2011 Mr. Olympia Shocker: Branch Warren Out Of The 2011 Contest!
Posted on August 23rd, 2011
Branch Warren will be in attendance at the 2011 Mr. Olympia in Las Vegas, but, unfortunately, he’ll have to be in the audience . Warren was in Atlanta over the weekend for an appearance. He slipped on wet pavement while stepping into his car. He heard a “tear” emerge from his left leg, and he was rushed straight to hospital.
Doctors at the Alanta Hospital, in Texas, confirmed Warren’s nightmare yesterday when they diagnosed his leg injury as a torn quadriceps tendon. The USA Texas resident will undergo surgery Monday , August 22, 2011, and is expected to recover fully in time to return to the stage in 2012.
Branch is a warrior and bounced back from injury on two previous occasions. He suffered both a biceps and a triceps tear in years past. Each time he came back bigger and stronger. Both of the previously injured body parts now possess larger dimensions than the uninjured sides.
Warren was in the running to out muscle Jay Cutler for the 2011 Mr Olympia but sadly he will not be in the running, making Cutler smile!
Nutrition Warehouse wishes Branch a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him in 2012.
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Teen Bodybuilding Guide: Part 1
Posted on February 15th, 2011
Teen Bodybuilding Guide: Part 1
Our teenage years are some of the most difficult of our lives, in many ways. It is the teasing that is first experienced as a teenager that has spurred many of the world’s best bodybuilders onto their current amazing fitness and glory. There is evidence that starting a fitness regime earlier in your life increases your base fitness for life – so this is an ideal time to start lifting and loading! However, there are plenty of special considerations that teen bodybuilders should make – today we check out some of those. Stay tuned to the blog for more on teen bodybuilding after this post!
Diet for Teen Bodybuilders
It often seems that bodybuilders subsist on a cocktail of pills, powders and water, and perhaps a baked chicken breast and some spinach! This type of diet presents several problems for teenagers:
- Many bodybuilding supplements are designed for adult nutrition levels, and teenagers need more calcium, more protein and more trace elements.
- Supplements are less available than regular foods
- Not all teenagers have the financial capacity to create a full supplement regime.
It is important that you follow a bodybuilding diet that is designed specifically for teenagers – the pro diet books that come out every few months may get good results for adults, but their bodies and therefore requirements are very different.
It is equally important that you structure your diet – lack of planning can undo all your good work. Sports bars and ready-made drinks will become your best friend.
Sleep Requirements for Teen Bodybuilders
Most teens have little time for sleep … unfortunately a lack of sleep can sabotage your carefully designed workout and diet very quickly! Don’t underestimate the importance of sleep as part of your workout routine. Recovery is crucial, and sleep is the best form of recovery.
Plan for at least nine hours of sleep a night (that’s right – more than eight!), and have at least one day per week where you don’t wake up to an alarm but get up whenever you feel well rested enough.
Stay Away from Steroids
No doubt, once you start hanging out at gyms and chatting to the other lifters, you’ll discover that steroids are available. Think before you decide to take the easy way out, though … everything that seems ‘too good to be true’ certainly is. In the same way that good exercise and nutrition habits now can set you up for life, steroid use can handicap you for life. Steroids can cause:
- Premature ossification of your growth plates – stunting your growth permanently
- Risk of connective tissue injury (which will recur and nag at you every time you train)
- Acne … that means more, not less, teasing
- Irreversible masculinisation can occur in female steroid takers
Sleep, diet and staying away from steroids will give you a fantastic base in bodybuilding – next time we’ll start looking at supplements, sets, reps, sessions and form for teen bodybuilders. Later on we’ll check out the biggest mistakes that a lot of teenagers make in their quest for massive muscle.
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Supplement Spotlight: Creatine
Posted on February 15th, 2011
Supplement Spotlight: Creatine
Creatine is one of the most basic of all bodybuilding supplements – in a world filled with dubious science, almost-proven claims and products which work for some but not for others, creatine is a haven of provable benefits and steadily growing muscle! Today we shine the supplement spotlight on creatine, and discover what it does, why you need it, and how to use it.
What is Creatine?
Creatine is an organic acid which helps supply ready energy to your muscles. Creatine monophosphate can donate its phosphate group to adenosine diphosphate, to create adenosine triphosphate, the basic unit of energy used by all the cells in your body, not only your skeletal muscles. Creatine can be manufactured from other essential amino acids (including L-arginine, glycine, and L-methionine), but around half of the creatine in the average body ends up being directly donated by meat from the diet. Of course in your case, most of your creatine will come in powder form … far less fat to contend with, and far less filling!
