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Adaptations To Sprint Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Trainingl] If you are looking to improve your physical conditioning, sprint training is one of the best ways to go about doing so.

Learning The Muscle Fiber Types
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle, General] One factor that many people overlook when they do all their research about the best type of muscle building strength training program to go on is the various types of muscle tissue and what type of training is best suited to them.

Choosing A Gym - 10 Things To Look Out For
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle, General] Now that you've made the commitment to starting a workout program, the next step is choosing a gym that you will feel comfortable going to on a regular basis. If it isn't, chances are you aren't going to stick with any type of regular plan and will eventually just stop going altogether. By being sure your gym is a good fit for you, you help take yourself one step further to realizing your health and fitness goals.  

Facts On Fiber
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If you are trying to create a healthy diet for yourself, you cannot overlook the importance that fiber will play. The main benefits you’ll receive from dietary fiber include improvement in the cardiovascular and digestive system along with providing a high degree of satiety.  

The Female Athlete Triad: Could You Be At Risk?
[Female Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] One major issue that many women who are getting serious about their workouts start to deal with is known as the female athlete triad. 

How To Look Like A Female Fitness Model
[Female Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Do you pass by the magazine stands in the store and envy the bodies of the cover models? More and more women today are coveting this body type; strong and muscular while still being feminine.  Gone are the days where strong women are seen as too masculine and unattractive.  The female fitness body is here to stay.   

Weight Lifting Rules For Skinny Runts
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] You wake up in the morning and look in the mirror.  Pleased with your appearance? If you more resemble the appearance of a long distance marathon runner than a world class sprinter, don’t worry, you aren't alone. You just need to start following these weight lifting rules. 

Can You Gain Muscle Weight Without Getting Fat?
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There are two common fitness goals - to gain muscle mass and to lose body fat.  Unfortunately, for the most part, the two goals are at opposite ends of the spectrum. 

9 Easy-To-Make Muscle Building Growth Recipes
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Think putting yourself on a muscle building diet has to be a painful process?  Whether your goal is fat loss or muscle building, getting proper nutrition is at least 80% of the game. If you don't have that figured out, you are going to be a long time away from seeing results. 

How To Build Big Biceps - The Complete Guide
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] The “Guns.” The “Pythons.” “Thunder” and “Lighting.” The “Rockweillers.” There is no other muscle group that has earned more nicknames than when describing a bulging and huge set of bicep! Bulging biceps - every guy wants them. Count me in this group.  

How To Get Razor Sharp Abs: Abdominal Exercise Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] If you could sculpt one body part to perfection for next summer, what would it be?  Let me guess – six pack abs!  I don't know anybody who does not want to shrink their waistline, lose body fat, eliminate lower back pain and develop a jaw-dropping set of rock-hard six-pack abs.   Building eye-popping abdominals is not the hardest thing to achieve in the world but it's definitely not the easiest either.  

How To Build Big Biceps - The Complete Guide
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] The “Guns.” The “Pythons.” “Thunder” and “Lighting.” The “Rockweillers.” There is no other muscle group that has earned more nicknames than when describing a bulging and huge set of bicep! Bulging biceps - every guy wants them. Count me in this group.  

How To Get Razor Sharp Abs: Abdominal Exercise Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] If you could sculpt one body part to perfection for next summer, what would it be?  Let me guess – six pack abs!  I don't know anybody who does not want to shrink their waistline, lose body fat, eliminate lower back pain and develop a jaw-dropping set of rock-hard six-pack abs.   Building eye-popping abdominals is not the hardest thing to achieve in the world but it's definitely not the easiest either.  

The Skinny Guy's Guide To Getting A Six-Pack
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] The title of this article is a little ironic, isn't it? Since when did skinny guys have a hard time getting a six-pack? Are not all skinny guys like 2.1% body fat and less than 150 pounds soaking wet? Why in the world would a skinny guy need an article on how to get a six-pack? Isn't that why skinny guys are afraid to bulk up – because they are paranoid about losing their treasured abdominals? I asked the same thing until this question almost earned it's own email account!  

The Skinny Guy's Guide To Gaining Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] How would you like to learn how to gain weight fast?  If the title of this article caught your attention, there is a good chance you are sick and tired of not seeing the weight on the scale budge.   Most likely you just got home from the Mandarin buffet and still can't budge the scale.  You could live on McDonald's and Pizza Delight and your Ferrari style metabolism would simply burn it off.  In a world that is obsessed with losing weight – you are interested in gaining weight!   

