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• Your 'Bodybuilding Workout Routine' Sucks: Why most natural bodybuilders are frustrated
  Many natural bodybuilders wonder why they're not making progress in gaining muscle. Yet it's only three main areas within their bodybuilding workout routines that are the root of their frustration. This article shows you what they are so you can avoid them yourself and make ongoing bodybuilding gains.
  Published 13Oct2009, viewed 116 times

• Nitric Oxide: Does it work for Building Muscle?
  Nitric Oxide (NO) supplements are purported by supplement marketers to be muscle building compounds. These marketers claim that the products increase blood flow to the muscles and thus, improve muscular development. But is this really true? Read this insightful article before spending your hard-earned money on NO products.
  Published 09Aug2009, viewed 266 times

• How to Get a Nice Butt
  If you are looking for advice on 'how to get a nice butt', this article is for you. It not only reveals a major key you need to be aware of in order to build better gluteus muscles, it also describes an incredibly effective exercise variation for getting a firmer, rounder, more muscular backside.
  Published 26Jul2009, viewed 104 times

• "How to Build Big Pecs": Bench pressing is NOT a 'magic bullet'
  Too often, those who want to build bigger pectoral muscles are left with neglibible results because they follow the tired-out advice instructing them to perform "heavy" flat bench presses. The real secret to building bigger pecs might surprise and delight you if you've gotten lackluster results up to this point.
  Published 13Jul2009, viewed 845 times

• "Muscle Confusion Myth": Don't let it hold back your bodybuilding progress
  The "muscle confusion principle" would be more aptly titled the "muscle confusion myth." This article explains why adherence to 'muscle confusion' can actually hinder bodybuilding and fitness progress. It then provides the basics of an alternative principle that can send bodybuilding and fitness progress skyrocketing.
  Published 13Jul2009, viewed 1813 times

• How to Build Big Calves
  Do you want bigger calf muscles? Are you one of those individuals who have been genetically short-changed when it comes to the muscles between your knees and ankles? Are you a natural bodybuilder? Perfect; this article's for you.
  Published 18Aug2008, viewed 168 times

• Develop a real "Mind-Muscle Connection" for Bodybuilding Success
  In bodybuilding magazines during the late '80s and early '90s, a new buzzword had hit the scene. Every pro bodybuilder was claiming within published articles to have a "mind/muscle connection" during workouts. These ambiguous and seemingly esoteric claims were never fully elaborated upon. This article describes a real mind/muscle connection - one that can enhance your gains.
  Published 13Aug2008, viewed 132 times

• How to Gain Good Weight
  Adding "good weight" to the body is a matter of gaining muscle. Most slender people who want to get bigger would never rationally choose to gain body fat. However, when desires are emotionally driven, people don't always act rationally. This makes them susceptible to simplistic weight gaining advice. This article gives powerful and effective advice for gaining "good" (muscular) body weight.
  Published 10Jun2008, viewed 205 times

• Can "Combat Conditioning" Improve Your Appearance?
  Being someone who's twice gone through what's known as the most arduous military training in the world, I'm often asked if "combat conditioning" workouts are effective for physique enhancement. Should you buy that "Navy SEAL Workout" book? My opinion might surprise you.
  Published 31Mar2008, viewed 166 times

• Personal Fitness Trainer: Tips for hiring a good one
  Personal fitness trainers are a dime-a-dozen where I live in Southern California. Unfortunately, many of them become nothing more than professional repetition counters once you hire them. Here's some unique advice to follow if you want to hire one who will actually help you improve your body.
  Published 17Feb2008, viewed 156 times

• Big Pecs: How to Build Chest Muscle
  Many bodybuilders struggle tediously to build bigger pectorals by performing countless sets of bench pressing exercises. They'd do themselves a favor resulting in better chest growth by heeding the advice in the content of this article.
  Published 13Dec2007, viewed 6292 times

• How Come Every ‘How to Gain Weight’ Article Looks the Same?
  Thousands of slender natural bodybuilders are repeatedly being fed the same simplistic information:"eat a lot and do basic training with 'heavy' weights." Yet is "gaining weight" really this simple? Or is this information overly simplistic? Find out the truth by reading this article.
  Published 07Nov2007, viewed 175 times

