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  • If you’re not gonna squat, get out of the squat rack!  By : SRP S
    Has this ever happened to you? You hit the gym early in the morning, all pumped up for a great session.
  • How To Use Nolvadex, Doasage, Side Effects  By : Mark Henry
    Nolvadex is the trade name for the drug tamoxifen citrate, Nolvadex is somewhat different from other products since it is not an anabolic/androgenic steroid. For male and female bodybuilders, however, it is a very useful and recommended compound which is confirmed by its widespread use and mostly positive results. The normal application of Nolvadex is in the treatment of certain forms of breast cancer in female patients. it is a non-steroidal agent that ............
  • What is Anadrol Steroid ?  By : jphn cena
    Anadrol is the strongest and also the most effective oral steroid. Anadrol has an extremely high androgenic effect which goes hand in hand with an extremely intense anabolic component. ........
  • Muscle Building Exercise  By : Albert Finnellia
    The more work you put into something the better results you will achieve. However, this is not true for Muscle Building Exercise.
  • When Should You Increase The Weight?  By : Marc David
    What intervals should you be able to lift heavier? Is it every week, every two weeks? Also, does one simply increase their weights in five pound increments weekly, monthly?
  • Avoid Aspirin If You Want To Build Muscle Mass  By : Jonathan Perez
    A lot of people believe that taking a NSAID (non-steroidal inflammatory drug), like aspirin, will help relieve some of the soreness we feel when we train with weights when our goal is to build muscle mass and gain weight.
  • Diet Rules For Getting Ripped: How To Build Muscle Fast & Lose Fat At The Same Time  By : Lucas Ryan
    Want to gain muscle, lose fat and get ripped? But don't know how to do it? Well, by the time you've read this article, you'll know how to get the most out of your bodybuilding training in a fraction of the time.
  • The Benefits of Protein Powders  By : hamoon
    What is protein powder?
    Benefits of protein powders
  • The Best Protein Powder  By : hamoon
    What is protein powder?
    Benefits of protein powders
  • Avoid Strength Plateaus in Your Weight Training Program for Muscle Building or General Fitness  By : Bill Willis
    Addresses the age-old problem of the "plateau" phase of any weight training, strength training, or general fitness workout program. For those who have been training months or years with little to show for it, explains the principles behind effective weight training program design.
  • Anabolic Steroids Safety  By : Naveen Kumar
    Before you can understand whether anabolic steroids are safe, it helps to know the history behind steroids. Steroids were first used in Germany in the 1940’s as an experiment on military troops. The goal was to stimulate the growth of proteins and tissues so ......
  • How to Gain Weight  By : Naveen Kumar
    I get a lot of e-mails and phone calls from customers seeking guidance on how to gain weight. In this article I'll give an overview of how to go about gaining weight quickly and effectively without having to take out a second mortgage.....
  • Guide to Beginning Bodybuilding  By : Naveen Kumar
    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 hormones. That means stuff like Squats..............
  • Fundamentals of Bodybuilding  By : Naveen Kumar
    There are different approaches to physical culture. Some are excellent, and others are downright harmful. After spending almost 25 years as an avid participant and a teacher in the field of physical training, I think I can offer some valuable insight into what works and how to build serious muscle.....
  • Body Building Exercices That Work!  By : Vita V.
    Are you at the local gym every night trying to get in shape? Hey, I certainly know what you're going through. Although I have never struggled with weight per se, I certainly took up a body building workout in order to get buff.
  • Three New Powerful Workout Styles That Burn Fat and Build Muscle Fast  By : Mike Geary
    If you've been looking for a different training technique to break out of a rut, eliminate the boredom, and bring on new fat burning and muscle building results, "complexes" may be just what you've been looking for. Read on to find out how these work.
  • How To Build Muscles With BodyBuilding Exercise  By : Vita V.
    A well-planned exercise routine will not only help you replace fat with muscle, it will help you gain strength and flexibility.
  • Body Building Supplements  By : Bryan Green
    Bodybuilders prefer to use various proteins and other body building supplements to increase the muscle strength. Protein powder, metal replacement product and creatine are some of the commonly available products preferred by bodybuilders.
  • A Look At Bodybuilding As A Sport  By : Aurel Radulescu
    Competitive bodybuilding is a sport in which athletes attempt to develop and maintain the perfect muscular body.
  • The 3 Core Muscle Building Exercises You Should Be Doing  By : Darren MacLeod
    When it comes to muscle building exercises and planning workouts I like to keep things simple. In this article I will explain the 3 core exercises and why you should be doing them in your routine.
  • How To Gain Weight And Increase Muscle Mass  By : M Perry
    Realistic tips on how to build muscle and gain weight for those that are naturally skinny or thin.
  • 7 Things You Need To Know About Losing Fat  By : Paul
    There are a lot of people in this world who are overweight or obese. In fact if you look around, you will find people attempting numerous methods to lose weight, and most do not succeed.
  • Few Ways in Which You Can Tighten Abs  By : Stewart CCW
    Some tips on how you can tigthen up abs and what exercises can help boost the effectiveness.

