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I used to only care about numbers on the scale, letting my weight motivate me rather than how healthy I felt. I dieted to lose weight on the scale, and exercised to burn calories rather than building calorie-burning muscle. At 5-foot-6, I set a goal of being 120 pounds. This number fell at the...

Can overweight people build muscle the same way leaner people do? Or does body weight somehow prevent hypertrophy? Those were the questions a study by a group of British researchers set out to answer recently. The results are good news for people with a high BMI who are wondering if strength...

If you're honest, when someone asks how your workout went, you can't always say, "Awesome!" Sometimes it's just "Meh." Why is that? Why aren't all your workouts incredibly productive—maybe even exciting? What can you do to make sure your workouts are not only "awesome," but moving you closer to...

For over a year now, most of us have had to reconfigure our workout routines, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Having the ability to work out wherever you want, and not just in the gym, provides an opportunity to stay consistent, while new surroundings add much inspiration. With the...

High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a popular form of exercise that alternates short periods of intense exercise with recovery periods. It’s especially prevalent among people taking studio classes and participating in on-demand workouts, but HIIT can also be performed solo at the gym or...

If you are looking to switch up your exercise routine and try something new and challenging, bodyweight moves and calisthenics could become an important part of your overall training plan. As we age, many athletes and gym goer’s find that lifting heavy weights can be tough on the joints, so they...

If you ever finish a tough workout and feel like eating is the last thing on your mind, you’re not alone. Having a decreased appetite after exercise is clinically known as exercise-induced anorexia and is a normal phenomenon experienced by exercisers. It seems most exercises can lead to...

If you don’t know the name Corey Calliet, you’ve definitely admired his work. After meeting Michael B. Jordan on the set of Fantastic Four in 2014, the two hit it off as an unstoppable team. When MBJ first appeared muscular and ripped as the boxer Adonis, in Creed, everyone wanted to know how...

Something that is never really discussed in bodybuilding are workouts that involve stimulating individual muscles during different parts of the workout. What I mean by that is this – there is this mentality with building muscle that says we have to torch a muscle and then move to the next...

The offices of Berman Law Group in Boca Raton, FL, are located in a 50,000-square-feet building a couple miles (give or take) off the southeast coast of Florida. Offices, meeting rooms, and various other workspaces for 17 attorneys and 100 total employees are contained here. So is a full replica...

Whether it’s through more efficient transportation, communication, technology, physical labor, education, etc., we (as a society) are perpetually seeking ways to improve the efficacy of daily activities. It’s only natural then that in our increasingly on-the-go, fast-paced culture that the...

Introduction The goal of the Muscle & Strength strength building guide is to provide you with all the tools you need to build strength as quickly as possible. You will learn about popular strength building workout structures and exercises, how to improve your bench press, squat and deadlift...

Looking for the most comprehensive muscle building guide on the internet? Well, good thing you stopped by, I’ve got you covered. This guide will take you through everything from nutrition to training and even supplementation, which will get you on the right path to add quality slabs of muscle...

This is an all too common story for people with no experience or knowledge on how to build muscle and gain weight. In most cases, after trying to gain weight for several months the person will quit. That’s a pity, because the only thing stopping the person from progressing is knowledge. In this...

Many years ago I invented a little quote that expresses my basic philosophy when it comes to how one should approach their training if he/she truly desires to make significant progress: “If you want your muscles to grow, you cannot simply ‘whisper’ at that them – rather, you must SCREAM!” In...

Most guys can design an effective workout, but they are clueless when it comes to designing an effective program. This is a big problem and one of the major causes of stalled progress. What works now won’t work forever. The body is an incredible adaptive mechanism. This is great for your...

Cardio work, strength training and counting calories and macronutrients (protein, carbs and fat) are the three big components of weight loss. You should be doing all three, but each of these is not created equally when you’re trying to lose weight. Here’s how you should rank these three...

It is simple. Muscle will burn fat all day and all night! Even when you are sitting down so the more muscle you have the more fat you will burn! Why You Need Weight Training To Lose Fat By Conray Knox There've so many misunderstanding in weight training. People often think that weight training...

Deep Muscle Soreness And Body-Shock Fatigue By Marty Gallagher In my experience there are two distinct types of muscular fatigue associated with intense progressive resistance training (only intense training is sufficient to trigger muscle hypertrophy) and these two types should be recognized...

Let’s face it, being out of the gym sucks, there’s no getting around that, especially when you’re used to a training regime which requires you to spend several days per week training. We get into routines so that working out becomes almost a second nature to us, and becomes just as regular as...