolutely do increase testosterone and decrease cortisol.

It was Alexander Cortes who said that physicality and mentality are one and the same – the two are very heavily correlated, and I couldn’t agree more.

Your actions affect your mindset, and it’s the same reason you feel great after a good workout, lifting or cardio.

So get into the habit of practising these. They need to be expansive stances; chest out, head up, and exaggerated. Hold them for at least 30 seconds. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results.

#3) Cold Showers

Again, this is another one that’s gained some traction online, and I completely endorse it.

Now, does this mean that every shower you take should be cold? Personally, I think that would be horrendous. It’s nice to wake up and have a nice hot shower.

But what I do recommend is timing these with your workouts. What I do is have an intense lifting session which already has me in a pumped, high testosterone state, and then I’ll have contrast (hot/cold) showers and use the sauna.

It’s a great combination and will leave you feeling great for a long time afterwards.

#4) Fighting

Similarly to lifting, this is a very primal act that will really increase testosterone. Obviously we want to keep this legal and stay out of prison, so martial arts are your best option as opposed to street fights.

The very act of fighting is important, but in addition to this, the knowledge that you can handle yourself in social situations is a very valuable bonus.

I recommend boxing for this, not BJJ – if you go to ground in a real life fight you’re going to get your head kicked in by the other guys’ friends. I find it astounding how such an obvious reality is completely ignored by BJJ fans.

BJJ is excellent for one-on-one, but you will almost NEVER get one-on-one in real life.

Boxing teaches you to stay on your damn feet, which is exactly what you need to be doing.

Onto another primal behaviour, my favourite:

#5) Sex

This one’s pretty obvious, but an interesting study as done a while back on older men simply flirting with younger women. And the result?

A 13% increase in testosterone. Pretty nice, and it’s not difficult to do.

#6) Vitamin D

A huge % of people in the Western world are either deficient in vitamin D, or damn close to it. Especially if you’re in the UK, Canada or Scandinavia.

This is a problem because a deficiency in this area is one of the fastest ways to having low testosterone, so you want to make sure you’re covering your bases here – 2000-5000 IU’s per day should do it, but it’s worth getting bloodwork done.

Combine this with an ideal Intermittent Fasting diet, and your hormonal health will completely transform.

Summary

As you can see, there’s some great ways to increase testosterone naturally, and it’s a very important topic, because without it, you are less of a man in many areas. This is science, not just ego.

Put these tips into action and get them into your weekly routine, and I’m not joking – your life will improve in just about every way.

Combine the above with the ideal training program for testosterone, the James Bond program, and you’ll be set for 15% body fat, a solid muscular foundation, and the T-levels of a guy in his twenties.

It’s a good place to be.

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To say I’m excited would be an understatement. I’m ecstatic, to announce that within the next week, the Intermittent Fasting Fast-Track program will officially be complete. (Edit: please find the link here)

This is going to be the best Intermittent Fasting resource on the internet for guys who are looking to:

• Lose fat & get a six pack
• Blast through weight-loss plateaus
• Improve their physique
• Grow lean, dense muscle
• Reclaim their health
• Take their gym PR’s to another level
• Return to their fittest after years of decline
• Sky-rocket their confidence & sex appeal

I’m not joking. This is really good stuff.

This is THE PROGRAM designed to not only get you back on-track with your diet and training, but also to really take your results to the next level with Intermittent Fasting.

This will get you into the best shape of your life, and eventually, 10% body fat.

There’s a lot of content on here that you won’t see anywhere else on my blog, Twitter or email list.

There’s already an abundance of invaluable stuff on here, but every single month I will be adding more to it.

