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Written by Dan Gwartney, MD
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Monday, 02 November 2009 |
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“Eureka!” is heard as scientists
uncover new discoveries, the cry accompanied by a cartoon light bulb appearing
overhead. If that cartoon scene holds a clue to fat loss, it may be the light
cast by the bulb. Insane, right? Surely fat loss is not as simple as upgrading
from 60 to 75 watts? Of course it isn’t, but there is a body of evidence
suggesting that fat loss may be related to light exposure, more specifically,
sun exposure.
Understanding the process involved is
at first complex, but with a little effort, it becomes clear. In fact, don’t be
surprised if you need to read this article two or three times to fully
understand it, as it deals with true cutting-edge science. The process likely
evolved eons ago, when man was just learning to walk upright and considered
fire to be a message from the gods. Before the advent of air-conditioning,
forced-air furnaces and grocery stores, mankind responded to the changes in
season just the way animals continue to do today.
The only measure of time available to
primitive man was the length of the day, with shorter days announcing the
coming of winter and a period of famine (starvation). As the days lengthened,
warmer weather approached and food became more readily available. Man responded
to the coming of winter by storing fat and burning fewer calories, while summer
required him to shed those excess pounds to hunt and gather without becoming
prey to carnivorous predators. The question arises: How did the sun signal
primitive man to store fat for the winter and shed fat in the summer?
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Written by Victor Martinez
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 |
How many different
pressing movements should I do for chest in a workout? Some guys seem to only
do two, while others will do as many as four or five. What’s a good routine for
someone who has been training about four years and still needs a lot more mass
in the pecs?
If you want a lot more thickness to your chest, nothing is
going to beat barbell and dumbbell presses. As to how many you should do, it’s
a matter of personal preference. These days I like to do an incline barbell
press, a dumbbell press either on the flat or incline bench, and a machine
press, but that’s now how I trained for most of my career. I had a partial pec
tear two years ago while doing the flat barbell bench press, and it’s been out
of my routine ever since. But if I had to say there was one exercise that gave
me the most overall mass in my chest, that would be the one. Unless you have
some serious injury that prevents you from benching, you should do it first and
work hard on it for about 4 work sets of 8-12 reps (after warming up well, of
course).
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Written by Branch Warren
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
Squats— The Exercise We Love To Hate
I've started doing legs again
recently, but I'm not a big fan of squats. Will leg presses with heavy loads
still help me gain considerable mass? Thanks in advance!
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Written by Dan Gwartney, MD
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
In
games and contests, there are always elements that are devastating in their
dominance. It may be as simple as rock always beating scissors in the hand game
“Rock, Paper, Scissors,” or it may be as complex as the M1A1/2 Abrams main
battle tanks loaded with depleted uranium penetrators in Operation Desert
Storm. In the battle against fat, the devastator is insulin.
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Written by Robbie Durand
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Monday, 26 October 2009 |
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Gastric Bypass Improves Sexual Performance In Morbidly Obese
Men
Grossly
obese men have an increased risk of sexual dysfunction, including erection
problems and decreased sex drive. High levels of body fat trigger insulin
resistance, which interferes with Nitric Oxide (NO) production— an important
regulator of blood flow to the penis and the rest of the body. Ramzi Dailai,
from the Albert Einstein Health Network, found that sexual performance improved
following gastric bypass surgery in morbidly obese men (body mass index greater
than 51 kg/m2; 30 is overweight). The amount of weight lost
following surgery was highly predictive of improvements in sexual performance
capacity. Sexual performance returned to near normal values in men who lost 67
percent of excess weight. Poor metabolic health is the principal cause of
sexual problems in aging men, such as erectile dysfunction. Gastric bypass
surgery improves metabolic function and sexual performance. (Journal American College of Surgeons, 207:
859-864, 2008)
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Written by Hany Rambod
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
One of your clients goes to my gym and I saw him training
legs the other day. I always pay attention to whatever he’s doing to see what I
can pick up and use for myself. I’ve seen him using the FST-7 system for a
while now and normally he does the “7” sets at the end of a body part. This
time, he did his 7s on leg extensions at the very beginning of the workout. I
think I recall you mentioning this variation on the FST-7 system before, but I don’t
understand the rationale for doing 7s in the beginning. What gives?
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