- Healthy Habits for increasing Muscle Mass
For you to get the best results from your workout, your body needs all the necessary vitamins and minerals as well as necessary levels of major components of the diet being proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. These are referred to as the 'macro-nutrients' of the diet as they are consumed in much larger quantities, where as the 'micro-nutrients' being vitamins and minerals are consumed in much smaller quantities. - Weight Training for Teenagers (part 1)
Creating an acceptable image is what motivates teenagers in the modern world. But the pressure to achieve success can be extreme and a physical image needs dedication to a point that the agony of defeat can lead to suicidal despondency. With the additional battle against adolesent hormones, spots and pimples appear just to make life even more difficult and every straw is clutched inorder to get within the acceptable norm physically. - Teenagers and Weight Training (part 2)
Try to make the routines fun, not an ordeal. Never force youngsters to train against their will. They can do all free standing exercises, flexibility exercises, plus the learning of sport skills and the related sportsmanship and team work required in such sports. Weight training exercises should as we said in part 1 be light to medium and avoidance made of the potentially dangerous exercises such as dead lifts, heavy cheat bent over rowing, cheat barbell curls and the spine busting bending heavy low squats. - Starting out with creatine (Part 1)
Whether you are either young or a bodybuilding novice, it is crucial that this be read before you reach a decision that can and will alter the rest of your life. So the big question is are you too young? Well in response to numerous e-mails on Cycles from youngsters, I decided to write this article. Here are a few examples of their e-mails. - Too Young to use Creatine (Part 2)
So tell me, when can I commence and why? Well I would always say 21 is a recommended age to start. And why?....Well basically in a male up til 21, the natural level of testosterone is high which causes sparadic growth spurts, which means that bones, muscle tissue etc. are still not fully developed and body maturity is still incomplete. - Too Young to use (Part 3)
By when I got to 21, I was 6 foot 1' but if I had started juicing before I probably wouldn't have. Now I felt ready both mentally and physically. I had learnt to train the hard way without drugs and this gave me the determination to succeed. You just need to push yourself to the limit over a period of time and diet is crucial...I worked myself up to 7 daily meals. - The future of Bodybuilders (Part 1)
As we well know, Bodybuilders are just mere mortals and will die at some time just like the rest of us, but this Bodybuilder was only 30 years old. He wasn't of the most famous in the world, not even in the world of bodybuilding. He was though an American heavyweight and had won several state titles and he was a top ten player at National level. - Thed Future of Bodybuilders (Part 2)
Fifty or more years ago, drugs played little part in bodybuilding. The first we heard of drug use in sport was in the late 1950s and top level bodybuilders were starting to use Dianabol in the early 60s. It was about this time that all the major drug companies thought that they could make lots of money if they developed their own steroid drugs and almost all the steroid drugs which are still in use today were developed then. Of course steroids were never the great bonanza that drug companies expected and when the first reports of drug use in sports started to appear, a lot of companies abandoned the products. There are lots of steroids that had patents registered but were never fully developed - some of them quite good products too. - Bodybuilders and their Future (Part 3)
On 22nd May 2003, a Bodybuilder died. Scott Klein was found lying dead on his bed at 5.00am by his mother. He died of cardio-vascular disease and kidney failure. His death may have had absolutely nothing to do with bodybuilding, but 30 year old men do not die suddenly with kidney failure unless there is some known genetic weakness and, as far as I am aware, that was not the case here. In the same week that I heard about Scott Klein I read detailed reports of the illness of Tom Prince - another great bodybuilder - with ulcers and kidney problems. - Bodybuilding and common Training Errors (Part 1)
Eating like a pigeon: This is really quite straight forward. You need an excess of calories in your diet in order to grow new tissues. If you see that you are not putting weight on, then quite simply eat more proteins, carbs and even fats. - Bodybuilding and your Training Errors (Part 2)
It is a proven fact that our post training body has the ability to synthesis more protein. It is also a fact that our muscle tissue after training is a lot more sensitive to insulin and that the simple carbs tend to stock themselves up with glycogen rather than replenishing our body fat levels. - Anabolic Steroids and Your Blood (Part 1)
Even a weight trainer engaged in heavy lifting will return out of the norm results even with no use of anabolic steroids. Now we all know the liver is one of the most important organs in the body Duh! - they all are! Detoxification, numerous processes involved in the conversion of food for energy, growth and repair. - Steroids And Blood (part 2)
When it comes to glucose, a body-builder is not too concerned, although he should while on medication as the blood sugar levels can be adversely affected. If we add that fact that most body-builders take in abnormal levels of carbs, these extreme levels could be the onset of diabetes. - Squatters On Squats And Squatting (part 1)
If someone down the gym tells you that their favourite exercise is squats, well they would be either genetically gifted, they may be a masochist or just a bullshiter. While squatting is as a natural position as resting or having a pee, it is in fact as unnatural as my x wife's tits when having a heavy weight crushing into your neck and straightening up from a curved spine position. Although it is an unnatural movement it doesn't mean it isn't a quality exercise, but the normal reaction would be that you get it over and done with asap. - Steroids And Drug Testing (part 1)
There are drug tests carried out in almost all modern day sporting events. Although we tend to always hear the contrary through the media, it is in fact a common fact that the majority of competitors actually use performance enhancing drugs prior to or even right up to an event. There is nothing abnormal in wanting to get that competitive edge over your opponent and this normally tends to be anabolic steroids along with a concrete plan to "cheat the test" - testing for anabolic steroids (part 2)
Immuno Assay (IA) This procedure uses antibodies that bind to specific drugs, or the metabolites of the drugs produced from their interaction with the body, in order to detect such substances. This test is only as good as the antibodies chosen, as antibodies vary in their specificity of binding; that is, they may also bind to other substances present in the sample that are not illegal by recognising a similarity in another 'like' molecule, and yet, as a result, indicate that an illegal substance would be used. - Bodybuilding Guide - Testex or Viromone?
A bodybuilder who used fairly low androgenic gear in the past due to not wanting too much water retention told me he was thinking of taking something a little higher and that his dealer had suggested Viromone or Testex. He asked me to explain what the different results might be, so I gave him the following answer. - Training Techniques - Training The Largest Muscles (Part 2)
The all important water can also be used to help flush nutrients (e.g. amino acids, vitamins etc.) through your body, which enables these nutrients to bathe all your tissues optimally and ensure their optimum health, which is vital for good gains: this could not be achieved in a low water intake environment. It's also important to note that the amino acid L-glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in muscle tissue, and so it's well worthwhile to supplement your diet with extra L-glutamine.
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