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Maximize Your Muscle Pump
Here is one truth I’ve discovered about skinny guys: They tend to have more slow-twitch muscle fibers, which require a greater amount of lactic acid to be stimulated to produce growth. Here is how you...
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Cross Over to a Better Chest
Cable crossovers are usually seen only in large, well-equipped gyms or heavy-iron gyms. The cable crossover unit requires a large area in the gym, and it’s not usually selected by average trainees, as...
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March 2016 Table of Contents
SUBSCRIBE to Iron Man Catch up with Steve Cook, one of the original Men's Physique superstars, as he moves to Los Angeles, learns surfing and joins CAA. Don't miss nutrition research on garlic, DNA...
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Hidden Enemy: Your Healthy Diet
I have always tried to ignore scary health statistics—until I became one. Then it was impossible to ignore them. In the pump-up room at the ’11 Master’s Nationals, while everyone else was eating rice...
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Uni-angular Tri-sets for Bigger Arms
Q: I’d like to try a training cycle to bring up my arms, which are lagging behind my other bodyparts. I’ve been training for two years. Can you give me some ideas? A: Try a five-day cycle in which...
View ArticleWhy You Need More Fiber
Eat more fiber. We’ve all heard that advice, but what does it really mean? Most people think of fiber as being in a bran muffin or cereal. In fact, dietary fiber is found in fruits, vegetables, whole...
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Surfing the Anabolic Hormone Zone
When it comes to adding or subtracting body fat, scientists used to believe it was simply a matter of calorie control. Now they are realizing it's not that simple; there is a major hormonal...
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Burning Fat and Keeping Muscle
Q: Right now my main goal is to burn bodyfat while keeping as much of the muscle I built over the winter intact. I do my cardio on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. A trainer at my gym told...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Shoulders to Progress
Q: I’ve been using the workout you suggested, and it’s working really well. I’m doing chest and arms on Monday, legs on Wednesday and back and shoulders on Friday. I have been doing it for about...
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Get Your Legs in Contest Shape
Q: For years I was one of those guys who wore a tank top and sweat pants to the gym because I didn’t like training legs. Now my friends are trying to convince me to compete in bodybuilding in the...
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Destroy Plateaus With A.C. Sprints
The advanced training technique I want to share with you this month is one that you may not associate with bodybuilding—if you know about it at all. Two columns ago I discussed the lactic energy...
View ArticleHow to Score Six-Pack Abs
I’ll never forget the first time I saw NABBA Mr. Universe Serge Nubret “wiggle” his abdominal muscles. Yes, wiggle. While I’d seen thousands of bodybuilders grunt out abdominal poses, it was the...
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Lean Turkey Wraps
Being a competitive bodybuilder and a fitness professional for more than 25 years, I’m always searching for (and asked about) food options and tasty meal ideas that will help people attain a lean...
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Interview: IFBB Men’s Physique Pro Jason Poston
The path of IFBB Pro Jason Poston has not been an easy one, but that has not stopped his success. It’s a typical balmy late-January day in Long Beach, California. Inside Metroflex Gym, one of Southern...
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How do I get upper-chest mass?
Q: I need more upper-chest mass. I’ve tried barbell and dumbbell incline presses. Do you think incline flyes work better than those movements for some people? I’m thinking about using more incline...
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Paleo Diet vs Traditional Diets
Before I get into the above subjects, I want to mention a small format change. With so much to say about holistic nutrition, I am a bit frustrated with being limited to only one topic a month. So at...
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My Leg Workout With Branch Warren
Let me begin by saying that I train very hard, and pride myself on that. I am not and never have been the strongest man (relative to the elite in strength), but my intensity is always high. I am all...
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Product Spotlight: DuraMax Amino by BMR Sports Nutrition
The next generation of intra-workout amino acid supplementation is here. DuraMax Amino by BMR Sports Nu- trition delivers more than 13 grams of precision amino acids to optimize train- ing energy,...
View ArticleAttack Your Back
The most exciting addition to the IFBB in recent times has been Cedric McMillan, who at 6’2” and 270 pounds is something of a throwback to the more classical physiques of decades past. When he turned...
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Will sugar make me fat?
Ah, so many sugar questions this month! In a word, yes! You may not know that refined sugar did not exist in our evolutionary period, and eating it poses an increased risk for negative health effects....
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