You know the old saying: good ab workouts for men are hard to find. In fact, a quick search on Google will show that there are nearly as many "best ab workouts" as Instagram models, making the quality ones (ab workouts, not social media influencers) genuinely difficult to discern. The stakes of picking an ineffective ab workout at home are far beyond a waste of time. In fact, some exercises, done improperly, can trigger a back injury or cause serious pain. So, if you're looking for a good and effective ab workout without a dingy box or a studio that smells like feet, look no further. This no-nonsense series of ab exercises are wide-ranging, effective, and help to build you a core of steel.
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Get a midsection to be proud of in 15 minutes, three days a week. That's it.
Be Mindful of Adjusting for Skipped Workouts
If you are regularly missing workouts, you need to recalibrate your exercise routine so that you stay within the right range for muscle growth. “If you haven’t trained for a month, you’re dropping down to 60 percent of your max capacity,” says Shaun Jenkins, senior trainer manager at Tone House in New York City. “You’ll eventually get to ground zero.” What to do? Start by accepting that you are not who you were a month ago. You’ve lost some ground. You can gain it back, but not by trying to pick up exactly where you left off: That’s code for injury. Instead, “scale back to a week in your program that would have been 60 to 65 percent max,” he says. “If you got up to 100 pounds on a certain machine, swipe back to where you were doing at 60 pounds and use that as your benchmark to restart.” (Not sure which week you were lifting what? That’s where a fitness journal comes in handy, Jenkins says.)
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Where’s the road map for new parents? Glad you asked! Fatherhood, by the editors of Fatherly, is a comprehensive parenting guide that walks dads through everything they need to know over the course of the first year of a baby’s life and beyond. It’s full of practical tips (everything you need), as well as work-life balance guidance (this is crucial), relationship advice (doubly crucial!), and as well as tons of expert-driven analysis that will help guide parents through a truly disorienting time. Pre-order it now and get the first copies on November 9.
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So, What Color Eyes Will My Baby Have?
Geneticists used to suspect that physical traits like eye color were single-gene traits, meaning that if one parent had brown eyes and the other had blue, their kids would have brown eyes because the gene for brown eyes is dominant, whereas the gene for blue eyes is recessive. It’s more complicated than that. For starters, there are at least eight genes involved in the determination of one’s eye color. The OCA2 gene controls almost three-quarters of the blue-brown color spectrum, but there’s evidence that other genes can override it in rare instances. But if both parents and both sets of grandparents have blue eyes, then there’s a good chance their offspring will too.
Curious about what your baby might look like? Science provides a lot of clues.
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