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Getting cut and defined isn't just about calorie counting. Heck, if that were true, anyone and everyone could get lean easily. While modifying your total calorie intake certainly plays a major role, the key to successful fat loss lies in strategies that actually alter your body's metabolism. Lets Begin Most think of altering the metabolism as "boosting i[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I got started with bodybuilding, a little just by working out in college. I used to go to the gym at night and run on the treadmill and then I would sneak over to the weights and just do curls and lateral raises (since that was all I knew) I slowly progressed from there, as I was an acrobat and interested in being [...]

Easily one of the most promising new faces within the fitness community is 18 year old Bianca Baker from Southern Indiana.  I had the pleasure of meeting and training Bianca this past January at the annual Dr. Joe Fantasy Camp (www.perfectpeaking.com - I will have an article and video recapping that weekend shortly!).  Aside from being a bad ass in the gym[...]

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How did you get started with bodybuilding? Well, honestly, I had no intentions of actually competing until a few years back. I started lifting shortly after I joined the Marines. I was always in decent shape, but I was pretty weak. Coming out of bootcamp I was a bag of bones sitting at 150 lbs. I was a cardio monster, but couldn't even lift my own bodywei[...]

Besides water being necessary for survival, drinking water cuts hunger and creates a feeling of fullness. Furthermore, consuming water also has the benefit of increasing metabolic rate and burning more calories. The Studies Researchers have found that consuming 500mL of water increased the subjects’ resting metabolic rate by 25 percent and that means[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? Well I first decided to start lifting weights in 7th grade, because I was afraid I would get picked on and beat up in high school. However I didn't really get serious until mid way through my freshman year back in 1999. I was always a very skinny kid and had a ridiculously fast metabolism that kept me that way. On [...]

I’m going to throw out a weird hypothetical question that I want readers to consider before continuing with this article. If you had to pick a single repetition range to train in for growth, what would it be? That is, imagine some very strange situation where you could only train within a certain range (and let’s make that range something a little less[...]

Michael Maillet proves that even with a heart condition you can still achieve your goals How did you get started in bodybuilding? I got into bodybuilding when I was about 22 yrs old and extremely unhealthy. I was a drinker, cigarette smoker and constant junk food eater. It took 1 person to get me to take things into perspective - Someone told me, "Don't ma[...]