Being fat and weak is not how our body is created to be.  An excess of body fat shows your diet is poor and hormonally things are out of whack. Of course, there are a small handful of medical conditions and medications that increase the likelihood that you are going to be overweight but in reality, this is pretty rare. In the majority of cases, being fat is a choice; you choose to eat the wrong foods, you choose to do little or no exercise and you therefore suffer the ignominy of hormone imbalance. Wishing you could lose weight won’t

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Doing barbell bench presses may not work your chest optimally, unless you hit the genetic lottery and everything works wonders for you. For most lifters out there, the barbell bench press is not a chest exercise at all, rather a deltoid or a triceps exercise. This is because the chest muscles (pectorals) have a whole lot of functions and when you do barbell bench presses they can choose between transverse flexion or transverse adduction movements. These two movements seem similar, but they’re not the same since they are very much differentiated by the position of your elbows when you perform

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Anabolics are the first thing that comes to mind to guys who are desperate to raise their testosterone levels. And there’s a good reason for that – anabolics are pretty powerful. Higher testosterone production results in increased levels of energy, libido, confidence and cognitive functioning, as well as enhanced muscle building. Sure, that makes testosterone the ultimate male hormone that can make or break your physique, and boosting it will give you greater mass and strength gains in a short period of time, but don’t forget that taking anabolics can be a rather risky adventure. The potential side effects of

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All of the presses performed for your upper body (bench press, shoulder press etc.), work your triceps besides the chest and the shoulders. This is a good enough reason to take care of the triceps and pay good attention to their development.  I’ve heard all kinds of names given to impressively sized arms, starting of course with “guns”, “cannons” and all the way to “pythons”, for some reason. This just shows how much attention bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts dedicate to the arms, but a lot of people seem to neglect the importance of the triceps in this equation. The biceps

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Creatine was first sold commercially as a popular supplement back in the 90s. Back then supplementation was nothing new, but creatine was and it was getting popular fast. However, it was sold in little bottles of 150 grams each, which lasted about a month. The price was about 70 bucks a bottle, which in today’s terms is inconceivably high. Today, you can go out and buy three pounds of good, quality creatine for less than 20 dollars. The company that first sold creatine grew intensely rich, with the owner going luxurious and buying Lamborghinis and whatnot, but he wasn’t the

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Sorry guys, but crunches and sit-ups will never give you rock-solid abs on their own. Research has found that many of these popular movements that are supposed to get you a chiseled mid-section in no time don’t actually produce any significant results and place a lot of strain on other parts of the body such as the neck, spine and lower back. Instead, you should first try harder to eat right and reduce your body fat by burning more calories than you consume (belly fat does a wonderful job at covering them up, remember?). Some seasoned bodybuilders would even go

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