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Diet, Nutrition & Supplements

Training

General Bodybuilding & Fitness Related

Diet, Nutrition & Supplements

Supplements

General Supplements
Dealing with On Line Companies
Food vs Supplements
Top 10 Supplements
Choosing the Correct Nutrition Bar
Meal Replacement Powders
Supplements: Miracle or Placebo?
Supplements of Yesteryear

Creatine
Creatine FAQs
Creatine Ethyl Ester: Do we have a conclusion?
Creatine Ethyl Ester: The Best Creatine or a Supplement Fallacy?
Creatine Ethyl Ester - Where does the Jury Sit Now?
The Rescue of Creatine Ethyl Ester
The Truth about Creatine

Pre-Workout Ergogenic Supplements
Beta-alanine: A revolution in pre-workout supplementation
Beta-Alanine as a Performance Enhancing Supplement
Caffeine and Bodybuilding: A Taster
Caffeine Health & Bodybuilding
Citrulline Malate
Energy Drinks
What is Gakic?
Nitric Oxide
Introducing the Osagi Stack
The Osagi Pre-Workout Stack
Stimulant Drinks
Taurine as a Sports and Health Supplement

Pro-Hormones & Testosterone Boosters
Bulbine Natalensis: is this the Testosterone Booster we’ve been waiting for?
Off-the-Shelf Post Cycle Therapy (PCT) Products
OTC Steroids - First Cycle Advice
Superdrol - Pro-Hormone or Designer Steroid?
Testosterone Boosters / Natural Anabolics - A Natural Way to Boost Testosterone
Tribulus Terrestris: Bulgarian v The Rest of the World
Can Tribulus Cause Gyno?
Urtica Dioica - a useful testosterone booster supplement?

Protein & Amino Acid Supplements
Casein Hydrolysate - The Cream of Post Workout Protein?
The Complete Guide to Whey Protein Supplements in Health & Fitness
Glutamine as a Bodybuilding Supplement
Grow Your Muscles with Leucine?
Micellar Casein and its use in Bodybuilding
Optimizing Your Muscle Growth & Fat Loss with Protein Pulse Feeding
The Price of Whey
Protein & Amino Acid Supplements
Whey Isolate V Whey Concentrate
Whey Protein Hydrolysates

Carbohydrate Supplements
Carbohydrate Supplement Powders
Vitargo
Which Carbohydrate Powders are Best Post Workout and How Much?

Weight Loss Supplements
Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) for Physique Conscience Athletes (Part 1)
Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) for Physique Conscience Athletes (Part 2)
CLT
Ephedrine & Ephedra, and the Associated Alkaloids and Compounds
Green Tea & Green Tea Extract Supplements
White Kidney Bean Extract

Miscellaneous Supplements
Dietary Nucleotides and their Role in Human Health, Sports Nutrition and Muscle Gain
Echinacea and Good Health
GABA
How can Oxygen Supplementation Help?
Probiotics and Prebiotics - Benefits to the Body Builder
Red rice yeast
Supplements to aid sleep
What is HMB?
White Kidney Bean Extract

General Nutrition

Introduction to Nutrition
15 Nutrition Tips!
Basic Basics on Diet
Biochemical Individuality
Bulking Blunders
Cheat Day or Treat Day
Counting Calories and Macronutrient Values of your Diet: is it Necessary?
Dos and Don'ts in Muscle Gain Nutrition
Food Composition Analysis and its Implications for Dietary Planning
How to Read a Scientific Article
Is it harder to lose fat by eating after 7pm?
Negative Calories
Nutritional Claims - What do they mean?
Nutritional Myths :: The Verdicts!
Nutritional Tips for the Recreational Trainer
A Real Diet
Some Tips for Bulking
Three Beginners Nutrition FAQs
Variety is Important

Biochemistry
Leptin - Your Friend

Food Hygiene
Food Poisoning from Rice
Take Good Care of your Breasts...!

