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  • Pre – Exhaustion - To The Next Level Of Muscle Building During Your Workouts
    [Health-and-Fitness] The Pre-exhaustion principle was first popularized by MuscleMag International founder, Robert Kennedy in the late 1960’s and is one of the most effective ways to increase your muscle-building potential during your workouts. The primary benefit of the technique is that it helps bypass the "weak link" that often accompanies most exercises


  • Protein Supplements - The Right Food For Muscle Building
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Ask most bodybuilders to list the most important variables for muscle building and they'll respond with such answers as training, drugs, supplements, great genetics, etc. But one of the most important variables is also one of the simplest - food! You can train all you want and possess Schwarzenegger-sized genetics, but you won’t gain an ounce of new muscle tissue if you don't eat properly. , great genetics, etc. But one of the most important variables is also one of the simplest - food!


  • Overtraining - The Bodybuilders Nemesis During Intense Training And Workouts
    [Health-and-Fitness] It's a given that you have to train hard in order to keep gaining size and strength. Yet it is this intense training that actually breaks you down and makes you weaker. So what leads to the size and strength gain? Rest. Physiological improvement occurs only during the rest period following hard training. Rest allows the body to acquire the benefits of exercise: Improved efficiency of the heart; increased capillaries in the muscles; increased glycogen stores; and increased strength and size of muscle fibers. Your muscles will also be able to operate at a higher level of performance.


  • Start Your Diet Exercise Program With The Big Four
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Although exercise can take hundreds if not thousands of different forms, there are four types of physical activity that almost anyone can master with a little practice. All four are great or weight loss. With the exception of cycling, none of the following need specialized equipment (although water will probably come in handy for swimming!).


  • Anabolic Steroids: Great For Muscle Building And Fat Loss, But Are You Aware Of Steroid Laws
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Ask the average "Joe or Jill" citizen what anabolic steroids are and they'll say that these are vile and deadly drugs only used by the depraved of society. The use of these drugs by legal-aged adults for muscle building and fat loss is routinely labeled “drug abuse” and not surprisingly thanks to the influence of the mainstream media, the average American puts steroid users into the same degenerate group as heroin or cocaine users.


  • Top Ab exercises
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] The great thing about ab training is that the exercises are startlingly easy to do. Unlike exercises for the larger muscle groups like the legs, chest, or back, abdominal exercises don't require heavy weights. There’s also little risk of injury either. How often have you heard people say that they "pulled" an ab muscle?


  • Super Eating for Super Abs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Hopefully by now you are beginning to realize that abdominal exercises alone will never give you a rock-hard, six-pack stomach. No matter how many exercises or reps, no matter how creative your training program, the real key to that all illusive six-pack lies with your diet.


  • Top 10 Six-Pack Abdominal Training Questions
    [Health-and-Fitness] Given their worldwide recognition as experts in the area of health and fitness, it’s not surprising that ab-information.com receives hundreds of questions each week on the topic of abdominal training. The following are the most common questions on developing six-pack abs that we answer of a weekly basis.


  • Ripped Abs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] With all the attention given to diet and cardio for fat loss and developing six-pack abs, it surprises many people to learn that one of the most effective ways to shrink and harden to midsection and develop ripped abdominals is weight training.


  • Ab Training Philosophy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] For most people it seems like the hardest thing in the world to accomplish. Yet people from all over the world spend thousands of dollars on the latest gimmicks for developing that elusive six-pack. Personal trainers can't keep up with the number of requests from newbies looking for quick fixes to fat loss and develop a ripped midsection.


  • Don't Wait - Hit the Weights!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Most women who exercise tend to divide their time between cardio machines and aerobics' classes. Rarely do they use any type of resistance training to challenge their bodies. But resistance training is not just limited to hoisting iron next to some 250-pound bodybuilder, or trying to figure out how to use intimidating machines. There are many options that can be explored. The key to developing total women’s fitness is a good combination of cardiovascular training and eating healthy to lose weight, and yes, weight training!


  • Tanning
    [Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Tanning is another of those pre-contest variables that many bodybuilders make a mess of on contest day. Most are either too dark, too light, have blotchy skin, or look like they are suffering some sort of liver disease! Although they may have the superior physique, they often fail to win because they’ve neglected their darkening strategy.


