Author: johnbarban
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Diet and Exercise Goals
There are general rules we know to be true about the human system when it comes to diet and exercise such as: Eating less calories than you burn will cause weight loss Eating more calories than you burn will cause weight gain Exercise of any kind will produce some measurable benefit than no exercise at…
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Inflammation Theory of Muscle Growth
Believe it or not we still don’t have a complete picture of how muscles grow. Brad Pilon has recently put together some research on a new theory that might help explain how muscles grow and why we can’t continue to grow indefinitely. In general the theory is about chronic vs acute inflammation. Namely, acute intermittent…
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Your fitness phase
I started working out when I was about 17 years old and have been doing some form of structured workout since then (I’m currently 36 so that’s about 19 years of workouts). In that time I’ve gone through my functional training phase, my powerlifting phase, my bodybuilding phase (drugs and all), my olympic lifting phase,…
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What the F#*K are You Doing?
This is the question I end up asking myself at least a dozen times every day I’m at the gym. I normally go about my business and don’t say much to anybody unless my good buddies are there. I listen to music or podcasts and just do my own thing. As I’m resting between sets…
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How Exercise Affects Diet
There are many different theories and recommendations for nutritional and dietary manipulations that are assumed to enhance the results from your workout. There is pre and post workout nutrition which includes some sort of protein and amino acid cocktail. There is also post workout carbohydrate loading in an effort to get the muscles to supercompensate…