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Try a New Abs Exercise

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How to Grow Taller Naturally – The Proper Nutrition to Grow Taller

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Growing taller is considered to be an age bound thing. But these days scholars and anatomy researchers have proved to all of us that increasing the height can be down at any age provided you follow some strict rules and activities along with the perfect supply of nutrition to your body. Read more…

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Supplement Scams

Supplement Scam Alert! Read here about supplement scams the food supplement industry does not want you to know about (because if you did, they’d go broke and you’d make some gains!).

Think about it for a minute: If all those nutritional supplements worked, then why don’t we all look like [insert hottest body on the planet right now – examples might be Dexter Jackson, Brad Pitt, or Megan Fox]?

Why don’t food supplements work? Here’s a key question in seeking out that answer: How could the supplement industry stay in business if they did?

Here’s the lowdown on the supplement scams the food companies run on you every time you open up a fitness-, health-, or muscle-building magazine.

Did you know that all the fitness-related magazines were either controlled, owned, or heavily influenced by the supplement industry? Look it up. Advertising is big business and there’s no bigger business in the health-related magazine industry than food supplements.

Muscle&Fitness sells nothing but supplement ads, many of which are promoting Joe Weider’s own supplement line. Here’s an excerpt from an ad in the July 2009 edition of Flex Magazine (another Weider publication):

New Super-Molecule is 2,000 Times More Potent Than Anything You’ve Ever Taken!

Is that hyperbole? Yes, absolutely. Does it sell? YES! ABSOLUTELY!!

You’re not in this game to get 5 -10 percent gains. You want 2,000 percent gains!

SUPPLEMENT SCAM #1: If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.

Choking down a pill or mixing up a powder is far easier than hitting the gym, running up stairs, and eating healthy food. That’s why people take supplements, for the most part. It’s for the magic elixir, the instant gratification.

Don’t get me wrong: Some supplements DO work. But they aren’t miracle workers. None of them will do what anabolic steroids do, either. Some claim to have “anabolic effect.” But so does steak and eggs, heavy weight training, and steroids.

The supplement companies have a vested interest in keeping you from reaching your peak. Think about it: If you “became” Ronnie Coleman by taking Supplement X, then, when you got there, wouldn’t you stop?

If a drug cured you of cancer, you surely would stop taking it once your cancer was in remission.

If you got to your goal weight of 330 pounds of rock-solid monster muscle, would you keep taking your weight-gain powder?

If you lost 100 pounds and looked the best you ever looked, would losing 120 pounds make you happier? You’d have to keep taking the supplement forever and, soon, you’d be dead, weighing a whopping 37 pounds!

So, supplements have to give the appearance of working, yet they simply cannot deliver on their promise, or else they’d go out of business. Hence, the supplement scams!

In the latest edition of Flex, page 38 had the first “editorial content.” Guess what was on the first 37 pages? Supplement advertisements. I’m not kidding.

SUPPLEMENT SCAM #2: If you have to “sell it” that strong, it’s probably too good to be true!

Here’s another trick the supplement industry uses to sell their “goods” (we should call them “bads” in this case): They take a bodybuilder, have him “bulk up” (i.e., get fat), then have him take their supplement while he works his arse off in the gym and eats like a concentration camp victim.

“Miraculously,” the dude trims down, loses 10 percent body fat and gains 10 pounds of muscle, all in “less than 28 days!”

What a crock! First, they took somebody who had already “been there,” and took him “back there.” That’s too easy. Give me ANY pro-caliber athlete and in 3 months’ time, I can have him looking like he used to look. It’s simple.

Arthur Jones did this 40 years ago with his Nautilus training machines. He took a young Casey Viator who had been in a car accident, after having been crowned the youngest Mr America ever, and “transformed” him using the Nautilus method (high intensity, single sets per body part, isolation exercises, training to failure, etc.).

Casey could start training today and get back to 80 percent of his best shape in 3 months!

SUPPLEMENT SCAM #3: Beware the “Before-After” photo scam.

The supplement guys also strategically place “testimonials” next to the “Before-After” photos (or outright lie about it) to imply that THOSE models gave the glowing review.

Also beware the “phony review,” where an internet marketer is selling supplements by giving an “objective review” of a product. Most likely, he’s getting paid for any sales of the product made through his page. It’s called “affiliate marketing” and the FCC is about to crack down on this practice.

(By the way, I do the same thing here on these pages, but I only sell what I take myself and I only take what works.)

Another thing you may not be aware of: Nutritional supplements are not regulated or tested by any government entity. Manufacturers can claim nearly anything. Further, they can put just about ANYTHING in their products!

Did you know that? Here’s a line for a product called “EPONOX.”

