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Parrillo Performance Monthly Newsletter – April 2012

 

 

 

Welcome to the April 2012 Parrillo Newsletter!

 

• Preview: May 2012 Performance Press

Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll see in the upcoming May 2012 Performance Press magazine:

We’ve got Julie Michaelson on the cover and she’s sharing her story of how she went about shedding her excess pregnancy weight before competition, opening her own training facility in Seattle and helping other women to “fit fitness in.”  Julie relates that she sets her clients up on a Parrillo-style nutrition program that’s designed to build the metabolism, and spends time teaching clients the benefits of proper nutrition combined with serious weight training and intense cardio. Julie herself has seen the results that come from eating a clean diet, supplementing with CapTri® and using other Parrillo products to keep the sweets cravings at bay, especially the Parrillo Contest Cookies™ and Parrillo Protein Chew Bars™.

In a Bodybuilder Is Born: Generations, Ron Harris gives us some great tips on working towards a truly impressive physique, by focusing on the often overlooked back and legs.

We’ve also got an article on Different Rep Ranges by Duke Nukem, showing you how to follow the Parrillo Repetition Strategy that trumps all the others! You’ll find a training split for The Parrillo Perfect Set, along with the nutritional strategy to follow immediately before and after an intense training session, including supplementation with Muscle Amino Formula™ and 50/50 Plus Powder™.

John Parrillo talks about antioxidant recovery and the best ways to make sure you stay healthy as your body recovers from intense workouts in the gym or around the track.

Iron Vic Steele weighs in on the Incline vs. Flat Bench Press issue, stresses the importance of Pro-Carb Powder™ for size and explains why it is so important to eat enough if you are having trouble recovering from session to session.

 

• This Month’s Featured Video: Fascial Planing

In this helpful video, John Parrillo demonstrates how to correctly perform Fascial Planing. Muscles need room to grow! Make a difference in your workout by loosening your muscle fascia and giving your muscles room to expand.

Click here to watch the video

 

 

 

 

 

• Picnic Pleaser Recipe: 4 Bean Salad with CapTri®

1 cup fresh green beans, cleaned and cut into half-inch pieces

2 15 oz. cans cannellini beans

2 15 oz. cans kidney beans

2 15 oz. cans garbanzo beans

4 celery stalks, chopped

1 medium red onion, chopped

1 cup fresh finely chopped flat parsley

2 Tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary

2/3 cup apple cider vinegar

2/3 cup Splenda®

1/2 cup CapTri®(buy now)

3 tsp. No Salt

1/2 tsp. black pepper

Rinse and drain all canned beans. Place in a large bowl with green beans, celery, onion, parsley, and rosemary. In a separate small bowl, mix vinegar, Splenda®, CapTri®(buy now), No Salt, and pepper. Whisk well, gently toss into beans and chill at least 2 hours before serving. Do not use canned beans if in competition dieting, use dried beans and prepare according to package directions.

 

•  Featured Article: Parrillo Bars Explained by Iron Vic Speaks!

Hey Vic,
It seems Parrillo has a lot of different types and kinds of bars – it’s all pretty confusing. How are Sport Nutrition Bars™ different from Protein Bars™ or Energy Bars™ or Protein Chew Bars™ or High Protein / Low Net Carb Bars™? I have been using the Energy Bars™ exclusively and mainly because I love the taste of Graham Cracker. Am I missing out? I am trying to shed about 15 pounds of body fat while hanging on to my considerable muscle. I have built a lot of mass over the years. With a little bit of trimming up, I could look pretty good and just in time for beach season this summer. Should I switch out to another bar type? Could you outline which bar types are best for different situations? BTW – I loved the amino acid breakdown in the last issue – I bought a big jar of Liver Amino Formula™ and began firing down a half dozen with each meal – it made a hell of a difference in how long I was able to train and how long I was able to hold my muscle pumps. Later!

Ted C., Jacksonville

No need for any confusion: frankly there is no bar choice that is going to undermine what you are doing – it’s not like continuing to eat the Graham Cracker Energy Bar™(buy now) is going to prevent you from attaining your goal of melting off 15 pounds of fat while retaining muscle mass; this assumes you are doing everything else right. Having said that, John (Parrillo) formulated the different bars with different intentions; here is a handy guide for generalized Parrillo bar usage…

Parrillo Bar™(buy now)

• Calories: 250
• Protein: 11 grams
• Carbs: 37 grams
• Fat (CapTri®): 5 grams

Contains no sucrose or fructose, this bar provides a hi-carb, moderate protein source of fuel that won’t convert to body fat. Perfect for mid-afternoon pick-me-ups in the office or anytime you feel dragged out. Never miss a meal again on account of life’s unforeseen events or circumstances: keep these at the office or in the glove box of your vehicle.

Parrillo Energy Bar™(buy now)

• Calories: 240
• Protein: 14 grams
• Carbs: 35 grams
• Fat (CapTri®): 5 grams

This bar formulation was designed to create and promote energy: slow-release carbohydrate in the form of rice dextrin allows the athlete to power through workouts. This workhorse bar comes in seven flavors and has been the bar of choice of the elite for decades. Use mid-morning, pre-workout or post-cardio; portable nutrition in a wrapper.

Parrillo Protein Bar™(buy now)

• Calories: 230
• Protein: 20 grams
• Carbs: 30 grams
• Fat (CapTri®): 3 grams

Since its introduction, this bar formulation has proven to be a runaway hit, particularly among competitive bodybuilders. With its perfect 60-40 ratio of protein to carbs, this protein powerhouse (20 grams of high BV protein) comes in nine flavors and is perfect as a post-workout replenishment or as a mid-meal snack to keep you anabolic.

