by Cade Thomas

We all have our own story as to how we found ourselves addicted to lifting weights. Whether you were always mesmerized by action heros and wanted to look like the stars you saw filling up the screen with muscle (back in the day, of course, as today any real musculature is considered “too much”) or perhaps you simply thought it would help you attract the opposite sex. Some people find themselves grossly out of shape and through the process of losing weight and trying to become a healthier person in general they slowly start to find themselves gravitating towards the muscle building efforts and then it takes over.
Read More »What Motivates You?

by Cade Thomas

The gym can be an intimidating place for newcomers. Let’s face it; A lot of people have the desire to build some muscle and improve their physique long before they muster up the balls to actually join a gym. Men in particular have a hard time admitting they don’t know how to do something that is considered “manly” – it’s evident when you see a guy playing trainer for his girlfriend in the gym and he clearly has no idea what the hell he is doing but figured since he is a man he was born with the knowledge of how to lift weights.
Read More »Why Beginners Don’t Need Training Programs

by Cade Thomas

We are always told that high level Bodybuilding is not about who has the most strengths, but who has the least weaknesses. While this might remain true to a degree in that any glaring lack of a body part will most definitely hinder your ability to place well at the highest ends of the sport, there is an amount of dissonance between what we have seen and what we are told. Fact is most Olympia winners and top 3 finishers over the years have had a set of ridiculous body parts that stand out in comparison to their physiques (it should be noted that they also had very few weak points). My point being; having glaring weaknesses is not okay, BUT neglecting a strong body part in preference to try to bring your lagging features up might not be the smartest route if you are looking to turn heads.
Read More »Embrace Your Strong Points

by Cade Thomas

Building significant amounts of muscle is a selfish endeavor no matter how you slice it, and there are certain sacrifices that must be made on a social and financial level if progress is something you value. Genetics are always a factor that can either afford you a certain leeway to live a little or shackle you to a micro managed existence, and most of us fall somewhere nearing the second one.
Read More »Suffering and Succeeding are Not the Same Thing

by Cade Thomas

For 99% of the people who are crazy enough to devote themselves to it, bodybuilding is hard. Even if you do everything correctly every day, it can be years before you see the type of improvements that your brain might trick you into believe should come in mere months. While lack of satisfaction might be a very potent tool towards progression, it can also be the largest road block you will encounter when it comes to advancing your physique.
Read More »3 Ways to Avoid Setbacks

by Cade Thomas

Let us just get one thing out of the way – this article will be laden with thoughts of mine that some of you will label “bro-science”. You could say that not only is there going to be bro-science lathered on top of this page, but it will be baked right into the core. Now, if that troubles you in some shape or form because you feel that something must include a laundry list of references for it to be considered valid or useful, please proceed to shelter your eyes now and prevent this dreadful sacrilege from entering your brain.
Read More »Bodybuilders Intuition – “Listening to Your Body”

by Blane Morton

Everyone involved in bodybuilding, but sports in general has been told since their first day in the weight room that they key to building muscle is to literally eat as much as you can swallow or afford, whichever comes first. The gold standard in protein to build lean muscle mass has always been 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight you carry. Bodybuilders like Kai Greene are notorious for eating upwards of 1000g of protein per day or 3 times his bodyweight. Many nutritionists will tell you this is excess, so can you overdose on your protein intake?
Read More »Can You Protein Overdose?

by Geoff Roberts

I have discussed numerous illogical misconceptions and ridiculous assumptions in the past. The public’s obsession with calories, people who hate food claiming to have fast metabolisms, and the assumption that bodybuilders are stupid, all come to mind. One of our industry’s largest mysteries is the nonsensical fear of getting too huge and/or getting “bulky”.
Read More »The Lamest Excuse In All of Fitness

by Taylor Normandeau

Yesterday, Damnit…That’s when we want to achieve our goals. Actually screw that, yesterday is too far in the future. Bodybuilders want to be huge months ago. YEARS ago. In fact most of us harbour some level of resentment towards our parents for not taking part in an experimental fetus doping project so that we were born ripped. Since the prospect of time travel seems rather distant and suing our parents wouldn’t solve our problems, we must approach our goals in the smartest way possible knowing that our future self is going to want to punch our current self in the throat if we waste any more time.
Read More »Growth Stages for Dummies

by Geoff Roberts

In bodybuilding, genetics are king. Simple as that. At some point in every bodybuilder’s career, they will inevitably come to realize this fact to be true, beyond any shadow of a doubt. This realization can come with grief, in the form of a bodybuilder with poor genetics, or with joy, in the form of a bodybuilder who now realizes how lucky he really is. If you were to ask a bodybuilding fan why genetics are so important in bodybuilding, they would probably give reasons related to either the athlete’s ability to burn fat, build muscle, or more likely than not, both.
Read More »The Understated Effects of Mental Genetics