Daily Health Workouts: 09/27/14

Eating for Muscle Mass Latest

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Eating for Mass Along with the Mr. Olympia competition, pro football, and the return of The Walking Dead, the fall season also happens to be the time many lifters begin to consider bulking up in order to unveil a bigger and stronger body the following spring. Trouble is, adding mass while achieving the strength gains and a physique you’re content with can be tricky to pull...

5 Fat Loss Myths

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Lose Fat The number one reason that people start to work out and improve their eating habits is to lose fat. Sure, everyone also wants to improve his or her health condition and get more physically fit but let’s be honest here: We all want to look better. Losing fat, improving your fitness level and health condition are usually all wrapped up into one. You lose...

6 Perfect Post-Workout Meals

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Eating quality food post-workout is crucial…you know, if you expect to make gains and stuff. The science on recovery is a little War-and-Peace-y in its complexity but you can boil it down to a few nutritional musts: in order to optimize your results, you need to replace the amino acids and glycogen lost during your workout. Starting the muscle building process by increasing...

Eating for Muscle Mass

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We had nutritional questions about putting on mass, and celebrity trainer Gunner Peterson had answers. Next Eating for Mass Along with the Mr. Olympia competition, pro football, and the return of The Walking Dead, the fall season also happens to be the time many lifters begin to consider bulking up in order to unveil a bigger and stronger body the following spring. Trouble is, adding...

Things You Should Know About Protein

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Get the scoop on this essential macronutrient for optimal muscle gains and training performance. We’re guessing you’re fond of protein shakes because they help repair and regrow damaged muscles. Score one for you. But aside from knowing that, do you think your knowledge about protein could fit into a shaker bottle? If not, this Protein 101 refresher will help bring you up to speed. For...

The M&F “GFH” Diet

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Get freakin’ huge with (more) of the right food and supps at the right times to drastically accelerate muscle growth. There is no “proven” laboratory formula for gaining quality muscle weight but the commonalities of every weight-gain nutrition regimen are the same: high calorie, high protein. It’s going to take more than skinless chicken breasts and organic spinach to put on appreciable amount of muscle and...

Perfect Workout Nutrition

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The ultimate guide to timing nutrients around your workouts for maximum muscle-building and fat loss. As a red-blooded, iron-loving athlete, you are in a constant cycle of breaking down and rebuilding muscle. When you lift weights, you break down muscle tissue but you don’t grow in the gym. You need muscle protein synthesis to happen in order to repair and ultimately grow new muscle. If...

Shredded Abs in a Hurry

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Getting ripped is, for lack of a better word, easy. It just takes time. Follow this three-step plan for shredded abs. 1. PREPARE TO DIET According to the Mayo Clinic, a 200-pound man who lifts weights for 60 minutes burns 455 calories. High-impact aerobics burn slightly more. Meanwhile, one healthy meal of four ounces of grilled chicken and one cup of rice contains...

Emergency Shred: Supplement Stack

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Use these supps to fuel the workouts in the Emergency Shred program SUPPLEMENT Caffeine DOSE/TIMING 100–300 mg, 2–3 times daily, with one dose 30–60 min pre-workout BENEFIT Acutely increases strength, delays fatigue, blunts pain, increases burning of fat during exercise SUPPLEMENT L-Carnitine DOSE/TIMING 1–3g, four times daily, including immediately pre- and post-workout and before bed BENEFIT Shuttles fat to mitochondria, where it can...

Burn After Reading: Hydroxycut SX-7

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These supplements will give you the edge you need to torch fat and look your best. Adam Gonzalez When it comes to shedding body fat, a clean diet and intense cardio are the main tools for the task. But to get the most from your efforts, the right supplements can go a long way to giving you an edge. Here, we present a...

30-Minute Full-Body Workout

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Short on time but still want to hit the gym hard? Try this quick & efficient full-body routine What A full-body workout that has you doing one exercise per bodypart for time (five minutes) instead of for a particular number of sets and reps - it may remind you of doing rest-pauses. You’ll simply do as many reps as you can in five minutes, resting when...

Push/pull workout for big muscles

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This innovative push/pull training plan will help you build bigger muscles and reduce your risk of injury. Doing the same exercises every workout is going to lead you into a muscle-building dead end. Not to mention you're going to find working out extremely dull. Enter push/pull training. Not only will it help you develop big, powerful muscles, but the innovative exercises you'll do during...

5 reasons why you don't have a six-pack

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MF highlights the 5 most common mistakes preventing people from seeing their abs Mistake one: Ignoring the importance of compound exercises If you only concentrate your abs workout on performing isolation exercises you’re missing a trick. Compound movements such as squats, deadlifts and overhead presses will engage your entire core, strengthening your abs from all angles. Don’t leave them out of your training...