Jeremy Ethier

The #1 Exercise To Lose Belly Fat (FOR GOOD!) “How to lose belly fat” is one of the most common questions out there. And that’s understandable. Belly fat is really easy to gain and notoriously hard to lose. It can seem as though no matter what exercises you try to lose belly fat and no matter how well you eat, the belly fat just won’t budge. And unfortunately, with exception to surgery, there is currently no proven method of being able to spot reduce fat from the belly. There is an exercise, however, that is incredibly underutilized yet powerfully effective when it comes to losing even the most stubborn belly fat. Today I’ll share what that is and how you can start using it right away to lose belly fat. Click below for a step by step plan to lose stubborn fat and build muscle: https://builtwithscience.com/your-pot... Click below to subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/... Why is belly fat is so hard to lose in the first place? Well, it comes down to the fact that certain areas of your body are easier to lose fat than others, and is largely determined by genetics. Now having your genetics stacked against you may seem problematic if you’re looking to develop a slim or lean looking abdomen, but there is a solution. As long as you create a calorie deficit, you will continue to lose fat. Eventually, if maintained long enough, you will lose excess fat from all areas of your body, even if your genetics put your belly fat at the back of the line. While diet should be your main way of creating a calorie deficit, adding additional exercises could help you to lose belly fat by keeping your metabolism high, even as you’re losing weight from dieting. That said, not all exercises are created equal. While things like running, rowing, cycling, or even HIIT workouts tend to burn calories very quickly, the truth is, the overwhelming majority of people can’t actually stick with traditional cardio long enough for fat loss to reach stubborn areas. And it’s not that these methods don’t work if you stick to it, because they do. The problem is simply that they’re brutal. They require a lot of willpower. Now don’t get me wrong, these forms of cardio definitely do have their place and some people have no problem sticking to them. In fact, I still do these intense sessions once or twice a week for conditioning. But I no longer rely on them as my main form of cardio to lose fat and nor should most people. Because if you want to lose your stubborn belly fat, and more importantly keep it off once it’s gone, then you need something you can stick to for life. What’s the solution? The best exercise to lose belly fat is walking. It’s the easiest to maintain, lowest stress, lowest fatigue, and most versatile form of cardio. According to research, intense forms of cardio like HIIT or running, while time efficient, didn’t provide any superior fat loss effect when compared to longer yet less intense forms of cardio such as walking. Which makes sense. It’s simply a numbers game. Your body doesn’t care whether the calories you burned were from some crazy intense fasted cardio session or from plain old walking. What matters most is what you can do consistently over time. And if you crunch the numbers, you’ll actually find that the calories burned from simply walking can very quickly add up to a meaningful amount. So now that I’ve hopefully convinced you of the power of walking, let’s dive into the specifics of how to lose belly fat from walking. The first step is to determine an average of how many steps you’re currently taking. You can use the health app on your iPhone or use Google Fit if you’re on Android. After a week, see what your daily average comes up to. Some of you however might be surprised with how few steps you’re taking, but this is a good thing, as it means you have a big opportunity to bump that up. Set a realistic goal and first aim to do an extra 2,000 steps a day. Given that the average individual takes about 1,200 steps during 10 minutes of walking, all you have to do is throw in two 10 minutes walks into your day to accomplish that. Once you’re consistent with that, try bumping it up by another 2,000 steps, and continue doing this with the goal of consistently getting at least 8,000 steps or even up to 15,000 steps, which seems to be the range that provides the greatest fat loss and health benefits. Trust me, the little things add up. Apply these tips and you’ll be surprised with just how much they increase your step count and even more surprised by how much of a difference it makes towards your fat loss overtime. That said guys, I want to emphasize that walking or any form of cardio is only effective for fat loss if it’s used in combination with a diet. So use your diet as the primary way to create a calorie deficit and supplement it with walking to help speed up the process.

