by Alec Enkiri   On my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/blog/diy-sled Alright! People have been hounding me to make this post for years now so I figured it was time to deliver. If you follow my training at all then you know that I'm a big fan of making my own workout equipment when possible. Just off the top of my head, I built the lifting platform that christens my gym, I built my farmer's walk handles, my frame for heavy carries, I rigged up a squat stand back in the day, I've built myself a "table top" reverse hyper to go inside my squat rack, and I've also built my own workout sled, which is the subject of today's post! It's not that I can't afford to buy this equipment, but it's just that a lot of these pieces tend to be overpriced for what they are, and when I know I can build basically the exact same thing for a tenth of the cost with only moderate effort, well, it's hard for me to justify throwing that money at it....

by Alec Enkiri   On my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/blog/recipes/stuffed-squash In Volume 1 of the Swole Chef we covered how to make my famous Muscle Building Oatmeal . The oatmeal is quick, delicious, easy, healthy, and it supports massive muscle growth from your hard training sessions. But in spite of all that, it's still child's play. So today we're going to get a little bit more involved and make one of my favorite dinners of all time: Middle Eastern Stuffed Squash, Peppers, and Zucchini! One of the hallmarks of Middle Eastern cuisine is stuffing a whole bunch of different kinds of vegetables with a mixture of rice, meat, and spices and then cooking those veggies in a variety of different sauces. When everything melds together properly, this combination not only creates a freaking delicious flavor profile, but it also makes it very easy to get in a healthy dose of protein and clean carbs, along with a big heaping portion of a variety of different ve...

by Alec Enkiri   On my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/blog/recipes/oatmeal In fitness 90% of your results will be determined by diet and only the remaining 10% by how you train. The simple fact of the matter is you can't out train a bad diet. Okay, people say that all the time but I can't keep even type it with a straight face because it's patent fucking bullshit. Regardless, however, what you eat is still very important and you will never make optimal gains in the gym without optimal nutrition to go along with it. I would never be so bold as to assign an arbitrary percentage that I pulled straight out of my asshole like many people do, but the two aspects do run parallel to each other in an infinite sort of fashion and you can't really have one without the other when it comes to building muscle and strength, getting lean/ripped, or just improving overall health and fitness. On that note, people ask me about my diet all the time. They want to know...

by Alec Enkiri On my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/blog/perseverance-vs-stupidity Perseverance or stupidity? As many of you have probably seen by now I had a bit of an incident earlier this week during one of my training sessions. I was going for a big PR on the trap bar carry - attempting to finally break past the 600lbs barrier, which has been a standing goal of mine for about 2 years now. So I converted my old trap bar into a makeshift frame by building a little platform for it. As a side note, several people have asked me why I did this and the reason is simple: to elevate the bar off the ground to make the pick up easier so that you can focus on actually carrying the implement, which in this case is the goal we are shooting for. If I want to deadlift I'll deadlift, but when it's time to carry I want to focus on carrying. So I converted the trap bar into a frame and a few weeks ago I got to it. The most I had ever attempted on a trap bar carry was ...