Muscle Gaining

Mickey Rourke`s Muscles: Steroids or Not?

Let me begin today with a very short version of the movie "The Wrestler" that has love, pity, sadness, muscles, brute force and lots of injected or oral steroids: Years have passed since the glory of "The Ram". The splendor, fame, fortune and applause have all faded away. Only the man behind the masked personality remains. Randy Robinson’s personal life is clouded with hard luck, personal demons, and the troubles of his past and present. Not all his battles are contained in the ring. Mickey R...

How to Bench Tips and Common Mistakes

If you don`t know how to bench properly and in order to correct your eventual common mistakes to improve muscle growth please read carefully this "How to bench tips and Common Mistakes" post. Lack of over-all body tightness is one of the mistakes Keep the bar in line with the wrist and elbows (tip) Don’t push the bar off you. Push yourself away from the bar to bench better and grow muscle faster Tighten your back (good how to bench tip, isn`t it? :D) Get your upper back and core stren...

Stretch marks in bodybuilding

Stretch marks are a form of scarring on the skin with reddish or purple lines. They are caused by tearing of the dermis, and over time can diminish but not disappear completely. Stretch marks are often the result of the rapid stretching of the skin associated with rapid growth (common in puberty) or weight gain (muscle building, bodybuilding) or in some cases, severe pulling force on skin that overcomes the dermis's elasticity. In our case here where we discuss about bodybuilding, stretch ...

Green Tea Extract Slows Prostate Cancer

Green tea extract can prevent prostate cancer and slow the growth of the cancer during the early stages of the disease.Green tea contains antioxidants called polyphenols that prevent from cancer, heart disease, and strokes.In prostate cancer, levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) increase rapidly as the disease progresses. Green tea extract slowed and decreased PSA levels by 10 percent in most men with prostate cancer. The polyphenol levels from green tea extract are so big that exceed 200 t...

Fish Oils Can Inhibit Muscle Recovery

Fish contains high levels of Omega 3 fatty acids, which inhibit prostaglandin synthesis, and that`s bad for muscle growth and recovery because prostaglandins are important for building muscles. I won`t talk about prostaglandin but instead i will talk about the fish oils that can inhibit muscle recovery in immobilized persons.Researchers from the Food and Nutrition Department at Seoul National University examined the effect of fish oils on muscle recovery in rats.The rats were assigned like so: a...

Sweet Potatoes And Carotenoids

Sweet potatoes have been found to contain the highest level of carotenoids in the vegetable kingdom, and that's good because carotenoids enhance muscle cell recovery after workouts thus helping you to improve your muscle growth and carotenoids from sweet potatoes even fight viruses such as the common cold.Carotenoids (beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, gamma-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin) have vitamin A activity (meaning they can be converted to retinal), and these and other carotenoids can also ...

Muscle Atrophy

What is Atrophy?Well when you refere to it as an illness you`re probably right because in many cases atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body and it`s caused by mutations, poor nourishment, poor circulation, loss of hormonal support but it also appears when you don`t exercise your muscles and it`s called muscle atrophy.Muscle AtrophyMuscle atrophy as i`ve said earlier, appears when you disuse your muscles and it`s followed by loss of mass and strength. For example if...

Dexter Jackson Thinks Negative

Dexter Jackson turned negatives into positives after starting competing as a bantamweight. He turned pro at light-heavy category some years ago. Dexter Jackson didn`t win a pro show for four years but Dexter has done a lot of winning since then and a lot of muscles. He is focusing on the negative half of reps and does slow and controlled ones. In an interview Dexter Jackson said that he wasn`t made for being a big guy and the way he built his muscle mass was by lifting heavy year-round. H...

Carrots

Carrots keep your skin healthy and it helps your human body to fight infections. Carrots are rich in vitamin A, wich is very important for the health and beauty of the skin thus resulting a nicer tonus of the muscles. It also helps the hair, eyes, and it stimulates growth.Beta Carotene from the carrot helps in preventing heart diseases and cancer. Carrots also contain fibers and those fibers reduce the level of cholesterol from the blood. Eat carrots to have a great skin, hair, a good eye sight ...

List of Anabolic Steroid Side effects

If you don`t want to read the side effects from steroid summary this will give you a full view on some aspects.List of Anabolic Steroid Side effects: Many androgens are capable of being metabolized into compounds which can interact with other steroid hormone receptors and by combining with estrogen, progesterone, and glucocorticoid receptors produce additional unwanted effects:General Stunted growth Increased risk of HIV, HepatitisIncreased risk of Male Pattern Baldness Hypogonadism (shrinking ...