Using the Stronglifts 5×5 Workout to Gain Muscle

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I got a question this morning from a guy who wants to use the 5×5 workout to build muscle: “I’m considering starting on Stronglifts 5×5 but it doesn’t look like it’s enough. I want a physique like Chris Hemsworth in Thor. Is this possible with a 5×5 workout?” The short answer is yes, you can [...]

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How To Burn 41% More Fat During Exercise

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While I was out on my bike the other day, I came across a product called ZERO, which claims to help you “burn 41% more fat during exercise.” As you probably know already, a lot of claims made about supplements are bogus. Not this one. If you use ZERO in the way the manufacturers describe, [...]

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How Fast Can You Build Muscle?

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Today, a question from a reader: I saw a book claiming that you can gain 18 pounds of muscle in 2 weeks. Is this possible? I’ve always heard that 25 pounds of lean muscle is as much as you can gain in year. How fast can you build muscle? In answer to your first question, [...]

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Poliquin on Pilates

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I learned a lot from Charles Poliquin in the late 1990′s. That was before he started making a bunch of weird claims about how belly button rings disrupt body composition by “interfering” with the acupuncture meridian, that eating only Dominican Republic foods helped him lose 3 pounds of fat and gain 14 pounds of muscle [...]

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How to Loose Weight

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Last month, according to Google, there were 1.5 million searches for the term “how to loose weight.” This is in contrast to the 1.2 million people who searched for the term “how to lose weight” over the same period. In other words, it now appears that people who think that the word loose means “to [...]

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