What Does Creatine Do?
Creatine has been proven (with some allowance for individual variation), to:
- Improve energy levels and stamina
- Increase maximum power and performance
- Improve cognition and memory performance in vegetarians
- Increase muscle weight gain
How Should I Take Creatine?
You’ll be taking creatine under either a rapid-loading protocol or a slow-loading protocol, both detailed below:
Rapid-loading protocol:
- Take 20g of creatine 4 times per day for 5 days. Remember that mixed supplements may have less than 20g of creatine per 20g of powder.
- Take your creatine supplements with a carbo-rich snack
- After the initial 5 day supplementation period, take 3g per day.
Slow-loading protocol:
- Take 3g of creatine once per day
- Take your creatine supplement with a carbo-rich snack or meal
- Continue to take 3g each day.
Is Creatine Credible?
Certainly. It is one of the most widely taken, and therefore also the most widely studied, supplements across the world.
Are There Side Effects from Using Creatine?
There are few long term reliable studies done on creatine use, but all indications are that side effects, if any, are mild. If you have kidney problems, creatine
supplementation is not recommended. Of course, overdosing on creatine can damage your liver and kidneys, as can overdose of any supplement.
One important consideration (rather than side effect) is that acute creatine loading can cause water retention, with an associated weight gain of 600-1000g. If weight is a key in your sport, avoid creatine loading before competition.
Will Creatine Definitely Work for Me?
Like many other supplements, there is considerable variation in different bodies’ responses to creatine. In around 20% of the population, creatine doesn’t increase muscle size detectably, due to individual differences in metabolism.
However, for 80% of people, creatine is the supercharge that every workout needs … so it is always worth trying it out. We recommend buying three weeks’ supply of creatine to begin with, and seeing whether you fall on the majority side of the line.
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10 Respected Bodybuilding Supplement Brands for Getting Ripped
Posted on February 15th, 2011
10 Respected Bodybuilding Supplement Brands for Getting Ripped
We all know from the occasional wasted training session that quality is far more important than quantity … the same is true in many areas of our lives! From food, to relaxation time, to sleep, and especially including bodybuilding supplements, one good session is worth ten poor ones. Good bioavailability and excellent filtration processes to remove impurities are the markers of a good bodybuilding supplement brand. When you buy these brands through Nutrition Warehouse, though, you can be certain that you’re getting something that will ‘first, do no harm’ … but more importantly, will actually support your goals.
USP Labs
USP Labs have grown to become one of the most respected bodybuilding supplement manufacturers through their unique extraction methods – bio-assayed extraction and HPLC are favourites of USP Labs. Users find that the energy provided is clean and non stimulant-based, the products have excellent active ingredient percentages and are generally good value and prevent soreness, build muscle and reduce recovery times effectively.
Scivation
Xtend and Vasocharge are some of Scivation’s most popular products – both of the supplements are easy to take, shorten recovery time while boosting energy and have great BCAA ratios. Some customers do find that the containers go quickly … but that’s just because the supplements are such fantastic quality!
Genetix Nutrition
Genetix’s success in the bodybuilding market doesn’t just come from the catchy name. They’re renowned for making supplements that tick all the boxes for users; while Genetix’s supplement names are pretty basic, their actual products work above and beyond the level that users expect. Its also founded by Grant Mayo Mr World.
BSN Supplements
BSN is a multi-award winner when it comes to their brand, but their advertising and labels are the face for a true top quality bodybuilding supplement. BSN are actually quite an innovative company – if you’re sick of your current regime or feel that it’s starting to get a bit stale, BSN is the brand to try.
Musashi
Even non-bodybuilders (and those who’ve never set foot inside a gym!) have heard of Musashi. This Japanese based brand has carved out a name for themselves with a razor-sharp samurai sword. Musashi have fantastic flavours and are very easy to take – great for beginners.
Gaspari Nutrition
Gaspari has made some very solid bodybuilding products, with items like theur Myofusion, Anavite and SizeOn remaining at the top of their categories with formulae
that have remained stable for many years. The Myofusion blend is especially good value, and is fantastic at building muscle.
