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      Ten Excellent Benefits of Whey Protein Ten Excellent Benefits of Whey Protein Whey protein is a superior protein source that provides many health and body composition benefits. Unfortunately, many people are misinformed about whey protein. They avoid it due to the fact that some brands contain cheaper filler proteins, artificial flavors, or added sugar. Just because some...
      Ten Rules For Raising Testosterone for a Stronger, Leaner Body Ten Rules For Raising Testosterone for a Stronger, Leaner Body Testosterone is the most significant of hormones, being vital for physical fitness and wellness. For both men and women, low testosterone can lead to fat gain, low muscle mass, and physical weakness. Fortunately, there are a number of simple ways to improve testosterone for a...
      Six Non-Gym Tips For More Mass - What you do away from the gym can help you build bigger and stronger muscles Six Non-Gym Tips For More Mass - What you do away from the gym can help you build bigger and stronger muscles Here’s the deal: any weight training program will build muscle mass provided you work hard and strive to use more weight on basic exercises such as dips, chin-ups, squats, and bench presses. But if you’re training with purpose and still not achieving the results you...
      Simple Post-Workout Nutrition Tips: Are Carbs Essential? Simple Post-Workout Nutrition Tips: Are Carbs Essential? Gaining muscle, losing fat, and getting stronger are best achieved with a few simple nutrition practices. You know you need amino acids after training, but do you know how much? Are straight amino acids better than a protein powder for repairing tissue? And what about...
      Common Misconceptions Women Have About Four Key Supplements That Can Improve Body Composition & Boost Performance Common Misconceptions Women Have About Four Key Supplements That Can Improve Body Composition & Boost Performance If you’re like most women who take their workouts seriously, you want to get stronger while also staying as lean and aesthetically fit as possible. Taking a few key, research-proven supplements can make a huge difference in the quality of your workouts. The payoff is...
      Top Ten Anti-Aging Tips To Stay Young, Healthy & Amazing Top Ten Anti-Aging Tips To Stay Young, Healthy & Amazing Aging is inevitable. But aging well is not. Science increasingly shows that a healthy diet and exercise have a profound effect on keeping you young and sprightly. This article will give you ten anti-aging habits that will help you feel and look amazing. #1: Strength...
      Ten Tips To Stop Overeating Post-Workout Ten Tips To Stop Overeating Post-Workout You work out. Great job! But now you’re ravenous and feel like you want to devour everything in sight! Here are ten tips to help you control your raging post-exercise hunger pangs and develop a healthy relationship with food and training. #1: Workout Before A...
      Ten Impressive Ways Protein Foods Can Help You Lose Body Fat Ten Impressive Ways Protein Foods Can Help You Lose Body Fat Planning meals around high-quality protein is one of the easiest ways to lose excess body fat and just generally get ripped. This is a scientific fact. Why, then, is there soooo much argument about high-protein diets for fat loss? Because many people make common mistakes...
      The Best Workout Recovery Supplements - Less Muscle Soreness & Faster Return of Strength After Hardcore Training Sessions The Best Workout Recovery Supplements - Less Muscle Soreness & Faster Return of Strength After Hardcore Training Sessions Once you’ve pounded out your last muscle-damaging rep or burned through your last sprint on the track it’s time to focus on one thing: Recovery. A lot of people make the mistake of dismissing recovery as something that they don’t have time for. They think...
      How Many Meals A Day For Athletes? How Many Meals A Day For Athletes? You’re an athlete. How many meals should you eat per day? As a general rule, a high meal frequency is a game changer for allowing you to get everything possible out of your training. For Serious Athletes & Those Who Need to Pack On Muscle...
      Eating Extra Protein Yields Greater Fat Loss & More Muscle Eating Extra Protein Yields Greater Fat Loss & More Muscle One of the most confounding messages in mainstream nutrition is that eating more than the U.S. RDA of 0.8 g/kg is bad for you. Related to this is the message that animal protein is unhealthy and everyone would be better off swapping out meat for...
      Ten Practical Ways to Speed Recovery & Help You Become Superhuman Ten Practical Ways to Speed Recovery & Help You Become Superhuman “There is no such thing as overtraining, only underrecovery.”-Unknown How does your body get stronger, faster and leaner? It happens by applying a stress and then recovering from that stress in a cyclical pattern. This begs the question “Is there a way to improve the...
      Seven Tips To Ensure Optimal Recovery From Intense Training and Competition Seven Tips To Ensure Optimal Recovery From Intense Training and Competition A simple way to perform better is to make sure you’re recovering optimally from intense training or competition. If you don’t take advantage of the recovery period, subsequent performance may be negatively affected, and you stand to lose a lot in terms of muscle and...
