Academy

Breakfast … the Most Important Meal?
A recent article published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) argues that previous studies used to portray breakfast to be the most important meal of the day may be biased. There has been a case for breakfast built on the...
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MUTANT PRO – Is It All About Protein Timing?
Protein or nutrient timing could be defined as the consumption of protein/nutrients in and/or around an exercise bout. This has been a favored strategy adopted by bodybuilders to optimize numerous performance- and muscular-related adaptations. Indeed, a number of researchers have...
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Drop Sets – Worthless or Worth the Struggle
It has been widely accepted that training to concentric muscular failure is needed to maximize exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy. Muscular failure can be defined as “the point during a resistance exercise set when the muscles can no longer produce sufficient force...
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Hormones: Key to Muscle-Building—Fact or Myth?
If you read enough about fitness programs/nutrition, you will stumble across some article underlying the importance of hormones. Many fitness “gurus” preach about the importance of certain exercise programs that can maximize the release of testosterone, growth hormone and other...
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Cardio - HIIT vs SS
Cardio is any form of exercise that raises your heart rate. There are a number of different cardio workouts to choose from, but given people’s hectic lifestyles, it's common to search for the one that elevates the highest possible fitness...
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