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• Get The Truth Behind 4 Nutrition Buzzwords!

  16-02-2016 23:37
  Ever wondered what "eating clean" or "going on a cleanse" really means? Get the details behind popular nutrition buzzwords so you can decide if any are worth your time!
  Spend enough time talking about or searching for nutrition info online these days, and you'll quickly notice that it seems like everyone is an expert. Between blogs, social media, online message boards, and good old-fashioned conversations with friends, it's easy to get overwhelmed by competing opinions about what you should eat,
  
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• Increase Your Strength Without Using More Weight

  16-02-2016 23:31
  If you want to get stronger, do more reps with more weight. End of story, right? Not by a long shot! Here are 4 ways Danny Kavadlo keeps progressing using nothing more than his body weight!Think the only way to get strong and jacked is by adding more external resistance to an exercise? I used to think so, too. I'd hit the bench, the bar, and the leg press, consistently adding poundage, just like I was told to. Between lengthy work sets and extended recovery time, I spent a lot of hours performin
  
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• Karen Traded Baby Weight For Lifting Weights!

  16-02-2016 23:16
  Karen didn't let the price of a big-box gym scare her off. She built a kettlebell gym in her garage and lost 100 pounds!Vital Stats
  Name: Karen Conway
  Location: Menifee, CA
  Staying healthy wasn't difficult for Karen Conway—at least, not back when she was growing up in a family that made it a priority to make healthy choices. "When I was living at home with my parents, we had balanced meals," she says. "Fruits, veggies, proteins—I was very used to that."
  Karen admits that her own snac
  
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• Protein Exposed

  16-02-2016 14:38
  
   QUESTION  I eat around 2 grams per kilogram a day. Are there are any drawbacks to consuming so much protein? —Damien S., Libertyville, IL  ANSWER  A big imbalance in whatever we eat can lead to problems, Damien, but a high protein intake is considered safe. While some studies suggest that excess protein can lead to kidney failure or brittle bones, a more comprehensive review of 111 studies that appeared in Nutrition & Metabolism in 2005 took a look at protein intak
  
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• Morgan Aste's Hardcore Leg Workout

  16-02-2016 14:38
  
  Photos by Per Bernal If you were asked to name the biggest, freakiest mass monster on the current IFBB roster we’re guessing you’d say 315-pound Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Elssbiay. And you’d certainly have a case to make. But there’s a gargantuan 352-pound strongman from France who’s looking to challenge Ramy as the most massive guy to occupy real estate on an IFBB stage: Morgan “the Big Rock” Aste. Considered by many to be the strongest man in Fra
  
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• Dig Deep Biceps Workout

  16-02-2016 14:38
  
  You’ll never hear this about a guy’s arms: “That dude has some humongous brachialis muscles!” But that doesn’t mean you should be neglecting this critical arm muscle. The brachialis muscle is located deep beneath the biceps. Adding size to this deeper arm muscle will push your biceps out that much further. Plus, when developed properly, the brachialis adds a nice mountain of muscle between the biceps and triceps, making the arms look much more impressive. One of the
  
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• Big Ramy's Chest Test

  16-02-2016 14:38
  
  We journeyed to Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Elssbiay’s “home office,” the appropriately mammoth Oxygen Gym in Kuwait City, Kuwait, to witness how the largest bodybuilder of all time is growing a chest to match the rest of his 5'10", 316-pound physique. Here are eight takeaways. 1) Big Ramy aims for 10 reps on every set. (True or False?)  FALSE – HIS REP COUNTS VARY  For chest, back, shoulders, and legs, the mass monster alters his target reps each week, progr
  
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