The 5 Biggest Mistakes Skinny Guys Make When Bulking Up
When it comes to bulking up, many skinny guys get frustrated because they're doing all they can to build muscle but not seeing the results they feel they deserve. Can you relate?
The almighty Argentine asado
For Argentinians, Asados are more than a meal, they're a ceremony. Men huddled around the fire sipping on fine wine, giving their 10 cents on how it should be done. The women making the side dishes. More often than not it's a 2 gusto salad, 3 if you're lucky. If you're honored enough to be invited into the home of an Argentine. Take this advice: you are a guest, take wine, eat whatever is given to you, empty your plate, enjoy the experience and say thank you!
Clean Bulking vs Dirty Bulking: Which is best for muscle growth?
Bulking refers to a gradual increase in the number of calories you take in combined with intense weight training. Any calorie intake beyond what your body needs to maintain your current bodyweight is a calorie surplus that your body can then use to build muscle. But which is better, clean or dirty bulking? We have the answers!
Lean Bulking: How to Bulk Up Without Gaining Fat
Going down the route of a lean bulk is much more sustainable in the long run than your more traditional bulk up and cut cycles. It ensures that you get everything you want and need without packing in calories for calories' sake and turning yourself into a literal human garbage disposal.
The Skinny Guy Bulk up guide: Count Macros not Calories!
Welcome fellow Ectomorphs. If you're seeking refuge from the constant barrage of weight loss and dieting programs trying to convince you that happiness, skinniness, and health are one and the same, then you've come to the right place.
The Skinny guy's bulk up guide: diet and exercise
Bulking up for most guys can be difficult. For ectomorphs, it can feel damn near impossible. Fortunately, there is some good news. With careful planning, consistency, and our simple step by step guide to eating and training for weight gain, it’s well within your reach.
The notorious Carbohydrates - How much is too much?
Carbohydrates are energy! They are the sugars, starches and fibers found in fruit, grains, vegetables and milk products. They are one of three macronutrients (Carbs, Protein, and fat) and are essential for proper body function. So why the bad name!? Let’s find out.
Muscle Growth: 12 Essential tips to build more muscle
As men, it's only natural to want to look bigger and stronger, but with so much inaccurate information out there, knowing what to believe, what to do, and where to start can feel overwhelming. Here are 12 Essential tips to building more muscle mass!
Female Hormones and Weight Loss: Let’s Talk about Estrogen
If despite your best efforts to lose weight, the number on the scale won’t budge, It could be that your hormones are to blame. Here’s what you need to know about Estrogen.
8 Health benefits of home cooking
Great things come to those who prioritise their diet and if you want to be healthier, wealthier, more energetic, reduce the risk of life-threatening diseases, have better sex and lose weight, it's time you put on your chef's hat and get cooking.
5 Reasons to avoid crash diets
You’ve decided that 2018 is going to be the year you get a killer bod. Now while you may be contemplating doing a crash diet in an attempt to swiftly lose weight, I advise you to proceed with extreme caution. Not only are crash diets soul destroying and highly unsustainable, they can be terrible for your health.
11 steps to stick to a diet
For anyone that has done a diet in the past knows, it's far from easy. It takes motivation, patience, consistency and a lot of self-control. Thankfully there are some steps you can take, 11 to be precise that can make sticking to a diet a whole lot easier.
15 superfoods you should be eating!
Eating a variety of fresh and healthy foods can boost your energy levels, mood, life expectancy and even make you look great, but what is a superfood and what are the 15 you should be eating? Let's take a look at the list.
Eat this not that – delicious food substitutes for weight loss
By making smarter food choices, you can cut down on calories and lose weight almost effortlessly whilst still enjoying a variety of delicious and healthy foods. Here are some of the best food substitutes for weight loss.
6 nutrition myths - BUSTED!
From eating fat makes you fat to carbs are the devil. Mainstream nutrition is full of baloney. We take a look at 6 of the most popular nutritional myths and bust them.