Food, heat, CapTri® and “building the metabolism” Parrillo-style

By Duke Nukem

When it comes to nutrition, mainstream medical and fitness “experts” are playing checkers while John Parrillo is playing three-dimensional chess. Parrillo’s nutritional approach is multi-dimensional, multifaceted and imaginative. Mainstream medicine, science and governmental agencies offer nutritional strategies that are unimaginative and ineffective. Parrillo offers up hundreds of transformed students as proof of the effectiveness of his methods; mainstream medicine and the Ivory Tower health professionals offer nothing other than big promises and failed ideas. The health aristocracy is dismissive and hostile towards any alternate strategies – despite the obvious fact that their ideas about health, wellness, fitness, diet and nutrition are utter and complete disasters. One sacred cow of mainstream nutrition is the Energy Balance Equation. The premise of the Energy Balance Equation is that caloric intake should be less than caloric expenditure in order to lose body weight.

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Tremendous Triceps

In the October Parrillo Press we explained the bicep muscle and how to get the most from your bicep workouts. So of course we have to do the same with the triceps so you can sport a pair of the best arms in your gym even if you train at Dylan Armbrust’s Pro Gym. That’s where Phil Heath (2011 Mr. Olympia) trains. OK, maybe the 2nd best pair of arms in your gym. But Phil better stay on top of his game because you will be knocking on the “best arm” door.

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How Bad are Carbs Really?

Carbs are your body’s main source of energy. You need them to fuel your muscles, and your brain needs 130 grams of carbs a day just to function properly. A carbohydrate-free diet, or a diet that’s too low in carbs, can be both harmful and low in nutrients.

Some carbohydrates enhance your health while others drag it down. Too many of the bad carbohydrates raise your triglycerides and make your blood thicker, putting you at risk for heart disease. They also contribute to carbohydrate cravings and diabetes. The trick is to eat enough good carbs and very few bad ones. It’s a balancing act, but not too difficult once you understand how the Parrillo Nutrition Program works. So just which carbs are good and which are bad? And why? Let’s look at the whole picture here.

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A Look at Powerlifting Duo Steve Bake and Katie Conley

If you’re a reader of the weekly Parrillo E-mail Newsletter, you’ll remember that powerlifting couple and Parrillo enthusiasts Steve Bake and Katie Conley both won state powerlifting records this past summer at the The Son Light Power Samson Gym Open Bench Press/Deadlift Championship held at Samson Gym in Hamilton, Ohio.

Steve received the Best Lifter award and an Ohio state record with a 750 pull in the open/275 pound class.

In the women’s deadlift event Katie broke the state record at junior/123 with her personal best 270.

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Gail Auerbach and the Parrillo Extreme Training Camp

Read about Gail Auerbach’s experience at her 1st Extreme Training Camp held at Parrillo Performance. She is editor-in chief of Rx Muscle Girls. (www.rxmuscle.com) Gail is a NPC National Level Bodybuilder. If you think YOU train hard, then read about her time spent at Parrillo Performance taking her training to the next level.

The Parrillo Pre-Diet

It’s around the corner: the holiday season. With high-fat, sugary foods in abundance during the holidays, it’s easy to overindulge here and there. But the price you pay could be an extra five to seven pounds of the wrong kind of mass. This is the amount of weight that the average person gains between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.

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Performance Press Feature Update: Dave Roberts

Dave Robert’s trainer Chris Toland shared Dave’s great news with us: “I just wanted to send you a note to let you know that your cover story, Dave Roberts, from the April 2011 Performance Press was recently selected as the 2010 Gold’s Gym Most Inspirational Member at the Gold’s Gym Convention in Las Vegas. Dave was nominated by the general manager of the Gold’s Gym in Dundalk where he and I both train and was selected as one of 4 finalists who were flown to Vegas for the annual Golds Gym Convention. At the convention, the Golds Gym owners from all over the world voted on a winner and Dave was selected.” Way to go Dave!

Catching up with Penny Price Mcintosh

Featured in the August 1993 Performance Press

“After competing for 15 years, culminating in 2 Ms. Olympia competitions and the first ever Ms. Fitness Olympia in 1995, I have ended up in Tennessee. I spend my days training, hiking, biking and trail running in the Smoky Mountain National Park. Of course this is when I’m not running a busy household with 4 kids and a hotttt husband. The past several years I have competed in sprint triathlons and ran the Disney marathon (the last marathon I will ever run…my body looked smooth and mushy after that chronic cardio, a lesson learned!).

I still weight train the way I did for bodybuilding competitions. At 51 my bodyfat is 11% (using the Parrillo 9 point caliper calculation), year round. For cardio I do 2 (20 minute), interval workouts each week (run stairs, sprints, stationary bike), plus I do long and slow cardio such as hiking, biking, etc. a few times a week, if I feel like it.

I am attending Duke University to become an Integrative Health Coach. Along with my BS in Food Science and Nutrition and personal training certification I offer a triad of services to my clients. I can be reached at HealthCoachPenny.com.

My motto:  ‘Always we can begin again’.”

Every Bodybuilding Supplement You’ll Ever Need, from A to Z

Every Bodybuilding Supplement You’ll Ever Need, from A to Z

By JOHN PARRILLO

You can’t build your best physique without a smart nutrition program and a smart training regimen. Nor can you do it by popping supplements and pounding protein powders. However, if your diet and training programs are firing on all cylinders, you can make additional impressive gains through a judicious use of bodybuilding supplements. Here, I present the comprehensive PARRILLO Ultimate Supplement Guide, which provides the basics on the most important bodybuilding supplements. They will give you an edge once you have the basics of nutrition and training covered.

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Good Fat Versus Bad Fat

By Andre Newcomb

Calories cause the body to become anabolic: when a bodybuilder is anabolic, muscle growth is possible; if they cannot attain anabolism, no muscle growth is possible.

– John Parrillo

This sentence is a Parrillo Truism, a statement of fact that is positively profound; assuming you are smart enough to understand its implications and smart enough to understand how to use calories, lots and lots of calories, to your advantage. Smart bodybuilders ingest thousands and thousands of calories a day and instead of getting fat they become larger and stronger and more muscular. How do they do it? They understand the Parrillo Principle of “nutrient partitioning.”

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