The Bruce Lee Workout Routine: The Secret To A Killer Body

Prelude: October 2011

I've been reading my Bruce Lee books. Again. I can’t help but feel inspired. Yet again. It’s time I wrote about the Bruce Lee workout and tried to figure out just what made it so effective.

Bruce lee is one of those guys who is a hero to most guys. Even nearly 40 years after he passed away, for many of us he remains the ultimate symbol of what the human body is capable of. He was ripped, he kicked ass, and he was one seriously cool cat too.



Bruce Lee is a

The Bruce Lee Workout Routine: What It Takes To Get A Killer Body

Periodization Training:Get In Shape Without The Struggle

The Truth: constantly pushing your training to the limit is the path to pain and frustration. If you don’t want your life to revolve around the gym and you still want to get and stay in great shape you need to know about periodization training.

What is periodization training?

Ok, simply this is breaking your training up into periods with a focus on different aims for each. The overall result is to reach a higher peak overall through focus on one aspect at a time.

It is a method quite

Periodization Training:Get In Shape Without The Struggle

Get A V-Shaped Body With 3 Back Workout Tips

Prelude: Summer 2010

I’m working out and I’ve forgot my headphones. It’s weird actually, I’m a lot more aware of what’s going on around me, and of people trying to catch my attention. Is this what the gym is like when you’re not in the zone? I've seen nightclubs with less social interaction!

I’m about 5 minutes deep and a lady comes over.....

“Hi. What exercises should I do for my stomach?” I smile inwardly, since she has just walked past 2 personal trainers to

Get A V-Shaped Body With 3 Back Workout Tips

Weight Loss For Men:The 5 Golden Rules

The Truth: There is weight loss, and then there is weight loss for men. Guys are typically different from women in what we like to eat, the way we eat, the way we learn and of course what methods we gravitate towards. Just a little bit then!

The fact is that many of us fellas just handle this thing differently, and pretty often that means we slip through the cracks of the billion dollar diet industry. No surprises there; it just is not designed with us in mind. If you’re a guy and you want

Weight Loss For Men:The 5 Golden Rules

Isometric Exercises For Rock Hard Abs

The Truth: Crunches, sit-ups, ab rollers; it's enough to make you want to sit down, roll over and throw it all away. The good news is that you can get a great set of rock hard abs that feel as good as they look without any of that jazz. Use isometric exercises, they promise to save you time, hassle and heartache on the way to a strong and super-sexy midsection.

The Tale: Autumn 1995

I've just moved school and gone from da 'hood to the 'burbs. It's just like The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,

Isometric Exercises For Rock Hard Abs

Upgrade The Mind To Muscle Link For A Great Workout

The Truth: Looking for a great workout? You're not alone However, way too often we think we have to do more to get it. This usually means more exercises, longer workouts, and increasing frustration at having to sacrifice larger chunks of our lives trying to get in shape. Chances are we end up over-trained and overcome as the results remain elusive.

The fact is that longer workouts are just like pretending to revise for an exam to impress your parents. Sure, you may look like you're

How To Get A Great Workout: Upgrade The Mind To Muscle Link

Tips To Build Chest Muscles For A More Attractive, Strokeable Body

Prelude: Just another day at the gym

I’'m working out and notice the new lady gym instructor hanging around. It’s quiet and she seems bored. She introduces herself and all that and it turns out she knows all about bio-mechanics. Pretty cool stuff.....

............Apparently she can see that I have got a dominance in my upper body pushing structure; too much working of chest is in pulling my body forwards. I thank her for the tip, but she’s not done. She starts showing me exactly

Tips To Build Chest Muscles For A More Attractive, Strokeable Body

6 Tips To Shrink Your Stomach

The Truth: When it comes to looking good your stomach size is a biggie. The thing is, it needs to be a smallie. Yes, I may have just made that word up, but it matters! See nothing has as big an impact on your look in or out of clothes than the size of your stomach. It's all about proportions, and knowing how to shrink your stomach will go a long way to creating that lean toned torso that turns heads towards you!

The Tale: Spring 2009

I've just run into a girl I used to see. She says I

6 Tips To Shrink Your Stomach

Keep Gaining Muscle: How To Stay Ahead Of Training Adaptations

The Truth: When it comes to your workouts it's a case of adapt or die. Maybe not literally but your progress in the process of gaining muscle will.

