Posted on 27 July 2010. Tags: Answer Segment, Burn Victims, glutamine and bodybuilding, Glutamine Powder, Hiv, is glutamine needed, Money, Protein Synthesis, Question And Answer, Small Intestine, Sports Supplements, Whole Lot
Had a facebook question and answer segment the other day.
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Posted on 30 May 2010. Tags: Bodybuilding Muscle, Bodyfat Loss, build muscle naturally, build muscle without steroids, Calories, Carbs, Consistency, Excuse, Fat Diet, Fat Loss Diet, Fats, Hartman, Insulin, lose fat natural bodybuilding, lose fat without drugs, Loss Fat, Macros, muscle building diet, Muscle Cell Volume, Muscle Gain, Natural Bodybuilder, Natural Bodybuilding, natural bodybuilding fat loss, natural bodybuilding muscle building, Offseason, Pep, Physiques, Pizza, precontest diet, Protein Synthesis, Rebound
We just talked to natural bodybuilder Ben Hartman about his fat loss methods but what about how he build muscle?
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Posted on 24 May 2010. Tags: Allergies, Amino Acids, Basketball Player, Dieting, Fat Loss, Greatest Basketball Player Of All Time, Harder Time, Marketing, Muscle Building, Optimum Nutrition 100 Whey, Optimum Whey, Protein Food, Protein Synthesis, Shakes, Soy Food, Soy Foods, Soy Protein, Wasting Your Money, Whey Protein, whey protein vs soy protein, Whey protein vs Soy protein vs Whole Food, Whole Food, Whole Foods
The one thing that I don’t “get” is why people argue over what type of protein to take. To me, it’s as clear of an answer as who the greatest basketball player of all time is.
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Posted on 13 October 2009. Tags: Baseline Levels, Bodybuilders, Capaldo, Essential Amino Acids, Goal Post, Insulin Levels, Insulin Response, Main Goal, Muscle Tissue, Nutrient Timing, Nutrient Timing Post Workout, Post Workout Diet, Post Workout Meal, Post Workout Nutrition, Post Workout Nutrition Plan, Pre Training, Pre Workout, Protein Breakdown, Protein Synthesis, Solid Food, Upwards, Whey, Whole Lot, Workout Nutrition, Workout Time
Time and time again I’ll come across various studies or online threads concerning post workout nutrition. Very much like the notion that more protein is always better, bodybuilders tend to think that they can only consume protein and a whole lot of carbohydrates post workout. Nothing else will do. The research is there and I’m not refuting it. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 September 2009. Tags: Amino Acids, Array, Athletes Steroids, Bcaa, bcaa supplements, Bodybuilding Magazines, Bodyfat, branch chain amino acid supplements, Excess Nitrogen, Glucose Uptake, High Protein Diets, Isoleucine, leucine research, Mtor, Muscle Building, Muscle Mass, Muscle Tissue, Natural Athletes, No Doubt, Nutritional Supplement, Nutritional Supplements, Protein Research, Protein Synthesis, Protein Sythesis, Tissue Trauma
If you follow the bodybuilding magazines, websites or read research like I do then you’ll no doubt have come across BCAA’s (Branch Chain Amino Acids) and you’ve seen all the benefits of these supplements.
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Posted on 04 June 2009. Tags: Amino Acid, Bodybuilders, Bodybuilding, bodybuilding and protein, Complete Proteins, Diets, Driven, Essential Amino Acids, Hair Nails, Hardcore, Love, Muscle Growth, Muscle Size, Non Essential Amino Acids, protein and bodybuilders, Protein Requirements, Protein Sources, Protein Synthesis, Relationship, why do bodybuilders need more protein
Bodybuilding and protein go hand-in-hand. Think about it, have you ever known someone that eats a ton of protein that isn’t into bodybuilding or hardcore athletics? Not really, I know that I haven’t. The problem is that protein and bodybuilders get a bad wrap but at the same time why are bodybuilders so in love with protein?
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Posted on 21 May 2009. Tags: Adequate Sleep, Amino Acids, Array, Bed Time Nutrition Bedtime Nutrition, Bedtime, Blood Pressure, Clue, Deep Sleep, Heart Rate, Hormones, Lee Haney, Lee Hany, Metabolism, Michael Stipe, Mr Olympia, Muscle Protein Synthesis, Muscles, Night-Time Nutrition, Nighttime Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition At Night, Olympia, Pressure Increases, Proper Nutrition, Protein Synthesis, Rem Sleep, Sleep, Training Session, Upwards
Lee Haney, the only 8-time Mr.Olympia used to say “assimilate don’t annihilate” when he was talking about volume in a training session. Lee would often tell people that it was at nighttime that that you grew. Then research started coming out showing that muscle protein synthesis was high for upwards of 24 hours post exercise. So people started to think about what they could do to take advantage of their nighttime nutrition.
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