• Misleading Mass Building methods of Body Building
  When I was young, I took too many claims made by bodybuilding marketers at face value. I lost thousands of dollars and countless hours of time following lousy advice on how to 'get big naturally'. If you focus on what counts the most in natural bodybuilding, you'll avoid losing the time and money I lost chasing muscle growth in my youth.
  Published 01Nov2007, viewed 268 times

• Yes… You can Build Muscle/Lose Fat at the Same Time
  Muscle building enthusiasts are repeatedly told that they can't build muscle and lose body fat simultaneously. The experts say they need to stuff down excess calories and "bulk up" in order to build the muscle - then go through a calorie-cutting phase to lose the fat. But I say this erroneous notion is just another indication of the prevalence of haphazard training methods.
  Published 10Oct2007, viewed 241 times

• Gain Muscle – Why you’re NOT making Muscle Building Gains
  Too many natural muscle building enthusiasts are frustrated with their progress. If you're one of them, find out what is likely holding you back by reading this to-the-point and one-of-a-kind article.
  Published 01Oct2007, viewed 214 times

• How to Get in Shape: 4 Crucial Keys
  Fitness fads just keep coming and going. But to get yourself into great shape and stay that way, there's nothing like following a few timeless principles for maximum effectiveness. Here are four things you need covered in order to build a nice body quickly and keep it for the long haul.
  Published 18Sep2007, viewed 515 times

• Sarcopenia: Build Muscle to Combat this Scourge of Aging
  Muscle building used to be thought of as being only for... well, muscle heads. Now researchers are beginning to see that it's one of the best activities we can engage in for staving off the ravages of aging.
  Published 03Sep2007, viewed 201 times

• “Functional Strength”: a matter for Bodybuilding
  “Functional strength”: There are those words again. They rank right up there with “quality muscle” when it comes to people in the fitness industry uttering meaningless jargon that sounds profound on the surface. Of what part of my weight lifting-built strength isn’t functional? At the risk of sounding like a macho jerk; if I wanted to, I could probably slam my fist through the wall that’s behind my computer monitor. That’s pretty functional.
  Published 25Aug2007, viewed 167 times

• Steroids: Distorting the worlds of Muscle and Fitness
  Nothing has been more distortive to muscle building information than the low profile prevalence of steroid use. What else can explain the vast amount of lousy and even useless training techniques for natural trainers that have become the prevailing wisdom in the bodybuilding industry? As one observes some of that prevailing wisdom closely, one can notice that truly wise advice is scarce where drugs have altered the picture.
  Published 14Aug2007, viewed 170 times

• Body Shaping: How to build a Nice Butt
  Many women (and men too) attempt to use bodybuilding to build nicer, more muscular gluteus muscles. You can often find them at the gym on a butt-blasting machine or doing lunges clear across the gym floor. However, there are two key exercises that will more likely get them what they're seeking. Here they are.
  Published 31Jul2007, viewed 238 times

• Mass building – Increase Your Arm Size with this Simple Technique
  Building the upper arms can often be tricky and sometimes downright frustratng. If you adopt this simple technique, building a nice set of "guns" can get a whole lot easier.
  Published 30Jul2007, viewed 428 times

• Muscle Growth: Use this Muscle Building Routine for a Better V-Shape
  Getting that much coveted "V-shaped" body can be difficult for those of us who have naturally thick waists and not-so-naturally-wide shoulder clavicles. These upper body-widening tips will make the quest a lot easier.
  Published 26Jul2007, viewed 246 times

• Natural Testosterone: The Biggest “Secret” to Keeping it Up
  Most men don't need to be convinced that having higher testosterone levels is desirable. Healthy levels of testosterone are essential for adequate energy, libido, and overall well-being. For this reason, we're treated to one article after another telling us to cut down on alcohol, swallow fish oil, and eat broccoli until we start turning green. This article talks about something even more important for raising testosterone levels.
  Published 22Jul2007, viewed 188 times