      Ten Healthy Exercise Adaptations At Your Fingertips: Optimize Your Body For A Leaner, Better Quality of Life Ten Healthy Exercise Adaptations At Your Fingertips: Optimize Your Body For A Leaner, Better Quality of Life When most people think of reasons to work out, a better body composition is usually front and center in their minds. Stress reduction or training for a competition are also often at the top of the list. These are all great reasons, but what you...
      Why Am I So Hungry After My Workout? Why Am I So Hungry After My Workout? Do you ever find yourself fantasizing about food near the end or your workout? Or maybe you finish training and feel like nothing less than an entire chicken and a pizza will quench your voracious appetite. Don’t worry! Although an increase in appetite is not...
      Does Testosterone Matter For Strength & Muscle? - Shocking Answers From Leading Scientists Does Testosterone Matter For Strength & Muscle? - Shocking Answers From Leading Scientists Will a post-workout hormone response of testosterone, GH, and IGF-1 make you bigger and stronger? The widely accepted belief is that they will. Recent research shows this may not be so. Although we do know that these hormones build muscle and tissue in specific situations,...
      Top Ten Strength Training Tips You Need To Adopt Today Top Ten Strength Training Tips You Need To Adopt Today To get the most out your workouts, use these top strength training tips. These workout recommendations will allow you to get the most out of your physical efforts, whether you're training for aesthetics, endurance, or power. The Value of Strength One of the most common...
      Twelve Amazing Benefits of Protein—The Most Important Food for Fat Loss! Twelve Amazing Benefits of Protein—The Most Important Food for Fat Loss! Protein has been the darling of the strength and body building world for years, but it has only recently gained favor in mainstream culture. Hearing the word protein often conjures sentiments that reach beyond this macronutrient’s true meaning—fortitude comes to mind as does strength and...
      Ten Things You Should Know About Tempo TrainingManipulating time under tension while resistance training is all the rage lately. A number of new research studies provide evidence that varying tempo is one of your best tools for achieving greater strength, size, and athletic performance. As you will see in this review of...
      Bedtime Protein To Maximize Muscle & Performance Bedtime Protein To Maximize Muscle & Performance Sleep is a unique opportunity for muscle recovery and growth. Muscles can only grow and repair themselves when the right building blocks—amino acids from protein—are available in the blood. But unlike blood glucose, the body does not store and release amino acids to maintain near-constant...
      The Three Rules of Protein Intake Everyone Should Follow The Three Rules of Protein Intake Everyone Should Follow Despite increased clarity in the medical world about the importance of high-quality protein foods for disease prevention and weight management, a lot of people are still confused about protein. This is partly due to the faulty message that people are eating too much meat. In...
      Seven Ways To Reduce Post-Workout Muscle Soreness Seven Ways To Reduce Post-Workout Muscle Soreness Does post-workout muscle soreness ever keep you training from as hard as you would like? Despite the pain it causes, many people accept delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) as a valuable indicator of having trained hard and thrashed their muscles. They assume soreness means they are...
      What is Functional Hypertrophy? What is Functional Hypertrophy? Muscle hypertrophy training, or doing resistance training that builds your muscles, is something everyone who wants to live a long, healthy, lean life should know about. Hypertrophy that is functional is not just for athletes, body builders, or young men. Rather, everyone will benefit from...
      How Hormones Influence Your Ability To Lose Fat & Increase Muscle How Hormones Influence Your Ability To Lose Fat & Increase Muscle Hormones are one of the most important factors affecting your ability to lose fat and increase muscle. They affect all aspects of human function, determining how the body responds to physical and psychological stress. They enable world champion athletic performances, govern metabolic rate, and tell...
      Five Superior Supplements for Optimal Athletic Performance Five Superior Supplements for Optimal Athletic Performance Training and athletics can transform your life. Either you’ve had it happen to you or you’ve seen it happen to someone close to you, and you want the benefits too: Physical strength that gives you a reassuring sense of place in the world. Self-confidence about...
      Seven Things We Know About How Hormones Affect Muscle & Strength Development Seven Things We Know About How Hormones Affect Muscle & Strength Development Strength training builds muscle. Lifting heavy stuff makes you stronger. By training with a certain volume and intensity, you can produce a significant release of the hormones, growth hormone (GH), testosterone, and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1). It’s been widely accepted that this hormone response promotes...
      Fasting For Athletes: Dangerous or Good Idea? Fasting For Athletes: Dangerous or Good Idea? You’ve probably heard all of these criticisms of intermittent fasting: “You’ll lose muscle.” “Your performance will suffer!” “You’ll stress your adrenals!” “It’s not practical.” Until recently, it was hard to know exactly what the truth was due to a lack of research on fasting in...