  • Bodybuilding Posing You've Got It Now Flaunting It!
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] Bodybuilding posing is usually one of the most ignored aspects of contest preparation. Competitors are so focused on their dieting and training that many don’t take the time to prepare an exciting posing routine. Some bodybuilders leave it until the last week to try and put something together. There are even a few brave souls who step on stage and try to “wing it.” It’s easy to spot the bodybuilders who don’t do their homework; they can’t even perform the mandatory poses properly.


  • Creatine
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Since its first introduction in the early 1990’s, creatine has vaulted to the top of the supplement and bodybuilding industry. Unlike many over-the-counter supplements, which are over-hyped and a waste of your hard-earned money, this compound does what’s claimed - increase energy levels and promote increases in muscle size and strength.


  • Cardio
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] People can be funny at times. They skip the stairs and take the elevator to the second floor - and then drop $3000 for a stepper machine to condition their thighs or burn bodyfat!


  • Ephedrine
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] With annual sales of weight loss supplements averaging between 15 and 20 billion dollars, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that losing weight is not just on the minds of bodybuilders. Dropping a few pounds is probably the number one,


  • Cardiovascular
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Bodybuilder or not, no one who's playing with a full deck wants to be carrying excess body fat. While weight training and dieting play major roles, to maximize fat loss you should also be doing some sort of cardiovascular training (more affectionately known as cardio) to compliment your bodybuilding workouts.


  • Thyroid Power - Fat Loss But At What Cost?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Thyroid] One of your biggest foes as a bodybuilder is your own body! Yes as ironic as it sounds the person closest to you is fighting you every step of the way when it comes to perfecting your physique. The problem you see is that the human body just loves to store fat and is not keen on helping you with any type of fat loss.


  • Think Before You Buy Anabolic Steroids
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] We know it's tempting. You and a friend have been using the same weight on your lifts for the past year; and both of you weigh about the same. Suddenly in the space of two months he adds 20 pounds of muscular bodyweight to his frame and 50-pounds to his bench. Now you're not stupid. You know what's going on.


  • Don't Let Road Trips Derail Your Diet Training!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It’s been two months since you started working out and eating properly. You’ve lost 15-pounds, look great, and most important, haven’t felt this good inn years. But now your boss tells you that you’re going to be doing a lot of traveling over the next few months. You may be gone for weeks at a time.


  • Heart to Heart with Cardio Training
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] One of the most essential questions to ask when doing your cardio is am I training too intensely or not intensely enough? To help guide you in this regard the Target Heart Rate Zone (THRZ) can play an important role.


  • Steroids Mechanisms of Action!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Steroids may be administered into the body by two primary methods: orally in tablet form, or by intramuscular injection with a needle. Some common examples of orals include oxymetholone (Anadrol), oxandrolone (Anavar), methandrostenolone (Dianabol), and stanozolol (Winstrol). Some of the more popular injectables include nandrolone decanoate (Deca-Durabolin), nandrolone phenpropionate (Durabolin), testosterone cypionate (Depo-Testosterone), and boldenone undecylenate (Equipoise).


  • How to Effectively Lose Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss can be considered a three-front war. It’s no use to to just focus on your diet and totally neglect doing any physical activity. Likewise you can perform exercise seven days a week and still not lose weight if you eat like crap. And even if both your eating and exercise habits are under control, those last ten to twenty pounds may fight you every step of the way. This is where a powerful fat loss diet pill like Phenotroslimina plays such an important role.


  • How Many Meals Per Day For Weight Loss?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Planning to go on a diet for weight loss? If so, the right dieting schedule is the first step towards making it successful. But don't forget that fitness is also important to overall health and at times you may need to compromise on your meals. If losing body fat is your primary goal then you must strike a happy balance between diet and exercise.


  • Common Diet Mistakes for Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This has to be one of the most common of all diet mistakes. Most people know the difference but still do it just the same. Breakfast IS the most important meal of the day. The body has just gone 6 to 8 hours or more without food. It's just begging for nutrients when you wake up.


