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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If you’re dieting, weight lifting can help you lose fat instead of muscle and bone. Most people don’t realize it, but when they diet, only about 60 to 75 percent of the weight they lose is actually fat.

Are you ready to get in shape? You can do it. Here is proof that proper nutrition combined with strength training works. Watch the video…

12 weeks is a boatload of time to make tremendous changes to one’s physique, provided one is willing to do what it takes: be consistent with diet and exercise, and train hard on a daily basis. You can ready for the beach in 12 weeks.

Do everything you can to put the body into a caloric deficit, while simultaneously doing everything possible to keep the metabolism high. If you achieve this, you’ll achieve your health and fitness goals.

You may have heard that muscle mass burns a lot of calories, and this is true. Muscle is what we call metabolically active. A lot of muscle on a body is like a big engine in a car– it burns a lot of gas, or food. Fat, on the other hand, is metabolically passive. It’s like a real efficient 4-cylinder– great gas mileage. So what happens when you put the body into a caloric deficit for an extended period of time?