Category: Muscle Building
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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…
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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.…
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Target Protein, Target Calories?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about specific dietary protein content for muscle building as well as specific daily calories for weight loss. I usually answer with a general range of what is most likely going to be adequate. This however never seems to be a good enough answer. It seems that many people…