Coffee Takes off the Muscle Weariness

Australian scientists believe that coffee helps restore muscles after physical activity. The scientists conducted an experiment on professional cyclists and discovered a complex mechanism which restores the muscles much faster due to the coffee effect. The results of the study apply to other sports as well, particularly to bodybuilding.

Training and Alcohol

For the sake of a beautiful body people quit smoking, then change their diet and sleep more, and furthermore buy fancy bottles with sport additives. They go through all those efforts to make their body attractive. For the sake of beauty they have to change their lifestyle, but while staying away from cakes may be [...]

Viagra Classified as Performance Enhancing Drug

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) proposed to enter Viagra in the stimulant list. Specialists from the agency believe, that the substance sildenafil, presented in Viagra, enhances the blood flow not only to the man’s genitals, but to his muscles as well.

Types of Push-ups

This exercise has a couple of complexity levels. Let’s introduce a five-point scale for push-ups; 1 will mean low complexity level, 5- very high level. But keep in mind, that this scale considers only the complexity of different exercises. Complexity is not synonymous to effectiveness. A highly complex exercise can be useless, or vice-versa. The [...]

Push-ups: the Techniques

You have probably heard about Paddy Doyle – he is currently a respected world champion in full push-ups. He has a wide history of records. Once, he did 4100 push-ups with a 23 kg box tied on his back. A few years back he did 7860 push-ups at some pub. His one-hour record is 1700 [...]

Sleep and Bodybuilding

Sleep is one of the most valuable factors in bodybuilding. Overtraining is simply a lack of rest, said Joe Weider long time ago before we were even born. Rest, sleep in particular, is essential for successful muscle building. While you are sleeping the cortisol level stabilizes and the growth hormone level increases. Under sleep deprivation [...]

Vibration Platform to Build More Muscles

You all have seen those vibration platforms in the gyms, but have probably never used them. Bodybuilders normally spend enough time working out to build different muscle groups. You also plan your day, eat a balanced diet rich in all necessary nutrients and have enough rest to build a really muscular body. But did you [...]

Energy Drinks in Bodybuilding

Sport drinks get more and more popular those days. The market is filled with different drinks of this kind, while each manufacturer announces his product to be the best one out there. It does not matter what brand you prefer to drink, what matters is how you drink it. Energy drinks are designed for people [...]

Myths about Female Bodybuilding

Many women believe in fallacies about gym workouts, such as the following one: once a woman starts doing some weight lifting, she immediately turns into a competition standard bodybuilder. Such image scares the females away from the gyms long before they get a chance to experience the beauty of those trainings. Before you decide to [...]

How to Impress a Woman

No matter if you’d like to make a positive first impression on a woman, or to seduce her on your first date, or just to do something pleasant for you girlfriend, you need to know, what to do. Here’s a list of things every woman would like you to do. Depending on the situation and [...]

Steroid Injections

Proper handling of the manipulations related to the injection of anabolic steroids is an important aspect of a successful and effective utilization of those substances. Highly important points, which should be firmly learned, are: correctly selected injection spot, proper syringe, preparation of the substance, and, surely, following the rules of hygiene.

Milk: Pros and Cons for Bodybuilders

Among all the popular foods milk plays its own, important role. Literally it can be called food known since infancy. One starts drinking milk not even from their first days of life, but starting with the first hours, and, as a rule, goes on drinking it during entire life. For those, who have an active [...]