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How close to failure should you actually train?

Most people ask:

“Could I have done another rep?”

But there’s a better question:

**What would I have had to change to get another rep?**

More grip? More momentum? Better balance? A completely different movement strategy?

Because a set can feel brutally hard without the muscle you’re trying to train actually being the thing that failed.

In the new video, I break down:
• How close to failure you really need to train
• Why 0 RIR doesn’t always mean what you think
• When training to failure is actually useful
• How to know when to stop, keep grinding, or change the setup

**New video: How Close to Failure Should You Really Train?**

What usually ends your hard sets first: **muscle, grip, breathing, balance, or technique?**

5 days ago | [YT] | 0

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Not feeling hungry lately?
Comment which one is you:
A) I can point to exactly when it started
B) It just faded over months, no clear moment.

New video breaks down why — and it's live now! 🎥

2 months ago | [YT] | 0

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Your anterior pelvic tilt keeps coming back because you keep treating the symptom, not the cause.

Your hip flexors aren't the problem — they're just where the problem shows up.
New video explains the actual cause + 4 exercises that fix it inside your training. No extra routine.

Drop a 👇 if you've tried stretching your hip flexors and had it come back.

#anteriorpelvictilt #posture #activewavefitness

2 months ago | [YT] | 0

Active Wave

Your kids are gonna eat how you eat.

Not because you told them to. Because kids absorb what they're around — the rhythms, the habits, the defaults. The food that just shows up.

That's why we started Daddy & Duder. Not to make healthy eating complicated. To make it the thing we just do together — starting with the food he already loves.

Mac and cheese. Nuggies. Ranch. One ingredient swap at a time.

Episode 2 is live — link below. 💛

What should we make next? Drop it in the comments.

Check out my full video “Store Bought Nuggies Have 17 Ingredients. Ours Have 4” on my YouTube channel 👉 @ ‌ActiveWave https://youtu.be/I16Kck3Y-ts   & SUBSCRIBE to the channel for more health and fitness insights! youtube.com/@activewave?sub_confirmation=1

#daddyson #healthykidsfood #toddlerfood #kidsrecipes #cleaneating

3 months ago | [YT] | 2

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You've probably never read the back of the nugget bag.

Most people haven't. It's not a criticism — it's just not something anyone thinks to do until someone points it out.

Here's what's on the label of a standard box of frozen chicken nuggets: 17 ingredients. Chicken, water, modified corn starch, yellow corn flour, salt, spices, dextrose, autolyzed yeast extract, garlic powder, onion powder, and more.

Here's our full ingredient list: ground chicken, homemade bread, garlic, salt.

Both make a nuggie your kid will eat. One of them takes about 15 minutes and a food processor.

Full recipe in Episode 2 — link below 👇

Check out my full video “Store Bought Nuggies Have 17 Ingredients. Ours Have 4” 👉 https://youtu.be/I16Kck3Y-ts & SUBSCRIBE to the channel for more health and fitness insights! youtube.com/@activewave?sub_confirmation=1

#chickennuggets #healthykidsfood #toddlerfood #homemadenuggies

3 months ago | [YT] | 0

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We flipped the bag over on a box of frozen nuggies and counted the ingredients.
17.
Ours have 4: ground chicken, homemade bread, garlic, salt.

Episode 2 of Daddy & Duder is live. Drop a 💛 if your kid has strong nuggie opinions.
https://youtu.be/I16Kck3Y-ts

#DaddyAndDuder #HealthyKidsFood

3 months ago | [YT] | 0

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The 25g Protein Rule applies to your meals too — not just kid food.

Replace butter in mac and cheese with full-fat Greek yogurt. 25g protein per serving. Same creaminess. Same result.

Same rule I use with every client. The swap doesn't care how old you are.

Duder ate the whole bowl. Called it juicy.

Full recipe in the video → https://youtu.be/knfV8FdE93Y

Are you making this for yourself, your kids, or both? Drop it in the comments.

4 months ago | [YT] | 0

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Everyone's making high protein mac and cheese with cottage cheese right now. Here's why we don't.

Cottage cheese gets grainy when it melts. If you have a picky toddler, that's usually a hard no on the first bite.

Greek yogurt swap: same creaminess, 25g protein per cup, no graininess.

Duder ate the whole bowl. Called it juicy.

Same swap works in your mac and cheese too.

Full recipe in the video → https://youtu.be/knfV8FdE93Y

What's the hardest kid classic to make healthier? Drop it in the comments — we're choosing Episode 2 from the responses.

4 months ago | [YT] | 2

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Just dropped a new series with my son Duder — Daddy and Duder: Kids' Classics Made Healthy.

Episode 1 is 25g protein mac and cheese. Greek yogurt instead of butter. No cottage cheese. No graininess. Duder's verdict: JUICY! 🧀

Quick poll before we film Episode 2:
🍗 Chicken nuggets
🍕 Homemade pizza
🌮 Tacos
🥞 Pancakes

Drop the one you want most — or put a different kid classic in the comments. Reading every one. Picking the most-voted one next.

Video is live here: https://youtu.be/knfV8FdE93Y

4 months ago | [YT] | 0

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Your body has 3 failure modes when it stops recovering. They each look the same. They each need a different fix.

Bucket 1 — Overtrained One hard workout wrecks your week. Performance dropping. Sleep worsens after hard sessions. The more you push, the further you drift.

Test: If symptoms clear inside 2 weeks of genuine deloading — this is your bucket. Fix: 3 sessions max, cut volume 30%, leave 4–5 reps in reserve. 2 weeks.

Bucket 2 — Under-Recovered Training is moderate but the system around it is depleted. Sleep inconsistent regardless of training load. Depleted on rest days too.

Test: 3 or more of these consistently red → sleep quality, fatigue, stress perception, soreness, mood. Fix: Lock sleep window, hit 0.7g protein per lb, offload one stressor this week.

Bucket 3 — Nervous System Survival Mode Rest doesn't restore you. Workouts leave you more wired, more anxious, more depleted. A rest week feels flat, foggy, unrefreshed.

That's the tell. Fix: Daily 5-minute nervous system reset + intensity drops until workout aftermath feels neutral.

Which bucket? Drop it below 👇

Check out my full video “Adrenal Fatigue Isn't Real — But Your Symptoms Are” 👉 https://youtu.be/EBpwHOD7Qbo & SUBSCRIBE to the channel for more health and fitness insights! youtube.com/@activewave?sub_confirmation=1

#nervoussystem #adrealfatigue #overtraining #cortisol

4 months ago | [YT] | 0