Applied Nutriceuticals
This company has a narrow niche in the supplement world, but their products are loved by the few that have tried them so far. They tend towards the uppeor end of the price bracket – but with the discounts available through Nutrition Warehouse, you can afford the best! Their Lit-Up, Lipotrophin, Free Test and 2nd Gear products are especially popular.
Tapout Sports Nutrition
The Pre-Workout Extreme and Warrior Whey formulae from Tapout are very popular, with users reporting good taste, good value, increased energy and general good results … nice all-rounder products!
Endura Sports
Endura focuses beautifully on the basics of bodybuilding nutrition – providing energy, decreasing recovery times, reducing body fat and relieving cramps and spasms. Their products aren’t marketed as instant muscle builders – they simply help you to help yourself.
At Nutrition Warehouse, you can trust that all the brands we stock are good quality and value, because we buy based on results rather than on price. We’re all bodybuilders ourselves – if you want more info about what has worked for us (and what should work for you), just get in touch!
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Dedication in a Jar: 7 Keys to Motivation for Bodybuilders
Posted on February 8th, 2011
Dedication in a Jar: 7 Keys to Motivation for Bodybuilders
You can buy a lot of things in a jar that will help you roll along a little faster towards your goals, and push a little harder to become more than you thought you could be. Many of those things you will never have heard of … but that doesn’t mean that they won’t be of benefit to you! One thing that everybody has heard of but you can’t buy in a jar is dedication and motivation. And without the training to help you utilise all those wonderful proteins, amino acids and exotic molecules, the finest bodybuilding supplementation routine in the world will be useless. If motivation is an issue for you, today we check out some ways to help you turn an occasional session into an obsession!
Make It Fun
Think that because you’re bodybuilding you can’t tailor your routine to make it fun? Different aspects of exercise programs motivate different people, though, and sometimes the subtlest change will get you raring to go pump it. Try:
- Doing a group or partnered session
- Listening to your own music on the iPod, or a podcast, while at the gym
- Doing your routine in front of a mirror
- Singing to yourself
- Setting up a home outdoor gym
Measure Your Results
But don’t measure too often! If you’re working on a transformation from beer-bellied bloke to beefed up bodybuilder, don’t just weigh yourself … it will be supremely unsatisfying. Measure your bicep circumference, your waist circumference, your thigh circumference and your lung function each week to help motivate you to keep going.
Make It a Habit
The most powerful bodybuilding motivational tool you have, though, is the power of the habit. Make the labyrinthine twists and turns of your grey matter work for you, by creating an exercise habit! The key elements in achieving this are:
- Consistency – Every day for at least two weeks, and after that don’t miss more than one session in a row.
- Timing – keep it to the same time every day
- Routines – pair up your exercise with pre- and post-workout routines, such as having a protein shake while doing visualisations before hand, and cooling down while watching your favourite TV show afterwards.
People Power
Any motivational tool that involves other people has fantastic potential to help you create a habit. ‘People power’ strategies can include getting a trainer, getting a workout partner, or signing up for a charity sports event.
The Rush!
Our bodies are made to be up and about, building fitness, fighting off sabre-toothed tigers, gathering nuts and berries and hunting our own meat. We get a chemical
reward for exercising … the rush that you’ll come to crave! Recognise where it is coming from, revel in it, and remember it when you feel a little tired when it comes time for your next session.
Redefine Your Reasons
If you consistently have trouble motivating yourself for training sessions, ask yourself what your real motivations are. If you are looking to compete with a specific person, if you want to impress people that you meet, or if you want to achieve a goal that is much too far away, chances are that your motivation will fade quickly. Redefine your goals in terms of what they’ll do for you … the real substance of you. Bodybuilding will help you develop commitment, strength, ability and a hundred other fantastic attributes.
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The Australian Institute of Sport’s Most Essential Supplements
Posted on February 8th, 2011
The Australian Institute of Sport’s Most Essential Supplements
You might have noticed that there are quite a lot of sports supplements! There are amino acids, nitric oxides, meal replacements, weight gain formulae, weight loss formulae, whey, casein, soy … the list just keeps going on! Today we strip it all right back down to basics, and check out what the best of our elite athletes are recommended to take by their trainers.
Vitamins C and E
These two vitamins have considerable power to mop up free radicals, which are produced in greater volumes when you up the intensity of your workouts, when you start training in hotter conditions or at higher altitudes. They’ll help prevent long term damage rather than actually boosting performance.
