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This past spring, I took park in BodyBuilding.com’s 2011 Transformation Challenge. I began my transformation on January 30, 2011, where I took and posted my “Before” pictures. These, I must say, were quite depressing to say the least. However, the most definitely fueled my motivate for the 12 week challenge. My final day of the challenge, where I posted my “After’ pictures was April 23, [...]
Written by Ryan Huber on July 17, 2011 ·
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Many people struggle to gain muscle mass fast. It’s true. Don’t think you’re alone. You may spend a lot of the time at the gym, thinking you’re doing everything that you can possibly do in order to gain muscle mass fast, but after time goes by, nothing. Perhaps you look in the mirror and you see nothing has hardly changed, look at an “before” picture of yourself and looks like you could [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on February 25, 2011 ·
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Last spring (2010), right before the start of this blog, I started using the AthleanX Training System by Jeff Caveliere. I created this blog or website if you will to review the Athlean X Training System and share my opinion on the program, along with other useful information I’d learned through various sources. Since I had so much fun doing so, I decided to start testing out other programs as [...]
Written by Ryan Huber on February 22, 2011 ·
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Below are my before, during and after pictures of my 21 Day Fast Mass Building program challenge! I’m very pleased with my results so far. I completed the 21 Day Fitness Model workout routine and gained 7.2lbs of muscle! I didn’t quite follow the diet as Vince and Lee suggested. Instead I kept my calorie intake the same throughout the 3 weeks. This was probably not a good idea, I may have [...]
Written by Ryan Huber on February 21, 2011 ·
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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.
The days are far from gone when you walk into the gym and see 9 out of 10 guys doing bicep curls all at the same [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on February 19, 2011 ·
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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?
There is a good chance that you are not maximizing one of these four steps. Your problem and solution lies [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 22, 2011 ·
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Almost everyone wants to lose some excess fat on their body somewhere. For the vast majority, they’re looking to lose belly fat and they want to lose belly fat fast! Whether you want to admit it or not, most of us spend far too many months of the year overeating and then scramble at the first sign of warm weather in order to remove what’s accumulated over the time. Unfortunately, if you’re [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 16, 2011 ·
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Almost anyone that’s picked up a set of weights has or will experience symptoms of over-training at one point in there muscle building program. Over-training can lead to serious injury, chronic fatigue, and even muscle loss.
Over-training is very common amongst athletes and particularly bodybuilders, since they figure that training as much as possible is the fastest way to massive muscle gains.
This [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 15, 2011 ·
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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!
4. Never Train More Than [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 14, 2011 ·
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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?
Without [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 14, 2011 ·
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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!
1. Body Weight Training
This was once a popular muscle [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 13, 2011 ·
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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…
The question is this. Is your kitchen prepared for your guest? Will he look inside your fridge and [...]
Written by Ryan Huber on January 12, 2011 ·
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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 [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 12, 2011 ·
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This morning, January 11th, Vince Del Monte’s 21 Day Fast Mass Building program was released. First off, I love to try new workout programs because not only is it something new to try, but I always learn more techniques and exercises. Plus, I get to write about them on my blog, which I hope you all enjoy.
Since it was released this morning, I have not had my chance to complete this program, [...]
Written by Ryan Huber on January 11, 2011 ·
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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!
To date, creatine has proven to be the most research-proven sport supplement on the market to day. Creatine has collected hundreds of clinical studies that [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 10, 2011 ·
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Bulking up and eating like crazy, to pack on serious mass, is one of the most controversial topics in bodybuilding today…
Some people say bulking is a thing of the past… others say it’s a necessary evil for serious gains, and insanely effective way to pack on serious mass. (Including us… well… until a few months ago.)
Considering Lee has been a competitive bodybuilder for 15 years and [...]
Written by Vince DelMonte on January 9, 2011 ·