Your training adaptations are a double edged sword. On the one hand it is the adaptations that your body makes that improve your body as you grow harder, faster, and stronger gaining muscle in response to your routine. On the other hand, your body, wise old fox that it is, is so good at this process of adapting that it can soon render your

Keep Gaining Muscle: How To Stay Ahead Of Training Adaptations

Should You Chase An Ideal Weight For Men?

The Tale: Early 2008

Now I’m really going for it. I’m bigger than ever and have had to give away a ton of clothes that don’t fit the new body shape. No turning back now! Funny, I don’t quite look as good as I’d hoped, but the advice seems to be to focus on adding "enough" mass, then it will all come together. So every week I’m weighing myself, and the numbers are going up. That’s progress......isn’t it?

Is there an ideal weight for men where it all comes together?

The

Ideal Weight for Men

What Is Fitness & How To Workout For Your Real Goals

The Tale: Summer 2007

I'm hanging out with the fellas for a few post work beers and planning the weekend to come. They ask why I was late, I tell them I was training and they laugh. "Mikey, what exactly is it you're training for?"

It's a good question. See the stock answer is to say to improve fitness. But what is fitness? Am I fit? Well, I’m bigger and stronger than I was, but I’m slower, and less capable of moving around. In fact I’m feeling less capable of most things. I’m

What Is Fitness & How To Workout For Your Real Goals

5 Tips For A More Effective Workout With Attention Training

The Truth: With all the stresses and complications of modern life we get used to operating in a background of constant noise and distraction. It can be a struggle to find the time to train and when we make to to the gym it's often tough to really get into it. Learning the skill of attention training offers you a more effective workout.

The Tale: The bad old days.....

I used to spend well over an hour in the gym and I thought that the key to improving the look of my body was to spend even

5 Tips For A More Effective Workout

How To Get a Flat Stomach With This Forgotten Exercise

The Tale: July 2007

I'm in Southern Spain with the fellas; beach by day, bars at night, but the whole night owl thing isn't quite working out. You see I feel like a beached whale. Those "muscle" T-shirts of mine are fitting a little too snug in the belly area and I'm having to suck my stomach in. A lot. Try that while drinking beer! I'm wishing I knew how to get a flat stomach fast. There is only so long a man can hold his breath and I'm feeling dizzy.....

The Truth: We all want a hard

How To Get A Flat Stomach

Positive Body Image: How Being In Shape Will Improve Your Life

The Truth: When you enter an environment it changes. People will react to the presence you create. The more positive your presence, the more positive the reaction to you will be. It is only natural that people are drawn towards someone who creates a positive impression, so you need to figure out how to do that. A huge part of this is your ability to develop and project a positive body image.

Why positive body image matters

Externally: to the outside world you ARE your body. The

Positive Body Image

5 tips for Muscle Definition

The Truth: When it comes to a really impressive looking body muscle definition makes a big difference. After all there is not a lot of point in having muscle if it's covered up by a layer of fat. The trick is knowing how to increase your muscle definition without the usual gumpf about hours on the treadmill, back breaking weights and mind bending drugs supplements.

The Tale: Spring 2010

Now I’m no narcissist but I can’t stop looking in the mirror. You see every time I look at it I

5 tips for Muscle Definition

Male Body Types: How To Make The Most Of Yours

The Truth: Usually when it comes to body types most guys don't think further than the kind of ladies they like, but understanding male body types can be pretty useful when it comes to knowing how to workout for the body you want.

After all, you can't get where you want to go unless you know where you're starting from. So we'll start at the beginning.........

What are somatotypes?

You’ll hear this word a lot when it comes to male body types. Answers.com tells us it is “The

Male body types

Intermittent Fasting for weight loss

Prelude: August 2010

I feel like I’m on top of the mountain. Like the birds are singing when I walk down the street. Today on my way to the shops I got stopped and offered free ice cream by a bunch of ladies. They were giggling over having a “fit man” in the room. Cool. When I make it to the grocery store the cashier tells me I‘m "in really good shape”. This is how life is nowadays, and sometimes I can’t help smiling, thinking to myself; “Mikey, where did it all go so

Intermittent Fasting For Weight Loss

How to Get Muscular Fast with Drop Sets

The Truth: Too often we are told that to get muscular we have to give more, and it's always more time. To get the body you want but give up your life is a poor trade-off. Why not get better results in less time? Well, you can. I have and you will too. But it's not just about me saying it, it's about you doing it. One great method to get muscular fast is to use drop sets.

