Is Vitamin Water Really Good For You?
February 24, 2010
Is Vitamin Water Really Good For You?
Thought it was time to do a little investigative reporting as one of you had asked me if Vitamin Water was a good alternative to sodas. I remember taking a quick look at the ingredient list last year and I was a bit shocked. So in this article we take a close look at Vitamin Water and see whether it is as it claims – a
healthful alternative” to sodas.
Vitamin Water actually has an interesting story, let’s take a quick look at it’s history…
History of Vitamin Water
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Nutrex Anabol 5 Review
February 23, 2010
What you need to know about Nutrex Anabol 5
Nutrex Anabol 5 is an extremely potent anabolic agent that is used for packing on lean body mass. By using a proprietary mixture of Dicyclopentanone, 6-Keto-Diosgenin Acetate, Propionate, Cypionate, Decanoate Ester, Hecogen Acetate, 25-R Spirostan-5a-diol-6-one-3-one-undecanoate and Rhamponticum Carthamoides, Nutrex Anabol 5 turns an average weightlifters body into a solid mass of rock hard muscle in no time flat!
Users of Nutrex Anabol 5 reported extreme levels of lean mass gains and very little fat gain while on a bulk. They also reported none of the serious side effects that a prohormone based supplement would have had.
Read more…
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6 Pack Abs Myths Demystified
February 23, 2010
6 Pack Abs Myths Demystified
It’s time we take a close look at myths about how to get 6 pack abs and break these ideas by looking a little deeper at the physiology of our core muscles.
Unfortunately, when it comes to 6 pack abs there is a lot of flawed advice out there and if you’re doing crunches to the point where you pass out you may still not get those abs to really pop out.
So let’s break apart from this and expose some interesting facts…
6 Pack Abs Myth #1: Ab Crunches are The Best Exercise for Abs
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Acai Berry Extreme / Vital Cleanse Colon Cleanse Set Review
February 22, 2010
What you need to know about Acai Berry Extreme / Vital Cleanse Colon Cleanse
The Acai Berry Extreme / Vital Cleanse Colon Cleanse Set is a package of an Acai berry supplement and a Colon Cleanse supplement manufactured by HH Nutritionals. By combining these two highly potent compounds, users can expect to lose a few inches off their waist while reducing the amount of free radicals in their body.
Users of the Acai Berry Extreme / Vital Cleanse Colon Cleanse Set reported elevated levels of energy and increased weight loss when supplementing their healthy diet and workout program with this supplement.
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Online Calorie Calculators Accuracy
February 22, 2010
Online Calorie Calculators Accuracy
If you are going to plan out and measure your diet and activities in terms of calories burnt, there is a good chance you have come across a “calories burnt” online calculator.
The premise is simple – you put in your age, your weight and the duration of the activity you will be doing, and it tells you how many calories you have burnt. Sounds like a great tool, but are they really that accurate? Are they accurate enough to use in your calculations?
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Muscle Building Tips: The Key
February 22, 2010
Muscle Building Tips: The Key
When building muscle many of us experience times where things get a little dull and our results start fading. This is the dreaded plateau and almost everyone in the fitness industry is creating one product or another to shock your system so you can keep getting these results.
But what does the recent research indicate when trying to build muscle? Let’s take a close look at this killer tip…
Muscle Building Tips: Change the Number of Reps
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Stevia Sweetner – Good or Bad?
February 19, 2010
Stevia Sweetner – Good or Bad?
There has been a lot of negative information being passed around about artificial sweetners and sugar substitutes over the past several years. Today there different sugar substitutes in the market but how do you know which one is not harmful to your health?
Stevia extract sweetner is the topic of this feature where we look to see where it comes from and if it is a healthy alternative to sugars that we can incorporate into our diet today.
What is Stevia Sweetner?
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Can You Build Muscle And Lose Fat At The Same Time?
February 18, 2010
Can You Build Muscle And Lose Fat At The Same Time?
One of the goals that many people just starting to work out try to achieve is to simultaneously build muscle while losing body fat. They think that working out will magically take them from having a flabby body to a body like Brad Pitt’s ala Fight Club or Snatch. But the truth is, it just isn’t that simple.
A basic understanding for the mechanics of how the body works dictates that you must consume an excess of calories to build muscle, but must be at a calorie deficit to lose body fat.
As you can see, these two goals require the exact opposite treatment to achieve them. So obviously, losing body fat and building muscle at the same time is impossible, right?
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Muscle Recovery Supplements
February 17, 2010
Muscle Recovery Supplements
If you’re a beginner and just started training or if you’re super advanced and have been training for years, muscle recovery is absolutely key to your success. When it comes to supplementation we of course want to try and get all our nutrients from a diet rich in lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meats like fish plus whole grains and beans. However, having a diet that is perfect in this way can be really challenging especially if you are always on the run or trying to keep to a budget.
If you’re finding that your muscles are always sore or you’re not getting the results you think you should be getting then supplementation to our diet can be considered after we take the time to understand what supplements are safe for us and will work with our routine.
Let’s take a quick and brief look at some of the safest and most tested supplements for muscle recovery in the market.
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Lower Back Pain Stretches
February 16, 2010
Lower Back Pain Stretches
A few weeks ago I wrote an article on Lower Back Pain Exercises and this week I thought I’d come full circle and talk about lower back pain stretches we can do to relieve all that tension.
The thing about lower back pain is that it can be alleviated quite easily if we spend a few minutes a day stretching it out. But before we get into that I thought it was important to look at the possible causes of lower back pain…
Lower Back Pain Causes
Let’s first look at the main cause for lower back pain. Most people I know have a job that involves them sitting down for most of the day, but even those who have the top of the line lumbar supporting chairs, lower back pain is still common.