    You cannot spot reduce anywhere on your body. You can spot tone your muscles in the area you are targeting, but you cannot spot reduce.
  • Serious Bodybuilding  By : Carl Carlson
    There is bodybuilding and there is serious bodybuilding. Serious bodybuilding encompasses training sessions, competitions, and strict regimens of diet and supplements
  • Bodybuilding 101  By : Carl Carlson
    Bodybuilding is a great pastime for people of any age. When you are young you may not even realize what you are doing in your everyday common or specific exercise activity is considered bodybuilding.
  • Why You Should NOT Try to Isolate Muscle Groups When Weight Training  By : Mike Geary
    Stop wasting your time in the gym doing practically useless exercises like shrugs, leg extensions, leg curls, bicep curls, tricep presses, etc. Instead, if you really want a rock-hard functional body, focus on exercises that stimulate full body changes, instead of trying to isolate a single muscle group. Read on and find out more.
  • Why aren’t I building muscle  By : dave4
    Have you been going to the gym regularly for months and haven’t been able to put on any serious poundage?
  • Hip flexors - the most underdeveloped muscle group in strength training  By : Bruce Ross
    Strong hip flexors provide an advantage in a wide range of sports and athletic activities but they are the most neglected muscle group in strength training. The problem in developing hip flexor strength has been the lack of appropriate exercises, but the development of flexor-specific apparatus offers great potential for fully developing these muscles.
  • The Role Of Whey Protein In Achieving Significant Muscle Gain  By : keith
    Before wasting your money on a pile of bodybuilding supplements you really need to work out what you are hoping to achieve. Don't lose sight of the fact that sound nutrition forms the basis of any muscle building program and no amount of supplementation with the latest and greatest products will make up for bad eating habits. The bottom line is, bodybuilding supplements should be used IN ADDITION to regular food, not INSTEAD OF it.
  • Free Weights Or Weightlifting Machines To Build Bigger Muscles?  By : Chris Chew -
    Are free weights such as dumbbells and barbells are more superior to weightlifting machines for building bigger muscles? Well, both free weights and weightlifting machines have its own pros and cons.

    •Advantages of weightlifting machines

    a) Excellent for beginners because it is not so intimidating and the range of motion is fixed, so a bodybuilding novice need not wonder whether he is lifting correctly to target a muscle group.

    b) Easy to use as machines usually hav...
  • Choosing The Right Bodybuilding Supplement  By : keith
    Before wasting your money on a pile of bodybuilding supplements you really need to work out what you are hoping to achieve. Don't lose sight of the fact that sound nutrition forms the basis of any muscle building program and no amount of supplementation with the latest and greatest products will make up for bad eating habits. The bottom line is, bodybuilding supplements should be used IN ADDITION to regular food, not INSTEAD OF it.
  • Quick Tips to Gain Muscle Mass  By : Indy Stewart
    An informative article on muscle building with must know tips on how to gain muscle mass.
  • How Long Will It Take To Gain Muscles| Build Muscle Mass  By : Chris Chew -
    There are many factors to consider when you want to know how long will it take for you to gain and build muscle mass. Questions like are you eating enough and the right nutrients to accelerate muscle growth, are you exercising correctly and regularly and do you have the genes for quick muscle growth need to be addressed.

