While you’re driving home from the gym, muscle growth and repair is happening at the cellular level.
Cellular synthesis and tissue repair depend on a variety of vitamins and minerals.
While these vitamins can typically be found in a balanced diet, frequent lifters may find that certain...
3 Surprising Reasons Why You Need to Rediscover Slow Growth
written by JAMES CLEAR
SELF-IMPROVEMENT STRENGTH TRAINING
We all have goals that we’d like to reach.
And, if we had the choice, we would prefer to reach them sooner rather than later.
There’s nothing wrong with achieving a goal quickly...
Exercise to Failure for Muscle Growth - Fact or Fiction
By Donovan Baldwin
What is exercise to failure?
Well, most simply, it's doing repetitions, often multiple sets, until you can't do any more. The muscle fails to perform.
That's pretty straightforward, but, is it true?
Yes and no...
Four of the best supplements for fat loss and lean muscle growth
If we had the choice, 9 out of 10 of us would have a much bigger and more muscular body, with much smaller body fat percentages. Many of us would ideally like to be at around 10% or less body fat, with large amounts of lean...
Peptides in simple words are amino acids. But peptides actually refer to a vast array of biological compounds with no uniformity in terms of their composition or their effect on our body.
If we look at the history of peptides, they have long been used by the bodybuilding community. Although...
Bodybuilding might sound daunting to some of us. But it’s just a simple workout plan with small tips that optimize your efforts, so today, let’s talk about the two things to include in your diet to get the best possible bodybuilding results, fish, and meat!
Lean fish!
Fish is the best option...
You’ve no doubt seen plenty of 30-day transformation stories. If you read enough of these, you may think going from lean to muscular is quick and easy. In real life, however, muscle growth is a much slower process.
So, how much muscle can you really expect to gain in a single month?
“I’ve seen...
Growth hormone and adipocyte function in obesity
S Y Nam 1 , C Marcus
Affiliations
PMID: 10895049 DOI: 10.1159/000053211
Abstract
In obesity, growth hormone (GH) secretion is impaired which is considered a consequence rather than a cause of obesity. GH regulates the expression of GH receptor...
Therapeutic aspects of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I treatment on visceral fat and insulin sensitivity in adults
K C J Yuen 1 , D B Dunger
Affiliations
PMID: 17199714 DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.00591.x
Abstract
Growth hormone (GH) is generally considered to exert...
Growth hormone therapy and its relationship to insulin resistance, glucose intolerance and diabetes mellitus: a review of recent evidence
William Jeffcoate 1
Affiliations
PMID: 11945115 DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200225030-00005
Abstract
It is widely recommended that consideration should be given...
Can human growth hormones really benefit aging, like the elusive fountain of youth? In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida to search for the fountain of youth. If he got any benefit from his quest, it was due to the exercise involved in the search.
Few men today...
Rest Periods Influence Growth
by Chris Aceto
If you are a regular reader, I am sure you are aware that I continue to be a big believer in heavy training. Not Heavy Duty-one-set-to-failure. But, heavy training using multiple sets for each body part. Nothing influences muscle growth more so than...
Metformin is one of the most effective drugs for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. This type of diabetes is the form where the body does not respond effectively to insulin, primarily because the insulin receptor has become desensitized. Since one of insulin?s primary functions is to shuttle...
I found this while searching to give some an idea of how it is used in AA.
I use bac water because supposedly you have 30 days to use it and that is really all you need per vial.
There is much more information out there and not all of it agrees with the other.
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The use of peptides by...
Any one run this yet? Can’t find a whole lot of info on it. What I did find is when combined with igf-1 LR3 results are pretty amazing. I get great results from igf-1 lr3 alone but combining the two has sparked my interest.
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Building significant amounts of muscle mass is a difficult venture regardless of your background and ability. Add in any number of different variables and sometimes it can feel downright impossible.
Luckily, this guide is here to help. We’re going to take a look at some...
Attention: a valuable bodybuilding nutrient has gotten a bad rap — here, we set the record straight on soy protein.
Soy protein powder is the most misunderstood and underrated protein powder on the market today.
Do we have your attention? If you’ve been a victim of the misinformation...
OPENING ARGUMENTS
Most bodybuilders realize that to keep making constant gains and not stagnate it’s important to frequently change your training variables, such as the amount of weight used, the number of reps completed per set, and the exercises used. Yet many bodybuilders forget about...