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Do you find yourself begging your child to put down their video games and get some exercise? Many children stiffen up just hearing the word exercise. What happened to the days of running around outside with friend, coming home for dinner, and when you were done you were out the door again? Unfortunately, those days are long gone and our children are now suffering from a multitude of diseases and illnesses because of this.

I have found a great way to get our children to exercise without them even knowing. By signing your child up for extracurricular activities, they will be socializing, having fun, and secretly getting a good amount of exercise. Almost any sport will do, baseball, football, soccer, dance, just name it. As long as your child is up and moving, you have accomplished your goal.

Not only will your child unknowingly be exercising, but also they will be having fun and so will you. Your child’s participation in a group will benefit them for many years to come. Sports teach children wonderful tools to use in social situations and they tend to steer away from any bad influences. Your child will also be more confident and comfortable in their own skin.

For many who have a heavy bodybuilding routine, protein supplements are a great way to add the fuel you need to your body and replenish the energy that you use in your routine on a daily basis. However, many bodybuilders have become highly reliant on getting their protein from a canister and not from their diet. Indeed, many bodybuilders are also on a diet during their workout regimen that prevents them from taking in enough calories or protein to give the body the natural protein fix that it needs to create muscle and build good body mass.

Many bodybuilders who have tried to get more of their protein from foods have reported good success in doing so while still working out regularly and maintaining a healthy weight. Often, their proteins come from not only the typical meat sources that one would site in protein counts, but also from many of the alternatives that are used by vegetarians to get their protein - namely beans and other types of legumes. These high protein alternatives are often low calorie, and provide some proteins that you can’t get from a powder or a shake. Adding some of these to your diet can give you a natural protein boost along with meats and your supplements.

I know you’ve seen those crazy claims for BowFlex and other types of infomercial workout equipment claiming that you can “build a body like this in just 20-30 minutes a day, 3 times a week”. Well, anyone that has undergone an intense workout routine for the purposes of muscle building and gaining weight naturally know that’s not the case. It takes a lot more muscle pumping than that to build a truly muscular physique with low levels of body fat.

However, even that minimum amount of weight training is at least something. Sadly, according to the World Health Organization, 60 percent of the world’s population doesn’t even workout the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of daily moderate-intensity physical activity. This so-called “physical activity” doesn’t even include working out with weights. This could even refer to jogging, a brisk walk, and other activities….yet most people don’t even get that. Wow!

Muscle building routines designed to help you gain weight fast in the form of lean tissue gains are a form of “physical activity” that must be done on a regular basis for the skinny individual looking to build muscle mass without the use of steroids or dietary supplements.

Muscle soreness after an intense workout training session is pretty much a fact of life for anyone trying to gain weight by building muscle mass naturally. Well, according to Muscle and Fitness, there are ways to train to help alleviate or almost eliminate this.

According to the magazine, researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz had athletes perform a nine week full body workout. The magazine says, “The control group performed each set and sat down to rest between sets. The cardioacceleration group first performed a twenty minute warm up to get their heart rates up to about 60 - 85 percent of their max heart rates in the target range. Researchers found that the cardioacceleration group experienced less muscle soreness in all muscle groups trained and DOMS was eliminated by the fourth week. The control group continued to experience muscle soreness”.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that when you maintain your heart rate high throughout an entire workout you’ll improve your metabolism and your body’s ability to remove toxins and bring fresh and much needed nutrients to the hard working muscle groups.

So if your involved in a workout program designed for muscle building and weight gain keep that heart pumping, not just your pecs!

Clenbuterol, also known as “clen”, is a heavily looked for, heavily used prescription drug that, although intended to treat asthma, is used in the bodybuilding world, both competitively and non-competitively, to was is believed as muscle building and fast fat burning. Jeff Everson, in a recent column in Planet Muscle magazine, answered a reader’s concerning the use of clenbuterol as a performance and physique enhancer. His reply is very revealing about this highly used, yet in an ignorant fashion, ergogenic aid.