Nutrition in Illness & Disorders
Bodybuilding with Coeliac Disease
Diabetes & Bodybuilding
Exercise Bulimia
Flatulence and Bodybuilding!
Exercise and Diabetes
Food Allergy & Intolerance in Sports & Fitness
Seasonal Affected Disorder (SAD), Bodybuilding and Nutrition

Pre- and Post Exercise Nutrition
Lack of Energy During Training
Lagging Energy Levels During Training
Post Workout Nutrition
Powering for Strongman
Pre- and post exercise nutrition
Recovery: A Primer
Supercharging your Body for a Workout

Seasonal Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding over the Christmas Period
Enjoy your Christmas Eating
Maintaining Good Nutrition in the Hot Weather
New Year's Motivation

New Year, New Leaf

Meal Plans

Critique my Diet

Fat Loss / Cutting
Cutting V Bulking: Losing Body Fat Whilst Gaining Quality Muscle
Cutting Meal Plan
Intermittent Fasting
Optimising Your Power to Weight Ratio
The 'Losing Fat, Gaining Muscle' Debate
Low Carbohydrate, High Protein (Ketogenic) Diets for Weight Loss
Nutrition and Early Morning CV
Very Low Calorie Diets for Weight Loss

Hard Gainers / Bulking
Bodybuilder Bulking
Bodybuilders Budget Diet
Lean Bulking for All Year Round Lean Gains
Meal Plans for Hard Gainers
So you think you're a hardgainer?
Packing on Quality Muscle
Rapid Weight While Staying Lean

Fight-related
Making a Weight (then regaining it) for a Fight
Optimising Your Power to Weight Ratio

Lifestyle
Vegan Diets and Bodybuilding
Vegan & Vegetarian Bodybuilding

Recipes

Beef Stir-Fry with Egg Noodles
Black Pepper and Coriander Thai Chicken with Rice
Eating Clean - What does it mean?
Roast Halibut with Sweet Peppers and Couscous
Tuna Omelette with Dressed Salad
James' Super Smoothie

Nutrients

Protein & Carbohydrates
Blood Glucose, Insulin and Diabetes
Carbohydrate and Blood Glucose Regulation
Classification of Carbohydrates
Digestion and Absorption of Protein and Carbohydrates
Glycaemic Index, Glycaemic Response and Insulin Index
Optimizing Your Muscle Growth and Fat Loss with Protein Pulse Feeding
Protein or Carbohydrate - Which do I need?
Protein Requirements of a Bodybuilder
Reactive Hypoglycaemia
Resistant Starch

Fats
Alternative Sources of Fish Oils
Alternatives to Fish Oils for Vegetarians
Coconut Oil
Echium Oil
Edible Fats and Oils
Essential Fatty Acids
Everything You Wanted To Know About Cholesterol & Coronary Heart Disease
Everything you wanted to know About Coconut Oil
Everything you wanted to know about flaxseeds & flaxseed oil
Fats in the Blood and Fats in the Body
Good Fats, Bad Fats
Know Your Fats
Olive Oil
Think Fat
Trans Fats (Trans-isomer fatty acids)
Understanding Fat

Fibre
Beta-Glucan and FOS Prebiotics and their roles in Optimum Health
Fibre in Hard Training

Fluid
Fluid and Weight Training
Hydration in Bodybuilding

Vitamins & Minerals
Do we need Vitamin and Mineral Supplements?
Everything you wanted to know about Vitamin D
Micronutrient Dilution and Sugar Intake
Nomenclature of Vitamins
Vitamin B12 in Bodybuilding

Foods

Antioxidant Phytochemicals in Superfoods
Are you Eating Enough Fruit and Veg?
Consuming Fruit and Veg in Season
Fruit & Veg: What's a Portion?
Fruit and Veg in Health and Fitness
Fruit Juice & Fruit Juice Drinks - what's what?
I Can't Stand Veg!

