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What’s the Best Ratio of Calories for Muscle Gain?
If you want to gain muscle, then you need to train hard and get plenty of sleep and rest, but you also need to make sure you’re taking in enough calories. Beyond just eating enough, though, does it matter how you divide up your calories? In particular, what’s the best ratio of calories for muscle gain? Let’s look at the […]
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Can High-Intensity Interval Training or HIIT Burn Fat and Why Does It Matter?
If there’s one part of bodybuilding that just about everyone involved would skip if they could, it’s aerobic training. For those who dread long, boring sessions on the treadmill or exercise bike, high-intensity interval training, or HIIT burn fat, has the potential to make things a little more interesting AND yield better results. Let’s look at what HIIT […]
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What Is Heme Iron and How Can It Affect Your Health?
If you spend much time on bodybuilding forums across the internet, you will inevitably run into discussions about “heme iron” and how it may help or hinder your lifting progress. You may also notice a small but vocal group of folks who insist that heme iron can have terrible consequences for your health. Of course, your first […]
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What is a Fad Diet? Do Fad Diets Work?
Everybody wants to see quick results with their fitness routine — that’s why so many training programs tout instant muscle gains, 30-day abs, and quick fat loss. But it’s not just training programs that promise fast and easy results, as fad diets have become a huge industry in their own right. According to Segen’s The Concise Dictionary of […]
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Here Are 5 Popular HIT Ways for Bodybuilding Bigger Arms
Just about every guy who walks into the gym wants to build big arms, but that’s no easy task for most of us. It doesn’t help that arms are one of the trickiest muscle groups to train, either. The problem with building arms is training enough to make them grow, but not so much that you overtrain them. See, no matter […]
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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 […]