In the column, in part, he writes, “Animal researchers years ago showed that clenbuterol had the rather odd action of working as a calorie nutrient-partitioning agent — in pigs! Without exercising activity, clen shifted calorie intake into more (preferential) muscle tissue, versus fat, in porcine and other livestock. But those of you raised on farms know that pigs grow huge muscle mass on corn, curds, whey and well…slop. Humans are not farm animals”.

Thank you Jeff Everson for telling like it is, and not simply being a “monkey see, monkey do” type of writer and bodybuilder. It’s amazing how because a handful of individuals took the results from some animal study, which in this case would really have no relevance to humans, ran with it, went above and beyond the truth, and recommended it as a huge weapon in holding on to hard earned muscle you’ve built through the use of weights on intense workout routines, while burning body fat fast…..and from there most bodybuilders followed along and used it without any further thought.

This quote is an excellent quote in which I agree with completely.

Probably the most popular workout drink out on the market, Red Bull has been hyped up as an excellent energy drink for those looking to increase power, strength, muscle building, and weight gain. Well, not only does it not contain enough of the main energy boosting ingredient, but there’s even a Canadian study that shows it.

Read my latest article to find out the truth about Red Bull:
Red Bull Doesn’t Boost Workout Energy

If you are hitting the weights hard and are working out intensely, then you should be experiencing sore muscles now and then, not that it’s needed on a daily basis to stimulate muscle building and weight gain. Well, unless you enjoy pain during every waking moment, soreness can really be a pain…..no pun intended.

Other than quickly reaching for you bottle of aspirin or Advil, two things you can do to help relieve some of that muscular soreness is:

1) Weight training (the blood flow the brain signals to the working muscles helps take in nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, calories, hormones, etc., but also takes away or removes toxins).

2) Drink caffeine (some studies claim that it can reduce pain by up to half).

Again, you have to be training hard enough to every now and then induce soreness within the muscle, not to be confused the pain that comes from an actual injury. All of these things will make your muscle building and weight gaining experience much more pleasant.

You may think that intense weight training only works the muscles and other systems, such as the cardiovascular. However, there’s something else that derives great benefit as well…..your brain.

MuscleMag reports on a study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that regular workout routines will protect the brain and keep it young. The author’s wrote, “Physical and aerobic training can lower your risk of developing some undesirable age-related changes in cognitive and brain function and also help the brain maintain its ability to recover one function if another starts failing later in life”.

The intense focus and concentration that’s required to perform your workout program properly to stimulate muscle building and weight gain no doubts keeps the cob webs out of your brain as long as you continue to train.

Oh yeah, all you’re doing when you’re drinking those vitamin enriched beverages is creating expensive urine, because you aren’t getting any benefits to your workout routine by ingesting them. Companies would like you to believe that they’ll help, but they won’t. Read my latest article concerning this….your muscle mass and your wallet will thank you for it.

Supplement Ripoff: Vitamin-Enriched Drinks

Some people swear by pain medications to help relieve the muscular soreness that can come about as a result of intense, muscle building workouts.  Well, the mere expectation of relief causes our body to release numbing agents called opioids.  If you want the same relief from generic pain medication as you expect from a name brand like Tylenol or Advil, check out the active ingredient on the label……..they’re exactly the same.  So, no need to be wasting money on meds that are named brand since you’re getting the same thing.

A recent study that was done by Cornell University revealed that the overweight individuals they surveyed didn’t stop eating until the plate was empty.  You may feel that eating like animal to gain muscular weight and build muscle may be the way to go.  Yes, you do need to eat a lot, but not everyday and to a certain extent, and under certain conditions and guidelines.  Not just for the sake of it.

According to Brian Wansink focusing on the food left on your plate and not what’s in your stomach influences you to keep eating…..which instead of muscle building can lead to a lot of fat building!

