Author: johnbarban
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Does Physical Fitness help You Live Longer?
For the most part Carl is right. You’re going to die (but likely not from a knife attack). But the health and fitness industry seems to scare people into buying products and idea’s that essentially are promising a way to cheat death. The concept of being ‘fit’ hasn’t really translated into people living much longer.…
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The Limits of Muscle Growth
The largest muscle size you can ever achieve is determined in combination by your genetic predisposition and your workout pattern, consistency, effort, and to a lesser degree nutrition. Beyond that you can push closer to your limit by using anabolic drugs like testosterone and it’s derivatives, Growth Hormone, IGF-1, Insulin and others. However, even those…
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What Causes Muscle Soreness?
The necessary rest time interval between exercise bouts is not fully understood. We know that delayed onset muscle soreness peaks between 24-48 hours after exercise and can take up to 7 days to dissipate, however it’s not necessary to wait 7 days to workout again. The soreness is likely caused by multiple factors associated with…
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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…