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Yams, Squats, Sleep & Freebies

08. Jul, 2009 25 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle, Muscle Building Supplements, Nutrition

Question: Coach,
If you had to pick one best carb for lean bulking what would it be?
Jonathan

Answer: Jonathan, this one’s too easy; yams (essentially the exact same as sweet potatoes) win hands down. It’s been argued that the human body hasn’t adapted to eating grains like oats and brown rice. This is debatable and may or may not be true. Some people may have issues with grains, others may not. But I have never known anyone to have a problem with a root vegetable like sweet potatoes or yams. This is [...]

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Warp Speed Fat Loss

01. Jul, 2009 11 Comments Fat Loss

Today I have a short Q&A I did with my good friend and world renowned fat loss expert, Alwyn Cosgrove.

JF: What are some of the biggest time wasters when it comes to training and dieting for fat loss?

AC: The biggest ones are very low calorie diets (they just slow metabolism down too much) and low intensity steady state aerobics. You need to keep the “furnace” (your metabolism) cranking. The goal as I call it is “metabolic disturbance” – burn as many calories through training as possible but use a system [...]

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Eliminate The Useless Crap

25. Jun, 2009 68 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle

Let’s face it.

You’re busy.

And you have very little time to spend debating what you should do in the gym or what you should be eating.

So I’m going to make it easy for you.

First, let’s cover your workouts. You’re going to train 3-4 days per week and you’re going to get in and out of the gym in 45-60 minutes. This helps to keep your testosterone levels high and allows you to maintain maximum focus throughout.

You’re always going to choose big, compound exercises for each body part. Starting from the top [...]

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Top 5 Muscle Building & Fat Loss Tips

23. Jun, 2009 13 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle

I was interviewed for a big name fitness magazine recently and they asked for my top five muscle building and fat loss tips. This is, of course, very hard to narrow down and come up with just five. But I did my best and here’s what I told them…

Train Like an Athlete

Just about everyone I know wants to look like Reggie Bush, Nate Marquardt or even Dwight Howard. So why train like Ronnie Coleman or Flex Wheeler? Train like the guys you want to emulate.

When you train like an athlete [...]

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Men’s Fitness Interview Part 2

14. Jun, 2009 1 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle

By Sean Hyson

This is the second half of my interview with MF training adviser, Jason Ferruggia. It’s kind of like The Godfather, Part II, only more violent.

Sean: What makes you stand apart from other trainers?

Jason: I think the fact that I have logged thousands of hours training hundreds of clients. I’ve been doing this for 15 years, 10 of which saw me spending 8-12 hours in my training facility, five or six days a week, and sometimes seven. Everything I do, I tend to do to the extreme. I always [...]

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5 Ways to Burn Fat Fast

10. Jun, 2009 7 Comments Fat Loss

Today we have a great guest post from one of the top fat loss experts in the world, John Alvino.

5 Ways to Burn Fat Fast

1) Don’t decrease calories by more than 15% below your maintenance levels. This is one of the keys to maintaining all of your muscle mass during a fat loss phase. If you have a time constraint (weigh in for sport, wet t-shirt contest, etc), you may have to decrease your calories further than 15%. In these rare cases, you can decrease calories as low as 25% [...]

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Your Muscle Building and Fat Loss Questions Answered

02. Jun, 2009 3 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle

Question: Coach, What is the difference between using chains around your neck on dips versus using a traditional dip belt?
Thanks,
Keith Connel

Answer: Keith, chains around your neck will force your body forward. This will place more stress on the chest. Hanging weights from your waist on a dip belt will keep you more upright and thus put more stress on the triceps.

Question: Hey, I’m finding it hard to get eight hours sleep, six if I’m lucky. With my job and my body clocks all over the place. I have’nt been able [...]

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How to Build Muscle & Lose Fat for the Summer

27. May, 2009 11 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle, Motivation

Since Memorial Day Weekend, which is the unofficial start of summer, just passed, I have a question for you…

Did you meet all of your goals that you had set? Did you live up to those New Year’s resolutions? Did you gain all the size and strength that you vowed you would? Were you as lean as you hoped?

If the answer is no then you need to ask yourself why. And you need to step it up a notch. Where I’m from the beach season doesn’t really get into full swing [...]

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When to do Conditioning For Fast Fat Loss

14. May, 2009 20 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle, Strength & Conditioning

With summer rapidly approaching I’ve been getting lots of questions about which conditioning methods will help you lose fat fast and get in playing shape without compromising your size or strength, and exactly when should you do them.

First of all, I recommend a strength training schedule of Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This leaves Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday or Sunday for conditioning and/or playing. To start you should be training on a four way upper/lower split. This means that you have two upper body days and two lower body days. You [...]

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Get Jacked & Ripped Like Wolverine

04. May, 2009 9 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle

Summer’s just around the corner. T-shirts will be coming off and bathing suits will be going on in just a few weeks. So I know that a lot of you are thinking of ways to get lean in a hurry. What you don’t want to do, however, is sacrifice any of your hard earned size or strength; right?

So how do you get ripped for summer, improve your athleticism for games of beach volleyball and football, while staying big and strong at the same time? Simple… you sprint. Flat ground sprints, [...]

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