Beverages
Cherry Juice
Coffee
Green and Black Tea in Good Health
Green Tea
Milk

Cereals & Grains
Cereals and Bodybuilding
Oats
Pasta
Rice
Quinoa
White rice

Fruit
Apples
Apricot
Avocado
Banana
Benefits of Grapefruit
Cherries
Cranberry
Nectarine
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Pumpkins
Satsumas
Strawberry
Tomato

Meats & Fish
Beef
Biltong
Cod
Herring
Icelandic Dried Fish
Liver
Pork
Sea Bass
Tilipia
Bodybuilders & Tuna
Turkey

Nuts & Seeds
Chestnuts
Hazelnuts
Linseeds
Nuts as an Emergency Snack
Sunflower Seeds

Vegetables
Alfalfa Sprouts
Asparagus
Baked Beans
Beetroot
Broccoli
Brussell Sprouts
Butternut Squash
Celery
Chickpeas
Chinese Cabbage aka Bok Choy (pak choi)
Garlic
Garlic Breath is Good for you
Lentils
Rhubarb
Sweet potato

Miscellaneous Foods
Agave Nectar
Chamomile
Chapatti
Chilli Pepper
Chocolate
Christmas Pudding
Cinnamon
Eggs
Ginger
The Benefits of Soya
Quark

Superfoods
Goji Berries
Salt
Spirulina
Wheatgrass

Training

Introduction to Exercise

Programming for Beginners by those who aren't
Top Ten Training Errors
Training - did I forget Something?
Weights for Weight Loss
What is 'health', what is 'fitness'? What does it mean for your training or sport?
Why Should we Encourage Anyone to Exercise?
15 Training Tips!

General Routines

Basic Routines
Compulsory Basic Training
Five Days, 20 Minutes Compound Routine
Initial Basic Hypertrophy
Tony Starks' Generic Four Day Split Routine
Tony Starks' Long Term Training Cycle - Programme 1 | Programme 2
Weight Training Structure
Weaknesses

Cardiovascular & Interval Training
HIIT in Bodybuilding
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) Routines
How much Cardiovascular Exercise for Beginners?
The Most Effective Fat Burning and Muscle Building Workout that Takes Just 13 Minutes… And can be Done Anywhere!
The Quick Way to Establish Maximum Heart Rate
Stripping Body Fat for the Summer
Tabata Training
Type of Cardio

Exercises
Dumbbell Hack Squat
Olympic Front Squats
Pull Ups
Triceps Pushdowns

High-Intensity Training
The Basics of Abbreviated Training: High Intensity Training
The Functional Training Craze - Part 1
The Functional Training Craze - Part 2 (Differences between Functional Training and Machine Based Training)
High Intensity Terms - Part 1
High Intensity Terms - Part 2
High Intensity Terms - Part 3
High Intensity Terms - Part 4
Olympic lifting
Performing the Perfect Upright Row
Take your Workout Outdoors with GPP Style Sandbag Training
Westside Barbell Training
1-6 Training

Strongman
Strongman Training

Warming up and Stretching
How to Overcome Knee Injuries
Prehab over Rehab (or 5 minutes to healthier shoulders)
Warming up and Stretching 1
Warming up and Stretching 2
The Warm up and Cool Down

Muscle Group Routines

Abs
3 Ab Exercises
Core Training
Five Minutes a Day Six-Pack
Knee Raise Dips

Arms
Biceps: 35s - 21s with a difference!
How To Build Bigger Biceps In 3 Easy Steps Anyone Can Follow!
Forearm Training
Got Arms?
Grip and Forearm Training
Three Minute Bicep Workout
A Tricep Workout
Twelve Minute Triceps

Back
Back Workout
Building Back
Building a Strong Back
Developing the Muscles of the Middle Back
Lambo's Big Back Training: Rectified

Chest
Benching Four Plates a Side
Chest Workout - Nice and Simple
Dumbbell Chest Press - an Alternative Method
Pre-Exhausting the Pecs
Volume Training the Chest

Legs
Adductor Training
Competition Shredded Leg Training after Injury
Gastrocnemius - neglected, stubborn or misunderstood?
Hamstring Training with a Bad Back
Intense Quad Training
James' Three Minute Calf Routine
Three Minute Calve Workout
Training Legs with a Bad Back
Quad Training with a Bad Back

Traps
Neck and Trap Training
Trap Training

Shoulders
Building the Best Shoulders - Part 1: Shoulder Anatomy
Building the Best Shoulders - Part 2: Training Shoulders
Deltoid Workout
Shoulders
Shoulder Training
Smart Shoulders - Improve every lift, boost your gains, look better and stay healthier for longer

