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Muscle Building Smoothie Recipes

29. Apr, 2010 16 Comments Nutrition

Aside from the constant barrage of date requests I get from a fully intoxicated Britney Spears (that chick won’t take no for answer), one of the most frequent emails that’s been coming my way lately is a request for muscle building smoothie recipes.

So today I’m going to show you how to make a few of my favorite drinks. The ones that don’t kill brain cells, that is.

First things first- like mom always said…

“Turn down that goddamn music!”

“I found another condom wrapper and empty six pack under your bed!”

“You history teacher [...]

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7 Ways to Fix Your Shoulders

27. Apr, 2010 33 Comments How to Build Muscle, Strength & Conditioning

As you may know by now I suffered a torn rotator cuff and labrum that required surgery. The injury was a long time in the making and the destruction of my shoulder began many years ago when I was doing stupid things like isometronic training in the power rack and other high risk, low reward methods.

Before surgery I was sitting at about 227 pounds. After several months of being incapacitated and eating like a normal human I was down to 179! Like I’ve always said, my hardgainer genetics are freakishly [...]

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How to Build a Bigger Back

20. Apr, 2010 17 Comments How to Build Muscle

Today I want to share 5 tips with you about how to build a bigger back. Because it’s not a “show muscle,” and you can’t see it in the mirror the back is often neglected or trained improperly. This is a huge mistake seeing how a thick, wide back is far more impressive than almost any other muscle group.

1) Learn to Arch Properly. Before you do another set of horizontal or vertical pulling you need to be 100% sure that you can arch your back properly. Most people can’t for [...]

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3 Muscle Building Tips From South Beach

12. Apr, 2010 7 Comments How to Build Muscle

I just got home from a four day weekend down in South Beach where I got some much needed R&R. Had a very relaxing stay at the Palms and a few great meat-free meals at The Standard (hummus plate, quinoa salad, vegan ding dongs for dessert!) and the Café at Books and Books (black bean and veggie sandwich, vegan carrot coconut cake). The food at the Ritz was highly disappointing as was the fare at Pasha’s, which was a huge let down since they had so many healthy choices on [...]

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Regrets…

01. Apr, 2010 14 Comments How to Build Muscle

As I stared at myself in the mirror while brushing my teeth this morning I wondered how I ever let my life get to the point where I knew who Justin Bieber was.

That’s information that I shouldn’t know. But over the last 48 hours I heard one of his songs and saw a picture of him for the first time.

And I regret this unfortunate development. I feel as though my manhood status has been taken down a notch. Which I really can’t afford.

While looking at my shabby excuse for a [...]

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