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Cardio Workout Challenges!
Cardio Workout Challenges The following cardio workout challenges are designed to push your body to its limit with the purpose of re-sculpting your body and providing great health benefits to your heart. Anyone from beginners to serious athletes can use … Continue reading
Guide To Understanding Muscle Fibers And Training Your Muscle Type
Learning about your body’s muscle fibers as well as muscle type can greatly help achieve the results you are training so hard for, as well as help you determine what type of sports you can have a natural edge at … Continue reading
Summer Challenge: 4-week Cutter Program
One look in the mirror tells you that significant progress has been made since the end of your bulking stage. But if your look could stand some physique fine tuning, this physically demanding 4-week program might help. Change the order … Continue reading
Sore Aching Muscles Post Workout? Find Out What You Can Do To Ease The Pain!
L-Glutamine As the most abundantly found amino acid in your body, glutamine plays a major role in your muscle health. One of glutamine’s primary functions is to support tissue health and repair. Sore muscles are a common occurrence when you … Continue reading
Which Exercise is Better for Health and Fat Loss? Long Workouts Vs Short Bursts
Are Short Bursts of Intense Exercise Better Than Long, Less Strenuous? High-Intensity Interval Training Is Time-Efficient and Effective. High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) means doing a number of short bursts of intense exercise with short recovery breaks in between. Part of … Continue reading
Live Shredded (Muscle Pharm Diet & Workout Guides)
Diet and Workout Guides. Men’s 12 week diet and training guide designed specifically for men to get shredded. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Women’s 12 week diet and training guide designed specifically for women to get shredded. … Continue reading
The Bizzy Diet (21 Day Fitness Plan)
Give us 3 weeks: We’ll change your body, your habits, and your life. Lose Fat, build strength, get busy! If you start this today, you will feel different tomorrow. If you stick with it for a week, the numbers on … Continue reading
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The Scrawny Guys Guide to Weight Gain
This article goes over how to pack on pounds. For all the lightweight lifters out there looking to go up a class, or you mass monsters looking to pack on yet more size, this will definitely get you on your … Continue reading
Optimum Nutrition Team Athlete Will Ko’s Shoulder Workout Routine and Workout Tips
Optimum Nutrition Athlete, Will Ko, shows us a few tips for working out your shoulders. Exercises covered: Side Lateral Raises, Dumbbell Shoulder Press, Barbell Upright Rows, and Bent-over Rear Shoulder Raises.
Why Athletes Need Vitamin C
Why you need Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Most athletes don’t realize how important vitamin C status is to success. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, protecting muscle cells from free radical damage, thus enhancing recovery and growth. Ascorbic acid is also … Continue reading
Should I Do Cardio Before or After Weights?
The Key Factor: EPOC After a workout, your body continues to burn additional calories up to 48 hours. This is known as Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption. EPOC occurs because your body needs energy to repair your muscles after you’ve challenged … Continue reading
Want Big Biceps? Here’s How To Get Them! Plus a Professional Bicep Workout Video!
Professional Bicep Workout with Charles Glass and Tobias Young Brought to you by Optimum Nutrition: True Strength Want Big Biceps? Here’s How To Get Them! Step 1: Eat Big! In order to get big biceps, you need to … Continue reading
If You Want to Look Like a Bodybuilder, You Need to Train Like One!
Bodybuilding is a dying sport. Attend any local or state NPC show and you’ll see that the quality and number of competitors has been adversely impacted. Male competitors are moving towards the more socially acceptable and readily obtainable men’s physique … Continue reading
Is Muscle Soreness a Sign That Your Muscles are Getting Huge?