NEW EPO Blood Building Technology for Extreme Muscle Growth

Does that sound a little scary to you? It certainly does to me! Basically, if this stuff does what it says it does (which it probably doesn’t), you will be manipulating your body to build more red blood cells than it would naturally manufacture. Athletes call this “blood doping.” Lance Armstrong, 7-time Tour de France winner, was accused of blood doping through use of drugs that boosted EPO output.

(My take, by the way: He did use drugs, but only while in cancer treatment, but not while competing. I have no proof of this, other than the fact that he never failed a drug test while competing, and he was placed under far more scrutiny than any of his competitors.)

Not only are the proposed benefits of such blood-boosting dubious, they can be harmful! Imagine more blood coursing through your veins. Your blood pressure will rise, more stress will be placed on your heart pumping all that blood around. Remember, you cannot compress a fluid, so what happens is, if taken to extremes, your blood vessel walls get thinner. Not a good thing!

However, it’s highly doubtful that this supplement delivers on its “promise.” But if it did, I’d run away from this supplement. Nothing long-term-good can come of it.

Finally, a word on ephedrine. Lots of “fat burners” have used this chemical compound, or a derivative, for years. A handful of people have died while taking supplements containing ephedrine. The FDA finally pulled it off the shelves. It’s now a banned substance.

While I’m skeptical that the root cause of these deaths was due to ephedrine, I remain unconvinced that you cannot get similar results with — get this — HARD WORK.

I know, it’s tough to get all excited about working in the gym and eating well. But it remains the best long-term method for building the body you want. It works. And it won’t kill you.

Some of the stuff they put in food supplements is downright scary. Putting untested ingredients is not only part of the supplement scam, but it ought to be a crime.

As I alluded to before, there are supplements that work. You can find them here (it’s a really short read).

You don’t need fancy “blends” or “optimized” proportions. You certainly don’t need the multi-color, multi-page “Special Advertisements” hawking such hyperbole.

And you certainly don’t need the outrageous prices.

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Testosterone Booster – Simple Yet Effective Method

Here’s a simple yet effective testosterone booster –

Your body’s anabolic hormones are constantly shifting throughout the day, rising and falling.

At night, your testosterone levels soar and this is your body’s prime time to build muscle.

But when you wake up, testosterone levels take a sharp nosedive and the leftover “free testosterone” (the most usable form) goes unused by your muscles and your body’s catabolic (muscle-wasting) hormones take over.

But here’s how to overcome this challenge and shotgun more free testosterone to your muscles before it waves goodbye…

First thing in the morning…like as soon as your feet hit the floor…consume a “high glycemic” meal with more “sugary” carbs, high quality protein, and no fat! (A good example would be a banana, bowl of breakfast cereal, and whey protein isolate mixed with non-fat milk.)

This specific combination of nutrients will create a short-term spike of insulin that will act as a fast transport for your remaining “free testosterone” and shoot it directly into your muscle cells to stop catabolic muscle loss and trigger insane new growth!

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The Best Exercises

Learn Amazing New Exercises and How You Can Use Them To Squeeze More Results Out of Every Single Rep You Do!

What happens when you work your body with the same exercises or routines day in and day out? Have you tried varying your exercises but just aren’t getting anywhere?

You can change all that in a heartbeat with “The Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of.” This groundbreaking eBook contains 53 of the most effective, innovative exercises in existence. They work and they work FAST!

Inside you’ll learn:

• How you could be BENCHING 30 to 50 POUNDS MORE in a matter of weeks. Discover the secret exercise that shatters bench press plateaus.
• The way to create stunning washboard abs in record time with an exercise that can double and even TRIPLE the tension on your midsection.
• How you can exercise ANYWHERE and still get great results. Learn simple exercises you can do at home with a minimum of equipment that put expensive health club machines to shame.
• A revolutionary new exercise that will literally FORCE stubborn calves to grow. This exercise works the calves through their ENTIRE anatomical range of motion in one movement for maximum results.
• How to rehab or prevent Rotator Cuff injuries with an exercise that combines 3 different strengthening movements into one timesaving exercise. It can even help boost your bench press!
• How you can dramatically improve your performance in every sport you do. Add distance to your golf drives, speed to your throws, and power to your hockey slapshot or tennis serve. Unique core-training exercises will help you develop rock-solid abdominals and astonishing midsection power.
• Much more!!

There is nothing as frustrating as spending endless hours in the gym and coming away with little to no results for all your hard work. “The Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of” can help you get far more results without any more effort than you’re putting in right now.

The information in this eBook is clear, detailed and extremely useful. The book is packed with more than 200 full-color pictures and videos. There are tricks and tips for making the exercises even more effective, as well as examples of common errors to make sure you’re doing every single exercise correctly and efficiently.

I highly recommend this book as a valuable tool for your training success.