Alcohol has been implicated as a factor that may hurt your efforts to lose body fat. Whether alcohol is “fattening” has been a very controversial subject because technically speaking, alcohol is NOT stored as fat; it is oxidized ahead of other fuels.Whether moderate drinking is healthy has also been a subject of controversy. Many studies show that cardiovascular health benefits are associated with moderate beer or wine drinking (which has been of particular interest lately with reservatrol in the news so much), while other studies show improved insulin sensitivity. Some experts however, say that alcohol has no place in a fitness lifestyle.

by Cade Thomas

It is not uncommon to hear people say that bodybuilding is a selfish sport. If ones desires to be successful at it, you truly do have to put your needs in first priority before managing a lot of other daily life struggles. While this can be counteracted to a degree with proper planning and preparation, there is no denying that a bodybuilders brain is focused inward and one must truly find what works best for their body on an individual basis.

If you’re looking to stay on your diet, the worst thing you can do is have an enabler feeding you food that you shouldn’t be consuming. Or someone who leaves out portioned snacks for easy consumption. You almost feel bad not eating it, right?

by Anders JP Eskilsson

We are living in a time and age where new training activities are coming and going. One of the most popular and growing forms of new activities in recent years is CrossFit. However, it is also one of the new activities which have been exposed to the most criticism from various parts of the society.

by Cade Thomas

Bodybuilders are extremists. It just comes with the territory. The desire to transform your body into an overbearing sack of muscles has very little to do with a balanced mindset or average goals. The pendulum tends to swing a little too far in different directions for many of us, and moderation is rarely in our vocabulary. I personally have been guilty of many “knee jerk reactions” in my efforts to become more muscular; Several times when my results were lacking, I completely changed everything I was doing when I might have found a greater benefit in small tweaks to put me back down the road I wanted to be on. So let’s look at three particular topics that tend to lend themselves to these drastic U-turns and extreme changes.

by Cade Thomas

There are a few words or phrases that can make most bodybuilders sick to their stomach; Cardio, tilapia, jogging, asparagus, pretty much any exercise other than lifting, and the list goes on. One that has entered our vocabulary only in recent years but elicits possibly the fiercest reaction of all is the “C” word. No, not that word that will make your girlfriend ignore you for 6 days and throw your clothes in the garbage.

by Cade Thomas

When people are faced with a disaster or potential for danger, they are often left with what is called a “normalcy bias”. This phrase refers to the assumption that since everything has been okay up until this given point in time, that things will continue to be okay. Take for example the threat of a large scale natural disaster such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption. Perhaps people in the community have been hearing predictions of doom and destruction for so long that when information comes up that shows something bad is really going to happen, they brush it off and file it away into the mental folder with all the other unrealized threats.

by Geoff Roberts

In bodybuilding, as well as in every other sport for that matter, the question of who is the greatest to ever live has always been the most frequently pondered question and it remains so to this day. These discussions of who is the greatest of all time vary quite drastically from one sport to another, due to varying levels of dominance amongst each sport’s top athletes. For example, everyone would agree that Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time, as it is virtually irrefutable.