Category: Muscle Building
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Does Muscle Gain Equal Weight Gain?
Bodybuilding magazines and supplement marketers will have you believe you can gain a significant amount of muscle mass that will cause your bodyweight to increase simply by working out and eating some special foods/supplements. If you re-read that sentence the key point is the difference between gaining MUSCLE vs gaining WEIGHT. Adding muscle to your…
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Bodyweight changes = body water changes
Weight loss and fat loss are almost always assumed to be the same thing. Bodybuilders assume muscle gaining will translate in to weight gaining. And we all assume that weight gain in general means fat gain. To be clear your body is mostly water (see picture above), and most of your day to day fluctuations…
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Dangerous Workouts
I was at the gym this morning and between sets I looked over at a man who seemed to be in his 50’s about 50 pounds overweight doing one legged lateral step up’s onto a bench and then into a balanced one leg dumbbell curl (while standing on the bench) I thought for sure I…
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What is Your Favorite Workout?
Working out/Training is something that I’ve been doing since I was about 16 and I’ll never stop. After a while it becomes a challenge to keep the workouts interesting and enjoyable. I’ve just finished creating a new 12 week program and I’m getting ready to start building another one, but I need your help. I…
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Muscles are Good…But More Isn’t Better
keeping with the theme of our word association I want to talk about the response everyone had to the word “Muscle” It seemed that most of you had a positive or at least neutral response to the word muscle. This word didn’t seem to conjure up any negative thoughts at all. Some of you seemed…