You know they’re lurking in there. The fat-piling, sugar-overloading, body-wrecking foods that you never quite manage to clear out of your larder. You might try to pretend they’re not really there – and try staying focused on only on the good clean food and supps that you stocked up, back when your nutritional halo was [...]
In the testosterone-fueled world of the body-builder, nuts and seeds are often dismissed as irrelevant ‘bird feed’. The big packets of protein needed for all that muscular mass must surely come from slabs of meat – or draining your protein shaker to the bottom. How can something as insubstantial and flimsy as nuts – or [...]
Are you nuts for a six-pack? Then you may be surprised to know that those hard-shelled kernels can get you on your way towards a rippling sharp-cut physique. They offer up plenty of decent protein, with which you can build and solidify your muscular-gains. Whilst some worry about the high-fat content smoothing out hard-won profiles, [...]
Throwing yourself around the gym, with gusto, can only get you so far with building-up your physique. While genius is often said to be one-tenth inspiration and nine-tenths perspiration, when it comes to reaching a pinnacle of muscular-mass, it’s the other way around. Anyone can pound out the sweat in the gym to gain muscle, [...]
When it comes to getting super-massive on your musculature, piling up your ‘calories-in’ tray is going to be a major part of your daily schedule. Packing mass needs protein – and energy– in abundance, in order to keep up with a demanding gym-based routine. So every meal should be taken seriously, to make sure your [...]
‘You eat meat for protein? That is so last-century, I use protein-powder xyz.’
You know the spiel. It seems that these days, to get yourself properly dialed-in, you have to have a degree in nutritional science. Whether it’s the pro in the ads, the gym guru, or the punky kid just pushing his first reps, [...]
Protein comes to the bodybuilder in all shapes and sizes; but not all protein supplements are created equal. Complete or essential amino acids proteins? Whey or casein, or even soy-based supplements? And will that be a bucket of powder, a six-pack of bars or ready-made shakes? If you are thinking that your training schedule, and [...]
It’s off-season; and with the competition lights dimmed, the dieting constraints can come flying off too. Without the demands of keeping yourself dialed-in so tight that your muscles look shrink-wrapped, you can kick loose on all that obsessive fat-watching and calorie counting. This is when muscle-building can be fun again – when it’s just about [...]
If bulk-and-cut sometimes seems more like ‘bloat-and-crash’ to you, it could be that you’ve found the hook phrase from the supplement companies’ – lean bulking – somewhat tempting. Apparently, the road to pristine, clean-as-a-whistle muscle-mass, all year round, lies at the bottom of the muscle-growth supp bucket. Those separate bulking and cutting phases can be [...]
Lets get back to basics. If you want to be sure of cooking yourself up a brutally muscular body, you need to get yourself back into the kitchen. That is where all the best bodies are really put together, not the gym. Sure, the gym is the best vehicle to drive you to the body [...]

