Is Bigger Necessarily Stronger? A bigger muscle is a stronger muscle. The muscle getting bigger is the body’s adaptation as a result of resistance exercise, as long as that resistance at a fairly high percentage of your maximal effort. You don’t get big just walking around and while body weight …
Anyone who has taken niacin, at least the right kind of niacin (that being nicotinic acid) has probably experienced the niacin flush side effect. Even after years of taking 2,000mg of niacin a day, I still occasionally get it. Sometimes it’s no more than a slight tingling in the skin …
How do I perform a dead lift properly? The short version: “Grip it and rip it” The long, detailed version: Keep your shoulders in position, scapulas directly over (shoulders slightly in front of) the bar. This is a critical difference in the clean and the dead lift: the shoulders stay …
Fruits, berries, vegetables, grains, nuts, even popcorn… these are among the foods that offer you a way to include fiber in your diet, an all-important component of healthy eating. There has yet to be an official guideline as to how much fiber should be included in the daily diet. Nutrition …
As you may have already discovered, the squat (along with dead lifts) is at the top of the heap as one of the most effective overall exercises for stimulating muscle gain and fat loss. This is because exercises like squats and dead lifts use more muscle groups under a heavy …
Artificial trans fats are one of the most prevalent poisons in our food supply, but most people don’t know that healthy natural trans fats DO exist. I’m going to talk about something today that most of you have probably never heard… that there is a distinction between good trans fats …
Diet Coke is on of the most popular sodas on the planet.In the U.S., the average person drinks more soda than water, and Diet Soda makes up more than 50% of that soda intake. Diet soda isn’t a health drink or cure or solution for being overweight. Although switching from …
A bigger muscle is a stronger muscle. I’m not saying a bigger person will always be stronger than a smaller person (physics/leverage/neural components matter), but as far as weight training goes, when you get bigger, you will also get stronger. Weight training (done right) stresses the muscular system and causes …
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear …
