The humble squat – or, more specifically, in the case of this article – the barbell back squat, is one of the all-time greatest muscle-building moves for your legs. A compound movement, it targets multiple muscle groups in one hit, including the quads, hamstrings and glutes, along with your core and back muscles, which work to keep your torso upright during the movement. 

Put simply, the barbell back squat should feature in everyone’s leg day routine. Because we all know to never skip leg day, don’t we? 

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But what if we told you there was a slight variation of the back squat that could see your big legs, become huge legs? You may already be aware of common variations, such as the front squat, split squat and goblet squat, but this new variation that has come to our attention could well blow all of them out of the water. 

Proposed by Dr Joel Seedman, a fitness trainer and owner of Advanced Human Performance who works with some of the finest NFL athletes in America – the BANA 2:1 Lunge to Squat could be the secret leg exercise your workout routine has been missing. 

You may not be aware of the BANA technique, and there is much to unpack from it. Thankfully, Joel is on hand to explain it in great detail. 

“BANA stands for Bilateral Assisted Negative Accentuated, or basically Up with 2, Down with 1 (BANA 2:1) protocol. This allows the individual to perform eccentric overload on their own without the use of a spotter.”

Eccentric overload, for the uninitiated, is where the force applied during the eccentric phase of the movement (the lengthening of the muscle) is greater than the concentric phase (the shortening of the movement).

In the case of the lunge squat put forward by Dr Seedman, “essentially what you’re doing is performing the concentric phase of the lift with 2 limbs (squat position) and the eccentric phase with 1 limb (lunge position), thereby providing greater eccentric overloading during that eccentric or negative moment.”

There is much evidence to suggest eccentric overload can be an incredibly effective tool to help build muscle size and strength, as well as minimise or reduce injury. 

For Dr Seedman’s BANA 2:1 Lunge to Squat, you also need to incorporate the “biomechanical drop rep protocol (similar to the biomechanics drop sets only the adjustment happens mid rep rather than mid-set).”

This, we believe, refers to the fact that during the lowering of the barbell while in the lunge position, the weight of the bar is taken off your shoulders by way of two bars. You then need to get into a squat position to push up. 

It’s the lowering movement, in a lunge position, that will really help to maximise the size of your legs since just one leg is predominantly responsible for holding the weight on the bar. The upward movement, which you should perform as explosively as possible, will help to improve the strength. Working in perfect harmony. 

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Dr Seedman adds, “Most lifters can handle 25-35% more total loading on traditional bilateral squats and deadlifts, in comparison to their split stance & kickstand counterparts. Simply adjusting the position mid rep allows us to dictate the degree of overload.”

It may sound confusing, so it’s probably best to simply watch the video above, before reading the explanation again. 

Following this, try and incorporate them into your next leg day routine, performing 2 to 3 sets with just 3 to 4 reps per leg. Supersized legs await. 

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Sperry, founded in 1935, introduced the first boat shoe to the world after founder, Paul A. Sperry slipped on the deck of his boat, fell overboard, and became driven to develop a non-slip shoe. Now famous for the creation of the boat shoe, Sperry is dedicated to crafting the tools for life’s memorable experiences — on, off, and by the water.

Sperry’s Gold Cup Authentic Original Rivingston Boat Shoe is an extremely sophisticated yet comfortable shoe that just happens to be the shoe of choice for one Mr James Bond. Yes, that’s right, Sperry’s shoe features in the latest Bond flick, No Time To Die; Daniel Craig sports them during the Caribbean scenes.

If you want to take style cues from Bond himself – and let’s be honest, who doesn’t? – you can get yourself a pair of the Gold Cup Authentic Original Rivingston’s for only $159.95!

Plus, these shoes are not only stylish; they also feature a genuine hand-sewn moccasin construction that conforms to your foot for durable, broken-in comfort, shock-absorbing heel cups & Ortholite insoles for added stability, and an extra memory foam layer for ultimate cushioning.

