by Cade Thomas

For 99% of the people who are crazy enough to devote themselves to it, bodybuilding is hard. Even if you do everything correctly every day, it can be years before you see the type of improvements that your brain might trick you into believe should come in mere months. While lack of satisfaction might be a very potent tool towards progression, it can also be the largest road block you will encounter when it comes to advancing your physique.

by Cade Thomas

Let us just get one thing out of the way – this article will be laden with thoughts of mine that some of you will label “bro-science”. You could say that not only is there going to be bro-science lathered on top of this page, but it will be baked right into the core. Now, if that troubles you in some shape or form because you feel that something must include a laundry list of references for it to be considered valid or useful, please proceed to shelter your eyes now and prevent this dreadful sacrilege from entering your brain.

by Blane Morton

Everyone involved in bodybuilding, but sports in general has been told since their first day in the weight room that they key to building muscle is to literally eat as much as you can swallow or afford, whichever comes first. The gold standard in protein to build lean muscle mass has always been 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight you carry. Bodybuilders like Kai Greene are notorious for eating upwards of 1000g of protein per day or 3 times his bodyweight. Many nutritionists will tell you this is excess, so can you overdose on your protein intake?

by Geoff Roberts

I have discussed numerous illogical misconceptions and ridiculous assumptions in the past. The public’s obsession with calories, people who hate food claiming to have fast metabolisms, and the assumption that bodybuilders are stupid, all come to mind. One of our industry’s largest mysteries is the nonsensical fear of getting too huge and/or getting “bulky”.

by Taylor Normandeau

Yesterday, Damnit…That’s when we want to achieve our goals. Actually screw that, yesterday is too far in the future. Bodybuilders want to be huge months ago. YEARS ago. In fact most of us harbour some level of resentment towards our parents for not taking part in an experimental fetus doping project so that we were born ripped. Since the prospect of time travel seems rather distant and suing our parents wouldn’t solve our problems, we must approach our goals in the smartest way possible knowing that our future self is going to want to punch our current self in the throat if we waste any more time.

by Geoff Roberts

In bodybuilding, genetics are king. Simple as that. At some point in every bodybuilder’s career, they will inevitably come to realize this fact to be true, beyond any shadow of a doubt. This realization can come with grief, in the form of a bodybuilder with poor genetics, or with joy, in the form of a bodybuilder who now realizes how lucky he really is. If you were to ask a bodybuilding fan why genetics are so important in bodybuilding, they would probably give reasons related to either the athlete’s ability to burn fat, build muscle, or more likely than not, both.

by Geoff Roberts

The plethora of information that comes at us from all angles in this day in age makes it exceedingly difficult to decide what is right, wrong, legitimate, or phony. This reality is especially true with regards to nutrition. We have hugely popular figures like Dr. Oz telling us to eat truck loads of grains and fruit, along with the mainstream news telling us that each whole egg we consume takes a specific amount of time off our lives. Let us not forget television commercials and billboards telling us that a cardboard box full of sugary, processed little hoops “may help lower cholesterol”.

by Anthony Roberts

One of the most peculiar things about the steroid community, and in particular, the online steroid community, is the ongoing level of misinformation about the androgen receptor and the boogeyman of receptor downgrade. Because most people have experienced receptor downgrade in other forms, it’s a topic that we are somewhat familiar with (i.e. you drink so much coffee that caffeine doesn’t hit you as hard anymore, or you develop a tolerance for alcohol, etc…)

by Cade Thomas

We often hear of “Teams” in bodybuilding, which is a concept I still cannot quite grasp. I don’t quite understand why a competitive athlete in a sport where you are judged alone would want to fore go their unique identity and become a member of a “team”. Sometimes it becomes so borderline culty that it resembles a sorority full of teenage girls (some physically resemble that as well, although the men fit into this description too).