5 Healing Supplements

Here’s something you may not realize: Recovery from injuries due to indoor or outdoor sports or even too-strenuous workouts can often be hastened with the aid of nutritional supplements. This month, I’d like to talk about the attributes of five supplements – and why they’re super healers.

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Episode 36: What will you get from bodybuilding?

Jared and his big lug friend Hunter were training together once again after not having shared a workout since football season started back in September. Hunter went to high school in the next town over, and his team had finished with an equally unimpressive record. I doubted MTV would want to make a reality show about either squad anytime soon. Then again, who knows? Their latest hit was something called “Jersey Shore,” where a house full of cocky, vain, horny young guys and girls who basically got drunk, partied, had random casual sex, and got into bar fights.

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Chris Toland: Inside Bodybuilding

How one of the nation’s top amateur bodybuilders eats, trains and incorporates and integrates Parrillo products, strategies and methods

Chris Toland is one of America’s best natural bodybuilders and one look at the photos accompanying this article is all the evidence needed to support that flat statement of indisputable fact.

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How one man finally got traction in his quest to build a better body

By Duke Nukem

Reese Reynolds stood gasping for breath between his fifth and sixth squat rep. He had 455 pounds on his back and it felt like a house. “C’mon Reese! Three more reps!” Big Bo Bennington hissed as he stood directly behind Reese. Bo had his beefy arms underneath Reese’s armpits; in case Reese collapsed he’d catch him. Reese ground out squat rep number six, all the while listening to and obeying Bo’s commands: “Down, down, down, down – UP!”

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Episode 35: High reps have a purpose

The holidays were upon us at last. Spirits were high all around. A monster of a blizzard had dumped a foot and a half of the light, fluffy stuff on my town on December 20^th, ensuring that all-important White Christmas Big Crosby sang about. As for the Blue Christmas in the Elvis song, we even had that covered with the release of the blockbuster film Avatar, with blue aliens in 3-D.

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Meral Ertunc-Super Trainer is Super Fit at age 47

Meral Ertunc has been the cover person for the Parrillo Performance Press on three separate occasions: in 1994 Meral first graced the PPP cover and created a sensation amongst our readers. Her unique combination of muscle, symmetry and sultry looks made her a standout amongst standouts. Her second cover appearance occurred in September of 2006 and again she was sensational, displaying curves, muscle, leanness and perfect proportionality.

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How one man finally got traction with his annual New Year’s Resolution

Reese Reynolds was determined that this year’s New Year’s Resolutions would be different. This year Reese was going to lose his ample gut and keep it off. Every year Reese made a vow that he was going to lose fifty pounds and regain that lithe, athletic look he had as a college football star. Each year for the past ten years starting January 3rd he’d embark on an ambitious plan to melt off his excess body fat; each year around the end of January he’d fall completely and irrevocably off the fitness bandwagon until January 3rd of the following year.

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Episode 34: Loosen up, or keep it tight?

It was arm day. This was a very recent change to my training program. My arms, as any of my longtime readers are sick of hearing about at this point, have always been a source of immense frustration and disappointment to me. With any other muscle group, my hard work has always eventually translated into growth, sooner or later.

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Marching To The Beat Of A Different Drummer

Josh Bunch represents a new breed of fitness professional. This 28 year old athlete/bodybuilder uses radically different methods to obtain extraordinary results for his army of clients. Despite young Mr. Bunch’s unorthodox approach, he conspicuously stays rooted in one tried-and-proven Old School approach: Parrillo nutrition strategies and the studious use of Parrillo Performance Products.

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Evening Primrose Oil – A Necessary Fat

One of my clients was a competitive bodybuilder who complained to me that her hair was falling out, her skin had become extremely dry, and her joints were stiff. After observing her physical characteristics, I suspected she was suffering from an essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency. This deficiency was aggravated by a too-restrictive diet in which she had omitted fats altogether and slashed her caloric intake.

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