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A Big Breakfast for Big Muscle Gains

Breakfast is your post workout meal but also probably the most important meal of the day to promote muscle growth. After hours of fasting your body is primed to absorb and utilise far more nutrients than it is able to at other times from the meals in that day. Blood glucose levels are low, muscle glycogen and amino acid stores are low and your body will be in a state of dehydration, you are like a zombie. When you eat that breakfast, your body will release a hugely anabolic hormone called in...

The Ectomorph

The ectomorph physique is a fragile and delicate one. The bones of an ectomorph are light, joints are small and muscles are slight. The limbs are long in proportion and the shoulders droop. The ectomorph is a linear physique. Straight up and straight down, and may appear longer than he or she really is, due to the length of limbs coupled with lack of muscle mass developed on those limbs. The ectomorph is not naturally powerful and will have to work hard for every ounce of muscle and every bit of...

Barbecued Italian Sausage and Bean Salad

Recipe of the day: Barbecued italian sausage and bean salad Barbecued italian sausage and bean salad is a high protein recipe to grow your muscles with. Ingredients for Barbecued Italian Sausage and Bean Salad: 600g Italian sausages 350g trimmed small green beans 400g can with drained, rinsed cannellini beans 4 vine-ripened tomatoes, cut into wedges 1/3 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves, roughly chopped 1/4 cup olive oil 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar crusty Italian-style bread,...

Salsa Chicken Quinoa

Recipe of the day: Salsa Chicken Quinoa Salsa Chicken Quinoa is a simple, tasty, and very healthy, high protein recipe to grow your muscles with. I`ve told you that quinoa is good in a previous recipe post, click if you want to read more about how to cook quinoa Salmon Quinoa Recipe. Ingredients for Salsa Chicken Quinoa 2 cups of uncooked quinoa 24 ounces of cooked chicken 2 cups of salsa 1 cup chopped raw onion optional, diced jalapeno After reading how to cook the quinoa p...

Jake Gyllenhaal`s Muscle Workout and Diet Plan

I`m so excited today to write about the actor from the new movie "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", Jake Gyllenhaal with his perfect shaped physique and chiseled hard muscles. I can`t even find my words so sorry for the eventual misspellings when writing about Jake Gyllenhaal`s workout routine and diet plan! As you can see from the trailer, the movie "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" will be a hit in the box office, the pc game surely was a good one so i expect that the movie "Prince...

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...

Tuna Burgers

Recipe of the day: Tuna BurgersTuna burgers are great for your crawing moments while still sticking on to your diet. If you`re on a low carbohydrate diet throw the whole grain roll from the tuna burger and place the burger pattie between 2 or more sheets of lettuce and add some vegetables instead of rolled oats. You probably know that tuna is good for you.. low fats, lots of protein.Click to read Tuna detailsIngredients: 1 tuna can (you know the main ingredient for tuna burger :D) 1 egg white 1/...

Gerard Butler`s Workout and Diet Plan

In my personal opinion, Gerard Butler is a great scottish actor with charm and a funny person.. After filming the movie "300", Gerard got famous i might say for his shredded body with well defined muscles (great physique), and now recently after filming "The Bounty Hunter" he also got a new girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston. I think they look nice together but Gerard Butler is picky with his girls and now he was seen with a french 29 year old lady named Laurie Chloewa. All the muscles you see on G...

Beans

For example kidney beans are seeds from a large plant used for human or animal food.Beans are one of the longest cultivated plants and they are very nutritious thus helping your muscle to grow. Beans were a important source of protein during the old and new world, and they still are.Besides protein, kidney beans or other beans have significant amounts of fiber and soluble fiber, one cup of cooked beans providing between 9 to 13 grams of fiber and you need that for your muscles don`t you? Beans ...

Cam Gigandet`s Workout and Diet Plan

Today i will talk about Cam`s workout and diet plan. Cam Gigandet is skinny compared to bodybuilders but he has a conditioned body and women adore this kind of physique. He`s just like a model in fashion magazines with a refined physique and crisp abs. He had a small career as a football player (quarterback) but he realized that he doesn`t like it so much and his favorite exercises are swimming, and at the gym clean and jerks (he doesn`t master them). Cam Gigandet`s workout routine ...