Steve Marteski

Physique and Performance Research

Pragmatic and Practical Diet and training advice

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If you aren't growing, you probably haven't reached your "Intensity Tipping Point"

If you aren't growing, you probably haven't reached your "Intensity Tipping Point"

ARE YOU TRAINING HARD ENOUGH? Probably Not! The one thing that I can't explain to people is intenity in the gym, But I will try to here.......Intensity is comepletely subjective..and many people THINK they are training very intensely, but really they aren't doing enough to stimulate the muscle to grow. Behind inadequate diet, lack of gym intensity/progressive overload is the single biggest roadblock to people gaining muscle...Someone may go to the gym every day even train to

Stop dieting! Over-dieting is worse than over-training

Stop dieting! Over-dieting is worse than over-training

Perhaps the #1 biggest long term mistake those of us with uber-motivation in fitness make is to diet too hard and for too long. A diet is meant to be just that, a reduction or change in the food we eat in order to accomplish a goal. If we “diet” all the time, then we aren’t really dieting at all. At what point is a diet no longer a diet, and it is just 'the way you eat'? Just like we can over-train and decrease our performance, recovery and inhibit muscle growth, we can also

Dieting is all about preserving muscle, not losing weight

Dieting is all about preserving muscle, not losing weight

Dieting is much more about conserving muscle than it is about losing fat….The process of just losing weight is very straight forward…You burn more calories than you take in, and off it comes..And this can be done simply by eating less and less….While this is not always easy physically and psychologically, physiologically it is extremely simple, and anyone can do it, given enough reason….All you must do is look at the pictures we see of emaciated people in impoverished countri

HOW OFTEN SHOULD I TRAIN A MUSCLE GROUP FOR MAXIMUM GROWTH??......

HOW OFTEN SHOULD I TRAIN A MUSCLE GROUP FOR MAXIMUM GROWTH??......

Generally speaking, the more often you can target a muscle, the quicker it will improve......So in a perfect world, you would be able to train a muscle group, eat, then train it again and get in multiple sessions per day, the more training/recovery sessions you can get in, the more you grow.....With that said, the limiting factor to this is the body/muscle needs to recover and repair itself before the next time it is targeting, which I have noticed varies widely from person t

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