Copyright © 2006 Jonathan Perez
Quick question: What’s more important to gain muscle mass, the amount of weight you lift or the amount of natural anabolic hormones your body releases in response to muscular stress (as is the case when performing a set)?
The answer to that question is very important, since it can make the difference […]
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Stick to Basic Compound Movements
The core of your routine should be made up of exercises that involve the use of a large mass of muscle and the movement of several joints. Those exercises stimulate a lot of muscle and cause your body to release anabolic […]
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS - Burn The Fat!
Weight Training Super Sets - Wouldn’t it be great if there were a safe and natural way to build more muscle in a shorter period of time? In this day and age of exercise gimmicks and quick fix solutions, most intelligent people would be skeptical if they […]
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS - Burn The Fat!
Patience. It’s the one thing you never seem to have when you’ve got a body fat problem. You want the fat gone and you want it gone now! And why not? It seems so do-able. Everywhere you look, you read and hear promises of quick weight […]
Sorry about being lax in updating ya’ll on my progress. So here goes…
Being a hard-gainer and all, I have been eating about 2500 calories a day while at the same time minimizing my activity level in order to gain some much needed pounds BEFORE I start my heavy lifting mass gaining program.
I started at 115lbs […]
Contest Eligibility:
All contests except for the State Championships are open to all NPC registered athletes who possess a current NPC card.
The Texas State Championships is limited to NPC athletes residing in Texas.
Competitors can now enter either open or novice divisions […]
By A W [ 24/11/2005 ]
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GAKIC, chemically known as glycine-l-arginine-alpha-ketoisocaproic acid, may be new to Bodybuilders, athletes, and sports enthusiasts, though it has been in development for 8 years already and many studies have been done on this supplement. It’s not like creatine, a stimulant or a generic pre-workout […]
By Nishanth reddya
There are as many varied opinions on what “plan†one should follow to build muscle, as there are people who have those opinions. On one thing they do agree, however. You must have a regimen.
· You can begin by defining your objective.
· Why are you interested in body building? […]
BODY FAT MEASUREMENTS (U.S.)
Men 26% Women 36% —-> OBESE
Men 24% Women 34% —-> AVERAGE
Men 18% Women 20% —-> GOOD
Men 14% Women 16% —-> ATHLETIC
Men 10% Women 12% —-> EXCELLENT
Men 06% Women 10% —> BODYBUILDERS
Do you think the above is truly realistic? or Do you think that is is pure bunk? or Lastly, do you […]
Building muscles is essential to enhance your overall performance in any outdoor activities. Therefore all those who aspire to build up their career as a sportsman or an athlete must undergo this physical training. But the muscle tone or formation is not homogenous with every individual. There are three important factors that influence the muscle […]
By Tony Meyer
You have decided to start bodybuilding. So you have your own expectations of how it will be and what you will get. May be your primary goal is just to get rid of unwanted fat to look more attractive and younger? Or you are interested in competitive bodybuilding? This sport - the bodybuilding […]
As a beginner bodybuilder, you just may be doing much too much too soon. This can result in a feeling of overall tiredness and…
Next to “six pack abs,” the one muscle group that almost every man and woman wants the most st is arms. So, instead of boring you with a ton of arm training physiology and long words like capillarization and coracobrachialis (yawn), and instead of giving you a single arm routine (gets old too fast), I’m going to skip the science and theory and go straight to the good stuff!
Brue J. Nadler M.D. wrote the following on the misc.fitness.weights newsgroup
In the course of preparing to compete once again in a “Natural Bodybuilding” contest, I began to question just how natural was this whole process. While I realize the in its true definition, NATURAL is intended to mean steroid-free, in many people’s minds it […]
I am a naturally small babe. I can eat 3000 calories a day for 3 months and still be lucky if I gain a few pounds. Being 5′ 2″ (5 feet 2 inches) tall and 125 lbs in the off-season and 107-114 pre-competition, AND inheriting the genetics of my mom and dad, it is […]
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