Strength Training and Metabolism

Both strength training and endurance exercise will increase your energy expenditure at the time of activity, and for a few hours afterwards, when they are conducted at the same intensity (you all have experienced that increase in hunger after a good workout, whether it be strength or cardio work).

However, strength training is unique in that if you perform multiple sets of a challenging weight to failure, scientists have shown that the energy expended afterwards, known as EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) can be elevated for 24-36 hours. Some people call this the “Afterburn” effect of serious strength training.

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Why Living Foods Offer Protection Against Socialized Medicine

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How to use living foods to protect yourself from the problems that will arise from socialized medicine (should it continue to grow in America). Once upon a time, I worked for a company that offered its employees 3 levels of health insurance to choose from: The first level, an HMO, offered total and complete 100% health care cost coverage, for even small things. It covered up to a million (or 2) bucks a year (or something like that) for major catastrophic illness. In other words, no co-pay for office visits – ever. But you had to do EVERYTHING within the HMO facility – there were no choices about how things were done or treatment options available. Read more…

The Most Effective Diet Changes You Can Make

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There are hundreds of different nutrition tips available to us on the internet. Whether we are trying to lose 50 pounds or 5 pounds, there is an answer to every problem. However, often times, the results we want to attain are not the results we get. There could be several reasons behind this dilemma; however, one of the most vital of these reasons is poor nutrition. In this article I will reveal some of the most effective diet changes you can make. Read more…

Healthy Weight Kids

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Many parents wonder whether their children are the right weight or not, and this can often be a main concern. Everybody wants to have a healthy child; the only problem is that there are some misconceptions when it comes to healthy weight and kids. Read more…

UPDATE: My Road to 15,000 Visits – We Did It!

In my last post about my traffic-getting goal, My Road to 15,000 Visits – Revisited, I talked about not making the goal in December, how I was going to take a breath in January and pursue the goal again in February. I also spoke about raising the bar and stretching to reach your goals.

Well, I relaxed and guess what happened? 16,502 visits in January, a nifty 20 percent increase over December!

Cool. I couldn't have done it without you.

All told, I got just over 20,000 visits in January to Muscle-Build.com and this blog, combined. That's really good. In fact, it's awesome. I never thought I'd get a small city to visit my site in one month!

I haven't even added in the traffic from the User Forum, either. I'd like that traffic to go up substantially, as I poured a lot of effort into setting it up. And I set it up because you, the reader, asked for it. Now, get out there and use it.

Please

What should I shoot for next? Let me know in the Comments.