Whether you’re trying to build muscle, or maintain it while losing body fat, you have to make sure that each time you hit the gym you are reaching muscle fatigue. Weight training’s primary goal is to force your body to adapt to the new stress, and the only way the stress can be considered “new” is if it is larger than it was before. We covered this aspect in another article, known as Progressive Overload. However, when it comes to performing a particular exercise, you don’t...
Draining the life out of yourself in the gym and being on top of your diet are essential to building muscle mass. However, learning how to increase testosterone is often buried in the sand when it comes to training advice, when instead it is an imperative component in allowing you to max out your body’s potential. There’s good results, and then there’s great results. The latter will only come when you have given yourself the opportunity to increase the amount of testosterone in your...
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Skinny around the shoulders, skinny around the legs, but the mid-section looks like it belongs on someone twice your size. In other words, you’re skinny fat. You appear skinny on the top and the bottom, but another you is hiding around your stomach. Fortunately, even though many people suffer from this un-aesthetically pleasing physique type, it has a remedy. Skinny fat people often are stuck between...
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Let’s face it, sometimes there’s that certain body part or two that we can seemingly never get to grow. While the rest of our body parts grow at a rate, at least, to avoid giving us frustration, there’s that one (or more) that won’t budge. For many, that body part is arms. Whether it is a biceps issue, a triceps issue, or an unfortunate complete lack of overall arm growth;...
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Often times novice lifters make the mistake of attempting to do too much at once in the gym. Among those things, a very popular method is countless reps upon reps, mistaking the effect of achieving a pump (blood rushing into the muscle) as a confirmation that they are taxing their muscles and making them grow that very second. If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’ll find many wrongs in...
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You’ve probably seen Fish Oil capsules in your local store, but as with many other items laying around the isles, you were not very interested in its purpose in regards to what it can do for you. Well, let’s crack this supplement open and dig in. The benefits are plenty, but are they really necessary?
Fish Oil comes from the tissue of oily fish (hard to believe judging by the name, right?), but...