The Gold Cup Authentic Original Rivingston Boat Shoes are available in three striking colours, although if you want the same as James Bond’s, you’ll need to go for the Tan.

Why buy the Sperry Gold Cup Authentic Original Rivingston Boat Shoe?

• Daniel Craig wears them as James Bond in No Time To Die
  
• Extremely sophisticated and versatile
  
• Incredibly comfortable and supportive

$159.00 – Buy from Sperry

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Porsche has one of the greatest track records out of any automobile manufacturer on the planet (both on and off the track, as the case may be). Simply put, they’ve never really made a bad car; it’s just that some Porsches are more desirable than others.

The Cayenne was widely ridiculed at the time of its release, but now it’s Porsche’s best-seller. The oddball 914 didn’t sell well back in the day, but now, collectors go crazy for them. Same goes for the 928. Even the Boxster is getting plenty of love these days. Punters just want Porsches!

No, there’s really only one Porsche that Australians – as well as the rest of the world – don’t really want: the controversial 996.

Produced from 1997 to 2006, the fourth generation of the famous 911 is widely considered one of Porsche’s rare missteps. The switch from air-cooled to water-cooled engines infuriated purists, but most buyers simply didn’t like the unusual ‘fried egg’ headlight clusters. For years, the 996 was Porsche’s ugly duckling, and could regularly be picked up for as little as $40,000 even a few years ago.

But it seems things have changed. Perhaps as a result of Australia’s completely cooked used car prices – or maybe because Aussies have finally woken up to the joys of the 996 – prices are absolutely booming, especially for low-mileage fixed-roof models.

“You could get a 996 4S for $80k 12 months ago,” DMARGE Publisher and Founder Luc Wiesman explains. “Now, if you want one with under 100kms on the clock, it’s nearly double. Others are going for $130k.”

So what’s the deal – is this just more COVID-era speculation, or has the 996 finally become cool?

We spoke to Ian Davies, Director of Prestige Connex and a die-hard Porsche fan, who’s in two minds about this 996 situation.

“It certainly hasn’t become a ‘real’ investment for the astute buyer… However, there are certainly 996 fans and owners that believe as it’s a variant of the 911 it must be worth more and a [worthy] future investment.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t that what they say?”

He also recommends that buyers look for models with the later 3.6L engine, as the earlier 3.4L power unit was notorious for IMS bearing failures – if that bearing goes, it’s a complete engine teardown for you.

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As we’ve seen again and again this year, it’s hard to tell if this is just a result of the current car shortage, or if the 996 has finally started to grow on Aussies. Some truisms remain, well true – do your research, shop carefully, and above all, drive a car because you like it, not because others tell you to like it.

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Tudor makes some of the best Swiss watches on the planet. They’re exceptional timepieces, and more or less sell themselves – but it was an absolute masterstroke for the ‘People’s Rolex’ brand to sign David Beckham as a brand ambassador.

Since 2017, the legendary ex-football player and international style icon has been one of the Swiss watch brand’s most high-profile partners, alongside other stars such as Lady Gaga, Jay Chou and the All Blacks (the New Zealand national rugby league team). The stylish, sporty Englishman is the perfect ambassador for their stylish, sporty, English-monikered timepieces.

It’s a collaboration both parties seem very happy with. Last year, Tudor even gifted Beckham his very own, one-of-a-kind Inter Miami-branded Pelagos to celebrate his football team’s success. Now, in 2021, Tudor seems to have blessed Becks with yet another unique Pelagos – but this one’s arguably a lot more interesting.

Earlier this week, Beckham shared a cheeky photo of himself behind the wheel of his car, captioned ‘game time countdown’ and giving his 69.2 million Instagram followers a pretty good look at an as-of-yet unreleased variant of Tudor’s flagship titanium dive watch. Horological researcher & expert watch spotter Nick Gould (@niccoloy) was quick to point out that we’ve never seen a Pelagos like this before, meaning it’s likely some sort of prototype.

