What Zombies Can Teach You About Gaining Muscle

This is a guest post from Rusty Moore at Fitness Black Book about the muscle gaining process he outlines in his newest course Visual Impact.
The gym can be a frustrating place at times. These days I’m fortunate enough to not lift in a “Go Big or Go Home” type of gym, but I do remember [...]

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One Word: Adenosine, How Acupuncture Stops Pain

Readers of the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, a second century Chinese guide to then-modern medicine, know that acupuncture has been used to kill pain for a very long time. But even currently modern health experts never knew exactly how it…
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The Reason We Eat Way Too Much Salt: Market Share

The New York Times reports on the Thirty Years War between health advocates and food manufacturers, who disagree about how much salt should be put in food. While government health experts estimate that deep cuts in salt consumption, which is…
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Healthful Cooking Video: Grilled Beef Tenderloin and Wild Rice

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Fit Bodies Respond Differently to Exercise

Is it fair that fit people get more from exercise than less fit people? The Scientific American reports on new study, published in Science Translational Medicine, that reveals vast biological differences among more- and less-fit individuals. Sciam reports that the…
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Training the Obese Beginner: Part 3

Ok, enough tedious ‘irrelevancies’, let’s get to brass tacks and talk about some of the practicalities of training the obese beginner. I gotta keep it snappy, right?  Oh…wait, there’s one more.
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One More (Irrelevant) Tangent: Fat Loss vs. Health
Mainly throughout this series, I’ve focused on fat loss as the primary end-goal …
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Normal Blood pH: How Your Body Maintains It

Okay, so let’s look back at Monday’s post on Acidosis and Alkalosis. In my haste to go sit on the beach and stare at the ocean, I gave short shrift to covering how the body actually maintains normal blood pH.
Normal Blood pH
So to quickly recap, the body works hard to maintain a normal blood [...]

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Fasted Training Boosts Endurance and Muscle Glycogen

In this article I wrote about a study that showed an anabolic rebound effect during feeding after fasted weight training. The title of that article ended with a question mark, since it was a (very) short term study with results that were far from conclusive in regards to fasted training being superior to fed state [...]

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More Evidence of Link Between BPA and Male Sexual Problems

In November, Geezer reported that researchers at the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute learned that men who handled BPA in a factory (and had levels of exposure to BPA that were 50 times what an average U.S. man faces) were four…
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Nine False Claims Made By Supplement Salespeople

Here, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, are nine things that dietary supplements won’t do: Garlic does not prevent obesity and diabetes, and does not cure cardiovascular disease. Ginseng does not cure cancer. Garlic should not…
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