In the May 2011 edition of Muscular Development, a study was presented posing the following question: is muscle soreness indicative of muscle hypertrophy, or an increase in muscle size? The study utilized a stationary bike, with the resistance set to … Continue reading
Advanced Leg Blast Workout
The punishment that is required to endure in order to possess legs like the Big Dogs is definitely a pain full of gratification. If you are looking for the quads that can wrinkle your dress clothes or that require two … Continue reading
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The Importance of Post Workout Carb Consumption
Your post workout carb consumption is the most important of the day. The type of carb and the amount you need depends on your body composition and how hard your train. The average weight-training athlete should consume between 0.2-0.3 g … Continue reading
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Want Bigger Muscles? Think “Multijoint”
Ask any hardcore lifter (or good exercise scientist, for that matter) what the “money” exercises are, and you will always get the same answer: any exercise that works more than one joint at a time (these are called compound or … Continue reading
Bodybuilders Diet: Learn How to Eat to Build Solid Muscle!
Nutrition is a cornerstone of every good bodybuilding program. Nutrition is what gives us the raw materials for recuperation, energy, and growth. Without a good diet, your dreams of achieving your ideal body will never be reached. A healthy muscle … Continue reading
Rob Riches Meal Plan
An average day’s diet looks something like this: Meal 1: cup of oatmeal cooked with 1 egg white, and an egg white omelet made with 6 egg whites and 1 yolk. Meal 2: 2 small chicken patties that I make … Continue reading
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Tips for Well Defined Abs
Sick of Not Having Abs? Q. I’ve been eating three healthy meals and doing ab crunches every day to lose the fat off my stomach and get a six-pack, but I haven’t noticed any change. I really want deep abs … Continue reading
Optimum Nutrition athlete, John Hansen, shows us what a bodybuilder keeps in his kitchen
Optimum Nutrition athlete, John Hansen, shows us what an bodybuilder does to prepare his meat portions for the week in accordance to his diet plan.
Optimum Nutrition Athlete Tobias Young shares his Protein Waffle recipe with us using 100% Whey Protein
Optimum Nutrition athlete, John Hansen, shows us what an bodybuilder (like himself) keeps in his kitchen.
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Abdominal Crunches
The abdominal crunch is one of the most common exercises used to train the abdominal muscles. The abdominal crunch targets the abdominal muscles, which are part of your core muscle group. The stronger your core muscles, the easier it is … Continue reading
Cardio exercises that will get you to your target heart rate, and burn lots of calories
Cardio is one of the most important things you can do for your body, and there are plenty of choices for cardio exercises that will get you to your target heart rate, and burn lots of calories. There are lots … Continue reading
Full Body Weight Lifting Workout
The following weight training routine is an advanced program designed to stimulate more muscle activity via higher intensity levels. By employing more intensity levels, you increase the chances of more muscle growth. However, higher intensity levels require more rest, which … Continue reading
How Can Fat-Burners Help Me Lose Weight?
How Can Fat-Burners Help Me Lose Weight? Our fat-burner products are formulated to safely bring you amazing benefits: Thermogenic fat-burner that will melt fat away and help you burn more energy Attacks the right kind of fat(nagging subcutaneous fat), yet … Continue reading
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How Melatonin Affects Your Sleep Cycle
What is Melatonin? Melatonin is a natural hormone made by your body’s pineal (pih-knee-uhl) gland. This is a pea-sized gland located just above the middle of the brain. During the day the pineal is inactive. When the sun goes down … Continue reading
How to do a Creatine load
What is Creatine Loading? Taking 10-to-20 grams of creatine monohydrate daily for 7-to-14 days for the fastest possible benefits. This is known as the “loading” phase and will shorten the time necessary to see results from creatine. When and Why … Continue reading
Keep Your Testosterone Levels Up
Decreased muscle size, feeling weak and a low sex drive are just a few symptoms of low testosterone levels. Testosterone is a crucial hormone for packing on muscle and low levels can keep you from hanging with the big dogs … Continue reading
Benefits of L-Glutamine for Bodybuidling and High Performance Athletes
What is Glutamine? Glutamine is 1 of 11 nonessential amino acids. “Non-essential,” in this context, means that you need it, but you don’t need to eat it because your body can synthesize it. Glutamine is also the most abundant amino acid in … Continue reading
ZMA – What Are The Benefits & What Does It Do?
