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18 Exercise Upgrades for More Muscle (article)
Bench Press What You're Doing Wrong You're thinking only about pushing the bar up from your chest. Perfect Your Form 1. "Every time you lower the weight, squeeze your shoulder blades together and pull the bar to your chest," says Craig Rasmussen, C.S.C.S., a fitness coach at Results Fitness in Santa Clarita, California.…
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6 Habits to Chisel a Solid 6-Pack
If you can't see your abs, don't assume it's because you're missing out on a magical abdominal exercise or secret supplement. Blame your mindset. You see, losing belly flab is a boring process. It requires time, hard work, and most important, dedication. Take the right steps every single day, and you'll ultimately carve…
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12 FOODS FOR A FLAT BELLY
This article sounds more like healthy food than flat stomach food now that I read about it LOL so I'll rename it to: 12 FOODS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH ALMONDS AND OTHER NUTS (With Skins Intact) Superpowers Build muscle, reduce cravings Fights Obesity, heart disease, muscle loss, wrinkles, cancer, high blood pressure BEANS AND…
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10 New Weight Loss Myths and Facts
Even though we all know that the best way to stay healthy and physically fit is to eat well-rounded, nutritionally sound meals and exercise for at least 20 minutes a day, it's human nature to seek out better, "cutting-edge," get-thin-quick fads and glom onto them like they're gospel. Don't eat after 8 p.m.? You got it.…
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The Perfect Sports Warmup
Power up your pistons with a warmup that targets your keister. Performing body-weight glute exercises increases explosiveness in your lower half, found a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Researchers had 22 Australian football players warm up three ways: by performing low-load glute exercises, by…
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8 Weight-Lifting Fixes for More Muscle (article)
8 Weight-Lifting Fixes for More Muscle I'm a sports-performance coach. For 20 years, I've been hanging around in gyms, coaching thousands of football, basketball, and track-and-field athletes on how to build muscle and lose weight. I show up before the gym rats and leave after they jump ship. And that means I've seen every…
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15-Minute Workout: V-Shape Shortcut (article)
If you're going to work your vanity muscles (nothing wrong with that!), choose exercises that provide fast results. This routine uses overhand, underhand, and neutral grips, which combine to demand more of your biceps and triceps. Also, the multimuscle moves will build your chest, back, and shoulders, says Matt McGorry,…
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Six Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know About Guinness
Note: I posted this here because of the health benefit they in this article To my fellow Guinness people, enjoy your beer and know you're doing something healthy :drinker: Six Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know About Guinness Guinness is a beer that inspires contemplation unlike any other. You watch in silent approval…
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The Truth About Protein (article)
If you are what you eat, what does that make a vegan? A string-bean, milquetoast kind of a guy? Of course not—and renowned strength coach Robert dos Remedios, a vegan, is strong evidence to the contrary. Really strong. But most men eat animal products. And we really do become what we eat. Our skin, bones, hair, and nails…
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P90X:2 April 2nd
March 25th is my last day of P90X. After that I'll take a week "off", meaning I'll stick with cycling, cardio and abs workouts. On April 2nd (Monday) I'm starting P90X:2 If anyone wants to join and start on that day, feel free to add it to the calendar and send me a friend request. Let's see how tough is this sequel…
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5 ways to annihilate your abs
5 WAYS TO ANNIHILATE YOUR ABS Construct a midsection worth showing off with these five gym strategies By Eric Velazquez, NSCA-CPT Muscle soreness isn't all bad. That deep, down-to-the-bone tenderness is worn like a badge of honor by gym rats who pride themselves on pushing their bodies to the limit. They know that this…
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Need medicine balls? Cheap and easy way of making them...
How to make your own medicine balls. http://howto.menshealth.com/make-your-own-medicine-ball
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4 Mistakes that Make You Fat (article)
YOU DRINK DIET SODA LIKE IT'S WATER. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study found that when people swapped their favorite sugary soft drink for the diet variety, they ate more desserts and more bread than people who swapped their go-to beverage for water. Artificial sweeteners may increase your hunger for…
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Studies, Researchs, Facts, and more....