A very revealing study demonstrated that even on a diet as low as 800 calories per day you can hold onto your muscle building efforts……but you’ve gotta hit the weights just as hard! Performing aerobics to get you cut is one of the worst things you could do to yourself. Read the latest workout article to find out more:

Muscle Building Workouts Preserve Muscle On Low Calories

You need to get away from the flat barbell bench press if you are seeking more muscle building in the chest area. Read my latest article to read why dumbbells are superior:

Dumbbell Presses Build More Pec Muscles

Incredible how everyone takes a particular study done on some type of diet (usually some form of a low carb / ketogenic diet) and will completely miss the boat on how to interpret it. Check out the latest article to see what I mean:

Low Carbs Are Not A Magic Wand

As this month’s M&F reports, MRSA (the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak) is a staph bacteria that has been infecting athletes and muscle-builders alike. Because of the sharing of gym equipment, spreading and contracting of this outbreak can actually be pretty easy to get….unless you take the obvious precautions. No, don’t avoid going to the local gym or recreational center if it’s going to mean you miss out on your all-important muscle building workouts. Do what you should be doing anyway to avoid germs and bacteria, constantly keep your hands clean, avoid touching anything you don’t need to touch, and keep a hand sanitizer near by at all times.

When it comes to trying to burn fat so that you can reveal all of the muscle you’ve built, one of the many things that so called experts recommend is to stick to the “browns” and to avoid the “whites” when it comes to nutrition. “Brown” referring to brown sugar, brown rice, etc. And, of course, “white” referring to white sugar, white rice, etc.

Well, Becky Holman reports in IronMan that brown sugar is not more healthful that white sugar. Your body processes both the same way. Molasses makes brown sugar brown, but the calories and carbs are the same.

I love this observation by Becky because it just goes to show even further just how ridiculous diet experts have gotten in what they suggest to eat and what to avoid. Like I’ve said a million times, whether you are trying to build muscle or to burn body fat it will always, at the end of the day, come down to straight up calories, regardless of the color of the food!!!!

Muscular Development cites a study down in the Journal Applied Physiology that explains why a lot of us lose a lot of performance in the gym when engaging in muscle building workouts when we begin to get real “hot under the collar”.

Lars Nybo from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark concluded that excessive increases in body temperature from working out intensely in the heat causes fatigue. Metabolism during exercise works by taking energy from food and converting it to energy the cells use to contract muscles, send signals, control fluids, and build muscle tissue, amongst others. However, the metabolism becomes inefficient as temperature increases, so the body attempts to cool itself by diverting blood to the skin and sweating. Unfortunately, the magazine goes on to report, this blood is no longer available to deliver oxygen to the exercising muscles, which results in fatigue.

High temperatures over longer periods in the brain disturb the capacity to contract muscles…..al which affect muscle building.

A ton of money is spent annually on the dietary supplement DHEA by individuals, especially older ones, looking to up their natural testosterone levels. But there’s a recent study that may prove different:

DHEA Found Not To Build Muscle

That’s right, even though everyone seems to make isolation exercises the “red-headed stepchild” in the muscle building / weight gain process, they build just as much muscle mass as any compound bodybuilding movement.

Don’t take my word for it: Here’s a quote from Markus Ruhl, one of the biggest IFBB professional bodybuilders ever, from a Flex interview: “The biggest mistake I see people make in chest training is assuming that flyes and cable crossovers are for definition and not mass building. Definition comes from diet and cardio; weight training is to gain mass. I never do an exercise that does not build mass, and that includes flyes and crossovers. I do them with full power….”

Markus, you have just made one of the most intelligent observations I’ve read a bodybuilder make. How refreshing!

Fiber is one of those substances that, although it doesn’t provide weight gaining or muscle building calories, does have an impact on your digestive, which, as I’m sure you know, has to process any food you eat to build your body. Well, two cups of beans 26 grams of fiber, which is exactly what most people recommend everyone should be consuming daily.

Knee wraps are one of the things that many weight lifters include in their gym when off to a weight gaining / muscle building workout. However, wraps can actually increase the chances of you causing some problems, as you can find out in the latest article:

Gain Weight - Problem With Knee Wraps

Especially in freezing environments, hot cocoa is a very popular drink. Well, not only does it tastes great (if you don’t burn off your taste buds, tongue, or roof of your mouth from the lava-like temperatures), but it also is good for gaining weight and building lean muscle. Hot cocoa is full of anti-oxidants, over 500 mgs worth.

