What Is Cortisol?

Cortisol is a steroid hormone that is actually very dangerous for aspiring bodybuilders and gym jocks… it can really fuck with your muscle building goals if not addressed properly. In fact, cortisol is termed catabolic as it has the opposite effect to testosterone, insulin and growth hormone in that IT BREAKS DOWN MUSCLE TISSUE! Cortisol, which is naturally released by the adrenal glands under conditions of high mental and physical [...]

 

Fitness & Muscle Building Advice for Hard Gainers

Hard gainers are those individuals who train equally hard as other people but somehow fail to make any muscle gains comparable to others. To achieve the big muscle results they seek, hard gainers usually need a lot more than hard training. Hard gainers need to incorporate many different principles in order to achieve their muscle building ambitions and goals. Many bodybuilders get to discover this through the hard way of [...]

 

What is Muscle Dysmorphia?

Muscle dysmporhia (commonly misspelled muscle dismorphia) is a disorder that is characterized by the individual becoming obsessed with the thoughts that he/she is not muscular enough. Those that suffer from muscle dysmorphia will usually think that they are too small even if they are more than the average when it comes to development in musculature. To put it simple, this is a special type of dysmorphic disorder and will bring [...]

 

TV Ads With Muscular Actors Make Men Depressed

Television images of muscular men lifting weights and endorsing products like deodorants leave men feeling depressed and unhappy with their muscularity, which may lead to steroid abuse and unhealthy, extreme exercising, University of Central Florida researchers say. While a number of studies have shown how images of thin, beautiful models affect women’s self-esteem, UCF professor Stacey Tantleff-Dunn and graduate student Daniel Agliata are among the first to examine how “a [...]

 

Why Is Drinking Alcohol Bad For Bodybuilders & Gym Jocks?

Most aspiring muscle guys who lift weights want to be huge… But if you want to be the most ripped, muscular guy you can be, it is not going to happen if you get drunk even once/week. While a couple social drinks can actually be healthy, getting completely trashed can knock down your testosterone levels for 3-5 days. Testosterone builds muscle. The more testosterone you have, the bigger and leaner [...]

 

Can You Spot the Early Signs of Gyno?

Wearing nothing but a shiny red silk mens bikini, this super-tan sexy college muscle man shows off the goods via his bedroom webcam for an Internet admirer. But while he may be lean and ripped, we see a bad case of bitch tits (a.k.a. gyno) caused by roid juicing… sorry, we just had to point that out. We’re only trying to help the steroid users out there to better spot [...]

 

New Pill to Replace Many Anabolic Steroids

Scientists have finally come up with a pill that tricks your body into thinking it just exercised so you can develop strength, speed, muscle mass, endurance, hardness and more. Many anabolic steroids are, of course, based on increasing testosterone levels; however, this new pill increases muscle mass via tricking the muscle into believing it just had a workout. It rebuilds the ‘lost’ muscle tissue, aka increasing muscle size, even without [...]

 

California Bans Trans Fat

California has now become the first state in the US to entirely ban food retailers and restaurants from using trans-fat. Some cities, like New York City and Philadelphia have already banned trans fats. Trans-fats are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils that are used to extend the shelf life of products and can turn oily foods into semi-solid foods. They’re used for frying and usually put into cakes, pastries, hot chocolate drink [...]