Bulking is a seasonal ritual for weights room regulars. As winter draws in and opportunities to take your shirt off recede, thoughts turn to supersizing muscles ahead of cutting body fat in the spring, ready again for summer. Basically, it’s all about eating and lifting big to get big. Bulking centres on two core principles: […]
You’ve been looking forward to a delicious lunch all morning. Lunchtime comes and you dig into your meal. It tastes so good. But then afterwards you suddenly feel tired and drowsy. What is happening in your body? After a meal, your body really jumps into high gear – it begins with the digestive process: blood […]
Finally, you’re probably not doing tens of thousands of crunches. The pig spines studied were subjected to many thousands of flexion and extension cycles, Schoenfeld points out. The review notes that the total times a spine was bent in each study ranged from 4,400 to 86,400. “That’s not the way we generally crunch,” he says. […]