Parrillo High Protein / Low Net Carb Bar™(buy now)

• Calories: 150
• Protein: 23 grams
• Net Carbs: 1 gram
• Fat (CapTri®): 5 grams

This bar contains a scant 150 calories and through the use of erythritol, only 1 gram of the 18 carb grams listed is utilized by the body: the bottom line is you get 20+ grams of protein with only 1 net gram of carb., This makes the High Protein / Low Net Carb Bar™ the perfect bar for a hard dieter seeking to become as lean as possible and trying to limit carb intake.

Parrillo Chew Bar™(buy now)

• Calories: 180
• Protein: 20 grams
• Carbs: 19 grams
• Fat (CapTri®): 2.5 grams

This latest Parrillo bar product comes in ten flavors and has a 50-50 balance between protein and carbs. The unique aspect of the Parrillo Chew Bar™ is the chewiness: each bite requires considerable chewing and this toffee-like characteristic is loved by dieters trying to overcome a sweet tooth. The Chew Bar™ contains a mere 180 calories.

Okay, there you have it, a bar-by-bar breakdown. The idea is to find a bar that suits a specific purpose. What are your physique and performance goals? Everyone should have a short and long term goal. The idea is to sync up the physical goal with a bar type. Are you looking to add ten pounds of mass over the next 3-6 months? The obvious choices would be to select the higher calorie Parrillo Sports Nutrition Bar™, Parrillo Protein Bar™ or the Parrillo Energy Bars™. Looking to lean out? How about switching to the Parrillo High Protein/Low Net Carb Bar™ or the Parrillo Chew Bar™? Want a post-workout replenishment snack to eat on the way home from the gym? The Parrillo Protein Bar™ with its 60-40 protein carb ratio or the low calorie Parrillo Chew Bar™ with its 50-50 ratio of protein to carbs would be impossible to top. If you are a dieter trying to beat a sweet tooth any Parrillo bar would be the perfect way to morph from eating candy and sweets to eating anabolism-inducing bars that satisfy sweet cravings and are actually good for you. Figure out your goal and match up the bar type with the goal.

Incline versus flat bench press…Mean Man of Steele…Pro-Carb™ for size…Not recovering? EAT!

Hello Victor,

I got into a heated argument with a pretty good bodybuilder the other day – he was telling me that bench pressing “sucked” for chest development and that incline barbell press and most particularly the incline dumbbell bench press was “way superior.” I had to walk away because it was getting a little heated and he wasn’t about to listen to any counterargument I came up with. I have periodically heard this claim over the years and know certain bodybuilders in fact have championed inclines over flat benches. What is your take on the flat bench versus the incline bench press controversy?

Ike, Pennsylvania
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ANTIOXIDANT RECOVERY

Are you an exerciser or athlete who gets frequent colds and infections? If so, it may be time to pay more attention to antioxidant recovery.

In general terms, recovery is the process of regeneration that takes place in the aftermath of a workout. To appreciate its importance, consider what happens inside your body as a consequence of intense exercise: Energy-giving glycogen stores are depleted; muscle protein is dismantled; microscopic tears in muscle fibers occur; energy-producing compounds are lost from cells; fluid and electrolytes dwindle; disease-causing free radicals proliferate.

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Tips and Tidbits of the Month

Stored Body Fat as Fuel Source
Your body uses a certain amount of fat as fuel every day. Fat is used as a prime fuel source while at rest and also during cardiovascular exercise. If you consume less fat in your diet than you burn every day, that extra fat must be obtained from body fat stores. This works because it turns out that under normal conditions your body converts very little (in fact, practically none) protein or carbohydrate into body fat. That’s right – almost all body fat is derived directly from dietary fat. Excess dietary carbohydrate has very little tendency to be converted into fat and stored as body fat.

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DIFFERENT REP RANGES Is there a difference? The Parrillo repetition strategy revealed

BY DUKE NUKEM

We hear a lot of talk in the bodybuilding and fitness world about how different repetitions impact muscle tissues in different ways. Different experts will champion a certain rep range while being completely dismissive of other rep ranges: some experts swear that low rep sets are optimal for building size; other experts say that high reps are required to construct the ultimate physique.

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Episode 62: Back and Legs – the marks of truly impressive physiques

I had been invited by the Boston University Bodybuilding and Fitness Club to be part of a ‘Superstar Seminar’ they were organizing. You may know that B.U, as locals call it, is a very prestigious and highly respected center of higher learning. I like to casually mention that my wife attended. It’s true that she quit after her first semester, but technically she did go there.

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Julie Michaelson Single mother of four becomes gym owner; shows other moms how to ‘fit fitness in.’

In this day and age, adversity lurks around every corner. Julie Michaelson found herself a jobless single mother of four young children and in a classic example of turning lemons into lemonade, this female dynamo was able to turn her love of fitness and training into owning and operating a successful gym business. It was one amazing rollercoaster ride for this 37 year old mom. Julie related her tale of overcoming the odds, “I gave birth to twin girls in 2006 and I was pretty sure that I was doomed to having a ‘mom body.’

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Fascia stretching: how intense, how long? Amino Acid difference…Calf questions…Fish Oil for what? Sprinting for leanness

IRON VIC SPEAKS By IRON VIC STEELE

Victor,

I am intrigued by the whole Parrillo fascia stretching approach and while I have a pretty good handle on the theory (stretch the hell out of the muscle just worked) and the actual stretches, I am a little bit confused about how long each stretch should be held and how intensely to torque the individual stretches. I understand from the Parrillo Training Manual that each stretch should be held for approximately ten seconds – but does that include the ‘ramp up’ needed to take a stretch from nothing to complete stretch hell? Or does the ten seconds start only after you are maximally stretched and really feeling the pain; does this question make sense? It takes me a few seconds (or more) to ease my way up to max stretch.
Bas, Hollywood

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