• Muscle Building – How to Build a “Sweeping Shape” to Your Legs
  For many slender bodybuilders who want to build muscular weight, building the thigh muscles is particularly challenging. This article presents a sequence of exercises that can be of tremendous help in creating bigger, more shapely, "sweeping" upper leg muscles.
  Published 03Jul2007, viewed 233 times

• Skinny Guys: Here's the #1 Ingredient for Muscle Growth (Part 2)
  In my first article about bodybuilding for slender people, I emphasized the need to pin down a training routine with an effective muscle breakdown/recuperation ratio in order to put on solid weight. The premise underlying that message is that overeating is not the answer. This article (Part 2) cautions the bodybuilder against inadequate eating. It explains, in simple terms, the approximate amount one needs to eat in order to gain muscle mass.
  Published 21Jun2007, viewed 178 times

• Create Unstoppable Fitness Workout Motivation
  Motivation to begin a fitness/body improvement workout program can be a difficult thing to muster. Yet it's only difficult if one doesn't know the biggest secret to creating motivation. This article shares that secret in just a few short paragraphs.
  Published 12Jun2007, viewed 203 times

• Lose Body Fat – “Yo-Yo Dieting” Might Have Nothing to do with Your Will-Power
  Many individuals who get caught in a pattern of "yo-yo dieting" mistakenly conclude that their tendency to do this is a sign of weak will-power. However, this is often not the case. Human motivation has perplexing catalysts - not the least of which being the one determining motivational direction. And it's too much from the wrong direction that can supersede will-power nearly every time.
  Published 05Jun2007, viewed 193 times

• Life Success – Great Personal Performance Technique for Powerful Results
  Getting more desirable results in any area of our lives requires enhanced performance within that area. This article describes the most cutting-edge method for taking the most powerful step toward that enhanced performance.
  Published 29May2007, viewed 196 times

• Developing the Ultimate Muscle Building/ fat Loss/ Fitness/ Success Mindset
  This article elucidates the distinction between two different mindsets that people can adopt within any life context. One usually leads to mediocrity and disappointment while the other one can lay the foundation for muscle building, fat loss, overall fitness, and life success.
  Published 28May2007, viewed 341 times

• Bodybuilding Insight: When Building Muscles – Your Body doesn’t know what day it is
  We’re told over and over that in order to be successful at something, we need to be consistent. But consistency not tempered with intelligence is as bad as inconsistency when we are being intelligent. With bodybuilding workouts, here’s the caveat: Be consistent with your workouts when you’ve found a muscle breakdown/recuperation schedule that’s effective. If the one you’re using for any of your muscles is ineffective; STOP being consistent.
  Published 20May2007, viewed 281 times

• Skinny Guys: Here's the #1 Ingredient for Muscle Growth
  This article clearly and succinctly explains why there is one main factor that people with fast metabolisms need to grasp in order to put on solid weight. This opinion is contrarian to much of the advice being dispensed on this subject. This author feels it is time for slender bodybuilders to get the truth.
  Published 10May2007, viewed 309 times

• The Real "Secret" to your Lean Body for Life
  Most of us who want to lose body fat and keep it off know all the tactics that can remove the fat from our bodies. We've read in book after book and one article after another that we need to "eat 5 or 6 small meals a day" and that we should "cut our carbs" and "increase our protein". Yet most of us still struggle to get lean and keep the fat off. This artice, in a few paragraphs, gets to the root of the matter.
  Published 08May2007, viewed 245 times

• Forced Reps: Detrimental to Natural Bodybuilding
  This article advises those engaged in natural bodybuilding (without the use of steroids) and weight training to bypass the use of "forced reps" and other intensifying techniques in order to make bigger gains and steadier progress.
  Published 04May2007, viewed 300 times

• Bodybuilding: Secret Template for Life Success
  This article briefly explains how bodybuilding, when properly practiced, can implant valuable lessons for life success. It does this by teaching a person how to set challenging goals, fuel them with effective strategies, and utililize constant feedback to ensure their accomplishment.
  Published 29Apr2007, viewed 275 times

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