Getting Started
By Paige Waehner,
If you want to lose fat or change your body, one of the most important things you can do is lift weights. Diet and cardio are equally important, but when it comes to changing how your body looks, weight training wins hands down. If you’ve hesitated to start a strength training program, [...]
Antonio, Ph.D., CSCS, FACSM, FNSCA, FISSN
According to the NAAFA website, “Founded in 1969, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) is a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to ending size discrimination in all of its forms. NAAFA’s goal is to help build a society in which people of every size are accepted with dignity [...]
Workers who make their living from intense and prolonged manual labor, often possess outstanding forearm strength. This comes from lifting, twisting and rotating heavy objects, not just lifting a weight up and down in the same plane. As bodybuilders, we don’t typically rely on our jobs to develop the muscles that will win competitions. Nevertheless, [...]
Muscle mass is critical to bodybuilding success, but bodybuilding champions are more than just the accumulation of slabs of beef. If that were not the case, the bodybuilder of average height could never beat a six-foot two-inch athlete. Muscle width, depth and symmetry are additional factors in the formula of bodybuilding success, and the illusive [...]
In 1961, Karl Klein, from the University of Texas, published a paper showing that deep squats loosened the knee ligaments (J Assoc Phys Ment Rehabil, 15: 6-11, 1961). Based on this study, the American Medical Association recommended against deep squats. This paper caused several generations of American men to practice ‘curtsy squats’ and leg presses [...]
By:Josh Henkin
We have all heard the expression “people grow outside the gym not inside.” However, what does this really mean, it means that recovery from training is where one achieves all their results. In the last few years post-workout nutrition has gained significant attention because researchers have found the body is most apt to absorb [...]
Testosterone, which has a powerful fat loss effect, is reduced whenever alcohol is consumed, thus halting its full potential as a fat burner. Also, testosterone as an anabolic hormone, contributes to gains in lean muscle mass. Lowered testosterone means fewer muscle gains, and less muscle means a lowered metabolic rate.
A lower metabolic rate will [...]
Summer is here, and will be here every year, so whether you are within reach of your bikini body, or would like to gather your ammo and fine tune for next year, here are some safe, all-natural diet tips, taken from the new book The Bikini Diet by Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, PH. D.
Don’t drink fruit [...]
By Shereen Legtvig
I eat a healthy diet Monday through Friday, but on the weekends, it’s no holds barred. How do I bring in the reins?
Answer: After working hard all week, you are ready for some rest and relaxation — and that mindset seems to also extend to your diet. You start with cocktails and [...]