  • What To Eat To Lose Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is a direct relationship between a good diet and good health. A balanced diet should involve the regular consumption of fresh and healthy foods in a proportionate manner. Unfortunately we are continuously being bombarded with conflicting information about what to eat and what not to eat while on a diet to either gain or lose weight.


  • Bodybuilding Routines
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] Stop for a minute and think about your current bodybuilding training strategy. In order to achieve maximum results, you should be following a progressive and logical schedule. If you are new to working out you are probably performing a full-body workout. Full-body workouts are excellent for beginners because they are easy to follow and implement. However, their biggest disadvantage is that they only allow you enough time to perform one or two exercises for each muscle group.


  • Glutamine – the Essential Bodybuilding Muscle Builder!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] On any list of the top bodybuilding muscle supplements and you'll see glutamine at or near the top. Unlike most over-the-counter supplements glutamine has some good scientific evidence behind it and ranks right up there with creatine, protein, and steroid alternatives, for weight loss and as a muscle builder.


  • Bodybuilding Exercises
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] In this age of $5000 strength machines and $8000 treadmills, it may surprise readers to learn that some of the best bodybuilding exercises can be performed for as little as $100! That's right, you don’t need chrome and glitz to transform your physique. Long before Universal, Nautilus, and Hammer Strength, came on the scene, bodybuilders had been packing on muscle mass by training with good old-fashioned barbells.


  • Prohormones
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Prohormones are precursor compounds that are converted by the body into anabolic hormones. In terms of muscle-building and fat loss effects, prohormones are similar to steroids, and will produce increases in muscle size and strength.


  • Bodybuilder's Drugs!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Despite the amount of press that steroids and prohormones usually receive you'd think that these were the only two substances that bodybuilders were using. But nothing could be further from the truth.


  • Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 2004
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] On October 22, 2004, President George Bush used his legislative power to sign into law the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004. The acts was ratified by the U.S. Congress earlier in the month, and expanded upon the original Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990.


  • Bodybuilding Training
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Training for bodybuilding success


  • Cytomel!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] A dangerous fat loss drug.


  • Can Glutamine Help Me Avoid Overtraining?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Glutamine is considered by most bodybuilding experts and nutritionists to be "one of the most important amino acids" in the human body...


  • Why You should Start Bodybuilding!
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] Despite the increased popularity of bodybuilding, it still doesn’t get the respect it deserves.


  • Steroid Stacking – The Hidden Dangers
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Few athletes subject their bodies to the same rigors as competitive bodybuilders.


  • Steroid Cycling – Don't Fall Victim!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] It’s safe to say that steroid cycling probably started shortly after bodybuilders began using anabolic steroids in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.


  • Fat Loss – The Safe Approach!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Building muscle is one thing, but building fat-free, ripped muscle, is something different altogether.


  • Winstrol – Super Drug or Super Crazy?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] It goes by many different names including Winstrol, Stanozolol, and Winny


  • What Is In Your Bodybuilding Gym Bag?
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] Bodybuilding necessities


  • The Bodybuilder's Gynecomastia Fighter!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Gynecomastia information.


  • Steroid Cycling - Is It Safe?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Steroid cycling information.


  • Steroid Side Effects Are You AT Risk ?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] steroid side effects


  • Buying Dianabol?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] It goes by many names including Dianabol, D-bol, and methandrostenelone.


  • Buying Anabolic Steroids Can Be Dangerous
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] If you decide to use these drugs your first decision is where to go when buying steroids.


  • Building Muscle!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Do you know your body type?


  • Steroids Information!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] All about bodybuilding anabolics.


  • Anabolic, Means To Build Muscle!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] popular bodybuilding compounds.


  • What is HGH?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Growth Hormone – Super muscle growth but at what cost!


  • Anabolic Steroids: All Is Not Glamorous!
    [Health-and-Fitness] The use of illegal anabolics.


  • Stigmasterol: Safe – Legal – Very Effective?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Hard core legal bodybuilding compounds.


  • What Is Insulin?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] A bodybuilding drug not to be messed with!


  • Winstrol (Stanozolol) – The Affectionate Winny!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Among the general public stanozolol is probably the most famous steroid in the world.


