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Seven Deadly Sins: Ban Workout Routine & Diet Plan

 Let’s take a look at ban from the Seven Deadly Sins anime show. Ban has been well established in the show a s a ripped dude. Along with that he is quite tall and very light in weight.   Diet Plan Ban is a very heavy drinker. Although I don’t recommend that. You don’t see Ban eating often but when he does he is a pretty heavy eater. So your options would be: OMAD (One Meal A Day) 16/8 OR 18/6 Intermittent Fasting Regular Three Square Meals OMAD:- So you’re just gonna be eating once in a day. I would say the best time to have this meal would be around 3-4pm or 6-7pm have a filling meal with plenty of protein, fibrous carbs and starchy carbs. Make sure to eat at the same time every single day. Apart from your feeding time, the rest of the day you can have a few cups of black or green coffee, black or green tea with no sugar. Drink about 2-3 litres of water regularly. 16/8 OR 18/6:- This is the most famous IF method. Here you can opt to keep your feeding time for 8 hrs and fast f...

Progressive Resistance (1000 Pushups)

 Alright! Today's topic is an interesting one. For those of you who don't know what progressive resistance is; it means adding more resistance over time to your exercises as you keep getting stronger. This could by adding more and more reps or by 'progressive overload' which means increasing the weight or ,in Calisthenics, picking a harder variation. I recently read an article written by Bill Starr It read, "I saw a great example of progressive resistance at work while I was in the Air Force, stationed in Iceland. A corporal had allowed himself to fall into such a terrible physical state. Upon arriving on the island he'd stopped all forms of exercise and started indulging himself to the maximum. Within 6 months he'd gained 50 pounds, all of it ugly weight.When he became eligible for a furlough back to the States, he altered his lifestyle. It seemed he'd only been married a week before he shipped out to Iceland, and he wanted to look his best when he got...