1st Phorm

If I would like to understand more about muscle and how exercise training effects it, what are the key things I should understand?
I guess you could call this Q/A a lecture titled “Muscle Physiology and Strength Research 101”. I must warn you that you are flirting with dangerous territory asking a muscle geek to [...]

Congrats for getting back into it. This is really a common occurrence, and unfortunately not a very clear cut answer. Studies have shown that strength is able to be sustained for quite some time after not training (1), but growth and endurance are lost more quickly. Unfortunately, I don’t have many magical things to say. [...]

Question: I’m about to celebrate my 40th birthday and I have to be honest with you—when I look in the mirror I cannot believe what has happened to my body! My derriere is droopy, the back of my arms jiggles when I wave and after having 2 children, my stomach is saggy and “poochie”. [...]

Weekly shoulder training is essential for a competitive bodybuilder. Early in my competitive career, I attacked shoulders with a vengeance every time I trained them. As I progressed, I got away from training them as I should, knowing that my chest workouts were working my delts as well. But let me tell [...]

“I have been underweight my entire life and no matter what I eat I never gain a pound. I eat A LOT and can’t seem to put on anything! I’m sick of being the skinny guy.”
Sound familiar? Well, if you’re one of the people out there who has never been able to gain any weight, [...]

I have noticed this trend myself. It seems like colon cleansing is a hot topic in weight loss lately. I have even seen that many weight loss brands have gotten on board with this trend and promote a “kick start” to your weight loss program by starting with a 7 day or even [...]

I’m now three weeks into my contest prep for the IFBB North Americans in Cleveland, Ohio on September 3rd and 4th. As I have mentioned previously, this year I decided to go back to good friend of mine, Ronnie, who I worked with from 2001-2005. After a few years of doing my own diet [...]

This is a fairly straightforward answer now, thanks to decades of research and likely millions of dollars in research money. Before I dive into it, though, I’m going to provide a little additional background over amino acids and proteins as a whole. Amino acids are for the most part the bricks that when added together [...]

There is no way to know for sure if “time-released” proteins are better than “regular” proteins because “time-released” proteins don’t exist. “Time-released” proteins fads that were popular in the late 90’s that have recently been making a comeback in popularity on chat forums. Notice I said a “fad”.
There was a time when many companies put [...]

This certainly is a relevant question and one that all of us at some point or another would have liked to have known a little more information about. I know when I first started looking at protein supplements; I was blown away by all of the different types of protein that was available. [...]