Just so you can appreciate how many mgs that actually is, green tea, which now-a-days everyone seems to be praising the skies out of, only has about 50 mgs. Red wine only has about 160 mgs (unless, of course, you’re one of those that can’t seem to stop drinking after the first glass…..lol).

CLA is one the more popular supplements out on the scene that claims to keep body fat levels low while you gain weight and build muscle. Well, read my latest article, Gain Weight Supplement - CLA May Not Be Worth It to read about a study conducted in Norway that shows other wise.

According to PAUL ELIAS and the Associated Press;

homas, the first figure connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case to go to trial, shouted at the jury after being found guilty of three counts of perjury and a count of obstruction of justice. She was acquitted of two counts of perjury.

“I already had one career taken away from me,” she yelled, referencing her lifetime ban from cycling. “Look me in the eye. You can’t do it.”

Her father, who has sat in the front row of court during the two week trial, also raised his voice and said, “They can’t do it.”

Thomas then shouted and gestured at prosecutors: “Look me in the eye …. You like to destroy people’s lives.”

Thomas, prosecutors and jurors all had no comment.

Outside the courthouse, Thomas’ lawyer Ethan Balogh said he was disappointed.

“It is difficult for all of us who went through this trial,” Balogh said.

Legal experts said Thomas faces a prison sentence of between six months and several years. She is scheduled to be sentenced July 18.

The federal government steroids probe has ensnared a number of elite athletes, including home run king Barry Bonds, track star Marion Jones and former San Francisco 49ers player Dana Stubblefield. Investigators are also looking into whether pitcher Roger Clemens lied when he told Congress he never used performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds is charged with perjury for allegedly lying to the same grand jury about never knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.

Legal experts said Thomas’ trial offered Bonds’ lawyers a preview of what kind of evidence the slugger will face if his case goes to trial as expected. Two of Bonds’ attorneys, for instance, watched the government’s lead steroids investigator testify.

The investigator, IRS agent Jeff Novitzky, is expected to play a starring role for the government during Bonds’ trial, which isn’t expected to begin until next year.

Novitzky testified that Thomas’ lies hindered the federal investigation of drug maker Patrick Arnold, who prosecutors wanted to indict in 2003 but had to wait another three years to amass more evidence because of the cyclist’s perjured testimony.

The jury found Thomas guilty of falsely telling the grand jury that she had never taken steroids and had never received any performance-enhancing drugs from Arnold, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to making two undetectable steroids.

Thomas made her denials even though she was banned from cycling for life in August 2002 after the performance-enhancing drug Norbolethone was detected in her urine.

The drug, once an obscure steroid used in human tests in the 1960s, was rediscovered by Arnold, who supplied the Burlingame-based BALCO with undetectable performance-enhancing drugs.

Prosecutors also showed jurors Thomas medical records that showed she grew a full beard and underwent dramatic voice changes that a doctor diagnosed as side effects of heavy steroid use. Arnold also testified that he sent Thomas the steroids THG he invented at least once.

Thomas is the ninth BALCO figure to suffer convictions. Eight others, including Jones and BALCO founder Victor Conte, have pleaded guilty to various charges of perjury, drug and money laundering charges.

In addition, track coach Trevor Graham has pleaded not guilty to lying to federal agents about giving steroids to athletes. Graham’s trial in San Francisco federal court is scheduled to begin May 19. Graham helped spur the original BALCO investigation when he mailed a vial of Arnold’s designer drug also called “the clear” to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

MY TAKE: Once again we have another big time athlete being accused of taking steroids that are usually taken for muscle building / endurance purposes. As always, innocent until proven guilty.

Isometric training, where you hold your muscle in the fully contracted, “flexed”, position, was found in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research to be just as effective on muscle performance as plyometric training, yet without the risk of injury from impact that’s often associated with plyometrics.

In my opinion, isometric holds are very effective at not only muscular performance, but also at stimulating muscle building and gains in body weight (with the addition of proper caloric intake).

The speed at which to perform and complete your repetitions during an intense weight lifting set is an area of much confusion….the big fast vs slow reps debate. Well, take a look at my latest article and find out what two very important studies have revealed:

Fast or Slow Reps To Build Muscle & Gain Weight?