There are three key features of this leaked Pelagos that are noteworthy. Firstly, it features a navy blue dial and bezel; colours we haven’t seen on a Pelagos before. It’s a handsome look that evokes some of the dive watches Tudor produced for the Marine Nationale, the French Navy, from the 50s to the 80s.

Secondly, the bezel has a slightly different, fully hashed design. Current Pelagos models only feature hashing between 0 and 15. Finally, this model doesn’t have a date window, whereas all previous Pelagos watches have had a date window.

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All in all, it’s a pretty good looking, no-frills piece that we’d imagine sell like hotcakes if it makes its way into production. Being that Becks tagged Tudor in the post, we can safely assume this is all part of their marketing strategy for the thing… It’s working, we guess.

Check out some of the other exciting watches David Beckham has in his collection below.

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For years now, if you want to bump uglies with your better half without risk of conceiving a child, the best contraceptive options for men are the humble condom or the not-so-humble vasectomy. One can limit the amount of pleasure and feel you get from the act of making love, while the other provides a permanent solution to a child-free future. 

Women, on the other hand, have a number of options available to them, including the notorious ‘pill’, the diaphragm – or female condom – a contraceptive injection, an implant or an IUD. It certainly begs the question, why are there not more contraceptive options for men? The onus is far more heavily skewed towards females to take measures to prevent pregnancy, but it takes two to tango. 

Men could soon be gifted a new option, however, if one industrial design graduate has anything to do with it. Enter: COSO, a potential contraceptive invented by Rebecca Weiss, who, according to News.com.au, is an industrial design graduate from the University of Munich. Rebecca took home the prize for winning entry at Germany’s James Dyson Awards for her invention, which uses ultrasound technology to prevent male sperm from swimming towards an egg. 

Up until the invention of COSO, research and development for new male contraceptive methods have tended to hit a brick wall, predominately because it has proven to be a much harder task. This is because women only produce one egg each month, compared to men who produce sperm on a regular basis. 

Potential drugs that could well inhibit a man’s ability to produce sperm – such as this heat sensitive formula that would block sperm from getting out – have also shown to cause a decrease in testosterone levels, the male hormone that men need to look and feel good, as well as to give them a sex drive in the first place.

COSO however, aims to remedy this. It is what can only really be described as a ‘ball-cuzi’, as it requires the man to dunk his boys into an ultrasonic bath, wherein it will use deep heat to cease sperm mobility inside the testicles. Rebecca adds COSO is completely hormone-free and reversible. 

If and when it goes into full production, and men choose to use it lest they be gifted a screaming toddler, they will have to use it for the first time under supervision of a doctor – don’t worry, they’ve seen everything before – and will then take around two weeks for the treatment to take full effect. So no jumping from bath to bed on the first night, fellas. 

COSO users will then have to continue to give their gonads baths every few months for it to remain effective, and following the last time it’s used, you can expect to have up to six months of pregnancy-worry-free sex. 

Being a 21st century device, there is a companion app available, which you can use to monitor the time remaining until you remove your plumbs from their soaking. “The technology of the COSO is based on a study of the Parsemus Foundation from 2012, in which successful research was conducted on ultrasound contraception,” Rebecca relates.

“So far, the procedure has been applied to animals. Therefore, the technical parameters are hypothetically transferred to humans.”

Rebecca’s reason for coming up with COSO relates to our opening paragraph. News.com.au adds she was diagnosed with precursor cervical cancer, and had been taking the common contraceptive pill. The pill, if taken for lengthy periods of time can actually increase a woman’s chance of contracting cervical cancer. 

Speaking of her invention, Rebecca added, “When my partner and I were looking for an alternative method  [of contraception], we became aware of the lack of male contraceptives.”

“This problem is not unique to me personally, it affects many others as well, as is made evident in the current growing public discussion about the lack of contraception alternatives.”