Bicarbonate and citrate
These are two of the basic ingredients in many of our bodybuilding supplements that are designed to speed recovery and build stamina. They help mop up excess H+ ions (acids) from the lactic acid produced in anaerobic exercise.
Caffeine
Caffeine helps you to build muscle while losing fat, and can also give you the energy and focus jolt you need to get into your session. If you are a regular coffee drinkers, its diuretic effect is mild. If you don’t usually drink coffee, though, remember to take in extra water to offset that which the caffeine will flush out.
Calcium and Vitamin D
These are recommended for female athletes who are menstruating, as well as those who are intolerant of dairy, or simply choose not to eat it. There are ongoing concerns about the estrogen levels in cow’s milk, but if you drink soy you’ll need to supplement with calcium and vitamin D to preserve bone strength.
Creatine
You may have heard that there’s controversy over creatine’s usefulness in bodybuilding. We don’t see what the fuss is about, though … and netiehr does the AIS. Creatine is a fantastic and solidly proven supplement for helping build muscle. It is recommended for sports where competitors alternate brief maximal energy output with brief rest periods.
Sports Bars, Sports Drinks and Meal Replacements
The general public may not get any fitter simply by drinking Powerade and eating a sports bar rather than an Uncle Toby’s apricot chewy special … but for bodybuilders and athletes, the AIS definitely recommends these.
Iron Supplements
If you rarely eat red meat and mostly use protein shakes or meal replacements, you may be at risk of iron deficiency, which can impact performance at a low (almost insidious) level. However, you should have your iron levels checked before starting a
supplementation program, or just have tablets for a couple of days when feeling especially tired. Haemochromatosis may develop if you are overloaded with iron.
Wondering why you don’t see any of the new bodybuilding ‘essentials’ on the list, like HGH boosters and testosterone boosters, nitric oxide or glutamine? Some are listed for use by AIS athletes, just not in the ‘A list’, while some are not included because they are very specific to bodybuilding … not exactly an athletic sport! These are all fantastic supplementation basics, but if you want advice that’s a little more specific to bodybuilding, just get in touch with Nutrition Warehouse Staff. We’re always happy to help you choose the supplements that will give you the biggest push on the path to your goals.
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Can I Gain Muscle While Losing Fat? Weight Loss Plus Speedy Bodybuilding
Posted on February 8th, 2011
Can I Gain Muscle While Losing Fat? Weight Loss Plus Speedy Bodybuilding
There is a popular misconception that it is not possible to both gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. This idea is fuelled by the popularity of either ‘weight loss’ or ‘weight gain’ products – with the weight loss products sometimes not designed to burn fat, but to simply get body weight off, and the weight gain products not always specifically designed to build muscle. However, most people build muscle and lose fat at the same time … and in fact, building muscle will help you lose fat faster! However, to help your body target its fat stores for energy, and not your muscles, there are a few guidelines you should follow – we check them out today.
Be Realistic
It is certainly possible to both gain muscle and lose fat at the same time – but you won’t necessarily be doing either of these on a large scale. To lose fat, you need to take in fewer calories than your body needs. To gain muscle, you need to give them a reason to grow … and take in enough calories to fuel that growth. Some of the calories can come from lipolysis (fat burning), but you need to maintain a reasonable caloric intake or your metabolism will suffer and your body will try to store fat.
Basically, if you have very little existing muscle and quite a lot of fat, you will definitely build substantial muscle while losing substantial fat. If your balance is a closer to ideal, though, it will be a slower process.
Key Guidelines for Building Muscle While Losing Fat
If you’re going to achieve this seemingly unattainable goal, you’ll need to have good basic training guidelines in place. These include:
Watch your diet
Very lean meat, fruit and vegetables should comprise 90% of your diet.
Structure your sessions
Structuring your training sessions to allow your body to uptake protein ideally will help you gain muscle while losing fat. Your resistance training schedule should be 50-60 minutes, four or five times per week, emphasizing a different body part or pair of parts each session.
Do less cardio
The simple fact that you’re building muscle will help you burn fat faster – muscle takes about three times the energy to sustain itself at rest that fat does. Fifteen to twenty minutes of cardio per session will do.
Drink coffee
Caffeine helps your body to favour its fat stores for energy, while preserving muscle.
Eat smaller meals more frequently
This helps you take advantage of the thermic effect of food to break down your fat, without endangering your metabolic rate.