NBC is reporting that the second season of the hard hitting, muscle-bashing extraveganza known as American Gladiators is not only increasing in muscle-vibe, but also in venue as well. Taping are going to be at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, has about 13,000 seats around the arena.

The official list as to who the Gladiators will be has not been released, but as soon as it is made public you’ll be able to check it out here.

You’ve heard it a million times, you shouldn’t eat salt because it will raise your blood pressure. Well, large scale scientific reviews have shown that there’s no reason for people with normal blood pressure to restrict their sodium (salt) usage.

It’s been known for 20 years now that people with high blood pressure who don’t want to lower their salt intake can simply more potassium-containing foods, since they keep each other balanced out. Dutch researchers determined that a low potassium intake has the same impact on your blood pressure as high salt consumption.

Good sources of potassium are fruits, vegetables, and legumes….such as bananas, white potatoes, spinach, and broccoli.

According to a column in Men’s Health, both high fructose corn syrup and table sugar contain similar amounts of fructose. For instance, the two most commonly used types of HFCS are HFCS-42 and HFCS-55, which are 42% and 55% fructose, respectively. Table sugar is almost chemically identical, containing 50% fructose.

This is why the University of California at Davis, continues to report the column, scientists determined fructose intakes from both HFCS and table sugar. The truth is, there’s no evidence to show any differences in these two types of sugar. Both will cause you to blur your muscular definition and will result in weight gain when consumed in excess, but of the bad kind.

Just watch what you drink, such as soft drinks, sweetened fruit juices, and prepackaged desserts (unless, of course, it’s your higher calorie days….yum).

Read the latest article I’ve written on how water can possibly give you a small help in keeping your body fat low while you go after muscle building and weight gaining:

Water Can Enhance Muscle Definition

Yes, NBC’s highest rated new show is coming back for a second season, starting on May 12th. There will be some replacements of the professional Gladiators and some of the actual physical events (which I’m happy about getting rid some of those obstacles). As to which pro Gladiators will be cut is yet to be made public. I do know for sure that Militia will remain, since I was able to personally meet and speak to him at this year’s Arnold Classic Fitness Expo, in which he mentioned that to me. I also had the pleasure of meeting Wolf, Justice, Titan, Sirene, and the women’s runner up Shanay.

…use the stairs to get rid of fat. The stair stepper causes minimal injury risk. One way to burn fat or keep fat at a minimum while you focus on gaining muscle weight is to stay out of the elevator and off the escalator. Walking up stairs burns more calories than playing tennis or jogging. Just adding two flights of stairs to your normal physical activity each day could lead to a fat burning effect and weight loss of 12 pounds in one year.

Again, even though muscle building is your main goal, you still have to keep body fat in check…..this is one way how you can accomplish this.

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According to MuscleMag, a new study published in the Journal of Food Science revealed that boiling or steaming broccoli could deplete its Vitamin C stores by 34% and 22%, respectively. When boiling or steaming, the nutrients end up in water ,which people usually pour down the drain. To boost broccoli’s benefits, switch to microwave instead.

Microwaving preserves more than 90% of the vegetable’s Vitamin C, an important cancer fighting nutrient, continues to report MuscleMag. Microwave your veggies without adding water so that they cook in their own juices. To ensure they cook evenly, stir halfway through.

The more vitamins you’re body can utilize, the more muscle building and weight gain you’ll grab a hold of.

According to the American Council on Exercise, stretching is an important aspect of your weight lifting routine aimed at building muscle and gaining weight. Instead of heading straight to the showers after your intense workout routine, take a few minutes to work on your flexibility. Stretching moves are very important in increasing your range of motion, releasing muscle tension and soreness, reducing your risk of injury and increasing physical and mental relaxation. Stretch slowly with no bouncing whatsoever. Remember to breath throughout the movements.

The more agile your muscles are the easier it will be to create a good pump and burn needed to build muscle mass naturally and gain weight fast.

I know, I know. You’ve heard it over a billion times that you must drink water and to all of its benefits. Well, hey, here’s one more for you.

