Category: Category: Muscle Building

Gaining Muscle By Stuffing Yourself Like A Pig Is A Stupid Idea

October 1, 2011
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 |  Muscle Building

A few years ago I was reading this book called Ultimate Diet Secrets from Dr. Gregory Ellis, a nutritional expert. The book itself is a very comprehensive explanation of the process of losing fat. Ellis details energy metabolism at a cellular level and offers a practical way to lose weight with a low carbohydrate diet (under 100g of carbohydrates per day), as well as some energy shortage from eating less and exercising a bit more. The author had interwoven his personal fitness story in between the dry biochemical background.

So anyway, what reminded me of this book was the author’s physical culture journey. There are two types of people who develop a keen interest in the workings of the human body.

The First Kind Are Folks Who Are Natural Athletes

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Building Muscle – Get a Basic Strength Level First

January 10, 2009
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 |  Muscle Building

I like to learn and discover stuff. One of the tricks I have stumbled upon for really getting the true nature of things is to borrow from lots of sources and track where their opinions coincide.

Almost all fitness authors talk about the importance of establishing a solid foundation of strength for folks that are new to training. One of the best explanation I’ve read was by Arthur Jones – a talented pioneer of bodybuilding. He revolutionized the way training is perceived by the general public by introducing the Nautilus machine.

This post is inspired by his writings where he advises new trainees to progress as quickly as possible in a simple but solid full body routine. With brief workouts and hard work, within a short few months significant progress is achieved.

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Beginner Strength Training – Build Bigger Muscles Fast With The Strength And Size Full Body Workout

November 11, 2008
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 |  Muscle Building, Strength Training

I will be real here. This is not the only workout I have done. And, this is not the workout I have started training with. Having said that however, this is the workout I currently do and I would recommend to anybody that is a beginner or intermediate, because it produces the fastest progress thus the fastest results. I will write more about what physical goals you need to surpass in order to advance past intermediate status.


[When you eventually start doing weighted dips, body weight only dips will become very easy. I managed 20 here, but I’ve done as many as 33 when I trained with dips exclusively.]

Here Is How You Can Tell If You Are Intermediate Or Advanced

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