Focus on One or the Other
If you focus on one side of the fat loss/muscle gain goal at a time, rather than trying to keep everything completely simultaneous, you’ll have better results. In other words, it is better to try to lose quite a lot of fat while preserving your existing muscle, or building muscle while gaining as little fat as possible.
Which Should I Do First?
If you’re in the game to get big, hard and ripped, focus on gaining muscle first. The extra energy that muscle takes to sustain itself allows you to lose weight a little more slowly while keeping your metabolism intact … always a danger of fat loss programs.
Be patient and do the work – it will happen!
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3 More Fundamental Bodybuilding Supplements for Beginners
Posted on February 4th, 2011
3 More Fundamental Bodybuilding Supplements for Beginners
Done the protein powders, done the creatine, done the fish oil … and wondering what’s next? Well, assuming that you’re sticking to an appropriate training regime that pushes you, while allowing enough time for recovery, you might simply not be getting enough of something that your body wants. Last time round we looked at 3 of the most essential nutritional supplements for bodybuilders – today we check out three more that are just as important.
Multivitamin and mineral supplements
While protein and creatine are the supplements that you need in largest volume, ‘boring old’ multivitamins and minerals are no less essential. Vitamins and minerals represent essential steps in the conversion of one substance to another in your body. If you’re deficient in one, you might lack the energy to work out properly, not be able to convert carbs to protein, or not be able to interconvert the different amino acids.
Multivitamins and minerals, like fish oil, help ensure that you can go hard … not only during the halcyon days of your twenties and thirties when your body seems to leap into action with just a little prompting, but well into middle and old age. The Australian Insitute of Sports recommends multivitamin and mineral supplements for its athletes, and so will all good bodybuilding coaches.
Testosterone boosters
Testosterone is a type of natural wonder-drug for bodybuilders. That is, it is a ‘natural’ wonder drug if you don’t take the dangerous and illegal form, anabolic steroids. Testosterone can help you shed fat, build muscle, increase endurance, re-distribute weight to a more masculine shape, increase bone strength, reduce cortisol and other stress hormones. They’ll also boost your sex drive … because you gotta have fun once in a while too!
Testosterone boosters usually work through enzymatic interference – it binds to the receptor sites for estrogen, therefore stopping your body utilising any estrogen produced.
Estrogen is actually stored in fatty tissue, so if you’re trying to lose fat while gaining muscle, testosterone boosting agents can help stop the uptake of all the estrogen released during lipid metabolism.
Carb supplements
Carbs are the only fuel that can be utilised by your brain and nerve tissue. Get low on carbs, and you won’t be able to make those big, hard muscles work. Your body uses carbohydrates in order to burn fat. While you don’t want too many carbs, you certainly can’t neglect them.
There are pre-workout, intra-workout and post-workout formulations for carb supplements. Unfortunately, though plain sugar is nothing more than carbs, it will completely sabotage your workout goals! Best to get a professional formulation – you’ll find these in Weight Gainer formulations and Sports Endurance and Recovery Products.
Remember that you can take as many of the top 6 beginner supplements as you can fit into your stomach … but without a proper training routine, your body won’t utilise all that fuel to help you achieve your goals. Doing the training to support supplementation is as important as choosing the right supplements to take!
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3 Fundamental Bodybuilding Supplements for Beginners
Posted on February 4th, 2011
3 Fundamental Bodybuilding Supplements for Beginners
At Nutrition Warehouse we carry literally hundreds of supplements for bodybuilders, as well as people who just want to support their exercise goals and feel fitter and stronger. Unfortunately, when you’re starting out in fitness, more information is not necessarily better! If you’ve been sitting in your chair, staring blankly at the screen, wondering how you’ll ever decide which supplements you need … wonder no more. Today we check out three of the most essential bodybuilding supplements for beginners. Get them into you … and you’ll be able to get off your computer chair and back onto the bench!
Whey or Casein Based Protein Supplements
Protein is the stuff of muscles. When you’re bodybuilding, you’re trying to make your muscles bigger. The protein in your food is usually paired with fat and other nasties, and may not be the best form of protein to build your muscles the fastest.
These three facts combine to make a good whey or casein protein supplement an essential for beginners. Keep these main guidelines in mind for protein supplementation:
- Whey protein is mainly used post-workout, because it is digested very quickly
- Casein protein is mainly used at night time, because it is a slow release that offers your body fuel for building muscles while you sleep.
