BodyStat for acquiring lean mass… Want to build a monster bench press? Consult Coan! The UFC is in tumult – and that’s a good thing!

Vic,

I want to go on a 10-week mass-building regimen. How would you lay out the supplement part of a mass-building nutritional program? I am coming off a terrific summer season. I got super lean and attained my lowest bodyweight of the year, 188 pounds. I currently weigh 195. I would like to push my weight up to 205 or 210 and bench press 380. Then I want to cut back to 195 (or thereabouts) for a bodybuilding show next spring. I’m lightly muscled compared to my competitors.

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Energize Your Workouts With Pre-Exercise Supplements

If your training, whether it is aerobic, strength, or both, is destined for super-intensity, then you’ve got to pay attention to your pre-exercise nutrition, particularly supplements. In case you don’t know it, there is an exact science to pre-exercise supplementation, and I’m going to cover it for you here and specify what you need to take and when you need to take it. If you’re going to get serious about your training, you must get serious about pre-exercise supplementation.

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Tips and Tidbits November 2009

Training  of the month:

Your ability to build additional muscle is limited by your degree of cardiovascular density. Without aerobics in your total bodybuilding program, your body can’t create any new supply routes for your newly developed muscles. The more blood vessels you have and the bigger they are, the longer and more intense your workouts can be. In other words, the better your cardiovascular density, the greater potential you have for building bigger muscles.

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Join the B-Team For Super-Progress

Hard training affects the status of a certain group of vitamins, collectively known as the B-complex family. These vitamins are important for the proper metabolism of protein, carbohydrates, and fats; as well as for energy production. Research shows that if you’re deficient in B-vitamins, your physical performance will suffer. (1) So for optimum training and performance, you need a good supply of these nutrients, both from food and supplements. What follows is a look at specific B-vitamins and how they relate to training status.

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Aerobics, Sweat & the Urea Cycle

Do you sweat when performing cardio? Do you sweat profusely on a regular basis, regardless the cardio mode used? When it comes to building endurance and melting off body fat, sweat and results are synonymous. If you aren’t breaking a sweat when you do whatever cardio exercise you do, results reaped are going to be slim to none. Nada. Negligible. If you sweat by the bucketful when you exercise then you are reaping all of the fabulous benefits serious cardio exercise bestows.

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Episode 32: The True Meaning of Victory

From the expressions on the faces of Jeff and his son Jared as they greeted me in the lobby of the theater as I was leaving, you would think I had just lost a loved one. They both looked like they wanted to shake my hand and softly murmur, “Sorry for your loss.”

And technically, I had lost. At the Team Universe in New York City, the contest I had trained and dieted so long and hard for, I had only managed to place ninth out of thirteen light-heavyweights.

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Janet Guenther – Ageless! – Diabetic college professor is top national physique contender

Mae West, the great film star of the 1930s and 40s, was once asked her age; the master of sexual innuendo said, “Honey, it ain’t the age – it’s the mileage!” Take a close look at the accompanying photos of Janet Guenther; if there is a better built 59 year old woman on the face of the planet we haven’t seen her. With Janet, it ain’t the age, it’s the mileage and Janet is the physical equivalent of a pristine 1966 Sting Ray Corvette coupe with 14,000 original miles on the odometer.

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