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A Peek Inside My Supplement Cabinet!
Mike’s Current Favorite Supplements
1) Joint Support - Used to take TKE Joint Boost but can’t find it anymore. Looking for a replacement that has the ingredients glucosamine, chondroitin, msm and shark cartilage. Trying the NOW brand right now but can’t tell yet if it’s working.
2) Multi-Vitamin - This one is pretty much common sense. I think even people that don’t work out take this supplement.
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Why You’ve Stopped Burning Fat
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This report gets a nice big HIGH FIVE…VERY NICE! Big props for pointing out that more people need to be doing Hybrid Cardio in the PDF.
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Primal Workouts
An Excerpt from the Lean Hybrid Muscle Building Program
Nature is amazing. Plants, animals, humans, insects and ecosystems, left on their own, over time adapt to their environment to not just exist, but to thrive. Each species is designed to do whatever it does best. For example, carnivores like wolves, lions and tigers are built to hunt and kill. They’re strong and fast with sharp teeth and powerful jaws. And all this happens naturally. When they are born, their parents don’t sit them down and explain to them what they have to do to become skilled hunters—they just go about living their lives and they develop that way naturally.
Animals in nature don’t go to the gym. They don’t lift weights, they don’t do cardio, they don’t read about the latest hot training routine and they don’t go on diets. Yet despite the fact that they don’t do any of these things, wolf cubs, lion cubs and others grow up to be skilled hunters with lean but incredibly strong bodies. Why? Because they live their lives the way nature intended, doing the activities that nature intended them to be doing without giving it any thought. It’s like this throughout nature, with all species. What does this have to do with building a better body and why should you care? A lot—and I am going to tell you why.
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Top 5 Hybrid Training Questions
by Mike Westerdal
1. Is there really such thing as type III muscle fiber?
A Type III muscle fiber is just a cool name for a hybrid type II muscle fiber that takes on traits of a type I fiber.
It’s nothing new. It’s just something a lot of people haven’t heard about.
Early adaptors of this theory included Dr. Len Schwartz who in 1995 coined the phrase “Long Strength”. Dr. Schwartz describes Long strength as “the ability to exert significant strength for an extended period of time.”
John Parrillo-the second proponent of long strength-began having his bodybuilders doing really high intensity cardio. He claimed that doing this actually altered the muscle composition. He called this form a resistance training the “100 rep extended set,” saying that it helped the body to construct more mitochondria-the muscles’ “cellular blast furnaces.” He also says that this increases muscular growth by developing the circulatory pathways that provide nourishment to the muscles.
Ori Hofmekler is the third early adopter of the long strength concept. Ori developed a weight training system that he called, “Controlled Fatigue Training.” According to Ori, this type of training was specifically designed to develop these super hybrid muscles-ones that were capable of generating and sustaining strength for extended periods.
2. Why do we want a type 3 super muscle?
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Defending the Bodybuilder?
by Mike Westerdal
Elliott is one of my best friends and we have so much in common it’s a little scary sometimes. But when it comes to his post yesterday I’m going to have to go ahead and defend bodybuilding.
Training for muscle growth or looks is the opposite of wanting to fit into skinny jeans. Go ahead and call a true bodybuilder skinny and see if they like it. And just because you want to look jacked and ripped doesn’t mean you want to be an underwear model. Arnold was pretty freakin jacked and ripped and you didn’t see him in underwear commercials. In my opinion just because someone cares about their appearance does not make them a sissy.
The post did make me re-evaluate my reasons for training. Currently these are my top three reasons for training. What about you, why do you train?
My Current Training Priorities.
- Health and Vitality has to be number one on my list. What good is being strong if I’m dead in 10 years?
- Strength. If you’re strong I agree with Elliott, the muscles will appear on their own.