    In this article, we shall discuss whether you have the genetic make up to gain and build muscles quickly. Don’t despair if you don’t because this is only ...
  • 7 Reasons Why Your Muscles Stop Growing. How To Get Muscle To Grow Again  By : Chris Chew -
    Have ever wondered why your muscles stopped growing after a few months of training even though you are training very hard? Here are 7 reasons why your muscles stopped growing and how to get your muscle to grow again.

    • You are training too hard – Every time when you train your muscles intensely, you are actually breaking down your muscles. So your muscles need to recover from the damages you inflicted on them. So train each muscle group only once or at most twice a week. ...
  • Giddy When Lifting Weight In Gym? Training Big Muscle Groups Cause Nausea?  By : Chris Chew
    Ask any body builder and everyone will say they will feel light headed, nauseous and even sometimes even puke when they train big muscle groups with exercises such as squats and dead lifts. Some great bodybuilders even take pride that they puke after an intensive bout of weightlifting as an indication that they have had a fantastic workout. But to many, these symptoms are unpleasant, disruptive and could be even be dangerous and cause injuries. Perhaps, you may also have expe...
  • Can Antioxidants Help You Build Muscle? Free Radicals Destroy Your Muscles  By : Chris Chew
    Many people these days take antioxidants to counter the detrimental effect of free radicals. Antioxidants mopped up free radicals and convert them into harmless substances. Free radicals are known to cause body cell decomposition and therefore are the main culprit in our aging process. Free radicals are linked to aging diseases such as cancer and heart problems besides making us age more quickly. Since free radicals cause our cells to decompose, then free radicals will also d...
  • Build Big Biceps? Strong Arms And Solid Triceps?  By : Chris Chew
    In every gym that you go to, you will see people pumping their biceps. Biceps along with the pecs and abs are sometimes called vanity muscles because they are the most visible and therefore commands the most respect. Invariably, when you ask someone to show you his muscles, he will probably flex his biceps.

    Before we discuss biceps development, I want to point out that the biceps make up only one third of your upper arm with triceps the other two-thirds. So to have an impr...
  • 15 Muscle Building Rules For Skinny Guys And Gals! (Part 2)  By : Anthony Ellis
    In part 1, I touched on general weight gain rules and reasons why you can't gain weight. Now it's time to get into workout specifics...

    WORKOUT RULES

    4. Stop listening to every ridiculous piece of advice you hear in the gym or read on a message board.

    Recently a client of mine informed me that someone in the gym stated that he was training all wrong and he needed to train 5-6 days a week, and aim for more reps during his workout. Somewhere in the range of 15-20 reps ...
  • Big Strong Chest Muscles Command Respect And Confidence  By : Chris Chew
    So you want to build big and powerful chest muscles? Huge big pectoral muscles (pecs) or chest muscles that command respect and adoration? You can be the proud owner of a big and powerful chest.

    Many people actually think that there are 2 separate chest muscles, well there aren't. The chest muscle or pecs that you see on each side of your chest is a fan shaped one continuous muscle although they may be called by different names such as pectoralis major, minor and clavicle...
  • 15 Muscle Building Rules For Skinny Guys And Gals! (Part 1)  By : Anthony Ellis
    WHY CAN'T YOU GAIN WEIGHT?

    Though there may be many reasons why you may be thin, the most apparent reason is because of your genetics. If your parents are naturally thin or have a small body frame, then you will most likely have the same small body type.

