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Weight Training Shoes Choosing
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Weight Training Shoes Choosing

Importance of Proper Footwear for Weight TrainingThe importance and influence of footwear during weight training is very often overlooked and ignored by most bodybuilders and weight trainers, whether they are at the amateur or elite level. Proper footwear is vital in preventing injury as well as in allowing for proper form and balance, especially in [...]


Front Barbell Press Shoulder Exercise
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Front Barbell Press Shoulder Exercise

Other variations of the overhead press are: Military press: Heels together with strict form. It is called the “Military Press” because this movement used to be the general indicator or test of one’s strength in the military. Olympic press:also known as clean and press, lift used in Olympic Weightlifting, consists of a clean, then pressing [...]


Motivation Of Kristal Martin
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Motivation Of Kristal Martin

My name is Kristal Martin and I’m an IFBB Bikini Pro and Optimum Nutrition/American Bodybuilding Sponsored Athlete…but more importantly I am a daughter, sister, aunt, friend and girlfriend. I have lived all over the country and moved around a lot (8 states to be exact), but I will pretty much always call Florida “home”. Growing [...]


Training Systems Of Bodybuilding
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Training Systems Of Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding vs WeightliftingThe main difference is that the volume of training of a weightlifter is different to that of a bodybuilder. In all the exercises undertaken by as weightlifter (with the exclusion of the squat), there is no eccentric movement in weightlifting. Say a lifter did 10 sets of two reps in the snatch, not [...]


Interview Of Toney Freeman
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Interview Of Toney Freeman

So where were you born?I was born on August 30, 1966 in South Bend, Indiana, very close to Notre Dame University. I lived in Indiana until I was 13; then in 1979, I moved to Alabama, then to Savannah, Georgia. In 1983, I moved to Atlanta. I’ve been in Atlanta ever since.Do you have any [...]


Interview Of King Kamali
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Interview Of King Kamali

How did you feel you placed at the IFBB New York Pro competition? I will answer this in a two-fold process. How I feel how I placed, and how I feel how I looked? My placing after prejudging – I personally thought I was anywhere between 4th and 5th. Nothing past 5th. I thought it [...]


Joe & Ben Weider Built their Empire History
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Joe & Ben Weider Built their Empire History

This article tells about the early years of Joe and Ben Weider; how they started in bodybuilding; how they built the business; and much more. It also responds to the accusations against Weider by Alan Klein. The article was written by Tim Hoxha, and was featured in Flex Magazine, September 1995 issue. If you think [...]


Active and fit in your 40′s and 50′s
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Active and fit in your 40′s and 50′s

Babyboomers, the legendary generation that challenged our view of youth in the 1960′s are at it again. Born between 1946 and 1964 the oldest boomers are rapidly approaching the age of sixty. And it is clear they intend to pass this milestone on their own terms with regard to health and fitness. When it comes [...]


Fitness Terms And Misc. Bodybuilding
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Fitness Terms And Misc. Bodybuilding

AAUAmateur Athletic Union. At one time, the AAU controlled the Mr. Universe, Mr. America, weightlifting and powerlifting contests, but that situation has changed in the last two decades. Now, this federation runs some bodybuildings shows in the Northeast USA.ABAAmateur Bodybuilding Association. An organization located in California which considers itself the ‘fastest growing amateur bodybuilding association [...]


Amino Acids & Bodybuillding
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Amino Acids & Bodybuillding

Why do so many bodybuilders know so little about amino acids and protein, the differences in their form and the best times to ingest them? With nothing less that optimal muscle growth at stake, time invested in a little research can pay big dividends – both in terms of physical size and dollars saved. Amino [...]


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