2009 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards
July 3, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
Filed under Featured, Supplements
Get Your Votes Ready – It’s the 2009 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Award Season
Boise, ID – July 1, 2009 – Bodybuilding.com, the world leader in on-line sports nutrition, is gearing up for their fifth annual action-packed Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards season. The Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards are the industry standard for recognition of the best products and brands in the fitness and supplement industry. “This award allows the customer to vote on which supplements they think are the highest quality and most effective in helping them achieve their shape and fitness goals,” says Ryan DeLuca, CEO of Bodybuilding.com.
All Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards nominations are based on the top-selling products in select categories. When customers purchased a product from Bodybuilding.com this past year, they voted (with their wallet) for that product’s nomination.
This year’s nominees were announced July 1, 2009 at Bodybuilding.com, and the voting has officially begun! The 2009 categories are as follows:
-Brand of the Year
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-Supplement of the Year
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-Weight Gainer of the Year
-Glutamine Supplement of the Year
-Creatine Supplement of the Year
-Nitric Oxide Supplement of the Year
-Energy Supplement of the Year
-Fat Loss Supplement of the Year
-Joint Health Supplement of the Year
-Multivitamin of the Year
-RTD of the Year
-Energy Drink of the Year*
-Pre-Workout Supplement of the Year*
-Intra-Workout Supplement of the Year*
-Recovery Supplement of the Year*
-Tanning Product of the Year
-Labels of the Year
-Ad Campaign of the Year
(*new category in 2009)
Since customers’ opinions are what truly count, Bodybuilding.com lets the general public provide 100% of the final vote during an advertised online voting period. With over 200,000 votes pouring in last year, this continues to be an event people look forward to participating in. Voters are automatically entered to win $500 in free supplements from Bodybuilding.com, and immediately receive a 5% discount for use toward their next purchase through the end of September. The official 2009 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards Winners will be revealed to the public September 26, 2009 at Joe Weider?s Olympia Expo.
The Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards give winning companies a way to differentiate themselves from their rivals by proudly displaying the Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards seal in their ad campaigns and on their websites. Most importantly, the awards provide an innovative way to help customers find truly exceptional products and brands, while helping to recognize the efforts of the many great companies that make up the fitness industry.
For more information visit: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/supplementawardpage.htm
Bodybuilding.com offers more than 8,500 health and fitness supplements & accessories to help people achieve their fitness goals. They offer more than 25,000 pages of FREE bodybuilding & fitness information, including more than 12,000 articles (written by 525+ writers), video & audio segments, and new content added daily.
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Remember – Vitamins and Minerals Needed!
February 10, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
Filed under Featured, Supplements
In addition to adequate protein and complex carbohydrate intake (in conjunction with very small amounts of fat, and simple sugars), vitamins and minerals are essential elements for a healthy physique. In fact, if you do not get an adequate vitamin and mineral intake, your muscle-building program will come to a screeching halt. You need the full amount of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of each nutrient as a minimum. Nutritionists quarrel over whether or not the average diet is adequate to provide sufficient amounts of vitamins and minerals for the body. Some argue that the pollution and stress in our society calls for an increased need in vitamin and mineral supplementation.
Of course it is always better to get your food from the most natural food sources, but not everyone gets enough variety in the diet to cover all of his/her nutritional needs. The safest approach is to take a one-a-day vitamin and mineral supplement that covers all of the bases. Make certain that you get a one-a-day supplement that contains all of the vitamins and minerals considered necessary for the human body to function at optimal levels.
A couple of areas to watch out for – some supplements don’t contain 100 percent of the RDA of the vitamin biotin. Others omit the essential trace element chromium. Choose a vitamin/mineral supplement that has everything! You are in a growth state and need more of the nutritional elements than the sedentary person whom the study for the RDA was performed on. One caution – don’t go much beyond the RDA for fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) because overdoses of these can be toxic. So be careful with the fat-soluble vitamins.
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February 8, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
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Hope that helps, next post I hope to be listing the top selling supplements of all time.
8 Tips on How to Add More Muscle Faster
February 4, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
Filed under Featured, Workout Tips
Body building is a hobby, it is a way of life and it is also an art for some people. Body building, when first starting out can be a difficult task to complete, and results can be hard to come by if you do not know how to work out properly. Plenty of people change their workout regimen as the seasons change; moving from fat loss to muscle building, since no one has to worry about what they look like in a bathing suit during the winter season.
