To help you stay injury free
and prolong your Bodybuilding career

To help you stay free from injury, improve the overall look of your physique, enhance your time in the gym and help you remain functionally strong (rather than simply gym strong).

● Posture
● Warm up
● Exercise form
● Stretching & Cool down
● Functional Strength

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Deeper into Muscle Growth (part 1)
Does the perfect workout exist

Muscle growth, or Hypertrophy to give it the correct title, is the thing we as Bodybuilders are striving for above all else, it is the fundamental of the sport yet achieving it, for most of us, is extremely difficult which makes us wide open to the claims of some who promise that they have found the “magic bullet” of either a supplement or workout routine that will solve our problems and give us the size and density of one of the top pros.

If only life was that simple!

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DNP
A warning

There appears to be a rustling in the Bodybuilding hedgerows with whispers of something that I thought had been kicked into touch more than a decade ago. However the need for the unscrupulous to make money and the need for the uninformed and /or desperate to resort to the quick fix once again appears to winning out.

Say it quietly but DNP seems to be making a return.

DNP - Dinitro Phenol - C6 H4 N2 O5. Whichever way you write it doesn’t seem too bad, however lets dig a little deeper.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol
What you need to know

Here’s the difficulty with both high Blood Pressure and elevated Cholesterol, you wont necessarily know you have a problem until you really have a problem. Both conditions can be asymptomatic in the early stages. Please don’t rely on banging headaches, dizziness or disturbed vision to suggest that your Blood Pressure is out of control. Similarly you wont know that raised Cholesterol is laying down fatty deposits on you Arteries until you reach the point of early stage Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD)

I will repeat a point that I will continue to make, take responsibility for your own health, get yourself checked.

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A Return to Bodybuilding Basics

We have lost count recently of the number of gym members who have asked us to explain the latest fad diet or training routine that has been promoted in the various magazines available, or worse still, the Internet.

There seems to be an ever increasing hope or reliance on the latest wonder idea, supplement or drug to provide results. Everyone seems to be searching for the “quick fix” and many are willing to embrace the current short cut to success without questioning the logic or science behind the idea.

Let us just for a moment put aside all of the latest ideas and products endorsed by leading Olympia competitors and consider what we are actually trying to achieve and what stages may be involved in the procedure.

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Bodybuilding & Personal Health
A view from Physical Frontiers

Our health is arguably the most important thing we possess. Health enables us to carry out the basic activities of day to day living in an optimum fashion and to maintain our lives with a sense of enjoyment and purpose.

As Bodybuilders, Power lifters or Strength Athletes we are expecting our bodies to perform at a level far in excess of what may be considered normal. Our training is often brutal and sustained, diets can be harsh and unusual, supplementation is inevitably aggressive and pre contest preparation requires an extreme level of condition to be obtained and maintained for days or even weeks.

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