STOP Doing Bicep Curls Like This (5 Mistakes Slowing Your Gains) Biceps training isn’t complicated. Although there are tons of different exercises, they pretty much all boil down to one movement: bicep curls. Hold a weight, flex the arm. Simple, right? Not really. There are 5 common mistakes almost everyone makes on the bicep curl. Fix these, and your curls (no matter what kind — dumbbell curl or barbell curl or cable curl) will instantly become far more effective at growing your biceps. Click below for a step by step plan training plan that’ll help you achieve proper form on all exercises — so you get results FAST: https://builtwithscience.com/bws-free... Click below to subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/... Mistake number 1. You might’ve already noticed that as you curl a weight up, it gets harder and harder and becomes the most difficult mid-way when your forearm is perpendicular to the ground. After this point, it gets easier. Your body can sense this and finds ways for you to “cheat” through this difficult bottom half of the movement without you even realizing. One way it does that is by initiating each rep with a slight swing. Unfortunately, that additional load goes straight to your lower back which is now helping you get the weight up by using momentum. So, try doing a standard set of curls with your regular form. Then, stand with your back against a wall to prevent your body from swinging at all. If you had to drop the weight considerably, then it means you’ve likely been incorporating too much momentum into your regular curls. Although I wouldn’t recommend doing all your curls against a wall, you’ll see far better biceps growth and reduce your risk of injury if you simply lighten the weight and minimize the amount of swing you use, especially towards the end of your set. For the next mistake, two really interesting studies have found that participants experience more muscle growth when they only do the bottom half of the exercise (i.e., where the muscle is fully stretched). What does this mean? Well, I wouldn’t recommend doing only partial reps from now on, but it does seem that the bottom part of an exercise when the muscle is fully stretched provides a powerful stimulus for growth. Especially in the distal regions of a muscle like the bottom part of your biceps. So, whenever you do your bicep curls, avoid cutting the range of motion short at the bottom position. Instead, extend your arm fully by flexing your triceps at that bottom position before you go into your next rep to ensure your biceps get fully stretched. Third mistake: flexing your wrist on the bicep curl. The function of the inside forearm muscles is to flex the wrist. Many people, when they curl, subconsciously flex their wrist when trying to get the weight up. This can lead to the forearms working harder than they have to be, and eventually lead to fatigue and cramping. Instead, next time you do a curl, first bend your wrist back so that it’s aligned with your forearm, and then keep it that way as you curl. Next, let’s talk about the elbows. The primary function of the biceps is to flex the elbow. But whenever you curl with a weight that’s too heavy for your biceps to lift, your front delts will start to help by swinging your elbow forward. Biomechanics expert Coach Kassem tested this and found that allowing the elbows to excessively sway forward during the curl (note: across all variations, including the barbell curl) led to less biceps activation and more front delts activation. So instead, keep your elbow locked and focus on the biceps’ primary function - flexing the arm. A little bit of elbow movement is perfectly fine and hard to avoid, but anything more than what’s shown here will likely lead to more of your front delts taking over instead of your biceps. Last mistake: forgetting about mind muscle connection. If you struggle to feel your biceps even with proper form, try this out. With your arm by your side, flex your biceps as hard as you can. Then, bring your arm up in front of your face and again flex hard. You should feel a very strong biceps contraction when your arm is in that position. You don’t want to do curls in that position, but you can do this to actually feel what a strong biceps contraction is like. Then, when you go into the dumbbell curl (or whichever curl you prefer), rather than thinking about simply lifting the weight up, think about pulling the bar or dumbbell into your body. And, as you curl the weight up, focus on driving your pinkies up towards the ceiling. This emphasizes another function of the biceps, supination, which can help you get an even stronger contraction to get the most out of every single rep. Next time you do curls, apply these 5 fixes and let me know in the comments below just how much of a difference it makes!