Let’s start with some definitions
The definition of muscular;
“Having well developed muscles”
This leads us to

How to get muscular fast

When To Eat Protein: How Important Is It?

The Truth: Worrying about when to eat protein can drive you mad! It's a state of stress trying to ensure you get your dose of protein on time, every time. Your world is one of tuna, chicken breasts and protein shakes on hand everywhere you go. And who can forget the magical convenience of Tupperware? I know because I’ve been down that road........but I’m back, and I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be this way.

The Tale: Spring 2009

It's gonna be a bright and sunshiney day! My

When to eat protein

5 Male Model Workout Routine Tips to Look Great in Your Underwear

The Truth: Male models; men want to to be like them, women want to be on them. So how can you get model like results ? By learning how to apply the best of the male model workout approach to your workout routine of course!

The Irony: The quest to build a perfect body is not about becoming a bodybuilder. In fact If you want the lean toned look that turns heads you will do well to follow the lead of a male model workout. I spent a long time trying to figure out just how they do it , and here

Male model workout routine

Does an Ideal Body Fat Percentage even matter?

Prelude; Summer 2010

My shirt is off and I'm being grabbed, prodded and picked at by a young lady I don’t know.........

Nope, I’m not auditioning for a male stripper act, I’ve decided to have my body fat measured and see where I stand. The gym instructor is very thorough; height, weight, skin-folds all over, each with a different number she’s going to calculate. Then she measures my peak flow; the amount of oxygen I can blow out! I’m wondering what this has to do with

Ideal Body Fat Percentage

An Ab Workout Routine for Superheroes

Prelude : Mr six pack

It’s lunchtime so I’m heading out of the office to get some rays. I catch the lift just in time to get in with some of my female colleagues. Now I don’t know if it’s my cologne but one of them is definitely giving me that look. It seems as though once again my cover as a regular guy is blown. They let it be known that the ladies in the office call me "Mr Six Pack", and it sounds as though they want a demonstration of my powers. But forget them, I want to tell

Ab workout routine

The Best Time of Day to Exercise: 5 Reasons to go for Morning Glory

The truth: Figuring out the best time of day to exercise could just be the route to a better way to workout, a better body and a better you.

Nowadays 9 times out of 10 I choose to train in the morning. Here are some reasons why it could be the best time of day to exercise for you.

1) Increased fat burning

after having spent the night in a fasted state your body is ready to burn fat by the bucket load. This is the reason why early morning fasted cardio is so popular among fitness

The Best Time of Day to Exercise: 5 Reasons for Morning Glory

5 Hardgainer Diet Tips For a More Ideal Male Body

The question:

Are the typical hardgainer diet tips of “eat more” really helping anyone? I followed this advice and found that the gains came; but it was fat gain! And looking around the gym I can see I definitely wasn’t alone. Typical tips lead to typical results, so what is it that hardgainers really need to know?

If you consider yourself a hardgainer (and who doesn't?) you want and need to know how to look and feel better. Hardgainers aren't afraid of hard work but it’s

5 Hardgainer Diet Tips For a More Ideal Male Body

Hardgainer Workout Tips, Truths and Advice For a Body That Turns Heads

Prelude: A long time ago in a bookstore like any other

I’m looking for hardgainer workout tips to gain muscle. See I'm a skinny guy and if I don’t figure out an answer I’m gonna stay that way. I stumble across a book, a bestseller in the field, that promises the kind of hardgainer workout and diet tips I need to get stacked, and start thumbing through the pages………Wow, this stuff is either gonna make a muscle man of me, or break me in two. Is this really what it takes to get the

Hardgainer workout

How to Build Forearms

Prelude; Summer 2010, The office. Every day.

It’s my boss. She keeps looking at my arms when I roll my sleeves up……oh there we go, now she’s at it again, touching them. Unfortunately her touching me is making me feel like rolling the sleeves back down. See my ambitions for climbing the corporate ladder definitely don’t involve sleeping my way to the top if I have to go through her!

If she knew how to build forearms I reckon she’d be using them to grab me, so it’s a good job

How to build forearms

Cardio before or after weights to get in shape?

Prelude: Every day, every gym, every town

You know the guy, does an hour on the treadmill then hits the weights halfhearted dripping in sweat. He suffers the same fate as many; lots of effort in but poor results out. That saying about a jack of all trades and a master of none has a lot of truth in it. He is never going to win a marathon, and at this rate, he’s never going to get in shape either.

