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CrossFit Program for Beginners: How to Get Started
If heading into the gym three days a week to lift weights and maybe throwing in a couple of jogging sessions sounds just a tad more exciting than waiting in line to watch paint dry, then maybe you need to shake up your workout a bit. Maybe you’re ready to give CrossFit a try. CrossFit is a program designed […]
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Does Glutamine Work On Muscle Growth?
Aside from creatine and protein, glutamine is probably the most popular bodybuilding supplement of the last decade. Purported benefits include better recovery, more muscle growth, and enhanced mental performance. But there has been something of a backlash against glutamine supplements in recent years, with critics pointing out that your body can make glutamine and claiming that taking in extra is just […]
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Here Are 10 Vitamins For Health That You NEED Now
While they may not be as “sexy” as the major muscle builders like protein and creatine, no nutrients are as important as vitamins for keeping us healthy and training hard. In fact, several vitamins are labeled as “essential” because we HAVE to have them to stay alive, but we cannot make them from other substances we consume. Here is […]
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Here Are the 10 Essential Vitamins and Minerals You MUST Get From Your Diet
The human body is a complicated machine capable of many stunning achievements, including manufacturing some of its own nutrients. Most substances that we need to maintain life and health cannot be manufactured in the body, though, and these are the essential nutrients. Most vitamins fall into that “essential” category, so we MUST get them from our diets. What follows is a list of […]
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Can You Take Zinc For Muscle Growth?
Nothing is more important to bodybuilders than adding more muscle mass naturally, and we’re wiling to try some pretty unusual supplements to help in that quest. We would do well, though, to NOT overlook some common vitamins and minerals, like zinc. Some experts have claimed for years that zinc helps build muscle, while others say that it’s a nutrient vital to […]
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Can Eating Red Meat Everyday Help You Build Muscle?
If you look back on bodybuilding diets over the last 100 years or so, you’ll find plenty of milk, bread, potatoes, and other whole foods, but one of the staples has been red meat. Many of the biggest, most muscular men have eaten beef on a regular basis. But can eating red meat everyday really help […]
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Build Wider Shoulders With These 4 HIT Tips
Of all the muscle groups in your body, shoulders are the ones that can help you make a strong first physical impression in just about every setting. After all, nothing speaks to a powerful physique quite like barn-door wide shoulders capped with full, round deltoids. Whether you’re on the beach or in a suit, you need big shoulders to look […]
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Build Ripped Abs with These 5 High Intensity Abs Workout Tips
Hardcore lifters want to see their numbers training numbers climb and their muscles bulge from workout to workout, but not every guy who picks up a barbell wants to look like The Hulk. One goal that just about EVERYONE in the gym has, though, is building a set of strong, ripped abs. In their zest for tight abs, […]
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5 Best Biceps Exercises with Weights
If there is one goal that just about all lifters have in common, it’s building big biceps. After all, biceps are THE “show” muscle for most of us, and we happily flex our bis whenever someone asks us to “make a muscle.” The ironic thing about focusing so much attention on biceps, though, is that […]
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Avoid These Unhealthy Proteins If You Want to Get Bigger
If you want to get as big as you possibly can, you need to focus on eating good, quality protein and build each of your meals around taking in enough protein to support growth. But not just ANY protein will do the job, and some may actually work against you in building new muscle. Here are four unhealthy proteins that you […]