3 Muscle Imbalances SLOWING Your Gains (Stop Neglecting These!) Guys, I hope you were able to see that it's the little muscles that you can't see or maybe don't even know exist that often go overlooked, but really are what will enable you to build muscle most effectively AND protect you from injury in the process. I also hope that you now know how to fix the top 3 muscle imbalance most people suffer from. And for a step-by-step program that puts this all together for you by showing you exactly how to train to build muscle without developing unbalanced muscles or weaknesses in the process, then take the analysis quiz to discover which science-based program is best for you and your specific body below: https://builtwithscience.com/bws-free... Filmed by: Bruno Martin Del Campo MUSIC: Soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired ROTATOR CUFF VIDEO: • The Best Rotator Cuff Strengthening R... STUDIES: LOWER TRAPS http://www.physactiv.eu/wp-content/up... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fcd9... PRONE Y RAISE https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... HAMSTRING IMPORTANCE https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... SQUATS https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f3da... LEG PRESS https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0589... HAMSTRING DEVELOPMENT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... EXTERNAL ROTATOR CUFF https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/...

Are there exercises we can do to grow taller? Yes! That said, you’ll only become taller in the sense that you’ll reveal your natural height. Many of us sit for most of the day. Over time our bodies will learn to become extremely efficient sitters and lock us up in a hunched over, head forward, position. This reduces our height. There is, however, a 5 minute solution that can help improve your posture, undo the “damages” of prolonged sitting, and maybe even help you grow taller. Today I’ll show you the exact posture correction exercises and how to use them to grow taller in just 5 minutes. Click below for a step by step training plan that’ll prevent posture issues in the first place: https://builtwithscience.com/bws-free... Grab your PDF copy of the full routine here: https://builtwithscience.com/posturePDF/ Click below to subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/... First, let’s do a quick overview of the routine and the science behind how it helps you grow taller. If we take a look at the most common sitting posture, you can see how certain joints get locked up in poor positions. To improve our posture and relieve stiffness, we want to look for exercises that not only move these joints in the opposite way, but also strengthen the weakened muscles needed to keep the joints in the proper position for good. We’ll apply this concept to the three most common problem areas, and the areas that affect your height the most — the back, the shoulders, and the neck. Let’s start the process of helping you become taller by focusing on your back. The first exercise, thoracic rotations, is going to help improve your ability to rotate your mid-back. Next, we’re going to use the cobra pose to focus on extending your back out of its rounded position and strengthening some of your back muscles. This exercise is a great option to do so because the entire body is almost completely reversed in this stretch position when compared to a typical sitting posture. Now guys, before we move onto the shoulders, I want to emphasize that while these exercises may look easy when I do them, it took me a long time to improve my mobility to get to this point. Many of you will find them quite challenging when you actually try them, so don’t worry if your form doesn’t quite look like mine yet. Alright, so now that we’ve unlocked the spine, we’ll be better able to work on your stiff shoulders that are rounding you forward into a locked up position and also contributing to your forward head posture. The first of the exercises we’ll use to help you grow taller is the over-and-backs. These will focus on loosening up the shoulders. Now that we’ve temporarily loosened our shoulders up, we’ll be able to better target your weakened back and shoulder muscles. To do so, we’ll use what I call reverse wall angels. When done properly, you should feel this in the muscles of your mid back and shoulders. If you feel this more in your upper traps, try performing it on the floor or a on a bench instead as your mid-back muscles may not yet be strong enough to perform this upright. If on the other hand you find it easy, you can add pulses to each part of the movement and even add a bit of weight in your hands. Finally, we’re ready for the last piece of the puzzle, the neck. What we need to do is actually pretty simple. We just need to strengthen the deep muscles in your neck that have become weak and are failing to do its job of keeping your head in its upright position. As for the specific posture correction exercises you’ll use? Well, there’s only one. And although it may not look pretty, it’s extremely effective and can be done anywhere. It’s none other than the chin tucks. When done properly, you should feel the deep muscles under your chin working. Now, let’s cover how to implement them for the best results. You’re going to do each exercise for 1 minute. Within that minute, take it slow and try to do as many quality reps as you can. Quality is more important than quantity. Here’s how to grow taller in 5 minutes: BACK: Exercise 1: Thoracic Rotations (30s per side) Exercise 2: Cobra Pose (1 minute) SHOULDERS: Exercise 3: Over-And-Backs (1 minute) Exercise 4: Reverse Wall Angels (1 minute) NECK: Exercise 5: Chin Tucks (1 minute) Implement this 1-2 times a day, make an effort to get up and move more, and you’ll very quickly feel and see a difference. Don’t forget to measure your height before and after as well, and leave a comment below if you managed to gain an inch or two. If you didn’t, don’t worry about it. Embrace your height, ignore anyone who puts you down about it, and enjoy the many other benefits this routine has to offer. Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/...