Here we will offer you eight helpful tips for adding more muscle to your body.
1) If you choose a plan and begin working out with this new plan, stick with it.
Do not give up on your plan if you don’t see results within one to three weeks. It takes a while to begin losing weight or to add more muscle to your body. Not everyone’s body responds to working out as quickly as others. Before you decide to switch to another plan, give your current one four to six weeks before you evaluate your process.
2) Add dry oats to your shake.
Most experts recommend that you add ¼ cup of oats to your daily shake routine. These oats help you calorie intake, which you can then turn into muscle when working out.
3) Stay away from the gym more than you usually would.
Give your muscles time to relax and to grow stronger. If you spend more time in the gym you will actually become weaker over time because you aren’t letting your muscles relax after workouts.
4) Get rid of as much stress in your life as possible.
Stress is a major factor against muscle building because stress releases hormones that break down muscles instead of build them up.
5) Find a mentor.
A mentor will help you motivate yourself when working out but can also lend a helping hand when it comes to guiding you in your workouts and showing what is proper and improper when lifting weights.
6) Make sure you know what those supplements are doing to your body.
If you are taking supplements with your diet and weight lifting plan, make sure you know what those supplements are doing to your body. Don’t just listen to what everyone in the gym is saying about the supplements they are taking. Make sure you research different supplements before purchasing them and taking them. Each different supplement can do something different for your body.
7) Reduce the number of isolation exercises that you perform when lifting weights.
There is no need to continue 12 sets of three different workouts for your arms when working with a mass body building program. Experts recommend that you spend more time focusing on the core workout and performing exercises that will release more testosterone.
The final tip for adding more muscle when body building is to eat more healthy fat.
Do not eliminate fat completely from your diet because it helps to keep testosterone levels at a healthy level, which helps when building muscle.
Building Mass With Basic Movements
February 4, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
Filed under Featured, Workout Tips
It is very important to stay focused on the basic movements for putting on muscle mass. The intricate and specific movements can come later after you have gained some muscle size. A focus on these types of exercises may even hinder your effort to get larger if you use them instead of the basics. The basics build body mass. Basic, heavy training is how you will push your physique to the edge where it will get larger.
The basic movements are the key to giving your physique the size that you want. Finish work can come later. Don’t make the mistake of placing an emphasis on the finer details of training before it is time. If you have found that you have made this mistake, go back and spend some time focused on the basic mass-building movements. If you want size, go with big basic exercise work. This would include the squat, deadlift, bench press, dips, rowing, and curl, all performed with heavy weights and in an intense fashion.
Big Steve Cepello (he used Steve “Strong” as a stage name) got up to 310 pounds of muscle mass (at 6′4″). He credits heavy basic movements with giving him awesome size. Steve says that he used a lot of power training when he was building his body. “Had I not gone I through those stages, I could have never kept the size that I have now. You see a lot of guys look great from the front and back, but from the side they look like a piece of paper. They’ve built no depth into the muscle, which is the stuff you get from heavy bent-over rows and heavy benches. The old routines – doing a set of squats and a set of pullovers – are what we adhered to because they were the basics. I found that anyone who wanted to gain size did best if they took four or five months and did nothing but heavy movements like rows, squats, pulldowns, and curls . . . I’ve always found – as the Germans found in 1935/36 – that the greatest amount of work done in the shortest amount of time builds muscle mass that can be retained. I’ve always believed in heavy weights. Train heavy or go home. And I never forget the fact that this is a I sport of progressive resistance. Don’t stay with the same weights.”
Let’s Start Out With Nutrition Basics
February 4, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
Filed under Featured, Nutrition
Proper nutrition is one of the key elements in putting on massive muscular body size. Some people think that it may be the most important element.
The diet of a bodybuilder and the diet of the average person are vastly different. For example, the average person derives most of his or her caloric intake from processed foods. “There is a problem with the average diet in that two-thirds of the food Americans eat is processed, and processing almost always depletes nutrient content. Government surveys continually find vast numbers of Americans deficient in many nutrients critical to health. Sugar and highly processed refined carbohydrates comprise an estimated 60 percent of our total dietary intake. These are the “empty calorie” foods, poor in nutrition, high in fat, that force the body to borrow from nutrient reserves to digest the junk.”
