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Eating is a very pleasurable thing for most of us, but for bodybuilders - it's their JOB! Nobody enjoys tossing down 12 or 18 egg whites for breakfast, let's be honest. Nobody enjoys the taste of chicken off the Foreman grill, by the pound. And how many whey shakes can we toss down each day...

Carbohydrates are a very important part of your diet especially if you are a bodybuilder. That is why we need to know what carbs are. Read on! What Are Carbohydrates (Bodybuilding Nutrition) By Gerald J. Riches If you're about to embark on a new health and fitness plan, it's imperative that...

Getting Eggy With It: 6 Ways To Prepare Eggs As a bodybuilder, you've no doubt done your fair share of studying what the mass monsters of our sport are eating on a daily basis, right? You see their videos where they trudge out of bed at the ungodly hour of 10 am (yes, being a pro bodybuilder...

Fiber - The Bodybuilder's Best Friend Are you a bodybuilder who works non-stop in the gym (training), the kitchen (cooking & eating) and in the bedroom (sleeping - Get your mind out of the gutter), but cannot seem to see the results you should be seeing from such efforts? One factor which is...

Twenty and Under: The Rule Of Body Fat Percentage When Building Muscle Mass Everybody wants to add a ton of muscle "mass" to their frame, but the word "mass" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. If you're reigning Mr. Olympia Phil Heath, then adding mass would mean...

Alex Aronis Power Up With Plyometric Training By Andy G Improve conditioning, increase muscle development and propel your physique to new heights! While these moves may seem better suited for the playground, they're actually beneficial to those of us a few years beyond playtime. These...

Here are 5 reasons why you are not growing muscle! You talk the talk, and you try to walk the walk. You follow a disciplined diet plan, scarfing down piles of chicken, rice, pasta, eggs, and mile each day. You hit the gym religiously and you train longer and harder than most people around...

If you're looking for the one move that brings together everyone that has ever hit the gym, from bodybuilders to powerlifters and even complete novices, then it should be deadlifting. Being the best of all compound exercises, it's difficult for any other type of weight lifting to replace...

If you're tired of struggling to lose weight and are impatient to see some results, we have good news: You have options. And here's better news: We're not talking about crash dieting, doing hours of cardio, or drastically cutting back on a crucial macronutrient like carbs or fats. Instead, try...

Weight loss is a funny subject. The idea of just eating less is simple, yet we crave instant gratification and tend to overcomplicate things, a situation not conducive to efficient fat loss that sticks around. You can get all kinds of "how to" information from the internet, magazines, and social...

By Paul Carter Recently, I didn't eat any food for 60 hours. Like, in a row. I know what you're thinking. So much gains lost. Many catabolisms. Years ago, I would have been right there with you. In fact, I used to call intermittent fasting "intermittent starving." I thought it was the dumbest...

"There was a point in my life where I thought, 'I don't care if I die young. I just want to be in the biggest pine box possible,'" recalls Kaleb Redden. Back in those days, he was a football player and diehard lifter with plenty of gains—and plenty of injuries—to show for his efforts. He was...

There are two things that almost every lifter in the weight room cares about: growing their chest and increasing their bench. Fortunately, if you focus on one, you can usually improve the other. Although strength is usually a bigger priority for powerlifters, bodybuilders can also benefit from...

Pre-workout supplements have become a training staple on a par with protein powder, and with good reason—they're effective and easy to use. So easy to use, in fact, that the very name tells you exactly when to take it. In light of that See-Spot-Run simplicity, how could someone mess up their...

When people are struggling to lose weight, they often don't realize how much of it is because of their diet plan—or lack of one. If you're trying to lose weight and aren't following a targeted weight-loss meal plan, you're making things harder than they need to be. Yes, you can lose weight by...

Dehydration is one of the most popular practices weight-class athletes and bodybuilders use to help shed the last few pounds. In a quest to make weight or come in with a more defined physique, athletes will restrict water intake, perform cardio in head-to-toe sweats, or melt away in a sauna, all...

Americans are experts on gaining size. Sadly, with over a third of our population classified as obese, that's not the kind of "mass" you're after. Yet that's exactly what indiscriminate eating and a lack of exercise can do for you. If you're committed to a resistance-training program, you can...

So, how would you load before a contest if you're following a higher fat, or I should say maybe medium fat, low to zero carb diet? People will call it a ketogenic diet, they're doing bodybuilding contest prep. Usually it's not the case, usually it's not a ketogenic diet. Hardly will it be 70...

All right. Facebook Q and A. Troy Guillory asked a very good question. He was asking, doing steady state cardio around your weight training session if the adenosine monophosphate kinase the amp K promotion would defeat the mTOR response from your weight training or mechanical force resistance...

By: Matt Weik How many different muscle-building or bodybuilding workouts (bro splits) have you tried only to find yourself frustrated and ready to break the gym mirror? Week in and week out, you feel like you've busted your tail in the gym only to see minimal, if any, changes to your...