Finally ready to do what it takes to lose that stubborn belly fat of yours? Great! And I’m here to help you. In this video, I cover the truth on how to lose stubborn belly fat, and how long it’ll take you to burn belly fat, so you finally achieve a flat belly. To successfully get rid of stomach fat, you’re going to have to get down to ideally around 10% body fat or so. But why is belly fat so difficult to lose? First, when compared to other areas of your body, stubborn areas like your belly fat consist of a higher amount of a specific type of fat cell that's very resistant to mobilization and a lot more difficult to burn off. Second, the subcutaneous fat covering your abdominal area also receives significantly less blood flow than other parts of your body do. And this makes things more difficult because the less blood flow an area of your body receives, the more difficult it becomes to mobilize and burn off the fat from that area. The good news, however, is that losing your belly fat is not impossible. When it comes to how to lose stubborn belly fat, the first step is something that most of you are probably familiar with but is hands down the most crucial step. Because to lose fat from anywhere, you need to be in a calorie deficit. And your belly fat is no different. So to start, you need to be eating at a calorie deficit and combining this with regular weightlifting for the best results. But your belly fat, in particular, is where things get a little trickier and are where the next two steps become crucial. To get rid of stomach fat, the next step has to do with mobilizing your belly fat. But the only way to do this is by adhering to step 1, a calorie deficit, for long enough until fat loss starts to finally come off from your belly. Meaning that you need to ride out the calorie deficit for long enough such that your body has stripped off enough fat from other areas and now needs to rely more on burning off your belly fat for fuel. Also, there seems to be an inverse relationship between your body fat percentage and abdominal blood flow, and as a result of this, leaner individuals exhibit significantly higher blood flow to their belly fat than less lean individuals do. Simply meaning that as you gradually strip off more and more fat from other areas of your body and get leaner, your body will actually start redirecting more and more blood flow to your belly fat so that it can start prioritizing and using that for energy. There are a couple of things that you can do to burn belly fat faster. First, you want to ensure that you're regularly performing abs exercises and getting stronger with them over time. So what I’d recommend is incorporating various weighted abs exercises into your weekly routine and overloading them overtime to grow them. Also, a 2017 paper has suggested that you can even potentially “spot reduce” fat from your belly. Applying this to your belly fat, you could, for example, perform an ab workout to first increase the blood flow and fat mobilization from that region and then follow that up with 30 minutes or so of low-intensity cardio to selectively burn off the fat that's been mobilized. But at the end of the day, steps 1 and 2 need to be where you put most of your focus and effort. Because it's been proven time and time again in the literature and my experience that by applying those 2 steps alone, your stubborn fat will eventually be mobilized and burned off for a flat belly. And for a step-by-step program that puts this all of this together for you, such that you know exactly how to train and what to eat week after week to lean down and strip off fat as quickly as possible just like Dylan and several other members have done with their Built With Science programs, then simply take the analysis quiz below to find out what science-based program best suits you and your body: https://builtwithscience.com/bws-free... “STARTER KIT”: Calorie deficit: • The Best Science-... Full body workout program: • The Best Science-... Upper body workout program: • The Best Science-... Lower body workout program: • The Best Science-... GROW YOUR ABS VIDEO: • How To BUILD More... Filmed by: Bruno Martin Del Campo MUSIC: Music by Ryan Little - Think About You - https://thmatc.co/?l=9E7F675F Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/...

