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The Professional Brandan Fokken
When describing Brandan Fokken on paper, there’s a danger of wearing out the backslash key on your laptop: pro athlete/model/wellness coordinator/coach/spokesperson/writer. The list could go on, but...
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Hormones And Recovery
Two days after a brutal leg workout, when delayed muscle soreness is at its peak, you hobble back in the gym and do it all again, because you are a warrior. That’s admirable, but a study published in...
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Beat Back Pain
When lower-back pain flares up, working out seems like a bad idea. Might as well go home and do some reps on Netflix, right? Not necessarily. A new study published in The Spine Journal shows that...
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Product Spotlight: Lean Action Maximum Strength by Reaction Nutrition
ADVERTISEMENT Any fatburner can make someone’s face melt with an insane onslaught of caffeine derivatives and then hide behind the “hardcore” identity when athletes are unhappy with the blunt...
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Pro Bowl to Pro Card
When Javon Walker retired from the NFL in 2010 after an eight-year career highlighted by a Pro Bowl appearance in 2004, he still had the itch. Not an itch to keep going over the middle and taking hits...
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Testosterone: The New Normal
Testosterone replacement therapy—the use of doctor-prescribed hormones to bolster flagging levels—is a tricky subject. In pop culture, testosterone is often equated with violence, aggression, and...
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Squats For Your Abs
We’re not sure why you’d want to make a back squat harder than it is, but some researchers found a way to do it, and for a pretty good reason. Scientists conducted an experiment, published in The...
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Busting Fat Myths
We all want to look better, lose fat, and improve our fitness levels through the food we eat. However, many of the biggest nutritional misconceptions revolve around dietary fat. Although this single...
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Power In A Box
This is a great time to be involved in strength and conditioning. More and more lifters are experimenting with exercises that don’t fit the “norm.” Moves such as hang cleans, box jumps, sled pulls,...
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Amber Fokken: More Than Meets The Eye
It’s hard not to be captivated when looking at Amber Dawn Fokken. Her striking blue eyes and perfect physique are a powerful combination. But behind the beauty is a strong ambitious woman who has...
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Full Spectrum Chest Workout
All chest workouts are not created equal. For a complete program, you need to attack the pecs from a variety of angles and with a multitude of training methods. Simply doing three different kinds of...
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A new study has recently assuaged one of the major fears concerning testosterone therapy, namely the belief that it accelerates the growth of prostate cancer cells. For the last 70 years, doctors have...
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Abs Master Class
Nothing ties a physique together like a good, developed set of abs. It doesn’t matter what the rest of your body looks like when you take off your shirt. If you’re sporting some serious ab game, heads...
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Clean Green Protein Machine
The ingredients in this smoothie work together to flush environmental toxins away and cleanse the liver while providing lubrication for your digestive tract, and as always, a dose of immune-enhancing...
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PEDs: Performance Enhancing Devices
We do everything possible to guarantee a good day in the gym. We have our music, our intra-workout drink, even the right clothes to keep the mind and body fully engaged and the workout kicking. The...
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Put Two Inches On Your Arms in 12 Weeks—Triceps
Training the arms can be broken primarily into triceps training and biceps training. We’ll start with the triceps because they are the larger of the two muscles groups. Finding someone with great...
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Stem The Tide
Data is everywhere. The dawn of the Internet has afforded us fingertip access to information at lightning speed. In a split second the mass of data grows geometrically, but so does the interference, if...
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When lower-back pain flares up, working out seems like a bad idea. Might as well go home and do some reps on Netflix, right? Not necessarily. A new study published in The Spine Journal shows that...
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Scientific Shoulders
The complicated ball-and-socket joint of the shoulder is hard to train but ridiculously easy to injure. In fact, one study estimated that almost 70 percent of people experience chronic shoulder pain at...
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How to Build Thick and Powerful Legs
Back when I was beginning my undergraduate work at Northwestern University, my then-training partner, Tom Deters, and I would regularly challenge each other to ever-more-intense leg workouts. We would...
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