January 2015

Rotator Cuff Injury From a Bench Press

The shoulder is the most complex joint in the entire body, and most bodybuilders will experience some form of shoulder pain at some point throughout their lifting career.

Your shoulder is made up of several joints combined with tendons and muscles that allow a great range of motion in your arm. Because so many different structures make up the shoulder, it is vulnerable to many different problems. The rotator cuff is a frequent source of pain in the shoulder.

Once a very respected exercise, the Push-Up lost its respect from the hard core bodybuilder and earned a new reputation as part of Fitness, Crossfit or other hypes. This exercise was done by almost all Old School bodybuilders. Push-ups play an integral part in complete chest development.

The push-up, is basic, versatile and doesn’t require much more than good form and your body weight and you don’t need to spend anything to get in shape with them. The push-up has many variations and you don’t require the push up board to eye-ball where you need to place your hands in order to hit the desired muscles that you’re looking to work. The push-up allows you to sculpt your arms, shoulders, pecs and abs.

We all eat carbohydrates in all kind of different forms. Bodybuilders eat a lot of carbohydrates (carbs) in their “Bulk” cycle to gain weight. They eat carbs to lean out and they are timing eating macro-nutrients such as proteins and carbs to grow musclemass and to get energy to be stored for the next training. But talking about carbs for bodybuilders and recreative bodybuilders I mean nutrient dense foods that adds great value to your health.

Sugar as an additive to sweets or sodas adds nothing to a good healthy diet, except empty calories. Sugar is very addictive and it has been linked to diabetes, cancer, and a host of other illnesses. A carb is not just a carb, it should be part of a whole food that also contains other valuable micronutrients, fibers, vitamins and anti-oxidants. That’s why our parents always taught us that an apple was better for our health that a piece of candy. The difference between natural and processed food.

 

 

Pro-bodybuilders and top bodybuilders are shy to share knowledge on the chemicals they use to build their physique. The same is even more relevant for the coaches/trainers/nutritionists. They make a living of it. People like Chad Nichols, Charles Glass etc are always looking to find new compounds to improve “their” athletes. Just look at the fact that it took several years before the general bodybuilding adept understood that the physiques they saw in the Weider magazines, used anabolic steroids. Every young bodybuilder followed the training and nutrition programs in those magazines and bought tons of worthless supplements, before they understood that Arnold and friends used Deca, D-bol, Primo and Stano. It’s always kept a secret, just like the newer products, just remember the GH and the insulin protocols. In this light some of the more shady protocols are to be seen like Markus’ interleukines.

Most young men are dreading the day when their six-pack abs will bloat into a permanent beer belly, they will grow breasts and lose their libido.

Is it inevitable to look like this when you are middle-aged? Big Pharma would like us to believe that. But there is a lot you can do yourself to prevent such a body transformation.

Testosterone decline, which occurs naturally during age, was long thought to be sole reason for these middle-aged transformations. However, new evidence from Massachusetts General Hospital suggests estrogen – more commonly associated with female menopause – mediates some symptoms of “andropause” in men.

 

The idea of male menopause has solidified itself into medical culture in recent years, which has been matched by a tremendous boost in doctor’s prescriptions for testosterone supplements.

A 500 percent increase in prescriptions was recorded between 1993 and 2000, and this pattern continued over the course of the following decade.