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<header class="entry-header">What To Do When You Eat Healthy But Can’t Lose Weight by Nia Shanks Help! I can’t lose weight even though I eat real food. Most of my meals include lean protein and lots of veggies. The other foods I eat are fruits, low fat dairy, nuts, beans, and whole grains. I...

Growth Stages for Dummies by Taylor Normandeau Yesterday, Damnit…That’s when we want to achieve our goals. Actually screw that, yesterday is too far in the future. Bodybuilders want to be huge months ago. YEARS ago. In fact most of us harbour some level of...

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Eating Right is Not That Complicated by Geoff Roberts The plethora of information that comes at us from all angles in this day in age makes it exceedingly difficult to decide what is right, wrong, legitimate, or phony. This reality is especially true...

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The Bodybuilder’s Shopping List by Matt Meinrod A few years back I was shopping at the grocery store and a man actually stopped me in my tracks and said, “Do you mind if I look inside your cart, you must be doing something right.” At...

The Latest News On Coconut Oil, Health and Fat Loss Less than two decades ago, coconut oil was pegged by media activists as one of the worst foods you could eat. In a surprising reversal, today coconut oil is promoted as a health food and...

Does the Scale Lie? I was going to title this post, “The Scale Is a Liar” and that’s it. Then I saw that articles on this subject have already been written by the dozens. After skimming through them however, I was shocked to see how many of them were giving the wrong advice: “Throw...

<header class="entry-header">The Busy Woman’s Guide to Strength Trainingby Nia Shanks </header>You’ve got a lot going on, but you still want to take care of yourself. You don’t need an abundance of time to achieve great results with strength training; just proven guidelines. Many women find...

The Physique Athlete’s Method To Maximum Fat Loss Physique athletes (bodybuilding, fitness, fitness model, figure and bikini competitors) eat and train differently. In fact, a lot of what they do to develop the leanest, most muscular, most aesthetically...

<header class="entry-header">The “All or Nothing” Approach Has Failed, Miserably. by Nia Shanks Another myth that’s detrimental to health and fitness is the “all or nothing” mentality: You have to go all in if you want to achieve great results. You do everything correctly, or you might as...

Hard-Gainer Nonsense by Mike Arnold Like most individuals who are passionate about what they do, enthusiasm is generally not in short supply when it comes to weight training and the beginner. Frequently, the novice will invest a...

HARDCORE BULKING INTRODUCTION – PART II by Gavin Kane In the first article of the series we attacked hardcore dieting and how to gain maximum mass without maximum fat gains. There are two more pieces to this puzzle, training and cycles...

<header class="entry-header">You Can’t Lose Fat (or Keep It Off) Because You’re Making These 9 Fat Loss Mistakes by Nia Shanks </header>Rest assured, this isn’t the typical listicle article filled with overdone, regurgitated tips you see splashed on magazines. That’s why you’re going to...

Hardcore Bulking Introduction – by Gavin Kane Off-season; a bodybuilder’s favorite time of year and the favorite words whispered after a recent contest. So the time is here, what are you going to do about it? First step is to determine what you want...

Healthy is the New Huge by Cade Thomas Mass at all costs. This is still the approach that some people apply to bodybuilding but times are changing. You will still come across the “I don’t care if I die as long as I need a big casket” asshole here and there (usually online behind a fake screen...

The Ageless Sport by Blane Morton Bodybuilding truly is the ageless sport. Unlike basketball or football or track and field, bodybuilders peak at all different stages in their lives. Shawn Ray and Jay Cutler were megastars in the sports by the time they...

<header class="entry-header">The Strength Training Guide for Women Over 40 by Nia Shanks </header> According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010, over 41% of the U.S. female population was 45 years of age or older. But flip through a women’s fitness magazine or scroll through fitness-related...

Breakfast – The Most Overrated Meal of the Day by Anthony Roberts For decades we’ve been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. To support this claim, study after study has been foisted on us, showing that people who eat breakfast have lower cholesterol, live longer, are...