This is what happens when you wear yourself out doing your warm up! Deciding whether to do

Cardio before or after weights

How many reps for building muscle size?

Prelude: March 2010

Why aren’t my arms getting any bigger? I’m lifting as heavy as I can. I’m doing pull-ups with a heavy weight belt. I just banged out sets with 20kg strapped to me. That looks pretty impressive, but my arms don’t! Maybe it’s not just about the weight, so I'm starting to ask a new question; how many reps for building muscle size?

The problem

It’s way too simple to focus on lifting more and more weight and hoping that all your muscle building dreams will

how many reps for building muscle

How To Get Bigger Triceps

Prelude: 5 minutes ago....

I was just thinking; I don’t think I’ve ever had a compliment or even a putdown about my triceps. Isn’t that funny? Abs, bum, legs, forearms, shoulders, biceps, even back have all made the list, but never my triceps. Well, I reckon that either means I need to figure out how to get bigger triceps, or everyone out there doesn’t recognize a good thing when they see it. If it’s the former I have a plan to get that handled.

How to get bigger

How to get bigger triceps

Make your own workout

The question: Why make your own workout?

We’ve all been there; searching for the workouts that will change the game for us. Instead we usually just end up with a cookie cutter program designed by someone else, for someone else. Something isn’t quite right.

Following other people’s programs can be pretty maddening, especially when it’s not giving you the results you want. Well, I believe in fitness to fit you. You need to be able to combine the best of what works to make your own

Make your own workout

Shoulder Workout Exercises For Men

Prelude: Spring 2002:

It came out of the blue one morning; “You’re not very broad shouldered honey”. Uh-oh. Those words have just come out of the mouth of the girl I thought was "The one"! This is a problem. See I was in L-O-V-E. You know the feeling.

I’m not sure if my lack of physique had been a problem for me before then, but it sure was now. It hurt. I was going to have to get myself a set of shoulders…

Shoulder workout exercises for men: why they matter

Shoulders

shoulder workout exercises for men

How To Increase Muscle Size

Prelude: Another day at the office

I’m day sleeping again. This time it’s hearing about how a colleague of mine knows exactly how to increase muscle size. Wouldn’t be so bad but I keep hearing this and he doesn’t even look like he works out!

This time though he starts telling me how he is going to use steroids. Whoa! I guess he means business. But come on, how to increase muscle size isn’t about taking drugs! It's just a case of knowing the right way to go about it.

Where

how to increase muscle size

Building muscle for skinny guys

Prelude: Friday night fever

I need a plan for building muscle for skinny guys. Fast! See, me and the boys are going clubbing. Only problem is I’m actually still underage, and I look it. To compensate I’m wearing my best clothes and focusing all my energy on growing the speck of hair on my upper lip. Last Friday this nearly didn’t work. The bouncer said I looked like a skinny 16 year old wearing his dad’s shirt. I was angry….the shirt was mine!

Anyway, wardrobe malfunctions

building muscle for skinny guys

Does fat turn into muscle?

Prelude: a long time ago in a bar far far away

I’m hanging with one of my best buddies. He’s one of those guys who always seems to have it together, even though you’ve known him for years and you shouldn’t buy it. If I don’t have money to go out, he convinces me that it’s gonna be “the night of your life”, then as if by magic, it is! You know who I mean, we all have that friend. The cool big brother who just happens to have been in your class at school and decided you could

does fat turn into muscle

Vince Gironda Workouts

Prelude: June 2010

Ok , I thought I knew a thing or two about training. Certainly that’s what the mirror tells me, and my ego. So why is it that I’ve just tried out one of Vince Gironda’s workouts and I feel as though I have just worked out for the very first time? Wow! The game may never be the same again….......

So what's all the fuss?

Vince is an old school bodybuilderwho later became a trainer to Hollywood movie stars. He built a reputation for being the guy to go to if

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Rules of Eating: How To Get Cut Abs

Prelude: Knowing how to get cut abs can help you climb the career ladder!

I’m at a office party thing to welcome me to my new job. It’s my first job, so I got to make a good impression. Anyway it seems they are like all sales people; the work hard and play hard types. A senior manager is there, she's a definite cougar, and she’s making eyes at me. Hmmmm! Maybe because im the new guy, or maybe because she’s gonna eat me alive. Probably both.