Taken from Muscle & Performance magazine, February 2011 issue. FIBER Just because we eat plants doesn't mean that we can actually use every single ounce of them. Fiber is the indigestible part of plants, and it's very beneficial. There are two types: soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber absorbs fluid, turning gelatinous…
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Slim Foods That Fill You Up
Slim Foods That Fill You Up The following food choices are nutrient dense and have been scientifically proven to fill you up, shrink your appetite, or help you drop pounds Artichokes When you get bored with leafy greens (and that can happen easily when you’re counting calories), artichokes are the way to go. They make an…
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When Drugs Turn Deadly
This might not be fun or games, but I didn't know where else to post this. When Drugs Turn Deadly Combining drugs can turn deadly. One drug may alter another's breakdown rate or amplify its effects. "even if some of the desired effects—such as pain relief—are synergistic, all drugs have negative side effects too. And…
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14 Smart Pushup Improvements (article)
Guys tend to abandon the pushup for the bench press sometime around puberty. Which is why you usually have to wait in line at the gym for a bench while there's always plenty of floor space. But the once-forgotten pushup has recently muscled its way back to the top of the exercise universe. Why? Because it not only builds a…
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Nothing says "I love you" like... (LOL)
I'd marry the girl who brings me bacon roses for Valentine's LOL
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Personal question about calories for adults
Has anyone with a Fitbit, HRM, BodyBugg, BodyMedia, or any other calorie counter devise has taken the time to count how many calories they burn while having sex? I think it would be a great idea to log those calories too if you think about how "crazy" and "creative" things could get and that equals more calories burned.…
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Chía seeds.... Fiberrrrrr and more
Yesterday I posted information about Nopalina, a MFP friend mentioned the Chía seeds which I knew about them, I just didn't know all the benefits from it, so here it is. Advantages of the Chia Seed • Chia seed is the biggest vegetable source for Omega-3. • It has antioxidants, proteins, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and…
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The science behind weight loss
What science? As far as I've seen there sooooo many scientists, experts, nutritionists and the list goes on and on, arguing about what works and what doesn't. It gets pretty confusing and frustrating after a while, specially when you see something is not working for you but it works for others. With that said, we all…
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Excellent Motivation Idea. A MUST read!
So I came up with this idea, I don't know if someone has done this before or not. Hopefully people will actually like it and participate, totally up to all of you. All of us here are in this website for the same reason, just different goals, which is reaching a fitness level. When I used to be part of the BeachBody team,…
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15 Easy Ways to Burn More Fat (article)
Don't Diet The Women's Health Diet isn't about eating less; it's about eating more—more nutrient-dense food, to crowd out the empty calories and keep you full all day. That's important, because restricting food will kill your metabolism. It sends a signal to your body that says, "I'm starving here!" And your body responds…
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New Study Finds Secret to a Faster Metabolism (article)
Eating carbohydrates makes you store belly fat. Eating protein puts on muscle. Most people know that. But a recent study1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that when you over eat on a low protein diet, you store bad fat around your organs including the liver, kidneys and pancreas. But if you eat a…
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Banish Your Man Boobs (article)
You probably love a great set of breasts—as long as you’re not the one sporting them. Turns out, more and more men are lining up to get rid of their man boobs or “moobs.” Male breast reduction surgeries increased by 6 percent in 2011, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. But you might not need to go under…
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Guinness oldest female bodybuilder at 74
Seventy-four with a six-pack: Meet the grandmother who is the world's oldest female bodybuilder She may be a grandmother, but don't call her old. Ernestine Shepherd, 74, of Baltimore has been crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest competitive female bodybuilder ever. She told the Washington Post: 'Age…
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8 Foods You Should Eat Every Day
Of course, no one should just eat this 8 foods and that's it, but the article is interesting as to why this specific 8 foods are awesome. When you visit the site, you'll see the list on the left side of the screen in red. Click each food to read about them. It sometimes seems as if the internal politics of the Middle East…
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Turn On Your Lean Genes
Once again, I'm sharing another interesting article. Read the full thing using the link at the bottom of this post :) Turn On Your Lean Genes What’s the biggest nutrition breakthrough for the next 25 years? Our vote goes to nutrigenomics—the study of the interaction between what you eat and your DNA. Researchers have…
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Just a Theory: Diet Soda
I was just reading this article from Men's Health. I'm just sharing the article and link but I'm not going to participate in the thread, since I know there are mixed feelings about this topic, and like I wrote in the subject and it is said in the article, it is a theory. The full article can be read using the link at the…
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Any specific muscle you don't work?
Do you have any muscle or muscles you don't work because no matter what it will always grow more than any other muscle in your body? In my case is the trapezius. If only my biceps would grow as much as the trapezius grow even when I don't directly work them out, it would be heave for me.