General Training & Exercise

Female Training
Fitness for the Female Beginner
The Battle of the Sexes (How should Women Train?)
Female Strength Training - Triceps & Biceps
Weight Training for Women

Training Correctly
Breaking Through a Training Plateau
Listening, Understanding and Communication with Your Body
Overcoming Mental Sticking Points: Resetting the Mind's Thermostat
Rest and Overtraining
Rest Periods Between Sets
In Search of the Perfect Rep

Training Theories
CNS Overtraining
Circuit Training
CrossFit Training
Eccentric Loading for Greater Hypertrophy, Strength and Power
Four Stage Lifting
Giant Sets
Hybrid Lifting
Methods of Training
Muscular Hypertrophy - Using The Science of Set-Rep Schemes
Old School Progressive Training: Maximal Lifting based on the Methods Used by Steve Reeves
PTF (Post-Tetanic Facilitation)
Shrug it Off! Time under Tension (TUT) Training
Supersets to Build Strength and Muscular Endurance
Squeezey Training
Training in Reverse
Training Past Failure
The Training Principles of Milos Sarcev
Turn a NEGATIVE into POSTIVE Results!
Up-sets
Volume Training (VT) Routine

Miscellaneous
Barbell vs. EZ Curl Bar
General Principles of Strength Training for Rugby
How to Spot a good Spotter
Improvising your Training in Prison
Kettlebells
Spotting: The Dying Art?
Training for the Forces
Training in the Heat
The Smith Machine
Training on Holiday

General Bodybuilding & Fitness Related

Beginner Bodybuilding

A Beginner's Guide
A Beginner's Guide to Building a Home Gym
As Simple As It Gets
Bodybuilding Beginners FAQs
Gym Etiquette
6 Steps to Getting Back into it
Peripheral Heart Action Programme (PHA)
Weight Training 0-12 Months Stepping Stones
Bodybuilding for Beginners - Stepping Stones: Part 2

Body Composition

Assessment of Body Composition in Bodybuilders
Body Composition and Optimal Health
The Origin Health & Fitness
Are your Gains Muscle or Fat? 5 Easy Steps to Finding Out!
Skin Fold Testing at Home

Fat Loss Creams
Slimming Gels and Fat Burning Creams
Topical Application

Female Bodybuilding

How the Other Half Lives
Sports Bras

Medical / Illness

Acne in Bodybuilding: Causes Prevention & Treatments
Being a Man or Being Stupid...?
Bodybuilding when you are ill
Cellulite - Anatomy and Development
Cellulite - Treatment
Flatulence: a Windy Problem
Help! Food is making me sick
Iron Deficiency Anaemia
What is Exercise Induced Anaphylaxis (EIA)?

Injuries
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
Biomechanics: A Sceptic's View
Biomechanics in Bodybuilding: Some FAQs
Buckle Up?
Bulging Discs: Sciatica
Damn, that pain in my a##! - What you need to know about Piriformis Syndrome (Sciatic Pain)
Nothing Seems To Get Rid Of My Nagging Back Pain... What Now?
Traditional Treatments for Back Pain - Which Ones Work and Which Ones Don't?
Training around Age-Old Injuries
What is a Herniated Disc?

Psychology of Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding and Hypnosis
Failure: Success' Less Popular Brother
Motivation for the Recreational Trainer - A New Year, a New Approach?
Muscle Dysmorphia: A Review
SMART Goal Setting in Bodybuilding
So you think you're a Hardgainer?
Stress - How to Overcome a Major Health Hazard
The Story of a Wheelchair Bodybuilder
Why be Clark Kent when you can be Superman?
Which Direction are we Going?

Tanning

Melanotan and Melanotan II
Sunbeds and Sunlamps

Miscellaneous

Nicotine and Bodybuilding
Fowl Play with Drugs?
How to Become a Fitness Instructor
The Language of Anatomy: Muscles & Bones
Proportion & Balance in Bodybuilding
Sex Training
Sleep
Sleep and Exercise Recovery
Using Predictive Equations to Determine BMR / RMR