Category: Muscle Building
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Low Protein Training
I’ve been back to the gym two days in a row now, and will be in again this evening. Lifting about 70% of what I’m normally used to, feeling a bit lackluster after eating soup and bagels for a week and not sleeping particularly well. The interesting to note here is that I’m probably only…
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Strength Loss After Sickness
I’m going to try and hit the gym today. It’s been 6 days since I’ve done any weight training while I was sick from food poisoning. This is a good experiment on muscle atrophy and strength gain/loss. During the past week I’ve been dehydrated, I”ve eating very little food and almost zero protein. My average…
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When Do You Stop Working Out?
Weight training is a relatively new phenomenon as the physical culture revolution started in the late 1800’s and took hold in the early 1900’s. The introduction of ‘fitness clubs’ and structured weekly weight workouts isn’t more than 100 years old. As of the day I’m writing this post the first generation of people who followed…
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Steroids – How Serious Are You About Being Big?
It seems that many guys who are trying to build bigger muscles and ‘bulk up’ really don’t know what they’re talking about and don’t even know what it is that they want. I think any statement about building bigger muscles or bulking up needs to be qualified. If you hear a guy say: “I want…
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Chain Push Ups – New Adonis Workout in the Making
As some of you may or may not know, Brad Pilon and I are building a new home based gym that is designed around the use of chains for weights. No dumbbells or barbells. We’re in the process of building up a stock of different sized chains and we’re developing a fully Adonis Index compatible…