According to a column in Mens Health, water is a powerful lifting aid. University of Connecticut researchers discovered that men who hydrated with water before lifting completed 17% more reps per set during a lower body workout than thirsty exercisers.

Turns out, your nervous system slows your muscle activation when you’re not adequately hydrated, continues to report the column.

My take: I completely agree with the fact that the majority of us do not drink enough water. The advantages that water provides are way too many not to drink it. I mean, c’mon, it’s free (unless you’re foolish enough to shell out $2.00 for tap water just because it comes in some fancy looking water with a beautiful water fall on the label). Water is one of the few substances that can actually make a difference in your muscle building / weight gain goals.

It’s unbelievable how everyone has made carbs public enemy #1……….then wonder why they can’t gain any muscle weight.

Read my latest article to have more light shed on this matter:
Latest muscle building article

This weekend, professional bodybuilder Phil Heath won in decisive manner. Adding at least 15 pounds of new muscle in the last year, definitely bringing up body parts that he considered needed some working on, such has his shoulders, is now laying to rest any doubts to whether if he is the next big thing in bodybuilding or not. Amazing how someone who has only competed in 3 or 4 professional bodybuilding competitions, yet has won 3 of them.

There are some pros that compete for years and years on end and never rich the top…….much less as quickly as Phil Heath. Stay tuned for more to come with this individual, namely, the fast approaching 2008 Arnold Classic.

Here are the results of this competition:

15.Ray Arde
14.JoJo Ntiforo
13.Khalid Almohsinawi
12.David Henry
11.Will Harris
10. King Kamali
9. Troy Alves
8. Toney Freeman
7. Eddie Abbew
6. Desmond Miller
5. Johnnie Jackson
4. Silvio Samuel
3. Mo Elmoussawi
2. Gustavo Badell
1. Phil Heath

According to a story at FoxNews.com, Aditya “Romeo” Dev of Phagwara, India, is a little person who is only 2 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs not even 20 pounds, yet he causes a lot of stir on a daily basis when he works out at the local gym.

In 2006, after months of intense exercise, the Guinness Book of World Records named Dev the smallest bodybuilder on the planet.

It’s individuals like Aditya that are true inspiration, because he doesn’t let anything stand in his way of reaching his muscle building goals. If someone that only weighs 20 pounds and is less than 3 feet tall can engage in a healthy weight gaining (of muscle, of course) lifestyle, why not all of us.

Two quick news bits for today’s Muscle Weight Gain & Muscle Building Blog:

First, there’s been two very tragic deaths recently. According to reports by GetBig, Dr. Bruce Nadler, who has assisted several competitive bodybuilders, is said to have shot and killed his wife Terri, and then turned around and committed suicide. This is said to have occured in the Park La Brea area of Los Angeles on Saturday. Both individuals were 61 years old.

And in lighter news, the muscle building radio show Professional Bodybuilding Weekly has announced that on tonight’s episode they will be talking legend Bob Paris, and will be discussing the upcoming IronMan competition.

If you’re like me, sleeping can be a task onto itself. Many of us have a degree of difficulty in getting good night’s sleep. Sleep, without a shadow of a doubt, is very important because it is an essential piece of the muscle building - recuperation puzzle.

Magnesium MAY help some individuals sleep better. This mineral helps the body produce melatonin, which is a substance found in the brain that tells the body to “chill out”. Some recommend to take 200 mgs in the late evening.

According to GetBig.com, Erik “The Viking” Fromm was found dead at his Wisconsin home last night. It has not been found out or made public what was the exact cause of his untimely and sudden death. Erik was a consistent top 10 NPC Super-Heavyweight Bodybuilder.

Erik has appeared on many advertisements and photos in leading bodybuilding muscle magazines. He was only 36 years old! Incredibly sad and tragic, to say the least. More will be posted on this Muscle Weight Gain & Muscle Building Blog as it’s released.

According to GetBig, IFBB professional bodybuilder Desmond Miller has been released from his duties as a contributing writer for the magazine Muscular Development, in which he wrote a monthly column, where he detailed what was going on with his training and competition preparations, as well as some question and answer sections.