What is ZMA? ZMA is made up of zinc, magnesium and vitamin B6. It’s been found to boost anabolic hormone levels (both testosterone and insulin-like growth factor-1 [IGF-1]), improving exercise performance while keeping metabolism in high gear. The combination of these … Continue reading
The Importance of Beta Alanine in muscle strength and energy
Beta-Alanine is a unique nutrient that indirectly supports muscle energy and strength as it increases carnosine levels. To function effectively, muscle cells rely on carnosine to avoid becoming acidic (low pH) during exercise. You know muscles cells are becoming acidic when … Continue reading
IGF Deer Antler Velvet: What Is It, How Does It Work?
What Is It? Deer antler velvet is essentially a growth hormone called “insulin-like growth factor 1,” or IGF-1. Growth hormones, which are naturally produced by the brain and liver, regulate how our bodies grow. Early research shows that IGF-1 may … Continue reading
Benefits of Whey Protein and Why You Should Take It!
Whey Protein Isolates are 90% pure protein by weight. They are the purest and most expensive form of whey protein that exists. That’s why they are the first ingredients you read on the 100% Whey Gold Standard label. By using … Continue reading
Guide to Whey Protein: What is it and What types are there?
What is whey protein and where does it come from? 2 types of protein comes from milk; Whey protein and Casein protein. Whey protein is made during the process of cow’s milk being turned into cheese. When the milk is … Continue reading
Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Take Serious Mass
Online shopping is to some extent difficult especially when it comes to choosing the appropriate product. There is a wide assortment of products that are available in the Internet. Although there are some reviews associated with these products, it is … Continue reading
Serious Mass: the ULTIMATE in weight gain formulas
How big is big enough? For those interested in building up serious amounts of muscle mass, ON’s Serious Mass delivers nutritional support with 1250 calories from 50 grams of protein and over 250 grams of carbohydrates. There’s no sugar added … Continue reading
Supplement Review: Animal Rage vs. Muscle Pharm Assault
Muscle Pharm Assault Universal Nutrition Animal Rage 1/2 to 1 scoop 1 scoop Creapure (Creatine Monohydrate), CON-CRET® Creatine HCL (100% Concentrated Creatine) Beta-Alanine (amino acid), L-Arginine Blend (L-Arginine AKG 2:1, Di Arginine Malate, L-Arginine HCL), L-Glutamine, L-Tyrosine, Taurine, Citrulline Malate, … Continue reading
Why are BCAA’s Important?
Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAA’s). Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and muscle growth. Whenever you eat protein, your body converts the protein into basic amino acids so you may absorb and utilize them. The amino acids you get … Continue reading
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Understanding Whey Protein
UNDERSTANDING PROTEIN BASICS What is protein and why is it important? Protein is one of three macronutrients used by the body for energy. These macronutrients include protein, carbs and fats. Scientifically, protein is a series of amino acids linked together like a … Continue reading
Who should use Creatine?
Creatine is bodybuilding’s ultimate supplement! What is Creatine? Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in the human body from amino acids primarily in the kidney and liver and helps to supply energy to muscles by increasing the … Continue reading
Why Are Post-Workout Supplements So Important?
In addition to the right supplements is the right time to take them. When it’s time for a workout, your physiology changes in that you move into a state of enhanced glycogen release. Your body accesses that stored fuel in … Continue reading
Why are Pre-Workout Supplements Important?
Everyone can agree that diet and lifestyle are keys to your success in all of your fitness goals; from weight loss to muscle gain to competitive sports. But sometimes, even with a perfect diet, you need an extra edge. There … Continue reading
Eating for HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
When you perform low intensity cardio, the goal is to have your body use its fat stores for the energy source; thus losing body fat. In my opinion, low intensity cardio is always best performed before your first meal of … Continue reading
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When to do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
Treat HIIT cardio the same way you treat lifting weights; that is, as a full blown workout. Before you lift weights, always eat a solid meal 60-90 minutes before hand. Same goes for HIIT. With that said, you can do … Continue reading
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