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As a general rule, I try not to use my website or email list as a means of sending out everything I find interesting. This documentary, however, was scientifically and philosophically awesome enough for me to bend my own rule. In 2004, Morgan Spurlock released the documentary “Supersize Me”, criticizing the fast food industry as
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While training for competition in 2010, I followed a very simple carb-cycle meal plan that was laid out for me by my coach, Dan Kelsey. I would kept protein consistent on all days, M-Su (approximately 300-340g). On training days (M/W/F), I would keep carbs moderate to high (250g) and fats trace; on non-training days (Tu/Th/Sa/Su),
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Healthy Supplementation: How to Make Use of the Tools Available to You IntroThe supplement industry is a big-dollar industry. For anybody who has ever purchased a bodybuilding magazine, you’ll know what I mean. I subscribe to a magazine called “Muscular Development”. Of it’s 500-pages that they crank out every single month, at least one-half of
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A good way to implement the idea of “eating clean” is to make sure you are shopping smart. The dummy-proof rule for shopping smart is: Shop the border of the store, not the aisles! Think about what they place around the border of the store: the produce section (veggies and fruits), fresh nuts, the meat
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Nikki’s Diet Prep Recipes When my wife and I have to prepare for a physique competition, the eating can become very bland and monotonous. When I was a bachelor and cooked all of my own clean “bodybuilding” foods, I ate incredibly boring– I ate for function– and nothing ever tasted good. Now, my beautiful wife
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How to Survive the Holliday Season without Gaining a Ton of Weight In the gym industry, January 1st signifies the beginning of “peak season”, the three-to-four month phase when it seems like everybody is motivated to get started and finally get in shape. Much of this has to do with the concept of “starting over”.
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In Henry Rollin’s article Iron, (If you missed it, read it here…) he spoke of his introduction to weight training via his high school advisor, Mr. Pepperman: “He told me that I was going to… buy a hundred-pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I
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