- Amino acid supplements are not the same as protein supplements
Creatine supplements
Creatine is one of the main muscle-building supplements used by bodybuilders across the world, and is approved for use by athletes at the AIS. This tells us that creatine is essential for optimal athletic performance, and in the scientific and sports community, quite free of controversy.
Creatine is used by your muscles as a fast store of energy, which can be used in situations where your body is training anaerobically. It also has a direct effect in building muscle size and strength (as long as you’re training with it!). Creatine can:
- Increase your performance in anaerobic exercises
- Reduce recovery time
- Increase energy levels
Fish oil supplements
You may be focusing on your muscles at this point in time, but it won’t take long for you to realise that your body is truly a united machine … your muscles won’t work well if other parts of your body are unhealthy. Fish oil can help you control appetite and speed recovery through its anti-inflammatory effects, but fish oil also has overall effects on your body, including:
- Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
- Prevention of diabetes
- Prevention of arthritis
- Preventing cancer
- Prevention of depression, Alzhemiers, and other neurological disorders
If you want to be pumping iron while others around you are considering retirement (and if you need inspiration for that, just look into Jack Lalanne’s life …), fish oil is an essential supplement to keep you going in the long term, helping to beat genetic handicaps.
Remember, if you’re feeling confused or uncertain about the products that you, personally, should be taking to reach your bodybuilding goals faster, Nutrition Warehouse staff are always on hand to answer your questions. If you have had limited success with any of these above, we can help you turn the tide and be your best!
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Bodybuilding News
Posted on February 4th, 2011
News With Bulk: Bodybuilding Updates From Around the World, January 2011
No doubt you’ve spent January diligently sticking to your New Year’s bodybuilding resolutions, looking for new ways to get bigger and stronger and go for longer! The year may just be beginning, but the worlds of bodybuilding, nutritional and scientific research are rolling right along. Today we check out some of the big news stories from the bodybuilding world over January, 2011.
Jack Lalanne Dies, Aged 96
It seems that all the attention we pay to our bodies can pay off, if pioneer bodybuilder Jack Lalanne’s story is anything to go by. Jack was often referred to as the godfather of fitness. The title is completely understandable when you know that he once swam a mile towing 70 rowboats .. .shackled and handcuffed into the wind, with strong currents … and he did this to celebrate his 70th birthday! Jack was the inventor of the leg extension machine, the cable machine and the Smith Machine. Jack died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home … what a life!
Chael Sonnen’s Sentence Reduced to Six Months on Testosterone Replacement Therapy Appeal
Chael Sonnen, one of the new starts of mixed martial arts, recently appealed his 1-year suspension from the California State Atheltics Commission for testing positive for anabolic steroids. His appeal was based on the fact that he was undergoing testosterone replacement therapy for hypogonadism. Unfrotunately, this has opened a can of worms in bodybuilding … anabolic steroid use itself can induce hypogonadism, and if the doses are timed so that they don’t show up on blood tests, most doctors are quite willing to prescribe therapeutic testosterone. There are many sides to this issue … and some of those will no doubt be seen through the courts as time wears on.
Schwarzenegger Tells Us Not to Be ‘Girlie-Men’
And in fact, I don’t believe that Arnie was being at all sexist when he said this. He was speaking of California’s legislators and saying that they seemed afraid to fail … to such an extent that they never tried. Even the strong, world-leading women bodybuilders and fitness fanatics we have in Australia can learn not to be ‘girlie-men’, in that context!
Paul Bigley Inspiring Canadian Bodybuilding Beginners
Paul Bigley’s story was recently reported in the Toronto Sun, after the 51-year old recently placed third in the over-50 category of the Western Ontario bodybuilding championships. Not bad for a newbie who is also past the standard bodybuilding age! “Your diet has to change completely when it comes to body building. There are three important ingredients – training, rest and diet”, said Paul. Simple but true.
Doped bodybuilders face disciplinary committee
In Lahore, three Pakistani athletes in bodybuilding and cycling recently faced a disciplinary committee over their doping test results. The results were revealed after randomised testing … good to see that the process works.
Scientists find that attention is as important as exercise in reducing fat loss
For those that are new to bodybuilding and wanting to get rid of extra kilos of fat before bulking up, scientists have found that being attentive to what you eat can have a major impact on your diet success. Wolf down a bodybuilding shake while watching the morning news, and the research shows that you’ll find it less filling than those who focus on the sensory attributes of your meal.
Farewell January … farewell Jack Lalanne … and may the muscle be with you for the rest of the year!
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