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Nutrition Rules That Miss the Mark 1 – “Diet is 70% of Your Results!” Nobody will argue the importance of diet when it comes to achieving your physique goals. A nutrition plan that’s not in line with your goal will make it much harder to reach it. If your objective is to get shredded and...

Carbohydrates – The Master Fuel 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...

Make This Healthy Gainer Shake. Experienced lifters need to be in a caloric surplus to build muscle at an optimal rate, but that doesn't require thousands of extra calories over maintenance intake. It's body-building, not belly-building, remember? Roughly a few hundred calories over maintenance...

Most men like to eat, and eat a lot. So it's easy to go too far with a calorie surplus when the focus is on muscle gains. But there's a difference between eating enough to fuel workouts, recovery, and hypertrophy, and eating so much that you just look like a fat guy with decent traps. Big arms...

7 Signs of Good Digestion I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “you are what you eat,” but I’d like to take the sentiment one step further to claim you are what you absorb. Digestion is the complex process by which your body reduces the food you eat into individual nutrients in order to build...

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President Trump is the greatest President this country has ever seen. All the Never-Trumpers need to see all the things he has done for our country. 1) Foreign Affairs - done more good than any other President 2) Immigration - Yes, the wall construction is underway. 3) Taxes - the best it's ever...

It is always important for the human to stay healthy. There are numerous number of tips and tricks to stay healthy. You need to eat natural foods like fruits, milk and other foods which is rich in vitamin and protein. Eating too much of food is not good for health and it leads to new diseases...

When it comes to weight loss, meal prepping is a great way to ensure you stay on track with your macros and hit your calories for the day. However, many people are making the same mistakes when going through this process that is causing them to fall off the wagon and never hop back on. Below...

Ah, the dreaded food cravings. That feeling we get in our stomachs when we think about our favorite foods. Unfortunately for us, most of those foods are not at all compatible with a bodybuilding lifestyle. While the occasional cheat meal is ok, having them multiple times per week is simply not...

Often what you THINK you're doing during a diet phase isn't quite what's being carried out on a daily basis. Examples: - 1. Measurement Error: At the beginning of a diet, it's easy. You've got plenty of excess body fat. That means you've also got significant room for error. Eyeballing portions...

by Tom MacCormick - Ever inhaled your lunch while checking email, Facebook, or working on a report? This distracted eating is a physique-ruining habit you need to break. How? "Hara hachi bu.” It's a Japanese phrase which means "eat until 80% full." So when helping someone get lean I ask them to...

by Matt Weik It’s not difficult to overeat. We can all sit down with a bowl of ice cream, a bag of potato chips, or whatever other indulgence you might enjoy and go to town. Or maybe it’s a poker night with the boys and you’re kicking back a few cold ones or enjoying a cigar with a few...

by Matt Weik Our senses play a key role in our everyday life, and the sense of smell might actually play a role in how much weight we gain. As odd as it may sound, researchers are now looking into the possibility that if we can’t smell what we are eating, it allows us to stay leaner in the...

If you’re reading this article, you’re either already eating a healthy well-balanced diet, or you are putting the wheels in motion to make the change and are learning everything you can. Either way, I’m sure you feel like you have been lied to a time or two (or ten) from the food industry. You...

Hello, A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, adequate essential amino acids from protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and adequate calories. Here I share 10 Ways to Maintain a...

by Mike Arnold As a BB’r or any other weight training enthusiast looking to put on size, eating enough food to sustain one’s mass-building efforts over the long-term can prove to be a real challenge. What might initially be perceived as a relatively simple task often turns into a tremendous...

If It Fits Your Macros, or IIFYM, has been a hot topic over the last several years in the bodybuilding industry. For those of you who are not familiar with this diet, here is a simple explanation. IIFYM is a diet strategy in which the dieter sets certain macro-nutrient goals for him or herself...

theguerillachemist This recently published study is a meta analysis of all the literature(studies) about BCAA supplementation and protein synthesis. This paper uses not only oral supplementation, but intravenous supplementation of BCAA and the conclusion the researchers made will upset a lot of...

Being consumed with guilt after overindulging, and then making extra restrictions with food for the next two days.Feeling like you didn’t work hard enough in your workout because you were unable to improve your performance, so you squeeze in an extra workout to “make up” for it. Feeling...