carbohydrates

The Fad Diet Dilemma by Josh Hodnik We are now in a time where convenience rules and patience has become something of the past. With today’s technology many things are done with the push of a button. Tasks that used to take physical...

Carbohydrates A diet rich in carbohydrates increases endurance performance because of the extra store of carbohydrates in the muscles and liver, called glycogen. Work completed in the early 1980’s by David Costill at Ball State University showed that if athletes did not consume a diet high in...

Build More Muscle & Burn Fat by Manipulating Insulin Levels By Mike Murphy Some diets even have you cutting out carbohydrates altogether to control insulin levels. Thus, the question is, when and how is insulin responsible for both? The hormone insulin has been heavily discussed in the...

1. Do some resistive weight training 3 to 4 times a week using short rest periods between sets of 30 to 60 seconds. Work out no longer than 1 hour to keep your anabolic (muscle-building) hormones high and catabolic (muscle-wasting) hormones low. Over-training is a quick way to lose muscle along...

Diet TipsChoose the correct diet.An insufficient nutrition is often the reason why the athlete does not make any progress. What is the use of the best training, the intake of steroids, and sufficiently long rest periods if the body does not have the right nutrients in a sufficient amount-...

Anabolic Foods By 3J www.3jsdiet.com It’s a very sad fact that most of the worldwide population doesn’t have a fundamental amount of knowledge when it comes down to nutrition. When you think about it, what we are taught in school doesn’t really apply towards living our day to day lives. Our...

By Anthony Ricciuto B.Phed. C.F.T. S.P.N. F.T. At the present time the most written about macronutrient is the carbohydrate. This macronutrient has gone through some major changes over the years. Well, the carbohydrate hasn’t actually gone through physical changes, but the way dieticians and...

The real fat burning zone What is this magical place of fat burning... and how do we get there? The fat-burning zone is sometimes thought of as the exercise intensity where the major fuel is fat. At around 65 per cent of your maximum heart rate (an intensity that can be achieved both in the...

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THE SECRET TO SIX PACK ABS 0 Learn the secret to six pack abs! Everyone desires 6 pack abs and vince tells the sole secret on how to archieve them.Everywhere you turn, someone's promising the next secret to getting 6 pack abs. Some of these so called 'secrets' have some degree of accuracy...

Ten Sources for Tapping Into Your Strength. Bob Barker used to refer to it at the beginning of his infamous game show, “The Price Is Right”. It’s your power hour. We’re assuming you have about sixty minutes to do your thing in the gym. We’re also assuming that you want to conserve your power...

What is bulking? It is usual to define the bulking phase of a bodybuilder's diet by what it is not; however it is simply 'a systematic attempt to gain muscle'. If you want to add 'and strength' to that sentence then that's fine, just remember you can get stronger without adding muscle, but you...

All too often we hear people say, "He looked incredible the week before the show, but awful on stage". That's what happens to a lot of bodybuilders who mistime their peak; only to look better a week before the competition or a week after the competition! Getting ready for a show primarily...

The role of insulin is a current topic reverberating through gyms everywhere. Insulin is a hormone best known for its role in glucose metabolism. In an attempt to provide some clear scientific information to our trainers, this article will discuss the different classifications of carbohydrates...

The Diet In order to come up with macronutrient totals for a diet, it is necessary to assess how many lbs per week one will need to lose to be in contest shape. This is not an exact science, however we can still get a reasonable experience-based estimate. Here are some example calculations so...

by Layne Norton Protein Protein is probably the single most important macronutrient for the purposes of maintaining muscle on a diet. Dietary protein is hydrolyzed (broken down) into it's constitutive amino acids during digestion. These amino acids are released into the bloodstream where they...

What carbohydrates do you tolerate best? Its like this..... First Meal (what carbohydrates, why, and how do you know you tolerate them best) Second Meal (what carbohydrates, why, and how do you know you tolerate them best) Third Meal (what carbohydrates, why, and how do you know you...

The Truth About Carbohydrates <TBODY> <!-- logo -->What I mean by this is that low sugar bars are ONLY appropriate for short-term low carbohydrate diets, while BELIEVE IT OR NOT, bars with 15-30 grams of sugar are actually BETTER for putting on size and strength for ALL bodybuilders. <!--...