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What is insulin? Insulin is a hormone secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas that controls the metabolism and cellular uptake of sugars, proteins, and fats. As a drug, it is used principally to control diabetes. Insulin is not a steroid. What type of insulin should I use for...

Implementing the Glycemic Index By John Fowlie The Glycemic Index The Glycemic Index (GI) is a digestion rating system for carbohydrates. Foods which have a high GI are digested and absorbed quickly into the blood stream while those with a low GI are digested and absorbed slower. There are...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Athletes Post Workout Needs The sweat dripping off your brow and stinging your eyes, your veins engulfed with blood as you complete your last rep, the burn of your muscle fibers as you push...

pretty much. only difference is you sift at the end. Then reblend big chunks.

If you think carbohydrates are the best fuel for muscles and help them grow the fastest, think again! Al: Dr. Ellis, is there really any debate at all? Everyone knows that carbohydrates are what bodybuilders need, right? Ellis: Despite what everyone thinks, carbohydrates are not the preferred...

Firstly lets be clear when Im talking about my own experiences Im talking about a competitive athlete and all the ancillaries that would be used such as Gear, GH, T3 and the like. Now while I do use performance enhancers the premise of what I will go into is the same for all, its how you adapt...

Dual Factor Training ----------------------- Dual Factor training is extremely effective for intermediate/advanced trainees. Dual Factor is essentially about volume loading, then deloading, then intensity loading. The volume loading brings you to the brink of overtraining (over-reaching), the...

Top Ten Training Errors. 1. Eating like a pigeon. This really is very, very simple. If you do not have a surplus of calories in your diet then you will not grow any new tissue. If you are not gaining weight then you need to eat more food; not just more protein but more carbohydrates and more...

Before we get on to the dumbbell squat, I wanna first talk about squats and why you should be doing them. As I’m sure you already know, squatting is often referred to as ‘the king of exercises’ for building mass. Many assume that this title is earned in reference to the squat’s ability to...

A Few Simple Ideas to Mix Up Your Routine every now and then I catch myself stuck in the same routine and my workout starts to get a little boring. I know this is starting to happen when it gets easy to miss my regular workout. Recently, I noticed this had happened when I easily talked myself...

The slower your reps, the more your muscles grow Research done by Nicholas Burd, a sports scientist in the Stuart Phillips stable, may well radically change the way we do strength training in the coming decade. Then again, it might not work. Nevertheless, 'muscle time under tension' looks set to...

Hypertrophy: What causes it? I want to be clear right off the bat. I am a High Intensity Training advocate. I train myself in this fashion as well as my clients. However, within the HIT community there seems to be very dogmatic thinking where nothing seems to penetrate. My views may not be fully...

Dorians Heavy Duty System What Dorian was trying to tell us was that he trained more to develop intensity than to develop muscle. The former is preeminent--both necessary and sufficient for the latter. But, more important, intensity is a function of mental strength in the form of concentration...

TRX Suspension Training Equipment - Achieve Your Potential TRX Suspension Training provides the ultimate total body workout and is renowned for its success all over the world. A favourite with numerous superstars plus voted Best Total Body Tool by Men’s Health magazine, the TRX Suspension...

erman Volume Trainng 2000 The next step by TC Luoma It's been almost 5 years since Coach Poliquin introduced German Volume Training to the modern American bodybuilding audience. Granted, even back in 1996, the method wasn't new — it was just new to Baby Boomer and Gen-X bodybuilders. By...

A true hardgainer routine needs to revolve around the compound movements and heavy lifting. Hardgainers have very hard time gaining muscle and high volume training is the biggest mistake they can make.Hard gainers need to train differently than the big guys and instead of doing lot of sets with...

On the Anabolic Mind's forums, a powerlifters take on getting big and why some people who are always over analysing things never grow Virtually everything you’ve ever read from a bodybuilding magazine is heresy and should be regarded as not worth the paper it was printed on. The programs...

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