“COSO offers a user-friendly contraceptive method that is easy to use, without any physical intervention, pain or any known side effects.”

However, she also adds, “But without valid data, the project cannot be realised.”

Rebecca is hoping to secure more funding – she won $3690 for winning the contest in Germany – so that further clinical trials can take place. COSO has been chosen as one of 20 short-listed finalists to be in with a chance of winning the international award, which would see Rebecca win an additional $55,358 worth of funding.

If put into full-scale production, COSO will be easy-to-use, easy to clean and will be available in a range of colours.

Terrifying, or a more relaxing way to live a more relaxed life? You decide.

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A Bronte house sale in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs has left locals shocked after it smashed the suburb’s record for most expensive house sold in the East. What’s more: it sold for an even higher price than first rumoured.

That’s right: even though there was talk of the place going for a record high of $18 million, it actually sold for almost $5.5 million more.

It was sold to blockchain start-up co-founders Joanne Way Yee Huynh and Dorjee Sun, who are returning from Singapore. The house had only been on the market for a week (with an $18 million price guide) before they snapped it up for $23.3 million – a house record for the Eastern Beaches.

This shocked some locals. Fine art beach photographer Eugene Tan, who has been shooting daily since 1999, wrote of the sale on Instagram: “Did you see a house just sold for 23 mil on Bronte Beach? Yeah, only a lazy 23 million. Property market is nuts. That’s a 15 million dollar profit in 5 years. You know the property market is hot when it features in my daily ramble.⁠”

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Of the couple that bought the house, Domain reports that Joanne Huynh “is well-established in Singapore’s start-up community as a co-founder of blockchain company Perlin, where she is in charge of strategy and finance.”

Domain added: “Husband Dorjee Sun is Perlin’s chief executive, and is the founder of Carbon Conservation, which works to tackle the problems of deforestation in Indonesia, as chronicled in the 2008 award-winning documentary, The Burning Season, narrated by Hugh Jackman.”

Of the record price, Domain adds: “The purchase by the returning expats tops Bronte’s $17.9 million record set last year by green energy entrepreneur Carl Prins.”

“The Eastern Beaches house price high was previously $22 million, set in June by the sale of the North Bondi home of interior designer Michalle Smith and architect Alex Smith to businesswoman Lenka Dransfield.”

The $23.3 million Bronte home that just sold has five bedrooms and overlooks Bronte Marine Drive, opposite the surf break, comprising 485 square metres.

The previous owner of the house – a head of a private equity firm, who purchased it five years ago for $8.05 million – will presumably be contratulating himself on a nice pay day. According to Domain, “the deal translates to more than $48,000 per square metre.”

And, to think, we thought this $2.7 million Alexandria sale was pricy…

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Sydney has a fantastic fine dining scene, but if you’re looking for a meal that’ll taste good and impress all your Instagram followers, then you can’t go past Bondi Icebergs.

Perched on the southern end of The Harbour City’s most famous beach, the iconic swimming club is also home to one of Sydney’s best (and most beautiful) restaurants. As we’ve discussed before here at DMARGE, it’s the perfect place if you want to people watch as well as be watched, and maybe even eat some tiramisù.

But there are simply some things you don’t want to watch while you’re eating… Like a sexy photoshoot as you’re tucking into a medium-rare eye fillet. That’s exactly what some diners at Bondi Icebergs experienced yesterday… and on regular occasions at the iconic venue.

Rory Warnock, a Bondi-based performance and wellness coach, shared how during his lunch, an influencer and her photographer decided to take a few candid shots right by his table, the influencer wearing a very unique ensemble.

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The eagle-eyed among you might also notice her unusual footwear. Yes, those are indeed high-heel Crocs: specifically, they’re from a collaborative capsule with Balenciaga, they’re called the Crocs Madame, and they’re worth AU$875.

