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September 11, 2018
More Performance, More Results
It is no secret that if you are looking to maximize your true muscular potential, then your weight training workouts need to be pretty dam intense. Your job, once you hit those cold iron weights, is to push your body to its absolute limits. If you let your body off easily, you simply won’t force it to adapt, and by adapt, I simply mean getting stronger and bigger! As I always like to say, if you always leave the gym in the exact same state you entered, you did not train hard enough. The reality is, muscle growth does not come easy. There is a cost, and that cost is energy. Muscle is metabolically expensive to the body requiring a ton of energy for its general maintenance and function. If you want this muscle, you are going to have to give your body a dammed good reason to develop more of it! Prepare to battle with your body. To build more muscle, you need to train for it, and that means, lifting heavy,
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September 11, 2018
SARMS: The Next Best Thing?
Over the last few years, there has been a surge in the use of SARMS, so called selective androgen receptor modulators to boost performance, accelerate fat loss and, enhance muscle size and strength. Clinically, SARMS could have a lot of potential to offer with regards to muscle wasting and osteoporosis. This is owing to their highly selective nature to androgen receptors in both muscle and bone tissue, while imparting a much weaker influence on those receptors
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September 10, 2018
Why protein is essential for muscle growth
First things first: you need weight training to stimulate muscle growth. I think we can all agree that if you want to pack on quality muscle, then getting to the gym and lifting heavy ass weight is a must. No way around it. If you are not doing that already, then that is your first point of action. But, this is just the very first step on the
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September 10, 2018
You have more to learn than you think!
Competing in a bodybuilding show has perhaps become the new cool thing to do. From my experience, this is a common trend with the new kids on the block: you sign up for a gym membership, lift some weights, guzzle down a protein shake, and behold, over the coming first few months of your weight training endeavors, you begin to notice some pretty startling and rapid changes to your physique. This might spark some feeling of invincibility within you. Changes like becoming bigger and fuller, the unravelling of hidden vascularity, as well as the emergence of visible lines that brings out muscle detail you only thought was possible in your wildest superhero-like dreams. Once you experience these changes, it’s really not a surprise that many develop the deep desire and curiosity to take things much further and see how far they can truly push the boundaries of what their body is capable of.
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October 13, 2017
If you weightlift or do cardio it is important to remember that the body will need to rest. Too much time spent in the gym without a recovery period can be detrimental to the body.
Rest
To improve body performance and definition working hard is a must. Nutrition and rest however is arguably more important. Failing to rest between workouts can put the body under a lot of stress making it difficult to recover properly. Rest in fact makes you stronger. It allows for the recovery of broken down muscles ensuring that they repair themselves. As you rest you become stronger and able to handle increased weights, sets and reps.
How does this happen?
Aerobic training challenges the cardiovascular system and weight training challenges both the cardiovascular
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July 14, 2017
What is Protein Mania?
Protein Mania is a protein powder made up of Whey Protein Isolate, Soya Protein Isolate, Creatine Monohydrate, L-Glutamine and Taurine. It comes in four fantastic flavours including strawberry, vanilla, chocolate and banana.
So what’s all the hype about?
Protein Mania may sound like any other protein powder available on the market, but here’s the difference. A staggering 99 grammes of 100 grammes of this product is protein. This means that for every 30-gram serving you have you are consuming 29 grammes of protein. That’s a whopping amount, and it’s the only protein product available on the market that offers such high quantities.
Protein Mania is also jam packed with vital nutrients and contains zero carbohydrates and zero fat.
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July 14, 2017
To reach your fitness goals, you must put together an achievable plan of action. There are no instant results when it comes to fitness. It takes time, patience and dedication to see the results you desire.
What’s important to remember is that you won’t see physical changes straight away. You will, however, feel them. For example: when you first begin an exercise regime you will find it difficult. Your -breathing will be staggered, and you’ll tire out quickly. If however, you stick to it, you will find as early as the third time you go that it is easier for you.
With clear goals put in place and a knowledge of how you’re going to achieve them, you are more likely to reach them. For tips on how to do this, we have put together some easy to follow steps.
Set Long Term Goals:
It’s a good idea to know what fitness goals you want to achieve long term from your fitness plan. This could be any number of things including weight
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June 15, 2017
We are inundated with images of buff men and women flaunting their ironclad abs and defined muscles. The gym can do wondrous things for a person but doing it wrong can cause the body to deplete rather than replenish. It’s not only in the gym where you can make your mistakes though, in fact, a lot of errors are made post workout. Below are the top 5 worst post-workout mistakes you can make.
Mistake 1 – staying in your gym clothing
It may seem like a good idea when you return home to stay sat in your gym clothing.
When you go to the gym, you get hot and sweaty, and clothing becomes damp. Sitting in this clothing provides the perfect environment for bacteria to grow and cling to you. It also makes it difficult to get warm and can cause you to develop a chill that is hard to fend off.
Even in you are unable to shower right after your workout you should still change into fresh clothes including socks and shoes. Doing so helps to keep your
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March 31, 2017
Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators or “SARMs” as they’re commonly known are becoming popular in the bodybuilding industry. The name itself is pretty intimidating but this article aims to break down the basics of what they are, why they’re so popular and the risks involved. Here, we’re going to discuss two of the most popular SARMs that have consistently delivered results.
How do SARMs work?
To put it simply, SARMs stimulate the production of growth hormones aka testosterone (or androgens) in the body by binding to the areas that are responsible for the production of these growth hormones (these are known as androgen receptors).
Once bound, they send a message to the androgen receptors to flood the body with growth hormones.
Androgens are responsible