I end up drawn into her crowd and

Rules of eating

Exercise To Put On Weight; Should You?

Prelude: Summer 2006

Yee-haaaw!! I’ve taken my skinny guy frame and followed a program of diet and exercise to put on weight. I’m starting to look in shape, and I can tell by the reaction on the Friday night party scene. God bless the black T-shirt! This is cool so far, so I'm gonna take it to the next level; what could possibly go wrong?..........Well actually, it turned out quite a lot could go wrong!

The trouble with wanting to exercise to put on weight

If you have just

Exercise to put on weight

Slim Women: Weight Loss Tips we can take from them

Prelude: Date night, a while ago…

I’m in the cinema with my girlfriend. She’s off to get some snacks and I’m waiting for her.......she comes back with like everything!! I watch her go through it. Its awesome. The funny thing is she is a tiny little thing, and I’m wondering where on earth she puts it. She doesn’t even look big enough to carry that food, let alone eat it.

Over time, I've observed this type of thing a lot; the slim women seem to be the ones breaking "the

slim women weight loss tips

Why Coffee is among the best muscle building supplements

Prelude; Spring 2008

Training feels like a drag, I’m spinning my wheels but nothing seems to be happening. I have a hit a plateau in the weights I can move. Now what?

If only there was something I could take to help me get more out of training. Well that’s not true, I’m taking loads of supplements, rather, if only there was something new.

As it turned out eventually I found out that it wasn’t something new I needed at all. It was something old……………..good old

muscle building supplement

Cannot Lose Weight no matter what? Try these Weight Loss Tips

Prelude: Late Summer, 2007

Remember the woman I told you about? The one who kind of kick-started all this? Well would you believe it, I’m seeing her again! Yes, it seems we have a rematch, and after what happened first time around I had better be ready this time.

See this woman is smokin hot! The kind you don't get second chances from. So I guess I must have impressed her somehow. But this time I need to have myself together. I need to shape up and lose weight, fast.

I have a couple

Cannot Lose Weight

Muscle Building Foods: The route to a more attractive body?

Prelude: Christmas day 2008

The whole family is tucking in to an awesome Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and all the treats. But its not the same for me. Even though I’m gonna fill myself to bursting point I can’t actually eat what I want to eat. My plate is piled high with turkey. Just turkey. Why? So I can get the protein I “need” to build muscle!

What a waste of a great day, and this was everyday, for way too long. Who needs to cook when you can just mix up a shake,

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The Muscle Building Supplement Review You Really Need

Prelude : The bleak mid-Winter, 2007

Its payday and I’m out shopping. First and foremost its supplement time, my ritual of buying the supplements I need for the following months training. I’ve even got a loyalty card at the store, and boy am I loyal, despite the fact that month after month of taking supplements still hasn’t giving me the buff-tastic body I was after……I guess I just haven’t found the right one yet.

Before I get to the supplement store I think about maybe

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Creating a fitness plan for the life you really want

Prelude: December 2010

Oh man! I've just run into a gym rat . When you talk to this guy you can’t get 30 seconds in without it relating back to his fitness plan somehow. What he eats, how he trains, how much he works out...............

............He's still talking. Meanwhile, I’m bored out of my brain, knowing that there must be more to life than this (and that I have to work harder at avoiding this dude).

The kicker is that to look at him you would never guess he is as dedicated

creating a fitness plan

Busy Gym Workout Routines

Prelude: Feb 2006

I'm new to the gym and I feel pretty intimidated. My aim is to copy one of the routines in the magazines, but its turning out to be quite tricky getting it done. Every time I go near a piece of equipment some big bad dude wants to use it………..I seem to be waiting around a long time. How can I make progress if I can't even get started?!

If I'm going to do this, I’ll have to come at a different time, when the gym isn't so crowded. I guess I'm going to have to

Busy gym workout routine

Principles of quick workouts for the lean toned look

Prelude: March 2010

I hit the gym quick, did my thing and left the same way.........well that was the plan. As I was getting changed one of the regulars got talking to me. OK, at me. It was the usual; how he'd been in the gym for an hour jogging, an hour weights, and an hour rowing . I could tell (and smell) he wasn't bluffing, he was dripping with sweat. The thing is I saw this guy all the time and he didn’t really look like he worked out at all. I mean ever!

