We’ve all been there Deep in a diet when the cravings start to hit you, hard. When you began dieting, your drive to be lean and mean made it easy to say no to the pizza your buddies were noshing on and the ice cream your girlfriend was eating for dessert. Yet suddenly the thought [...]
When it comes to the infinite number of foods that you can put in your body, there are good foods and there are bad foods. Clearly, you know to avoid the bad foods Whenever possible, but When it comes to choosing the very best foods for your physique goals, that’s an even harder decision. FullyFlexed [...]
Sixty! Seventy-five! Ninety! Maybe you’ve read those out sized figures in sentences that go something like this: nutrition is X percent of bodybuilding success. This is hyperbole to the extent that it implies what you eat is more important than how you train or getting enough rest. You need all three qualities to grow. However, [...]
Life, they say, is full of contradictions, so why shouldn’t that also apply to working out? You train regularly with both weights and cardio and carefully watch what you eat, which together are supposed to produce a ripped, muscular physique. There’s the catch: supposed to. But what if you do practically everything you can–truly giving [...]
Sorry to burst the bubble: the idea that burning 3,500 calories will burn a pound of fat may be true on paper, but it’s not always true in reality. In the best of all possible worlds, when you cut 3,500 calories from your diet, you should lose a pound of bodyfat, but that’s not always [...]
DoEat enough The amount of calories you consume each day should be enough to maintain your bodyweight. Lower-calorie diets are associated with lower testosterone levels. Consume around 18-20 calories for every pound of bodyweight. Eat animal protein Studies show that vegetarian diets lead to lower blood testosterone levels and higher amounts of “inactive” testosterone even [...]
The name says it all. The Testosterone Diet. No need to give this meal plan some cute, fancy label. Besides, there’s nothing cute or fancy about building big-time muscle. Want cute and fancy? Buy a Thigh Master. Lease a Mini Cooper. What you’re looking for is a nutritional plan of attack that will provide your [...]
When it comes to keeping your muscles full, nothing beats lean beef, because of the many ways it works to build and keep muscle. First, the cholesterol in red meat drives testosterone, keeping your body in an anabolic state. If you cut out red meat for too long, you’ll become weak and lethargic. It also [...]
Learn how to make this super low calorie protein bar for the perfect snack type food.
I know mustard is better for bodybuilders than mayonnaise, but I’ve also heard it’s a fat burner. Is this true? Mustard definitely trumps mayonnaise in terms of health benefits, most notably because mustard is fat free, unlike mayo’s artery-clogging cholesterol-hiking fats. As you’ve noted, mustard can boost your basal metabolic rate (the rate at which [...]
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