Sitting for the majority of the day can lead to the development of the posture where the head protrudes forward, the mid back and shoulders round forward and the lower back arches excessively with an anterior tilt of the pelvis. Which can then lead to tightness and aches and pains in the neck, shoulders, lower back, and other areas. To reverse the adverse effects of sitting too much, I’ll be showing you two quick and easy 5-minute corrective routines with 8 exercises for posture that you can do anywhere, that are designed to mobilize these tightened areas (fix rounded shoulders), strengthen the weakened muscles (fix hunchback posture) , and work on correcting any asymmetries. Let’s get straight to covering the exercises for better posture. The first routine will focus primarily on the upper body. The first exercise is over and backs. This exercise is used to open up and stretch the shortened chest and shoulder muscles, which will help fix hunchback posture. Next, we’re going to move onto the cobra pose. This is arguably one of the single best exercises for better posture because if you go joint by joint, the entire body is almost completely reversed in this stretch position compared to a typical sitting posture. The next exercise is the stand and reach, which will be used to help correct some of the asymmetries developed from slouching one way when sitting. Next, we’re going to move onto wall slides and chin nods that’ll help strengthen the weakened lower traps that contribute to that hunched over posture, and the weakened neck flexors that contribute to that forward head posture. Next, we’ll move onto the second routine, which focuses on exercises for posture for the lower body. First, we’ll use quadruped thoracic extensions to work on “mid-back” mobility that gets stiffened from sitting and not only promotes that hunched over posture but can also cause problems and compensations in the lower back and lower body. Next, we’re going to move onto stretching out the hip flexors which have become tightened over time and are pulling the pelvis into that anterior pelvic tilt with the kneeling hip flexor stretch. Then, we’re going to move onto the pigeon stretch, that not only further lengthens the tightened hip flexors, but also helps open up the hips with external rotation and addresses any asymmetries present there to best set us up for success in the strengthening exercise we’ll do next. Lastly, we’ll move onto glute bridges to help awaken and strengthen the glutes that tend to become inactive and weakened as a result of prolonged sitting, and are now pulling the pelvis into that anterior pelvic tilt. So, here are the two routines all summarized with rep range and timing guidance for each of the exercises that’ll help you fix that hunchback posture and reverse the effects of sitting too much. Routine 1 (Upper Body Focus) Exercise 1: Over-And-Backs (~10-15 slow reps) Exercise 2: Cobra Pose (~5-10 slow reps with pause at top) Exercise 3: Stand And Reach (~5-10 reaches each side, pause at end position) Exercise 4: Wall Slides With Chin Nod (2 sets of 10-15 reps) Routine 2 (Lower Body Focus) Exercise 1: Quadruped Thoracic Rotations (~10 reps each side with pause at top) Exercise 2: Kneeling Hip Flexor Stretch (~30-45 second holds each side) Exercise 3: Pigeon Stretch (~30-45 second holds each side) Exercise 4: Glute Bridges (2 sets of 10-15 reps with pause at top position) I’d suggest aiming to perform both of these routines at the very least once a day, and ideally each twice a day if you do sit quite a bit. As it’s the consistency and frequency with these routines that’s key. But, keep in mind as well though guys, that sitting is just part of the problem. I mean we see similar postural imbalances in those who stand all day as well. The real problem is not taking regular breaks, not being aware of your posture throughout the day, and just not moving enough in general. So focus on improving those aspects, while incorporating the exercises for better posture mentioned in this video, and you’ll be able to create positive long lasting changes and as a result look, feel, and perform that much better. And for a step-by-step holistic program that shows you exactly how to train and eat to build muscle and lean down without overlooking key muscles like the ones shown in this video, then simply take the analysis quiz to discover which science-based program would be best for you and where your body is currently at below: https://builtwithscience.com/bws-free... Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/jeremyethier/... Filmed by: Bruno Martin Del Campo MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle GLUTE BRIDGE https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...