    To some degree, your size can also be controlled by your metabolism. If you have a difficult time gaining weight of any kind (fat or muscle) then you most likely have a fast metabolism. That simply means that your bod...
  • Want To Build Big Muscles? Here Is How To Gain Muscles Fast.  By : Chris Chew
    Want to build Big Huge Muscles? Then you must Squat! The Squat will build big muscles on your entire body frame.

    There are 3 types of people in this world.

    First, there are those that make things happen. They calculated and know very sure what they want, then they take action and get it no matter what happens. They single mindedly pursue their ambition and they will ultimately succeed. In bodybuilding, they want to grow big and strong with big huge muscles. They SQUAT...
  • Eating To Gain Mass  By : Anthony Ellis
    This is usually the forgotten element of most mass programs. Food. The truth is, no one will gain muscle without food. It seems so simple and basic, yet most don't get enough of it to build muscle.

    Dieting for muscle gain is simply a matter of eating. You must eat more calories than your body burns off. Now, when I say eat, I do not mean just anything. All calories are not created equal. In other words, some types of calories are not equal to others for gaining muscle. Fo...
  • How To Weight Train For Maximum Muscle Gain  By : Anthony Ellis
    Weight training involves the use of equipment that enables variable resistance. This resistance can come in the form of "free weights" like barbells and dumbbells, machines that use cables or pulleys to help you lift the weight and bodyweight exercises like pull-ups or dips.

    Free Weights vs. Machines vs. Bodyweight Exercises

    For maximum muscle gain, the focus of your workouts should consist of free weight exercises. Not machines or bodyweight exercises. This is not to...
  • Show Off Your Six Pack Abs. Build Abdominal Muscles Fast  By : Chris Chew
    Why you do not have "killer abs" or that "6 pack" Abdominal Muscles?

    Ask any woman what is the most attractive part of a male body and most of the time, they will tell you it's the six pack abs meaning that your abdominal muscles showing up with beautiful definition. The abs is considered by many as a sexy muscle and is a symbol of a fit and healthy man. Women are instinctively drawn towards a man brimming with health and fitness because it is a primitive indication that ...
  • Human Growth Hormone – Playing An Anabolic Role In The Body  By : Anthony Bedore
    HGH or human growth hormone is a protein hormone of 190 amino acids, which is synthesized and secreted by the Somatotroph cells (hence called Somatotropin) in the anterior pituitary. The genes for human growth hormone are localized in the q22-24 region of chromosome 17. The structure of HGH includes four helices necessary for functional interaction with the GH receptor. Structurally, HGH is homologous to prolactin and chorionic somatomammotropin and it appears as if the three...
  • Using Bodybuilding Supplements To Build Muscle Mass!  By : Anthony Ellis
    OK, first let's get something straight here...

    If you think that buying a shake or taking a few pills will all of a sudden make you huge, then you are mistaken.

    No supplement will help you if you are not training and dieting correctly -- they will just give you very expensive urine. All aspects of your program have to be in order for you to get the maximum benefit from sports nutrition supplements. From my experience, supplements enhance your program by:

    1. Adding an...
  • The Myth Of Gaining Muscle Without Fat!  By : Anthony Ellis
    Many of you have expressed concerns about gaining too much body fat while on such a high calorie diet, and wonder if you should do some aerobic exercise to offset the weight gain.

    Absolutely not.

    That will be detrimental to gaining muscle. For best results, you either have to train and diet to gain muscle or lose fat. One or the other. If you are a true hardgainer, you cannot do both. If you try, you will not make any substantial progress either way. So, now is the time...
  • Does Creatine Really Help Build Muscle?  By :
    If you are a gym rat or bodybuilder or simply interested in beginning an exercise program you have probably heard a lot about creatine and the muscle miracles it performs. Unfortunately, most people believe that creatine helps build muscle and it does in a way, but probably not the way you are thinking. The best way to describe creatine is to say that it helps the muscles help themselves build muscle. If that is not clear enough, continue reading.

