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Side Effects from Creatine Supplementation
There is no doubt: creatine is the most wildly popular bodybuilding and performance enhancing non-hormonal supplement on the market. Pennsylvania State University did a study which revealed that creatine supplementation results in increased strength and muscle mass gains.
But is creatine supplementation dangerous? Are the negative criticisms of creatine valid? Let’s take a look.
A popular criticism [...]
Your Maximum Muscular Bodyweight and Measurements
Your Maximum Muscular Bodyweight and Measurements, by Casey Butt, Ph.D.
For a drug-free athlete trying to develop maximum muscle mass, the knowledge of how much muscle can be developed without the use of anabolic drugs would be a very valuable asset.
Unfortunately, because of the achievements of drug-using professional, amateur and recreational bodybuilders, many natural lifters either [...]
The Complete Squat Reference
The Complete Squat Reference
Author: Adam
Also read…To Squat or Not to Squat
The Traditional Squat
The traditional squat should be one of the first squat techniques to learn. In this movement, the bar is placed high on the back. This is sometimes known as the bodybuilding squat. The shoulder blades should be retracted to help support the bar. [...]
Why Am I Not Seeing Results With My Weight Lifting Program?
Why isn’t your weight training routine producing results? Is it…
That you’re a hardgainer, and destined to have poor results as long as you train?
That you don’t have the right supplements?
That you simply haven’t found the perfect routine yet?
For most trainees, the success or failure of their weightlifting regimen has nothing to do with being a [...]
Top 10 Weight Training, Strength Training, and Bodybuilding Blogs
Looking for some great weight training and bodybuilding blogs? You can’t go wrong with these 10. Here they are, in no particular order…
Second Focus Blog
Secondfocus Blog features the photography and notes of Ian L. Sitren. Images come from all areas of the lifting spectrum, including bodybuilding, powerlifting, and magazine covers.
Ross Enamait
While not primarily dealing with [...]
7 (Plus 7) Core Bodybuilding Exercises
The land of bodybuilding routines is vast and complex. There are full body routines, one set per bodypart routines, routines that use rest-pause, routines that feature training just shy of failure, and routines that are high volume.
But while the amount and variety of bodybuilding routines is staggering and complex, the core exercises for these routines [...]
What Goes Unsaid
If you Google every major bodybuilding routine under the sun, you will have a ton of information to weed through, and a ton of programs to digest. But in this mountain of information, there is one aspect of training that is rarely talked about…
Steroids.
Yes, steroids. It is very rare to find a bodybuilding routine that [...]
Bodybuilding Series, Part 1
Bodybuilding Series, Part 1
by Steve Shaw
NOTE: The following article is the first in a series on bodybuilding basics for beginners and intermediate lifters. Please stay tuned for more to come…
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BODYBUILDING
Bodybuilding.
The word invokes images of oiled man (or women) with shaved [...]
How to Boost Testosterone
Have More Sex
Simply having an erection causes your testosterone levels to jump significantly. And morning sex is even better. Boom, chicka, boom, boom!
It’s OK to Look and Interact
A University of Chicago team found that testosterone levels jump by as much as 30% when interacting with a hottie. Seek out, and interact with those you find [...]
Weight Training For Beginners
Before I begin, let me define the following:
Beginner: a lifter who has experienced little in strength and/or muscle mass gains, or a lifter who has been out of the iron game for an extended period of time.
Intermediate: a lifter who has packed on some muscle and strength, and is still making regular progress.
Advanced: a lifter [...]
Understanding Training
Most lifters have a decent grasp of training theory. Lift heavy and hard, rest and eat. But do they?
The lifting heavy and hard part is easy. Go into the gym, bust your butt, leave. “Nuff said. And the eating part…ahhhh, the eating part. Who here amongst us doesn’t like to eat? And who here amongst [...]
The Old Man Routine
Take a ride in the Wayback Machine…
Remember back to your teens and twenties, you used to hit the weights like a madman. Your body looked good, and you felt great. That was before the pressures of work, children, marriage, and the onset of age kicked in.
Now you are in your late 30’s or beyond, out [...]
Strongman Doug Hepburn and Mad Cows
Study the posts on most training forums and you can make one conclusion: regardless of exercises used, regardless of the split used, rest is the key to growth. Period. End of story.
But back before the information overkill era, there was a different style of training that was popular. What was this secret training style? Full [...]
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