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All jokes aside, it’s not unusual these days to cause such a scene at a restaurant, just look at Salt Bae force-feeding meat to his wealthy patrons. It does beg the question, is it disrespectful to diners who are just trying to get through lunch?

That being said, it’s these kinds of capers that make Bondi, well Bondi, so perhaps we should hop off our pulpit and calm ourselves down with an orange mocha frappuccino. Also: it’s possible the model/influencer had permission for the photo shoot. Regardless, they got our attention (which we assume was the point of the whole exercise.)

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Still, it’s not as bad as the usual influencer caper of trying to extort free meals out of restaurants in exchange for ‘exposure’ – like this social media scoundrel tried (and failed) to do in Noosa…

It’s also not the first stunt this year to go a little awry, as you can see in the video below.

Influencers face deportation from Bali after ‘cheeky’ stunt backfires…

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Turkish butcher and salt sprinkling maestro Salt Bae has become an unlikely fitness influencer. While we may have ‘genuine’ fitness inspirational figures who make it their career to teach others about correct form or new and intuitive techniques to help you achieve huge gains, Salt Bae can often go under the radar.

But as we’ve shown time and time again, his workouts, which flicker between the ordinary and not-so-ordinary, are ones you should definitely consider adding into your training regimes. Not least because the work he does, combined with his apparent love for the carnivore diet, allow him to maintain an incredibly low body fat percentage and subsequently improve his muscle definition. He certainly avoids the skinny muscular body type.

But, other than just eating a sh*t tonne of meat, just exactly how does he achieve such a lean physique? Fortunately, the man himself has revealed in yet another series of videos some of the training he performs that keeps him in such great shape.

Taking to his Instagram stories, Salt Bae transitions between revealing shots of his now-famously shredded torso and insane vascularity to playing some clips relaying how he uses a pair of dumbbells and some resistance bands (occasionally combining the two) to put his muscles under incredible tension, which is reported to help improve muscular strength, endurance and growth.

Time Under Tension – or TUT – has been proven to help lower body fat percentage. And, because it usually involves performing movements at a slower pace, you not only allow the muscles to experience the greatest amount of tension for the greatest amount of time, but you also encourage yourself to become more mindful and present, since you need to focus more heavily on the movement being performed (which can lead to better technique).

Check out Salt Bae’s secret to shredding success in the video below

In the videos, he can be seen performing the following movements:

Seated resistance band row: A great upper body exercise that targets your back and upper arm muscles. To perform, sit on the floor with legs together and knees slightly bent. Depending on the type of resistance band you have, you can either wrap the ends around the soles of your feet or wrap it around a solid pole.

Hold the ends of the resistance band in each hand with palms facing in, brace your core and lock your shoulder blades down. Pull both hands towards your chest until they are over your thighs, keeping your palms in line with your nipples and your elbows close to your body. You’ll want to aim to hold this end position for a minimum of one second, but as Salt Bae shows, holding for longer increases the time under tension.

Dumbbell squats with resistance band: Squats, as we should all know by now, are a fantastic compound movement that targets not only the major muscles in your legs but your core and back too, since they’re activated to help keep your torso upright during the movement.

Foregoing traditional barbell back squats, Salt Bae can be seen performing dumbbell squats, with a resistance band wrapped around them. Dumbbell squats are noted for activating different muscles compared to barbell squats, and primarily focus on the legs, core and forearms, as well as putting more focus on the lats compared to using a barbell.

Adding a resistance band into the mix helps to increase the weight of the load, without increasing the actual weight of the dumbbells. It’s a neat trick to use if you don’t have access to heavier weights, but find that your usual load is becoming a little easy.

To perform, hold a dumbbell in each hand and loop a single resistance band around the two, with the other end wrapped around a solid pole. In Salt Bae’s case, he’s performing a cannonball squat, which sees the feet brought closer together than in a regular squat. This can help to place more focus on the quadriceps, although some believe they don’t offer a huge difference to regular squats.