    Creatine does exactly wh...
  • 9 Tips To Help You Gain Weight  By :
    There are a couple of reasons why most people fail in their attempt to gain more muscle mass:

    A. Improper diet.

    Most people are not eating enough protein and eating too many simple carbs.

    They are not stressing their muscles during each workout. You don't have to kill yourself, but you must subject your body to out of the ordinary stress each workout to grow muscle.

    B. They lack consistency.

    They do not stay focused throughout the entire 12-week period. If...
  • How To Gain Weight And Build More Muscle Mass  By :
    A typical strength training program for weight gain all almost always includes compound free weight lifts like squats, bench press, shoulder press, pull-ups (wide grip), and dips. The amount of weight used for each, the amount of reps, and the frequency of training, will obviously be customized to suit your body type, current strength, and strength training goals.

    It’s also important to note is that training too often is both dangerous and counter-productive. More trainin...
  • Weight Training  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    For those that would like a more vigorous workout plan, weight training is a viable option that can combine building muscle tone and working the cardiovascular system. Weight training tones your muscles and raises your metabolism, which helps your body burn more calories not only when exercising, but also while you sleep. Weight training reverses the natural decline in your metabolism, which begins around age 30; therefore this is something to think about for all those who ha...
  • How To Gain Weight And Build More Muscle!  By :
    For many thin guys around the world, gaining weight without using illegal steroids has been a challenge. For thousands of lean young men, the dream is to gain weight, but no matter how much they eat they remain thin. Some people are naturally thin; that means their genetic makeup is in such a way that the body burns more calories than others. The very basic method of weight gain is to eat more calories than your body burns off. By providing the body with more calories, this b...
  • Benefits Of Weight Training  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Weight training isn’t just for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone anymore. It’s really a system of exercise and health benefits that are available to everyone. If you go to a local gym and observe, you can find everyone from teenagers to great-grandmas exercising and strength training.

    Weight training doesn’t mean just using barbells – it involves much more than that and is most often combined with aerobic activity during the “circuit.”

    The natural benefits ...
  • What Are HGH Supplements?  By : John Maxim
    Human Growth Hormone, also known as HGH, is a complex molecule composed of 191 amino acids. HGH is released from the pituitary gland of our brain in pulses. HGH is usually released from this part of the brain during the first phases of a deep sleep. HGH is then converted in the liver to make proteins that are vital to repair damaged tissue and bones. This is why HGH is typically injected into patients of burns and those recovering from surgery since it speeds up the healing p...
  • How To Build Muscles And Own That V-Shaped Upper Body?  By : Chris Chew
    Every guy who steps into the gym dreams of achieving that great classical V-shaped upper body that commands respect and attention. Many have trained for months, if not years and yet that V-shaped upper body just isn't forth coming. Ever wondered why?

    Before I show you various ways to achieve that glorious 'V', you must also be aware that the 'V' shape is also an illusion. If you have a wide thick back with a powerful chest, coupled with boulder-like deltoids, your 'V' wil...
  • Want To Own A Muscular Greek God Body?  By : Chris Chew
    If you are clueless at the gym and yet hungry for plain, good 'ol professional advice to help you on the road to that sculpted physique of a Greek god, fret not! All you have to do is to have a solid commitment, use the knowledge gleaned from this article and you will attain the body you want pronto. But remember to warm up and cool down, as well as stretching before and after each session; Or even better, after each set for better muscle recovery and prevention of injuries.
    ...
  • Build Muscles And Smash Plateau For Beginners  By : Chris Chew
    Five times a week, two hours each visit. You've been more faithful to your gym schedule than you've ever been to any girlfriend you've had. And for a while it paid off: those muscles started rippling and the girls started paying attention.

    But then, like a bad dream you wake up from, your muscles suddenly wasn't growing like what it used to do. Your muscles stop responding to your heavy workout no matter how intensely you've been training. So you said to yourself, now I wi...
  • The Sexy New you  By : Andrew Casasanta
    So youve decided to start working out or you have been seriously considering it.

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