- Muscle Growth/Body Fat Reduction aka aesthetics
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The Roadmap to Maximum Lean Muscle Mass
Vince Del Monte interviewed by Mike Mahon, CSCS
50-Minute Audio Interview
This is a great one to add to your collection. You do collect muscle building mp3s don’t you? I mean who doesn’t, right?
Anyway we don’t agree with the bulking and cutting talk that is discussed but do admit Vince is a pretty motivational character! He is definitely on the same wave length as us even if our training philosophies differ slightly.
Just remember to put your “earmuffs” on when he starts talking about bulking up and cutting down. There’s enough other quality content in this interview that wanted to share it with you. We just had to get that of our chest first.
Our favorite thing Vince says is, “You CAN’T get jacked training only 2 or 3x’s a week. You need to get your ass in the gym and workout! People are ridiculous.” Great quote Vince. Speaking of quotes his dad is a smart guy too…..
Here Are Some Quotes From Vince’s Dad:
“Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.”
“First you make your decisions than your decisions make you.”
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Mike’s Metabolic Typing, Carb Cycling, With a Cheat Day Meal Plan
by Mike Westerdal
A few people have been asking me specifically what my diet was like when I managed to drop so much body fat in just 8-weeks.
Seriously, you guys saw my before and after pictures. I’m not ready to step on stage by a long shot but the difference in just 8-weeks is something I’m proud of.
It’s true, I do train hard and I love doing so. But I do have something to admit.
When it comes to cooking, dieting, and counting calories I’m pretty lazy.
I don’t know why. I’d much rather perform an extra workout than pull out a measuring scale every time I have a meal.
I’m so blessed that my wife is a great cook and enjoys preparing food. Yes, I help (sometimes). Don’t get me wrong, she does have her limits though. If I told her I had to eat a certain number grams of this food and certain grams of that, she’d lose her patience quick. I’d have full time kitchen duty and the whole nutrition plan would fall apart on me real fast.
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My Cheat Day Confession
I am NOT perfect… in fact, I’ve got a TON of vices.
More than I’d like to admit.
But please tell me, did I deserved the reaction that I got from this dude?
Watch the video to see what I am talking about.
Ok, give me your honest opinion…
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I’d love to hear about your favorite “Cheat Foods” too…
Creating the Optimum Anabolic Environment podcast
by Mike Westerdal
To cut to the chase, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed and when I have a question I go to people I trust to help me figure things out. Wait a minute, that actually makes me smart
You all know I want to burn fat, stay strong and build muscle at the same time.
All these online experts were telling me it’s not possible, but I just wasn’t buying it.
I decided to contact my buddy Eric Talmant who is a functional diagnostic nutritionist and a powerlifter. He knows his stuff when it comes to nutrition and he cares about getting strong so he seemed like the best person to go to.
I had just one question for Eric.
Is it possible to build muscle and burn fat at the same time without having to religiously monitor your calories?
He, said yes and it has to do with your Anabolic Environment which is what this podcast is all about!
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Build Hybrid Muscle & Burn Fat G-Flux Style!
by Mike Westerdal
If you haven’t heard guys in the gym talking about G-Flux yet, I’m sure you will soon. What is G-Flux you ask? Although it sounds like it might be a hot new supplement, it’s not. G-Flux is actually a training and eating regimen that helps the body to burn fat while retaining—and even gaining—lean muscle mass. More accurately, G-Flux is actually the relationship between energy intake and energy expenditure. The concept of G-Flux was developed by Dr. John Berardi, a renowned human performance and nutrition expert.
You should already know that to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you take in. In the process though, most guys wind up losing lean muscle mass too—not part of the plan. On the flip side, if you want to gain weight—and muscle—you need to take in more calories than you burn. The typical scenario here is that you also end up adding a few extra pounds of unwanted fat too. Ultimately, we end up living our lives on a perpetual “see-saw,” switching from one to another, but never really being satisfied with the results. I have to admit it sucks, in the past I’ve felt either lean and weak or strong and fat.
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