With feet close together, squat down, pushing your bum out and keeping your knees over your toes and dumbbells in front of your knees. Hold this squat position for a second or two and push back up with some explosive power, and squeeze your glutes before performing another squat.

Dumbbell glute bridge: The dumbbell glute bridge works, unsurprisingly, the glutes. Most people who perform this movement using dumbbells would just use a singular one placed horizontally across their hips. Salt Bae, however, uses two dumbbells, with each placed vertically on his upper thigh to provide a greater load to push against.

To perform, lie on your back with your knees bent. Hold a dumbbell in each hand with palms facing inward, and with each dumbbell resting on your upper thighs. Push your heels into the floor to help with pushing your hips upwards, ensuring that you hold the dumbbells in position as you do so. Raise your hips until your back and lower body form a straight line. Squeeze your glutes for a second or two at the top of the movement, before lowering back down to the starting position.

Perform these three movements on a regular basis, ensuring you employ the time under tension technique, and you’ll not only feel the difference the next day through muscle soreness, but you’ll start to notice a difference in muscle size, too.

Check out some of Salt Bae’s other workouts for shredded success in the video below.

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While Australians are raised on a steady diet of cruisers and ill-gotten beer, the French are, the stereotype goes, fed a diet of watered down wine.

As such, when we grow up, we are a lot less confident (broadly speaking) when it comes to picking wine. 

Of course, wine knowledge, and familiarity is on the rise in Australia. But we’re a couple of hundred years behind the French, so it’s fair enough that we have some catching up to do. 

Until that day comes, however, videos like the following will continue to hit close to home (even if they aren’t directed at us but rather at the ‘pub-cultured’ Brits). 

Enter: a recent clip by bilingual comedian Tatty Macleod (@tatty_macleod). The clip brilliantly skewers the difference between how English people look at wine and how French people look at wine. Though it is targeted at Brits, many of the points ring true for Australians too. 

Watch Tatty tear Britons’ wine picking skills to shreds in the video below…

In particular, the points about the French trying to match their wine to their food (“is this too citrusy for salmon tartar”?) and thinking about the reputation of a certain time period (“was 2007 a good year?”), ring loud and clear. 

“I’d prefer a sancerre, but if they don’t have it, this will do.”

Tatty then makes a number of cliche comments English people are known to make when looking at wine in a bottle shop.

“Oh look, a special.”

“That one’s on special offer.”

“That ones also reduced.”

Just in case you hadn’t already got the picture, Tatty adds: “That one’s cheap.”

“That one’s really cheap.”

“This one is more expensive than that one, but technically this one was more expensive to begin with.” 

Classic. 

She finishes the skit with: “Oh my god, 11%!”

“Oh, they do wine in a box. Should we just get a box of wine?”

The only point we would say doesn’t ring true for Australia is the one where Tatty emphasises French people looking for an organic wine (“they don’t have an organic one?”), with the implication being they value organic wine and we don’t. 

We can’t speak for whether this is the case in England, but in Australia, particularly in recent years, consumers have started cottoning onto the organic wine trend and enjoying it, statistics reveal. 

The skit also, we reckon, makes an important point regarding French wine’s impeccable global reputation. Though France really does make some world-beating vinos, Australia (and other countries) are catching up (and have been for a while). 

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We’d argue, the real reason many people think French wine is ‘always better,’ is because when they have been in France they have paid more attention to what they are picking, or been with people who have paid more attention to what they are picking. 

Not to mention the placebo effect (and the fact that good wine, or reasonable-quality wine, can be a little bit cheaper in France than it is in Australia, due to its plentiful supply).

Conversely, in Australia, many people have experienced bad wine choices and then assumed all Australian wine is bad.

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But the truth is, if you are smart about your choice, after the leaps and bounds Australian wine has made, whether you are in Paris or Parramatta, you can choose a good wine in 2021. 

Speaking of which: these are the best Australian wines to buy right now, according to DMARGE’s expert wine picker. 

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