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A young man walks into a gym, and immediately envisions his future self resembling Arnold Schwarzenegger, with bulging biceps no t-shirt can hold, and quads so big he can't wear regular jeans. He begins to lift weights and finds online advice suggesting he needs to eat big to be big, and that he needs massive …
I have devised a resistance training program designed to improve health, strength, muscle size, connective tissue health and encourage skeletal integrity and stability. I provide it for free to all my faithful readers. While the name may seem like something you see stamped on a generic pharmaceutical, it perfectly represents the basic ideology behind the …
I still miss chewing nicotine gum, even though the physical effects have passed. I had about 3 days of headaches and mild irritability, but now I have psychological longing and a serious case of the munchies. I had undervalued nicotine's power as an appetite suppressant and have basically been a nonstop eating machine during all …
I enjoy stims. I've taken lots of them, in all kinds of combinations. Here's what I can share based on my experiments: They don't do much, but the little they do, they do better if you limit their use. I've used the expensive pre-workout powders like the stuff from Chaos and Pain, I've used ephedrine …
Specific goals are very important when lifting weights as something beyond a general means of being fit and moving your body around. I sometimes suffer from excessive goal shifting, but I don't stray too far from the main principle of getting stronger and trying to add muscle without becoming a lardass. What typically drives me …
Having resisted low carb dieting for many years, I finally gave it a whirl in August of 2012. I started with Carb Nite by John Kiefer because it was popular among the powerlifting circles I liked to glom onto. I didn't know it at the time, but Carb Nite is just a cyclical ketogenic diet, …
If you're fat and don't wish to be, there are no excuses. No one cares about your reasons. You can justify your physical state to yourself as much as you'd like, but in the light of day, you're still fat and have to deal with the societal, health, and self esteem issues that go along …
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