There will be days where you can’t even spend a full hour in the gym. Responsibilities pull for your attention, important events fill up your calendar, and annoying meetings seemed to be scheduled at the most inconvenient hours.
One of the premiere strategies for maximizing muscle growth is timing your nutrients properly. Now to be clear, nutrient timing is just a strategy for maximizing muscle growth. It’s not absolutely needed to build muscle. Research has consistently
“Eat some candy after your workout, you need to keep those insulin levels high bro, that’s how you get jacked”. No “bro”, it isn’t. Insulin is a hormone that tells your body’s cells to use the sugar in
You’ve probably heard that training too much can get you injured. You’ve probably also heard that training too little makes you weaker and more likely to get injured. This is the injury paradox. Training can both protect from
A good workout program motivates you to get back to the gym for your next workout. For many people, the making PROGRESS gives a rewarding feeling which makes us want to keep training. (1) That’s why it’s important
Not all reps are created equal! The theory of “effective reps” presented by Dr Carl Juneau suggests that reps closer to failure are better for building muscle. This means that the “challenging” part of the set is where
My parents used to tell me to drink a lot of milk. I never understood why, til I found out that milk was made up of two types of protein, casein and whey (okay, that was a joke).
This systematic review compared how consistently between-meal protein supplementation resulted in changes to lean mass, body fat, total body mass, and the ratio of lean to fat gains, when compared to with-meal protein supplementation. Both approaches produced similarly
While volume is the main driver of muscle growth (hypertrophy), it seems that not all reps are created equal. Reps closer to failure may be more effective att stimulating muscle growth for advanced lifters. Muscle growth specialist Brad
Over eight weeks, a group of women doing only compound movements gained just as much strength as a group of women doing those same compound movements, along with additional single-joint exercises. That held true even for strength gains
