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Ashwagandha For Muscle Building

Ashwagandha is an adaptogen taken from the roots of the ashwagandha plant that is generally used for hormonal balance and wellbeing. It can be taken for everything ranging from fatigue to pain relief to boosting sex hormones in men. Ashwagandha is popularly used as a supplement to build muscle and lower stress. It has been shown to be able to increase muscle strength and decrease fat levels following consistent use. The main effects of ashwagandha that are useful for…

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How To Start Lifting After Time Off

When returning to the gym after a while off there are a few challenges that you can be faced with. Firstly, there is a good chance that you will have lost muscle or at least will have lost strength in some of your lifts. Since resistance bands and home gym equipment don’t provide as optimal of an array of exercises that you could get from a gym, you’ve probably lost a little bit of lean muscle mass and the…

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Keeping Gains While Traveling

Keeping gains while traveling is a common problem that weightlifters and gym goers are faced with. Often, the motivation to look lean and muscular on vacation is one of the motivating forces for lifting weights but, it can also work as the largest adversary to keeping that state. There are several difficulties to keeping gains while traveling but there also ways to prevent this muscle loss. By keeping these solutions to maintaining your gains while traveling in mind, you…

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How To Get Visible Abs?

One of the most important things when building a good physique is having defined abs that are visible. Visible abs are the hallmark of a well built body and are also one of the more ambiguous muscle groups when it comes to how to train them. It is often that said that “abs are made in the kitchen” but that’s not entirely true. Your eating habits play a role in wether or not you have visible abs but are…

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7 Best Supplements For Strength and Muscle Gains

In the interest of making strength and muscle gains, supplements are often turned to. You can build muscle and get stronger without taking supplements as long as you have a good diet. But by taking supplements, you will have more control over your nutrient intake and better be able to optimize your results. Supplements also can help balance your hormones, increase your energy, lower stress and catabolic hormones, improve recovery, and increase testosterone. All of these benefits make supplementation…

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Working Out Morning and Night: Twice a Day?

Typically, most people train 5-6 days per week with one 1-2 hour session each day. An alternative is to break up the workouts and have one session in the morning and one session later in the evening. The advantages to a training style like this are volume, having more energy for each training session, and saving time. There are drawbacks as well but as long as this split fits your routine the best, there are not any major reasons…

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Ways To Incorporate Cardio Into Your Routine

When in a caloric deficit, implementing cardio allows you to get away with a higher number of calorie you can consume per day. The problem is, cardio is often difficult and takes time to do. Running on a treadmill and doing jumprope doesn’t provide the same stimulation that lifting weights does. Therefore, cardio is often set aside and not done. The truth is, cardio is great for burning fat and when on a cut it is one of the…

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Longjack Tongkat Ali For Weightlifting

Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma Longifolia) is a plant found commonly in Southeast Asia. Among the locals, tongkat ali, or longjack, is seen as the most powerful herb for medicinal and wellbeing usage. The roots of tongkat ali grow 3-4 feet into the ground and are what is used for consumption. Tongkat ali is an adaptogen, meaning it works to help rebalance hormones and optimize the overall function of the body. This herb has been used for thousands of years to…

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How To Maintain Low Body Fat

As a weightlifter and someone who cares about their physique, the state of being lean and muscular is the ultimate goal. Wether you bulk and cut or simply undergo the feat of trying to simultaneously do both, the end objective is almost always to have low body fat and high amounts of muscle. This is because when you are at a low level of body fat, you look very defined and your muscles are much more visible since there…

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Does Red Light Therapy Increase Testosterone?

Red light therapy, or photobiomodulation, is a very well researched and applicable method of accomplishing a number of things in the body. RLT is categorized as a “complementary medecine” but is speculated by many to hold a place in conventional medicine soon. It’s current uses are mainly for curing disease but as RLT has become more mainstream, it is being found that these kind of near-infrared wavelengths have multiple uses beyond just treating illness. As lifters, we frequently concern…

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