In his last years of life, Clancy Ross said that life is so much more worth living when a person is strong and healthy. After knowing the benefits, Clancy said that he would make every possible effort to start enjoying them just as young as possible.

Building good health and developing a muscular body through bodybuilding and healthy lifestyle is the world’s most fascinating hobby. Bodybuilding is one hobby that you never get tired of, and one which brings you both success and happiness in life… Touching words !

This statement is ridiculous just like saying to a professional race car driver that the engine from his car will attack him or whatever, you understand the analogy i hope . There is no biological pathway for muscle to “turn into fat” but like all myths, this one has a grain of truth.

Put those two facts together and you`ll see why this myth got started. Making matters worse is that many bodybuilders thrive on the monthly gains and the endorphins produced so when they stop, mild depression can set in. Many people overeat when depressed, making the transition from muscular stud to obesity quite rapidly.

When a steroid user gets injured (because of the rapid muscle growth, the addiction installed and the steroid-induced aggressiveness), his life can be destroyed because of the depression caused by the steroid withdrawal, depression caused by the fact that they cant work out and becoming something like the two facts stated up about the strength, muscle mass, and muscle turn into fat myth.

They continue to eat just as much (or more because of the depression) but don’t exercise and they rapidly get fat. This is one of the subtle problems with steroids that is related with the muscle turns into fat myth.

Summer is here, and the gym is getting crowded.. don`t you want to take a break? A little bit of info here, a week of rest is strongly advised for a bodybuilder once at a month to relax his muscles, so after you see this hit song from youtube made by Fedde le Grand, Funkerman and Dany p Jazz you should get in the mood for a holidayyyy .

In this video some girls named Lily Maria, Patricia, Euridyce and Florencia start a new life on their holiday in Ibiza where they have lots of fun, feeling the passion in the night because the girls were born again in that night .

Bodybuilder listen to me, relax those muscles in a short holiday somewhere nice, go to a club, a concert or anything else, drink some champagne but have fun at least one week cause you only get 1 life so LIVE IT!!!!!!

By the way.. take some photos of you in that holiday and leave comments with links to the photos.

Mickey Rourke had a hard role to play and that was the role of an wrestler, a wrestler that once was very popular but now being a middle aged man, “The Ram” (Mickey Rourke) sees himself as a lonely person with no one in his life, just some muscles, steroids, a couple of old age wrestling matches and his blond long hair that he takes care of.. but those muscles are the subject of this post about Mickey Rourke and his steroid usage.

In the movie, after a heart attack in the midst of a hardcore match, on his successful and impressive come-back trail, the wrestling legend “The Ram” (Mickey Rourke) is firmly warned by a physician to make drastic changes. If Randy Robinson aka “The Ram” wants to continue living a longer period of time, he must abandon smoking, steroids and wrestling but he doesn`t on a short scale version!

The movie is very sad and gives you a perfect perspective upon life, steroid usage and hard, violent lifestyle. It is no doubt that Mickey Rourke worked hard for his role to gain that muscle mass. In fact, he had to train under ex-WWE wrestler Afa the Samoan.

As a answer for a question related to steroid usage, Mickey Rourke told the reporter:

Later in the interview, Mickey Rourke said that he trained hard and did not use steroids or human growth hormones in order to improve his physical appearance meaning his muscles. He just used new heavy duty supplements. That is debatable though, if Mickey Rourke lied on steroid use or not, still Randy Robinson aka “The Ram” injected steroids in order to gain strength and muscles as seen in a video scene before training, in the locker room at the local gym, after buying some steroids from a friend that was also a steroid dealer.

“It was a great effort for me, because i had to practice yoga for the Robin Hood character, more than in my entire life!”
Russell is chased by yoga everywhere, even when he plays with his toddler son, Charlie. “We do a version of yoga together” says Russell Crowe of their man-to-man bonding.

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 marks are the result of packing on pounds of muscle (a happy problem), or just plain packing on pounds of fat.I think that you`re curious about the resulted stretch marks under your arms, particularly the pec/delt tie-in region where the upper chest and front shoulder muscles connect. This region is most susceptible, due to the rapid muscle growth there.

Remember that hormonal changes and genetics influence the skin’s capacity to withstand stretching forces, as do diet and exercise.

Symptoms and signs of stretch marks in bodybuilding

Stretch marks first appear as reddish or purple lines, but tend to gradually fade to a lighter range. The affected areas appear empty and are soft to the touch.
Don`t worry if you practice bodybuilding to gain some muscle and have stretch marks, there`s no problem besides the ugly appearance, because stretch marks do not compromise the body’s ability to function normally and repair itself.

Treatment for stretch marks in bodybuilding

They`re ugly ugly on your skin.. i know that, and you think that laser surgery treatment can repair them before summer or a competition to show off your muscles, but if the epidermis and the dermis has been penetrated, laser will not remove the stretch marks.

A surgical procedure for removing lower abdominal stretch marks is the tummy tuck, which removes the skin below the navel where stretch marks frequently occur.

For bodybuilding when stretch marks occur you can try as a treatment some supplements into your diet with a good multi-vitamin/mineral quantity especially vitamin E (the vitamins will help your muscles too).

You can also try external remedies to improve even the skin`s appearance:vitamin E oil, stretch mark removal cream, coconut oil, butter lotion, olive oil remedy, aloe Vera, cocoa butter…

Don`t worry my friend, if you are into bodybuilding and train hard you are bound to get besides muscles some stretch marks so try to eat healthy, get plenty of vitamins and enjoy your life.

“It’s a great excuse to wear a big ass belt that makes you look less fat when doing squats.” -quote Dave Tate

“Light squats need to be treated as though they are heavy and heavy squats as if they are light.” –quote Dave Tate

“One of the few lifts that can cause blood, sweat and tears to leave the body at the same time – without you knowing.” –quote Dave Tate

“Increases bone density.” and “I can’t stand to see a rack alone.” -quote Dave Tate

All the muscles you see on Gerard Butler`s body are gained with hard work and dedication. As Gerard says in an interview for Men`s Health in the next video, it`s sad that he only trained for roles, for example in the movie “300″ he combined weights with circuit training and Gerard really likes the rowing machine.

Gerard Butler also said:” When you combine weights with circuit training it`s a great way of building muscles but in a leaner way and also burning fat because you`re doing a lot of cardio as well, because you`re moving so fast, you`re lifting weights and you`re sweating like a stuffed pig”

Gerard Butler`s Workout Routine

Butler hired Mark Twight a former world-class mountain climber who, based on personal experience, believes in training as if your life depends on it.
Also 5 weeks before filming “300″ Gerard Butler took extra sessions with a venezuelan bodybuilder named Franco LiCastro in order to get a more well defined physique.

Gerard Butler`s Daily Routine

Gerard Butler has done these exercises without rest between the sets so it`s obviously an advanced workout that you shouldn`t try if you are a begginer. I almost forgot, he did a lot of cardio as well.

Gerard Butler`s Diet Plan

In order to keep those muscles growing Gerard had a strict diet plan because you know that nutrition will play a key role in determining your success or failure with changing the way your body looks.
Gerard ate 4-5-6 times a day because if you leave your body without food more then 4 hours.. it gets in starvation mode and after his hard workouts, if Butler didn`t eat his body metabolism would of shut off due to lack of consistent nutrients.

To maintain his muscles Gerard Butler ate something like:

That kind of concludes Gerard Butler`s Workout and Diet Plan, hope you enjoyed reading this information, and Gerard keep those muscles pumping and Jennifer Aniston is cute !