  • Who Uses Dianabol?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] For many bodybuilders their first introduction to steroids was Dianabol


  • The Latest Cutting Edge Steroids Information!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Anabolic-androgenic steroids are a class of testosterone-mimicking drugs that were first developed in the 1930s, to stimulate muscle growth as well as to treat males with endocrine problems.


  • Steroids Use Is Not Legal!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Bodybuilders and other competitive athletes, whether young or old, amateur or professional, are always seeking ways to gain an advantage over their opponents...


  • Anabolics, Steroids, The Gear, The Juice – You Know The Names Do You Know The Facts!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] The CSA defines anabolic steroids as drugs or hormonal substances that are chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogens, progesterones, and corticosteroids) that stimulate muscle growth.


  • Is There A Legal Alternative To Deca Durabolin, Nandrolone Deconate?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Deca Durabolin, Nandrolone Deconate work by causing the muscle cells to increase retention of the element nitrogen.


  • Synthol – How Big is Big Enough!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Synthol has its origins in the 1980’s when a drug called Esiclene was all the rage.


  • What Is Anavar – (Generic Name Oxandrolone)?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] It’s not surprising that Anavar became so popular with athletes. While not offering the same degree of anabolism (muscle building) as other steroids, Oxandrolone doesn’t produce as many severe androgenic side effects either.


  • Steroids Stacking!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Bodybuilders stack for a number of reasons.


  • The Facts on Anabolic Steroids Cycling!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] It wasn’t long after bodybuilders first started using anabolics in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s that cycling became popular.


  • Steroid Fakes And Counterfeits
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] As of 1991 anabolic steroids are classified as controlled (illegal) substances. Attempting to obtain steroids from an unknown source on the Internet is risky and frankly, stupid.


  • Bodybuilding Workouts
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] The term progressive overload involves gradually increasing the demand upon the muscular system in order to continually make gains in muscle size, strength, and endurance.


  • What is Dianabol?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] In a manner of speaking Dianabol (D-bol) can be considered the grandfather of all anabolic steroids


  • Bodybuilding the Perfect Body!
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] If you want to make the fastest gains possible and avoid all this biased propaganda, then you must learn the honest facts.


  • How are Steroids Used?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Steroids are either taken orally in tablet form or injected intramuscularly.


  • Testosterone!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Bodybuilding steroids are derivatives of the male hormone testosterone.


  • Bodybuilding News - The Latest Cutting Edge Information!
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Bodybuilding] Do you want to learn how to build a great physique?


  • Will you be tested for Anabolic Steroids?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Why should there be anabolic steroid testing in sports?


  • What is Winstrol?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There are numerous reports of bodybuilders having to get golf-ball-sized masses of scar tissue surgically removed from their glutes.


  • What Are the Uses for Anabolic Steroids?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Despite the amount of media-bashing anabolic steroids have received over the years, it may surprise you to learn that there are legitimate medical uses for muscle building hormones.


  • Why Do People Buy Anabolic Steroids?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] It’s not surprising that the market for anabolic steroid alternatives has exploded over the last decade.


  • Steroid Effects; Anabolic Steroid Information
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There are two chemical classes of anabolic steroids. Despite the amount of media-bashing steroids have received over the years, it may surprise you to learn that steroids do have a number of legitimate medical uses. In males testicular cancer often requires the removal of the testes. After surgery, these men are often prescribed anabolic steroids to replace the testosterone that their bodies are no longer able to synthesize. This form of replacement therapy helps preserve the men’s musculature as well as such secondary sex characteristics as body hair, deep voice, and sex drive.


  • Can You Beat Anabolic Steroid Tests?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There is one guaranteed method for athletes to pass anabolic steroid tests; obey the rules of the competition, and stay drug free.


  • Don't Ever Think About Using Anabolic Steroids
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] You don't ever have to think about using Steroids, Anabolic Steroids -androgenic hormones...


  • Anabolic Steroid Side Effects, Who Gets Them And How To Avoid Them?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Although anabolic steroid side effects are greatly exaggerated, as with any class of drugs, they can cause side effects.





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