So far, we have:

• The Greek Warrior Shredding program (worth $47, and exclusive to the IFFT site)
• The Thor MASS program (worth $47, and exclusive to the IFFT site)
• Men Over 40 full-body training podcasts (exclusive to the IFFT site)
• Intermittent Fasting podcasts (exclusive to the IFFT site)
• January’s Intermittent Fasting Newsletter – where I give in-depth answers to Twitter questions (you will likely find some of these incredibly useful and applicable to your Intermittent Fasting diet)
• My own personal Intermittent Fasting lifestyle update for Q1 – what’s currently working, how I’m overcoming lifestyle, work, red wine and travel issues, and what I’m planning on doing in the future to get to 7% body fat for the next shoot
• The recommended supplements list – everything that will take your muscle-gaining, fat loss, recovery, energy and sleep results to the next level
• The Intermittent Fasting foods list (anything outside of this shouldn’t be a part of your diet)
• The 5 Steps To Rapid Success With IF guide
• The 32 best blog posts compilation

And every single month you will be getting at least one new podcast, one new program (next month is the Wolverine Program), and one new newsletter. That’s the bare minimum.

We’re currently going through the finishing touches on the site and smoothing out the finer details.

As a heads up, there will be a limited offer for you. The usual monthly price will be $37 per month.

But if you get in FAST, you get your first month 25% off for only:

$27

Plus you also get a FREE 15 minute coaching call included (be patient with me here as it will get very busy very quickly. You will get the call though.)

Plus you get the FREE Ultimate Guide To Reclaiming Your Physique included – this gives everything you need to know as a beginner who wants to be in even better condition than they ever were at their peak, years ago.

But these will not be around for long.

I’ll keep you posted on the release date.

Keep your eyes and ears open.

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Ahahahaha, yeah right.

I’m just curious to see how many clicks this gets.

As we should all be aware by now, supplements make up at the most 5% of the fat loss equation, if that. Steroids are another story, and steroids obviously work; very well.

Steroids work so well in fact, that an experienced weight lifter who has been lifting for a long time and has more or less hit his natural genetic limit, could then go on gear and gain a further 10+ pounds of muscle, without question, dose dependent.

Steroids work so well that they will allow a beginner to gain 18 pounds of muscle in 20 weeks without a proper training plan.

Supplements are not steroids. Supplements are supplements. Steroids are anabolic hormones; literally altering the biochemistry in your body.

Therefore, when you see claims such as:

• Creatine
• Protein supplements
• Mass-gainers
• Pre-workouts

which can get you “10 POUNDS OF ROCK-SOLID, LEAN MUSCLE IN 10 WEEKS!!!” then obviously this should be an immediate red flag, because what this is saying is that the above supplements build muscle at a faster rate than steroids do. Which of course, is complete nonsense.

Protein is just a macronutrient. I wonder, does chicken compare with testosterone and dianabol…?

Creatine is just creatine. Does it compare with human growth hormone?

Mass gainers are just calories + creatine. Does it compare with trenbolone?

No. Yet people are spending hundreds of pounds/dollars per month on these stupid supplements that give you a negligible increase in performance, and frankly they wouldn’t give you any increase if your diet was already spot on.

Are There Any Supplements I Recommend?

Here are the only times I would recommend taking any supplements whatsoever:

1. When travelling abroad, and you know full well that your options for protein consumption will be severely limited. You will be out all day exploring, not focusing on food and nailing your macros, and you don’t want to be caught unprepared; forking out a fortune for a super calorie-dense, unhealthy meal out. In this case, protein supplements can be useful.
2. You are a beginner, and you are a creatine-responder. In this case, you can go for creatine and possibly have slightly better noob gains.

Always remember though – supplements are not magic. They are just helpful under very niched and specific circumstances. Outside of that, they are just an outrageous waste of money.

Finally, if you would consider coffee (caffeine) as a supplement, then I would suggest having caffeine in the mornings to assist you during a fat loss phase. This will help you to:

1. Have more energy
2. Blunt your appetite

Both of which help with diet adherence.

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Omar Isuf recently posted a video on YouTube here, on authenticity and why it’s so important within the context of the modern era, with the rise of Social Media etc. There is a lot of bullshitting in the fitness industry, which is in the Stone Age in a lot of ways compared to many other industries.

I completely agree with him and I think we need to see a little more honesty. The problem with the majority of the stuff we see in regards to what is attainable naturally and effective supplements etc. is that it’s all very misleading. I can tell you from first hand experience that very, very intelligent people fall for this crap over and over again.