Now I admire commitment,

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Fast workouts for the lean toned body, on your terms

Prelude: May 2010

“So how long do you workout?"

Its another male ego contest; I can’t help smiling to myself. I mean what am I supposed to say? Well, I’m supposed to say I workout for hours on end, that its all about the training the prayers and the vitamin pills.

How long and hard you work is some weird badge of honour, but I’ve been there, done that, and worn the gym rat t-shirt. And my results were rubbish.

So on the other hand, I could tell him the truth. But maybe

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Lose weight and gain muscle for the lean and toned look

Prelude: Summer 2006
Forget the Sixties, I’ve just had my own summer of love. The kind when it feels like the party just goes on and on. I feel great, I’m in shape and everything is fun. I kind of started working out a few months back and everyone is telling me how good I look. Awesome! So this stuff really works. I like the results so far. Now its time to take it to the next level…….to get really big!

I’m reading all the info on how to do it and come across this golden

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Walking for weight loss and a lean toned body

Prelude: Spring 2009

I know this guy who is into talking fitness. Thing is he seems just as interested in my routine as his own! He wants to know what I’m up to. I tell him I’ve realised being big and bulky is tired. The lean toned body is where its at, and I‘m going to make it happen.

“Oh ok, so you’re gonna lose weight. So you gotta do your cardio” he announces.

Uh-oh! There I was almost listening to him, then he goes and says a thing like that. See I don’t do rules

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Weight loss workouts for The Underwear Body

Prelude: May 2008

Her wedding day was approaching fast, and Belinda was really going for it. In the gym 4 mornings a week without fail on the routine her personal trainer had given her. She walked, she ran, she stepped, she swam!

She was looking well. No denying that, but man was she working for it! If its this hard you can see why people are put off by fitness. It’s a high price to pay.

Fast forward 2 years……..Belinda is still happily married, bless her. But the weight loss

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Intermittent Fasting for weight loss

Prelude: August 2010

I feel like I’m on top of the mountain. Like the birds are singing when I walk down the street. Today on my way to the shops I got stopped and offered free ice cream by a bunch of ladies. They were giggling over having a “fit man” in the room. Cool. When I make it to the grocery store the cashier tells me I‘m "in really good shape”. This is how life is nowadays, and sometimes I can’t help smiling, thinking to myself; “Mikey, where did it all go so

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How to choose a healthy way to lose weight

Prelude: November 2010
Lets call her Christine. Christine is a lady I know with a weight problem, its the usual one, she wants to lose it, it seems to want to stay. Needless to say she isn’t happy with her figure and has spent years trying to change it. She attends one of the popular weight loss classes on and off, and right now she’s on again.

Today is her “weigh in day”. She gets to stand up in front of everyone and see whether she has lost or gained weight in the past seven

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The truth about fast weight loss diets

Prelude: January 2009

Ok I admit it, I’m overweight, I feel awful, and I look a mess. This whole “bulk up then lose the fat to reveal the muscle” thing just isn’t working.

The problem is every weight loss diet seems hard work! I hadn’t banked on that. Wasn’t the fat supposed to just “melt off” effortlessly?

I’m still eating 6 meals a day and glugging protein, only nowadays I’m never satisfied at any meal. Its like a state of constant hunger and its not much fun,

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Lessons from the ghosts of bodybuilding training past

Prelude: December 2002:

I’m going to try and get in shape. That means get bigger, I think. So I head down to the local gym. The guys in there are like something from another planet, absolutely huge!!! Somehow I summon the courage to get started anyway. I go through one of the “get buff” routines I read in a magazine (with super light weights of course) and I feel good. I’m on my way.

In the locker room I notice that these dudes don’t look so great after all. Sure they could

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Choosing your exercise weights for the lean and toned body

Prelude: June 2010

The guy was a monster. Biggest, baddest dude in the gym, by a mile. You know the type, a man mountain, looks like a nightclub bouncer. Not a look I was going for, but I bet he has intimidated a few in his time. Once upon a time I thought this was what I wanted to be. The big bad wolf.

The thing is, now I can see he’s actually in pretty poor shape. He’s overweight and out of condition. He tells me that back in the day he used to lift some serious weight, even

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Choosing the best workout exercises

Prelude: Not so long ago, in a gym just like yours

Picture three guys working out together, lets call them Skinny, Chubby, and Beefy. They all had very different goals; Skinny wanted to "get big" so he couldn't see his ribs when he tried to show off his abs. Chubby wanted to lose weight before he went to University, and Beefy, he just wanted muscles on top of his muscles.

