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What are Amino Acids? By Barry Finnin, PhD, and Samuel Peters The 23 or so amino acids are the molecular building blocks of proteins. According to one accepted classification, 9 are termed indispensable amino acids (IAA, sometimes called essential), meaning that they must be supplied from some...

KETOGENIC DIETING IN DEPTH How This Program Works Modern nutrition recommends low fat diets, with calories coming predominantly from carbohydrates. This generally suits many athletes, as carbohydrates are an easy to use source of fuel, especially for weight training, and fats eaten are more...

Go Heavy, Get Explosive, Grow Bigger By: Dan Alpha If you look at the athletes who have great powerful looking physiques, you may wonder how exactly do they train? Weightlifters, sprinters, gymnasts, and even powerlifters have that powerful look to them. The similarity in training throughout...

Balancing Out Those Dietary Acids by Dr John M Berardi, CSCS Simply put, the North American diet is very acidic. From most proteins to many dairy products (especially cheese) to most grains, we take in far more dietary acids than we do bases. And this imbalance between acid and base can cause...

Success Through Goal Setting By Brian Tracy The ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is the ?master skill? of success. It is the single most important skill that you can learn and perfect. Goal-setting will do more to help you achieve the things you want in life than...

Deciphering Rep Ranges By: Shannon Clark While there are a many different types of workout splits you can do ? full body, upper/lower, push/pull, or body part splints with your workout design, one aspect that needs some extra consideration is the rep range you?re going to use with the lifts you...

Dash of melatonin boosts post-training GH Sports scientists think that the boost in growth hormone levels that occurs after a workout with weights is responsible for muscle growth and rejuvenating effects. If they are right, then taking a low dose of melatonin before training may have...

Tension, the Key to Strength By: Dan McVicker, RKC Tension is simultaneously one of the most important and the most overlooked aspects of strength training. It is certainly what separates Pavel's training and techniques from many other "also-rans". But even within the Party many of us...

EFFORT By Mike Mentzer I recalled the first of my high-quality efforts in bodybuilding. The effort level was so intense, embodying such exhilaration and such a quantum leap from previous workouts that the mere act of recalling it nearly takes me into the Pain Zone. Around 1972 I began to be...

Reduce cortisol -- try Asorbic acid by Edmund R. Burke, Ph.D. A study of Junior National Team weightlifters showed that daily ingestion of 1,000 mg of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) had a significant impact on lowering one's body cortisol levels after hard training. Subjects were assigned to one of...

Meal Frequency Madness By: Shannon Clark One aspect of a diet program set-up that’s becoming a heated debate right now is that of meal frequency. Typically, you have two camps of people in this debate. Camp one are those who strongly believe that you should be eating on a constant basis...

The Conventional Deadlift Techique Primer By: Harald Leymann When I'm in the gym or at a PL meet and I see a lot of deadlifts with bad or inefficient technique. A less than perfect technique can hold you back from reaching good results, or even worse, you will get injured. With that in mind...

Positive Nitrogen Balance For Muscle Growth Proteins are nitrogenous compounds made of amino acids which serve as structural building blocks of the human body. Additionally, they are crucial for the synthesis of hormones, enzymes, red blood cells and can also be used secondary (carbohydrates...

Heavy Light Weight: That is the Key By: Justin Edwards Pushing big weight and setting new personal best in the gym can be a great thing, and there is no question that there is a direct correlation to the amount of weight lifted and muscle growth. By now most of us should understand that...

Simple Formula To Calculate Your Daily Calories Here's a simple formula you can use to estimate your total caloric needs for the day. Change your weight in pounds to kilograms: Divide your weight by 2.2. Your basal metabolic rate is approximately one calorie per kilogram per hour. Multiply...

Training Variables: The Big Three by Ron Sowers Intro Everyone performing resistance training, always seems to be searching for the 'best parameters'. Volume, intensity, and frequency. We fear training too little and training too much. Somewhere in the blurred gray middle is the optimal dose...

Over Training... Are You? By: Adam Valentine Lately, I have been subject to those who consistently want to train THEIR way, yet questions are still being asked such as, ?Why am I not getting stronger, why am I not getting bigger, and why am I not looking forward to training?? The actual answer...

Bodybuilding Cyclic Ketogenic Diet By: Ed Sturm This article is being written for those who are either only remotely familiar and totally unfamiliar with ketogenic dieting. The information provided here is based solely upon my own personal experiences as well as those of my wife. There are no...

Things To Know About Cholesterol & Coronary Heart Disease By Nigel Kinbrum Cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD) are mentioned in the media quite a lot. Unfortunately, most of what you see and hear is either wrong or oversimplified to the point that it misses out what's actually...

Bicep Muscle Function and Physiology By:Lynn Glenn Before you can build amazing biceps you should know how the biceps are formed and how the biceps function. By understanding how the biceps are comprised of, and how the biceps function you can maximize the results that you can obtain at the...