MAX Contraction Training – 180 Degree Health

MAX Contraction Training – 180 Degree Health Posted May 14th, 2012  505 126  8  In the modern world, people are looking for more and more efficient ways to exercise.  My own life is pretty atypical, but I’m spending time at my mom’s house right now so this week I can totally relate.  I mean, with my mom’s large television in front of me I too can scarcely...

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Heavy Weights Low Reps – 180 Degree Health

Heavy Weights Low Reps – 180 Degree HealthPosted January 28th, 2013  739 64  3  I don’t have much time to post today, but I received an email from a girl just the other day, and she mentioned jumping back into Crossfit after resting and refeeding for about a month.  Not good.  She experienced major insomnia as so often happens when doing really grueling exercise, which...

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Gaining Muscle Mass – 180 Degree Health

Gaining Muscle Mass – 180 Degree HealthPosted March 29th, 2012  85 0  0  I wrote about this topic a little over a year ago, as I was eager to share the results I got while doing Scott Abel’s Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET) while basically eating as many carbs as a I could.  It worked.  It was also totally and completely grueling and left me with some serious aches...

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Sarcoplasmic or myofibrillar Muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia

Sarcoplasmic or myofibrillar Muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia In the bodybuilding and fitness community and even in some academic books skeletal muscle hypertrophy is described as being in one of two types: Sarcoplasmic or myofibrillar. According to this theory, during sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, the volume of sarcoplasmic fluid in the muscle cell increases with no accompanying increase in muscular strength, whereas during myofibrillar hypertrophy, actin and myosin contractile proteins increase in number and add to muscular strength as well...

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CrossFit - Fashion to Fitness (Laura Dziak)

Uploaded on 2 Feb 2012 When Laura Dziak first started CrossFit, she was mildly concerned about bulking up. What preoccupied her more, however, was doing a workout as RX'd. Today, she's gained a total of 15 lb. of muscle but is still a Size 0.As a member of CrossFit Reston in Virginia, the former model ditched her old image for a new one."I would not say that being muscular or being fit was encouraged as a model," Dziak says. "It was all about being skinny, being a Size 0, double 0. That whole skinny-fat thing that exists where...

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Clarence Bass – 180 Degree Health

Clarence Bass – 180 Degree Health Posted August 16th, 2010  2 0  1  In an ongoing conversation about what the best of the fitness and physique industry has to offer someone trying to lose body fat without sacrificing metabolic health, room needs to be made for Clarence Bass.Bass is a famous ripped old dude, known for his multiple Over-40 Mr. America titles and maintenance...

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“Unexplainable” Fat Loss Plateaus… Explained! | Burn The Fat Blog - Tom Venuto.

“Unexplainable” Fat Loss Plateaus… Explained! | Burn The Fat Blog - Tom Venuto.by Tom Venuto 68 Comments Fat loss plateaus and lack of progress are always frustrating. What makes it utterly maddening is when you feel like you’re putting in a superhuman effort in the gym and reducing calories, but still making no progress. At this point, I usually see two unfortunate things happen: The first is a knee-jerk “blame the fat on something...

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Moving Up The Leanness Levels | Critical MAS

Moving Up The Leanness Levels | Critical MAS  Dec 6th, 2010 by MAS. In the post Leanness Defined, I went over the 4 Levels of Leanness defined by Christian Thibaudeau and Chris Shugart. I also added a level. They are:Level 0 – You are mostly lean, but your abs arent quite flat.Level 1 Flat stomach with no ab definition.Level 2 Level 1 + some upper ab definition.Level 3 Level 2 + lower ab definition.Level 4 Level 3 with deep cuts and dry (no water weight)Moving to Level 1 LeannessThis is the most straight forward. As you get leaner you...

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You Are Your Own Gym | Critical MAS

You Are Your Own Gym | Critical MASFeb 24th, 2012 by MAS. You absolutely do not need a gym to gain strength. This book is full of exercise ideas that only require your own body weight.You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises by Mark Lauren does a good job illustrating many different exercises one can do one your own without expensive gym equipment. The book is selling right now for $11. Even if you got bored with body weight...

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Clarence Bass: at 75 and 65 years of age

                                                  Clarence Bass: Pictorial Training History Clarence at 75 Clarence at 70      Still Ripped at 65            ...

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Peak Shape - at 60: Clarence Bass

Peak Shape - at 60me - at 60! Don't OvertrainPeople are incredulous when I tell them I do only two workouts a week, a whole-body weight session and a very hard aerobics session lasting about 30 minutes. (I also walk for an hour or so on four other days, to burn extra calories and speed recovery.) Even my brother-in-law, who runs long distance to control his weight, asked, "Why so little?" My lifelong friend Carl Miller, a former U.S. Olympic...

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Health Fitness Leanness Without Suffering - Clarence Bass

Product Catalogue | GMV Bodybuilding DVDs – Male & Female Bodybuilding DVDs – GMV Productions Great Expectations - Health Fitness Leanness Without Suffering - Clarence BassEncouragement, a reviewer wrote, is at the heart of Clarence Bass’ new book. Clarence discovered that he could look as good at 70 as he did much earlier and encourages readers to have the same great expectations for themselves—at 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and beyond. In Great...

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