Although he may no longer be writing for the magazine, he’s still competing in the upcoming winter / spring shows.

According to a column in MuscleMag, as long as you don’t damage your joints with excessive weights, increasing your quad strength can help protect the cartilage behind your knee caps. Knee cartilage deteriorates over time and leads to osteoarthritis.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, continues to report the same column, found that people who had stronger quads had less cartilage loss in the patellofemoral joint. So remember, hit those lunges for not only building muscles in the hams and quads, but for long-term knee health!

Competitive bodybuilder Eddie Moyzan was recently arrested for steroids to an undercover Pennsylvania State trooper, according to the sites pennlive.com and Nj.com

Apparently he tried to sell the trooper the anabolic / weight gaining / muscle building steroids dianabol and Anavar.

This investigation was started to uncover the alledged selling of steroids at Gold’s Gym in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

This week we see the return to the air after a several weeks long break of Professional Bodybuilding Weekly, hosted by Dan Solomon and Bob Cicherillo. On this week’s show they interview Phil Heath to discuss the upcoming Arnold Classic, a contest in which he is one of the favorites to win it. Also, they speak to Nasser El Sonbaty, speaking about many controversial topics. And last but not least, they also have bodybuilding legend Boyer Coe.

Over at MD Radio, they speak to the lively Jimmy “The Angry Bull” Pellechia, Dr. Victor Prisk, who discusses with the gentlemen the status of the reattachment surgery Mr. Olympia runner-up Victor Martinez had, and also IFBB Pro Mike Quinn, who speaks to them about many happenings that went on back in the day when he was still actively competing.

IFBB Professional bodybuilder and runner up in this year’s Mr. Olympia, Victor Martinez, is officially out of the upcoming Arnold Classic, a contest most had him winning.

Flex online, Dave Palumbo, and other credible sources are reporting that Victor Martinez he had to take himself to the hospital to undergo an MRI because of tremendous pain in his left knee from warm up lunges during a workout training session. Apparently he suffered some major tears to his ligaments and has undergone surgery.

We all hope he heals up soon!

Here’s another installment of the series of articles I’ve been sharing on this blog concerning the deception perpetrated by many bodybuilding supplement manufacturers. This one quotes individuals on the “inside” of this industry or that have tested the label claims.

Check out the article:
Muscle Building / Weight Gain Supplements: A Tale Of Two Industries

According to MuscleMag International, massages help overworked muscles bounce back faster by alleviating soreness and reducing swelling. According to Australian researchers, if a strained muscle is massaged within 3 hours of the onset of pain, it will be approximately a third less sore and swollen 3 days later than it would be without the massage therapy.

Massotherapy has many, many benefits and advantages to help repair, recover, and eventually build muscle mass…..plus it can really help with stress relief and relaxation.

Wilhelm Schanzer, who is the head of the International Olympic Committee drug testing program, investigated 100 of the most widely used nutritional supplements. Well, he found that 16 of them actually contained the anabolic steroid known as Deca Durabolin, aka Nandrolone.

Also, researchers out of Denmark discovered that supplements such as BCAA’s CLA, creatine, and glutamine, among many others, were some of the most popular supplements to be laced with illegal ingredients.

As explain in one of the articles I posted up on this muscle building blog, this is done to make unsuspecting users think that the supplement works, in fact what’s working is not the advertised supplements, but in fact, the illegal ingredient, usually some form of anabolic steroid or prescription medication that can be used for fat burning, like Clenbuterol. Once people catch wind that this supplement supposedly works, and that reputation gets around, then the stop putting the ingredient that actually works in the batches, and purchasers are left with a pile of garbage for a supplement.

Beware Of Those “Before” & “After” Supplement Ads!-pt 5

That’s the title of the latest installment to this series of articles on the topic of the dietary supplement industry and the practices they don’t want the public to be aware of. In this edition, you’ll see some specific products / companies and the major lawsuit brought upon them and eforced by none other than the Federal Trade Commission!

If you were wondering why you aren’t getting the kind of muscle building effect from those supplements that their ads claim, you’ll want to read this article!