And so they would meet every day all Summer long and do the same routine they had read in the bodybuilding magazines.

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Home weight training for The Underwear Body

Prelude; October 2010

I’ve just been into the gym to “freeze” my gym membership. Return date; unknown. Of course, the gym instructor asks why. I explain I want break a from the gym. This feeling is confirmed in my head as I peer into the gym and see the familiar old faces of the gym rats there, again. The same faces I always see.

I'm not giving up working out though, I’ll be back and in the meantime I plan on some home weight training. I guess he thinks home weight

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Quick workouts to get in shape fast

Prelude: Spring 2010

Today I saw 3 beginners looking around the gym all wide eyed. The enthusiasm made me smile. They have it all to come. As they got near I noticed them watching me train, till eventually one of them asked “How long will it take me to get a body like yours?”

I hesitated. I didn’t wanna put the kid off. After all, I took a lot of wrong turns on my way here. If he’s more sensible than me (surely he is!) and finds the right path (he might need some luck), it will be

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Muscle building tips to ignore for an attractive body

Prelude: Late Summer 2003. The Canary Islands

I’m on holiday (vacation to most of you reading this) with my girlfriend. Whisper it, but I’ve never felt like this about a girl before. About anything before.

Sun, sea……sand, everything is perfect. That is, until a dude at the pool starts making eyes at my lady. Now this is par for the course, she’s hot. Except this guy looks like King Kong's mean older brother. What if he eats us or something? Suddenly I’m all too aware that

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The Ideal Male Body & How To Workout to get it

Prelude: Nov 2010

Its Saturday night. I’m out in a cocktail bar for my big sisters birthday. I don’t know who she’s with, so naturally I’m assuming any hot woman who enters probably is. As I’m stood at the bar I notice a lady staring at me:

“Hi” she says, grinning like the cat that got the cream.

“Hi", I reply…..Hmmm. She doesn't look familiar, but it was a heavy night last night…maybe I met her then “……..have we met before?”

“No,” she says,

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Muscle building tips to ignore for an attractive body

Prelude: Late Summer 2003. The Canary Islands

I’m on holiday (vacation to most of you reading this) with my girlfriend. Whisper it, but I’ve never felt like this about a girl before. About anything before.

Sun, sea……sand, everything is perfect. That is, until a dude at the pool starts making eyes at my lady. Now this is par for the course, she’s hot. Except this guy looks like King Kong's mean older brother. What if he eats us or something? Suddenly I’m all too aware that

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The Ideal Male Body & How To Workout to get it

Prelude: Nov 2010

Its Saturday night. I’m out in a cocktail bar for my big sisters birthday. I don’t know who she’s with, so naturally I’m assuming any hot woman who enters probably is. As I’m stood at the bar I notice a lady staring at me:

“Hi” she says, grinning like the cat that got the cream.

“Hi", I reply…..Hmmm. She doesn't look familiar, but it was a heavy night last night…maybe I met her then “……..have we met before?”

“No,” she says,

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Do you need workout supplements for The Underwear Body?

Prelude: Spring 2010

I was getting changed after a workout and one of the instructors was chatting to me. He was telling me about some brand new workouts I should be doing (I don’t know which as I wasn’t really listening). Then he asked me what post workout shake I was going to have. I told him I didn’t take any supplements, I eat food.

You could have heard a pin drop, after all everyone knows you have to take workout supplements, right? Well, I used to think so, but then I used

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Home workout equipment for The Underwear Body

Prelude: Spring 2010


I’d been hanging out with my big brother at a family get together. He literally is my big bro too. Built like a tank and probably just as strong. I always looked up to him, In fact I think it was his love of action movies back in the day that made me want to get into the whole working out thing when I grew up.
The thing is, my brother has set foot in a gym about twice in his life. He pounds the pavement and works out at home, pullups, push-ups and sandbags are

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Designing the best workout routine

Prelude: Autumn 2010

I was chatting with a colleague of mine about training and stuff. Now this guy is big, with a capital b. Rumour has it that he even competed in a bodybuilding show or two back in the day (the rumours were started by him though).

He describes me as “Mr fit“ and constantly refers to how lean I am, but things get a little awkward when we talk about how I workout. You see even though he’s impressed with my results he’s convinced I’m doing it “wrong”. I

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