Archive for July, 2009

If you are pump­ing MASSIVE amounts of ana­bolic steroids into your veins to ARTIFICIALLY increase testos­terone lev­els, then stop reading!

How­ever, if you are a drug-free trainee, what you DO need is every sin­gle secret that will pro­vide the level of sup­port nec­es­sary to opti­mize T-levels safely and naturally!

There are too many tips and tricks to dis­cuss here, but I would like to share a few of the most com­mon tricks to keep your T-levels ele­vated and not dropped to that of the guys in the ‘arts and crafts’ club!

Train­ing too long, lack­ing true inten­sity, not tar­get­ing your legs, high stress lev­els, not enough monoun­sat­u­rated fats and train­ing at the wrong time of day, amongst many other pit­falls, can lead T-levels to drop so low that ‘Cap­tain Willy’ will go on per­ma­nent vacation.

Sup­ple­ments will NOT stim­u­late mus­cle growth – exer­cise will.

Assum­ing your train­ing, nutri­tion, lifestyle and sleep habits are oper­at­ing on the opti­mal end of the spec­trum, intro­duc­ing sup­ple­ments will MAYBE, AT BEST, make a 5–10% dif­fer­ence. You will be more suc­cess­ful tak­ing your fit­ness to the next level by work­ing on your train­ing, nutri­tion and sleep first. It will also be eas­ier on your wal­let! Pow­ders are noth­ing more than crushed up food and loaded with arti­fi­cial fla­vor­ing and lots of chem­i­cals to pre­serve their shelf life. Shakes are cer­tainly con­ve­nient and may assist you in reach­ing your goal calo­ries, but do not ever kid your­self that they will have the same ana­bolic effect as food.

Dump­ing chem­i­cals, arti­fi­cial col­ors, fla­vor­ing, sug­ars, sweet­en­ers and preser­v­a­tives into your body basi­cally turns it into a toxic waste dump! And did you know that this toxic waste loves to attach itself to your fat stores, mak­ing it even harder to get rid of body fat? And can you imag­ine how much harder it will be to build mas­sive mus­cle in a toxic envi­ron­ment? What goes in must come out! Put garbage in and garbage will come out in the form of decreased energy, slow recov­ery, poor appetite, poor sleep and poor atti­tude – all ele­ments crit­i­cal for mus­cle building.

When was the last time an ath­lete won, or a medal was won, or a team won on pills, pow­ders and shakes? Never!