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How Do Muscles Grow? Uniform versus Non-Uniform Muscle Growth

November 30, 2011

Working out with weights causes muscles to adapt and grow, this is nothing new. The pattern of muscle growth however, is not as obvious as we might have thought. Most people think you train a muscle and the entire muscle simply gets bigger in a uniform and evenly spread out way…but this is a false [...]

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Long Term Adaptations To Weight Loss – Oct 2011 New Research

November 23, 2011

Well all know someone who has lost weight and put it back on…and then some. We hear phrases that 99% of people fail on a diet and put the weight back on. This however isn’t a scientific claim as much as it is an assumption. Weight loss isn’t a straight line but rather a series [...]

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Diet Records: Research Shows 80% Of People Lie About Food During Studies

November 16, 2011

The diet and fitness industry makes claims on the effects of workouts, diets, supplements and the combination of the three. The better commentators even quote published research, and the best of them actually read the full research papers and make an honest effort to give an accurate account of what they’ve read. This however is [...]

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AT6 Final Pictures Coaching Call

November 14, 2011

The 6th Adonis Index transformation and open contests are in the final stretch and it’s time to get prepped for your final pictures. All of the poses from the posing tutorial are mandatory if you think you have a chance at being placed in the open category. You can review the posing tutorial video here: [...]

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Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day?

November 9, 2011

When it comes to both fat loss and muscle building, the common fitness lore is that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In order to make a statement about ‘breakfast’, we first have to define what ‘breakfast’ means. This sounds simpler than it really is. For example, is breakfast simply the first [...]

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He Got Ripped without Counting Calories or Doing Cardio

November 7, 2011

Brad Greyeyes Brant has a very interesting name, but what is even more interesting than his name is the fact that he placed 4th in the Adonis Index Contest specifically in the transformation category. He went from being lean to being ripped, just take a look: When Brant first got interested in getting his physique [...]

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