Authenticity

Most Instagram physiques you see on a regular basis are not natural. They are chemically enhanced. That’s just the way it is. Here’s a little story if you’re not convinced:

The other day I was sat in my friend’s kitchen, and he was scrolling through instagram. He saw a very popular fitness guy pop up. He asked me “Alex, what do you think of him? Is he natural?” Now my friend is a smart guy. He also has years of experience in the gym himself, so it’s not like he’s clueless when it comes to the fitness industry. But this meathead he was asking me about was clearly on the sauce. It couldn’t be any clearer (at least to me), yet he was still fooled. Let me demonstrate.

Most professional athletes; rugby players, american footballers, boxers, mma fighters etc. are on steroids. Most will be on small amounts, small being less than one gram of gear. Pro rugby players and american football players are enormous by the way. Most easily surpass the FFMI index of 25, making them very, very unlikely to be natural. Drug tests DO NOT WORK, before you throw that one at me. Professional athletes that get caught for doping have screwed up their gear plan badly. They are all on gear, but most will not get caught.

Next up, you have guys who are ex WWE wrestlers, with several of them being actors now. As always, I’m not naming names to cover my ass, but you can figure out who I’m talking about. These guys are another level from pro rugby players. Their FFMI’s are in excess of 27. Yet they still claim natural. Uh, okay.

The next level up from these guys is Arnold Schwarzenegger (!!!) who was on steroids since he was 15 years old, and was on a LOT OF SAUCE at his peak. I can use his name as he was honest about this stuff. We’re talking serious amounts of hormones guys. Multiple grams of gear and lots of orals on top of this. Arnold had an FFMI of around 28. This is enormous.

The very popular Instagram physique my friend was asking me about (and happened to be claiming natural)…..is even bigger than Arnold.

Let that sink in.

Arnold was on huge amounts of gear. This Instagrammer is even bigger than Arnold. Yet he’s claiming he isn’t on a single drop of juice. Okaaaaaaaaaay. He is literally sitting there in front of a camera, in front of you guys, lying you your faces whilst his arms are bigger than his head. Come on guys, really?

This is why the whole fitness industry is a joke, and you need to open your eyes to it. I thought it was obvious who was on gear and who is natural, but it clearly isn’t.

None of this affects me directly, but the problem with it is that it affects me indirectly due to people’s expectations of what is possible. They say they want to look like “x” and I really can’t be bothered telling them that it will never happen. Not only this, but they are being scammed over and over again, as supplements are being linked to this unrealistic physique. I don’t know if people will ever learn from this. How many tubs of BCAA’s do people need to buy before they realise they don’t make any damn difference?

It took me a couple of years pissing money down the drain on supplements that don’t make any difference. And I’m one of the most objective consumers the fitness industry will have. Yet it still took me ages to realise that:

A) Supplements don’t work (bar possibly creatine)

B) They are clearly full of shit when they are using insane physiques to sell you these supplements

Illusions

Omar also talks about the bullshit marketing in a lot of detail in the video. He talks about how these supplements are linked to:

1. Physiques with FFMI’s of 28+
2. Lavish lifestyle’s
3. Inspirational quotes
4. And other bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual supplements themselves

And you know why all this shit works?

Because people are always looking for shortcuts in our current society. It’s screwing everyone over. This is why I talk about hard work and that nothing will ever trump it. If you have big goals, then the only thing that will work for you is hard work.

Even if you want to take gear, you will still need to learn how to eat properly. This is a skill that’s non-negotiable, whether you’re on the sauce or not. By the way, there is absolutely nothing wrong with taking steroids. In fact, I think drugs should be legalised everywhere. What is wrong is lying to the world about it.

The message that a supplement gives you a lavish lifestyle is absolutely ludicrous if you ask me, but people fall for it. A lavish lifestyle comes from money, freedom and various other things, not a supplement.

Summary

What we need is a little more honesty, as this will teach people how to fish for themselves, rather than being dependent on some useless supplement that does nothing. It’s very important that none of you fall for this crap. If you want to lose weight, a calorie deficit will do that, not a supplement. Supplements DO NOT WORK!

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