If you try and build a big and muscular body on junk food you will almost instantly flop. The diet of the average person just won’t cut it when it comes to making your muscles massive. Processed food will make your stomach massive instead of your muscles. The difference a proper diet makes is seen in the contrast between a bloated belly as opposed to bulging muscles. The two are opposites. Each comes about through different dietary approaches.
The bodybuilder’s dietary approach could well be called “nasty nutrition.” The bodybuilder doesn’t eat all of the junk food that the average person does. To successfully control the shape of the physique you have to eat nutritious foods. That means very little junk food. Of course junk foods taste great, but they have the unfortunate ability to pack fat onto the body – exactly what you don’t want if you are trying to make your muscles more massive. Instead of processed foods and tons of refined sugar and fats, a bodybuilder eats high-quality proteins, complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, and nutritious supplements. That probably doesn’t sound too tasty, but that is what builds bigger muscles.
Frequency
The average person eats 2 or 3 large meals a day. However, this approach won’t work if you want to pack muscle size onto your body. The best manner in which to provide the body with the material needed for larger is to eat several small meals throughout the day. It is interesting to see how this dieting approach, though customary for bodybuilders for quite some time, is now gaining support in the nutritional and medical communities. The “feast and fast” approach of the average person has been found to not be as effective nutritionally as the several smaller but more frequent dining periods. The idea is to provide the body with a low, consistent flow of nutrients rather than stuffing it with so much food and then leaving it empty afterwards. One of the basic fundamentals of dieting for super-size is to eat several smaller meals on a frequent basis. The body will have an easier time digesting the smaller meals and the frequency will keep insulin and nitrogen levels in a positive state.
Make Sure You Are Taking Quality Protein
February 4, 2009 by Mr. Bodybuilder
Filed under Featured, Nutrition
It is important to make certain that the protein you are taking is high-quality protein. A protein is a chain of units called amino acids. There are 22 amino acids, and of these, eight are essential. They are labeled essential because the body cannot manufacture them on its own and the body desperately needs them. The essential amino acids are valine, leucine, isoleucine, threonine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan. A protein source is considered complete if it contains all eight essential amino acids. Incomplete proteins are proteins that do not contain all eight – they lack one or more of the eight mentioned. Plant proteins are incomplete proteins. To get enough quality proteins from plants you have to go through an elaborate mixing situation. It is far better to obtain most of your protein from quality complete sources. Arnold Schwarzenegger notes that “the highest-quality proteins come from animal sources – eggs, fish, poultry, meat, and dairy products. Much lower in value (because they are not readily assimilated) are proteins of plant origin – beans, rice, corn, peas, and nuts. To make these more readily available for use in the body they should be taken with animal proteins. Generally speaking, the bodybuilder will experience the fastest growth by choosing protein from animal sources.”
As noted by Arnold, the protein from animal sources is of the best quality. Get most of your protein from animal sources to make the quickest progress in attaining supersized muscles.
All proteins are not created equal. The way you can tell which protein is best for your body is by checking the biological value (BV) of the protein in question. The higher the biological value, the better the protein source for your body. What is the very best? Egg protein is, with a BV of 100. Fish comes in high in the 75 to 90 range (depending upon the type of fish you eat). Rice has a surprisingly high BV of 86, but corn only has a BV of 40. Generally speaking, a biological value of 70 or better indicates acceptable quality. For the quickest gains, choose protein-rich foods which are of acceptable quality (meats, eggs, dairy products, rice, fish, poultry).
Keep Track
Keep track of the amount of protein that you take in per day. If you have to, carry around a small notebook and mark down the amount of protein that you are getting. At the end of the week check your daily average and see if it is up to the level indicated earlier as being necessary for your body size. A good source is the labels listed on the food items in the stores. These labels indicate how much of each element you are receiving in each serving by serving size.
King Protein
For the person who wishes to pack on real muscle mass, protein is king, the crucial nutrient that repairs the muscle and brings about the massive size desired. If you find that your workouts are complete but you are still not growing, recheck your protein intake. You may need more than you are currently getting.
