Month: June 2010
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How Do Muscles Grow?
Yesterdays discussion brought up some questions about the specifics of muscle growth. It seems there is some confusion on what muscle growth even is. To understand muscle growth we have to first understand what a muscle is made up of. Skeletal muscles are somewhere in the neighborhood of 80-85% water, this is the fluid that…
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Should You Use Steroids or Not?
Alek sent in a very interesting question. He simply asked what are the real objective reasons for not using steroids. This is a good question because there is much misinformation about steroids in the general media, and the side effects and potential negative effects are usually associated with massive doses. What then are the objective…
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Real Weight Loss Is Simple, Nutritionism Is Complicated.
Dieting for weight loss is the simplest thing you could ever do. Just eat less, however the fitness marketing world tries to complicate the issue. Consumers also appreciate complicated stories because it gives them an endless list of excuses to explain away their inability to lose weight. Some one made a comment the other day…
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Nutritionism – Living in the ‘what if’ instead of the ‘what is’
If you do any recreational reading of nutrition info and nutrition marketing you’ve likely read a lot of ‘what if’ stories. ‘What if’ stories are things like: What happens if I eat all my daily calories from carbs or What happens if I don’t eat enough protein today or What happens if I don’t eat…
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Anabolic Continuum – Where Are You?
Have you ever wondered why some people react differently to the same workout. Some people gain more muscle than others, some seems to have greater gains in strength than others. The typical answer is simply ‘genetics’. But this is too simplistic of an answer and I think there is much more to it than this.…