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“I’m gonna pump you up!” How can we forget this well known phrase from an unforgettable Saturday Night Live skit! We laugh at the memory of two over-inflated comedians flexing their biceps, when in fact pumping up is exactly what we should be doing!

A lot of people think you’ve got to hit the weight room to really build muscle. It’s understandable, but they’re mistaken. You can skip the weights entirely. Think about it: real strength isn’t about isolating a muscle group and working it to death. The kind of muscle power you really need should give you functional strength.

Functional strength means you have ability to get yourself up a flight of stairs. It means you can lift your groceries and load stuff into your car. Functional strength is the power to live your daily life. But as you age, that power starts to fade.

Building those six-pack abdominal muscles is notoriously one of the most difficult areas of the body for many people to achieve for a few reasons:

• The abdominal area is one of the most common places that the body selects to store fat which then causes the muscles to be hidden.

“Eating your curds and whey” may be one of the best things you can do for your health. Whey is the watery protein found in milk, and according to dozens of studies, it has a long and impressive list of benefits. While in the US, we associate whey with cow’s milk, it’s actually found in all animal milk — and happens to be one of the highest quality proteins in the world.

The first step to stop physical aging is to recognize the changes taking place. When youre a child, you can easily measure the physical changes as you grow taller and gain weight. But once you become an adult, physical aging is more difficult to monitor because changes arent as dramatic. But that doesnt mean they [...]

You may be asking yourself, how will putting on lean muscle mass help me lose weight? It sounds contradictory, but in reality lean muscle mass is the number one way to boost your metabolism. Metabolism is simply the rate at which the body carries out chemical processes, which in turn burns calories.1-2(See Five Tricks to [...]

During the last few months, I have been researching data and testing different forms of training to find the ultimate weight loss formula. What I learned may surprise you. The bad news is there are no magic pills. The good news is long aerobic sessions are unnecessary and workouts don’t need to last hours. To [...]

To my surprise, I still see men and women doing useless, ineffective exercises while they try to burn off their belly fat, lose inches from their waists, and tone their muscles.

Your body produces an abundance of a natural rejuvenator when you’re young. But woe to us all; it then gradually tapers off with each passing year: It’s called human growth hormone or HGH for short.

Stuck in a low-rent hotel with a lousy gym? No worries. You can still burn fat and build muscle. In fact, you can even do a fat-burning workout in your own hotel room with bodyweight exercises.