By Pete Owen on Friday, November 7, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
There is very little disputing the fact that breakfast and the post workout meal are the 2 most important meals in a bodybuilder’s day. Breakfast is important because you have literally been fasting for 7-8 hours whilst sleeping Read more »
By Pete Owen on Friday, November 7, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
Imagine you are driving in the middle of nowhere. You are running low on petrol. When you go up hill you notice the car begins to judder and cough a little. You get back on the flat, but no sooner have you given a sigh of relief than your car starts juddering and coughing profusely [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Thursday, November 6, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
The whole damn bodybuilding world is protein mad. There a literally a million and one protein supplements to choose from – each claiming to be the best, with added ingredients you simply must have for incredible muscle gains… Read more »
By Pete Owen on Thursday, November 6, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
They say you are what you eat, but you are also what your lifestyle is. If 2 people of equal beginning size both ate 3,500 calories over their maintenance level each and every week for 6 months, yet one was sedentary while the other lifted weights regularly, what do you think the outcome would be? Read more »
By Pete Owen on Wednesday, October 15, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
Although those who are obese are often desperate to lose weight, probably the biggest and most overlooked group of people are those on the other end of the coin – those who are very skinny and desperate to gain weight. In this article, I’m going to address just what you need to do to gain [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Thursday, October 9, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
Building muscle can be done in a few ways, but, without doubt, the most common way is to do it in cycles of bulking and cutting. This is known as periodization, when periods of time are spent on performing a specific task, before switching, to perform another task.
What is bulking and cutting? Read more »
By Pete Owen on Tuesday, October 7, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression: ‘you are what you eat’ and that is true to a certain extent. If you overeat, you’ll become fat. If you under eat, you’ll become skinny. But, if you eat a burger once in a while – you will not become a burger (not even once in a while.) Read more »
By Pete Owen on Tuesday, October 7, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
One of the most common questions that crops up with regards to bodybuilding diet is how much protein should a person eat? Read more »
By Pete Owen on Sunday, October 5, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
This is going to be one hell of a controversial article, but, I guess it couldn’t be any other way when addressing this very real issue.
I’ve seen many people in recent years wondering why, and asking why there are so many fat people these days. Just what happened to make just about everyone overweight? Read more »
By Pete Owen on Saturday, September 13, 2008Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
Bodybuilding has two gears… building muscle, or losing fat. We’re either getting bigger, or getting smaller, in one way or another. In an ideal world, a bodybuilder wouldn’t have to cut, because everything he ate would be used for pure muscle growth, and the remainder would disappear into thin air rather than the reality of [...] Read more »