The Skinny Guy's Guide To Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If you have ever had the opportunity to go out with a bodybuilder for dinner, you would be familiar with that kind of order delivered to the distressed waitress.  These high-carbohydrate, high-protein, and high-fat diet meals were the popular method for packing on muscle and climbing the scale. “I'll pack on all the weight I can now, then melt off the fat later,” was the common motto.  

The Skinny Guy's Guide To Glutamine
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] When was the last time you read an article discrediting the effects of Glutamine?  Maybe this will be your first one?  Unfortunately, the majority of bodybuilding and muscle magazines still have this supplement on their “Top 5 Lists.”  I am not here to convince you to never buy another tub of Glutamine again, however stay with me and I will do my best to debunk some of the common myths you have been told to spend money on this expensive supplement.  

Defeat Your Skinny Genetics and Own 2009
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] It happens every year. The New Year comes and every scrawny twerp on the planet swears this is going to be the year that he slaps on an extra 20 pounds of muscle. But if you didn't pack it on successfully last year, what makes you think this year is going to be any different? Seriously? 

Top 49 Things I Learned In 2009
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] IronMagazine.com and Bodybuilding.com asked Vince for his top 20 things he learned in 2009...he gave them 49! 

Skinny Guy's Guide To Protein Powder
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] So what do you really need to know about protein powder? After all, as a skinny guy or beginner to the whole bodybuilding scene you simply want to know a few answers. Is protein powder necessary? Does it really work? How much do I need? What kind should I take? What is the best? And finally, will any of these answers make a difference when it comes to getting jacked and attracting the ladies? 

Learn How To Build Muscle In 4 Simple Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Are you sick and tired of everyone telling you a different way to build muscle? Are you unhappy with how you look in the mirror? Are you frusturated with your slow progress in the gym? Are you ready to learn five simple steps that will teach you how to build muscle safely and effectively? 

The Top 3 Unforgivable Bodybuilding Sins
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] If you're a hardgainer or natural bodybuilder, you already know how difficult it is to get sleeve-busting muscles. Learn how to avoid these common unforgivable bodybuilding sins that not even the Pope will excuse! 

No More Excuses: Diet and Nutritional Planning for 2009
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Visualize this. You were just chosen to let world famous Fitness Model, Frank Sepe, shack up in your house while he does some local photo shoots in your area. His taxi is dropping him off at your door step step in 5 minutes! And, did I mention, he'll be relying on your kitchen and food supply... 

How To Get A Six-Pack - The Wrong Way!
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] If you could sculpt one body part to perfection for next summer, what would it be? Let me guess - six pack abs! I don't know anybody who does not want to shrink there waistline, lose body fat, eliminate low back pain and develop a jaw dropping set of rock-hard six-pack. Too bad that your brain has been poisoned with contaiminated information.  

Do You Know How To Gain Muscle Fast?
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Could you teach me how to gain muscle fast? Could you teach me how to pack on an extra ten to fifteen pounds of muscle mass before my next vacation? Could you help me get ready for my first bodybuilding or fitness model competition? Could you help you look like someone who actually lifts weights? Could you help me build a body that turns heads and demands respect?  

How To Get Ripped Fast!
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] To have a world class fitness body, you must be muscular of course, symmetrical and balanced, have a well defined six-pack but most importantly, you must be ripped and shredded to the bone! If you do not know how to get ripped fast than we are about to discuss how weight training, proper nutrition and aerobic exercise will assist in getting a ripped, beach worthy body by next summer.  

Avoid Building Muscle The Wrong Way! Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] How would you feel if you discovered that almost everything you were doing with building muscle was dead wrong? Imagine all the time, money and effort you have spent in the gym was contributing to building muscle – the wrong way! Everything you have read on building muscle has left you with little to show for your hard earned efforts...  

Avoid Building Muscle The Wrong Way! Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] How would you feel if you discovered that almost everything you were doing with building muscle was dead wrong? Imagine all the time, money and effort you have spent in the gym was contributing to building muscle – the wrong way! Everything you have read on building muscle has left you with little to show for your hard earned efforts...

Deadly Bodybuilding Myths You Don't Know Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] There are so many unproven bodybuilding myths that are still around us. Would you believe me if I said you are being scammed out of 90% of the muscle growth you should be getting because you have been mislead and misinformed by one or all of these deadly bodybuilding myths. Here are the first three of six bodybuilding myths that must be dispelled!

