Consuming Foods High In Sugar Before Training Provides Your Body With Extra Energy To Sustain Workouts

Simple sugars like sucrose don’t need to be broken down by the body’s enzymes to be used as energy as complex carbohydrates do. Therefore, they elicit a rapid release of insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. The trouble is, that the sudden, rapid influx of sugar into the system causes the body to release insulin in what must be considered a haphazard method, i.e. the amount released is usually more than what’s needed to metabolize the sugar.

Consequently, your blood sugar often temporarily drops to a point that is actually lower than it was before you had the sugar, which might cause you to become more exhausted much earlier than it normally would. Your body is then forced to dip into its glycogen reserves in order to correct the imbalance.

To ensure that you have enough energy to complete a workout, eat nutrient-rich foods with low glycemic indices (those that elicit a smooth, steady stream of sugar into the bloodstream) like barley, lentils, or beans.

All Anabolic Steroids Are Extremely Toxic And Dangerous

Here’s a good trivia question borrowed from Dan Duchaine’s Underground Steroid Handbook: if you lined up a bottle of Dianabol (a popular steroid), a bottle of Lasix (a diuretic used by heart patients and bodybuilders who want to ‘cut up’ for a competition), a bottle of Valium, a bottle of aspirin, and a bottle of Slow-K (a potassium supplement), which one, upon eating a 100 tablets, wouldn’t kill you? Well, most likely the Dianabol.

This isn’t an endorsement of steroids; it’s just an effective illustration of the stigma generally associated with all steroids: ‘they’ll give you brain tumors like Lyle Alzado . . . they’ll cause your heart to enlarge and eventually give out [they cause spontaneous decapitation. .]’. Maybe, but all steroids are different. Some are more dangerous than others. Birth control pills are steroids. Testosterone patches have been used with great success to enhance the quality of life for elderly men. Some of the steroids that bodybuilders use are very mild, and the risk associated with them is virtually negligible.

Still, there are dangerous steroids, and that’s all the more reason that athletes who choose to use them must be more knowledgeable about them. Of course, the physical changes that steroids bring about might cause adverse psychological effects in the user, and that fact shouldn’t be ignored.

If You Stop Working Out, Your Muscle Will Turn Into Fat

This is almost too preposterous to address. Muscles can no sooner turn to fat than gold can turn into a lead. Muscle is made up of individual cells–living, ‘breathing’ cells that undergo all kinds of complex metabolic processes. Fat cells simply store packets of lipids. The possibility of one changing into another is alike to the football in your storage closet turning into your Uncle Sam.

If you stop working out, if you stop applying resistance to your muscles on a consistent basis, they will simply adapt to the new condition. In other words, they’ll shrink. If the degree of inactivity or immobilization is severe, the muscles will shrink faster than the surrounding skin, and a temporary condition of loose skin might be experienced, but that too would remedy itself with time.

Ingesting MCT (Medium-Chain Triglyceride) Oils Will Give You Tons Of Energy, But They Won’t Make You Fat

MCTs first gained prominence for treating persons suffering from fat malabsorption, pancreatic deficiency, or stomach or esophageal diseases. Researchers found that MCTs, because of their better solubility and motility, underwent rapid hydrolysis by salivary, gastric, and pancreatic enzymes. Consequently, they were able to reach the liver and provide energy much more quickly than long-chain triglycerides.

There was also some evidence that MCTs reduced lipid deposition in fat stores compared with that resulting from LCTs under identical energy intake conditions. However, this is no reason to believe that ingesting these oils in excess will not result in a positive energy balance that the body stores as fat. MCTs, like regular oils, like regular fats, have nine calories per gram. Even though they are metabolized differently, using them in excessive amounts will add inches to your waistline.

If Everyone Took The Same Amount Of Steroids, Everyone Would Look Like A Professional Bodybuilder

One of the ironies of steroid use is that some people are genetically ‘gifted’ in terms of steroid receptors. That means that they have a large number of receptor sites in the muscles with which a particular steroid can combine and exert its mass-building effects. The man or woman who won the last contest might very well have the most active steroid receptors rather than being the most dedicated, knowledgeable bodybuilder. On the other hand, some people might possess very few receptors for a particular steroid. That’s why they experience very little, if any, growth on a particular steroid.

Another factor that influences receptor affinity is age. The highest receptor affinity seems to occur in the late teenage years. This is a generalization, but it seems to be true for a good number of people. Since there is a greater uptake in these individuals, they are often able to take lower dosages for longer periods of time and make better gains than older users. The truth is, two bodybuilders could take the same steroid stack, train, and eat the same, and one could turn out to be in Olympia, and the other might never even win a local contest. The difference in how people react to these drugs is incredible.

Someone With A Well-Built Body Must Be Knowledgeable About Fitness And Physique Development

Despite popular belief, just because some guy has 20″ arms or 32″ thighs, that does not automatically credential him as a bodybuilding expert. Unfortunately, in a society where looks count for so much, well-built lifters are often regarded as bodybuilding scientists. The unfortunate fact is, that many well-built athletes, even pro bodybuilders, have no idea how they got where they are.

Many of them are so genetically gifted and embellish their genetic potential even further by using tons of bodybuilding drugs that they actually succeed in spite of themselves. With few exceptions, elite bodybuilders are the last people in the world you want to turn to for bodybuilding advice if you’re genetically average like the best part of 98% of us. You’re more likely to find expert advice from someone who is just like you.