Build Muscle and Lose Fat: The Recomp Effect Part I

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After many emails, and a few phone calls about this topic, I’ve finally decided to write an article about how to build muscle and lose body fat at the same time.  This is sometimes known as the recomp effect (body recomposition) but most people, other than the fitness-obsessed, have never heard the term.

In short, it means to recompose your body; you’re improving your percentage of lean body mass whilst reducing your fat mass.

If you’re new here and tired of reading the same old crap, only to be disappointed by getting to the end of an article to see a useless product being pimped to the max, please keep reading because that won’t happen here. [Read more...]

My Thoughts On Flexible Dieting

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A diet, in the general sense of the word, can encompass many different meanings to every individual.  For the off-season bodybuilder, it means truckloads of food, lots of protein and the occasional trip to the all-you-can-eat buffet.  To the Paleo-obsessed, it means no processed carbohydrates, HFCS, and whatever else they feel like including or excluding depending on how they feel about their ancestors’ diet.  To the figure athlete getting ready for a show, the word depicts 16 weeks of starvation and lots of boring food choices.

Dieting, to most of us, means a strict or controlled period of time where we eat less and move more in hopes of torching our body fat into oblivion. [Read more...]

What’s My Maximum Muscular Potential?

This question has been asked multiple times over on many bodybuilding forums and message boards since the inception of the internet.  While this question’s answer depends solely on an individual’s genetic ceiling, there’s one very comprehensive resource I’d recommend to anyone in search of reaching their genetic potential for maximum muscular growth.

The resource I am referring to today is an ebook called Your Muscular Potential by Casey Butt Ph.D.  He runs the website Weightrainer.net and has devoted insurmountable hours to the study of maximum muscular gains in the drug-free physique athlete.

Casey holds a degree in mathematics, a degree in physics and has his PhD in artificial intelligence for controls engineering.  He’s spent the last 18 years in a mad obsession with weight training and altering his body composition through bodybuilding.  He also admitted that he wasted his first 10 years of weight training by following the shoddy information found in muscle magazines. [Read more...]

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