Deadly Bodybuilding Myths You Don't Know Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] In part two, you will learn the next three unproven bodybuilding myths that are scamming you out of at least 90% of the muscle growth you should be getting. Stop being mislead and misinformed by one or all of these popular bodybuilding myths.

Choosing The Best Protein Powder
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] There are so many unproven bodybuilding myths that are still around us. Would you believe me if I said you are being scammed out of 90% of the muscle growth you should be getting because you have been mislead and misinformed by one or all of these deadly bodybuilding myths. Here are the first three of six bodybuilding myths that must be dispelled!

How To Build Muscle And Gain Weight Quickly Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle]  If you knew how to build muscle then the skinny jokes would have ended long ago. If you knew how to gain weight quickly then the blank stares would stop when you tell someone you work out with weights. And if you knew how to build muscle and gain weight quickly you would no longer frustrated that the scale has not budged upwards since you first started lifting.

How To Build Muscle And Gain Weight Quickly Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Do you mind if I be frank and ask you a honest question? If you had to transform your body which required you to know how to build muscle and gain weight quickly, and you only had a few weeks, could you step up to the challenge?  

Skinny Guy's Guide To Creatine
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] What is creatine? How do I take creatine? What are the side effects of creatine? What is the best creatine? Unless you just arrived from another planet, you should know that when it comes to muscle building supplements, creatine is the king!  

How To Gain Weight If Under Underweight
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Gaining weight is something most people try not to do. On every corner, in every store, on every magazine cover, and whatever direction you turn, people are obsessed with weight loss.  

The Best Skinny Guy Weight Training Exercises
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Can you imagine you are wasting all your time on the wrong weight training exercises? Can you imagine that every weight training exercise you are doing is dead wrong? Skinny guy's must meet a different set of requirements when choosing the most effective weight training exercises for maximal muscle growth. You do what to transform your skinny body into a rock-hard muscular body, right?  

Weight Training Tips
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Weight training properly is known by few. If it was easy then you would see a lot more muscular and lean physiques on the streets. Before you learn how to weight train properly, it is critical that you learn these five weight training tips before you even step foot in the gym.  

Top 10 Tips To Successful Teen Bodybuilding Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Teen bodybuilding is growing at an alarming rate, as enthusiastic teens hit the gym every night of the week. I don't blame them. Teen bodybuilding is one of the most effective ways to boost a skinny guys self-confidence and self-image. Did I also mention lots of attention and admiration from the ladies and respect from the guys. Teen bodybuilding does not just help out with vanity but promotes a nutritious diet, disciplined lifestyle, and strong work ethic.  

Top 10 Tips To Successful Teen Bodybuilding Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] As discussed in part one, teen bodybuilding can start at a very young age allowing young fitness enthusiasts a whole new world to pursue. Teen bodybuilding is an excellent way to promote a healthy lifestyle since it requires regular weight training, cardiovascular training, balanced nutrition and even stimulation of the mind since the topic of teen bodybuilding involves constant education. Teen bodybuilding can also help you erase nicknames like “Skinny Mini,” “Scrawny,” “Tooth Pick,” “Twiggy,” and in my own personal case, “Skinny Vinny!”  

Six “Little-Known” Muscle Building Tips Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] So you think you know everything about building muscle? If you have read everything, tried everything and heard everything about muscle building but still resemble the silouette of a Calvin Klien model instead of a buff fitness model than I promise these three 'little-known' muscle building tips will accelerate your muscle gains immediately!  

Six “Little-Known” Muscle Building Tips Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle]  So you think you have heard everything there is to know about muscle building? If you have read everything, tried everything and heard everything about muscle building but still resemble the silouette of a Calvin Klien model instead of a buff fitness model than I promise these next three 'little-known' muscle building tips will accelerate your muscle gains immediately!  

How Can One Prevent Overtraining?
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle]  We've all over-trained at least once in our lives, and we've paid for it. Overtraining is a serious problem amongst bodybuilders. Very often a new bodybuilder who thinks "more is better" is a victim of overtraining. It is important for all bodybuilders to beware of the effects of overtraining and how to prevent it.  

Get Big Muscles In 3 Simple Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Do you know what it really takes to build big muscles? Do you think it's as simple as buying a gym membership, training each body once per week, slamming back some protein shakes and trying to eat as much chicken and tuna possible? Viola, you are big enough to enter a bodybuilding contest. Can you imagine it was that easy to build big muscles? Unfortunately, your monthly gym membership, regular weight training workouts and casual eating habits, isn't going to cut it. Here are five simple steps to getting big muscles fast .