The results of the Project Shredded contest are in! For everyone who participated in this online contest, I seriously commend your efforts. I was in training for a competition myself and the day of my competition was about 3 days after the end of Project Shredded. Here’s what I learned: It takes an awful lot …
What is old school bodybuilding? Old school bodybuilding isn’t fancy and it isn’t complicated. It’s the meat and potatoes of building muscle and cutting up. Old school bodybuilding isn’t all about drugs as it is about DISCIPLINE! Old school is what built your body from the ground up to begin with, and if you stick …
I’m going to talk about the ABC’s of bodybuilding. What are the ABC’s of building an incredible physique? Anabolism, body recomposition, cutting. #1. ANABOLISM Let’s talk about anabolism. By definition “anabolic” means to build something, or to be in an environment to build muscle. You may consider yourself “skinny-fat” or maybe just skinny at first, …
Bodybuilding is tough, plain and simple. It takes a lot of dedication and a lot of days of doing the same routine over and over again. You wake up and eat you go to work and try to eat you try and eat again before leaving you come home and eat before the gym you …
So by now you should know that if you want to build serious muscle it takes calories. If you didn’t know this, then I’m telling you again… Calories are king when it comes to gaining mass! I’d say that the bulk of people who come to me for advice simply aren’t eating enough. I’ve been …
I was contacted recently by an individual who wanted to do his first ever Men’s physique contest. In one of his first couple emails he sort of chuckled and said “I know, I know, hold the comments.” My reply back to him was “There is no shame in that, I think it’s a great idea.” …
I got into bodybuilding because as a teenager it seemed like the most accessible way to try to become someone I liked. I didn’t realize it at the time, but looking back on everything my biggest motivation to build my body was to try to become someone special with limited resources. When I started doing …
I often get questions about women. Some of the questions relate to how bodybuilding ties in with women, also how to find the right woman, and how to find a “fit chick”. So I’m going to take some time out and address these questions and basically give you my outlook on it all. Beauty fades …
So you’re poor and you want to get shredded. Look, I’ve been there. A lot of us have been there, and sometimes it’s just life. I’ve been poor before, and I can remember certain weeks where I was forced to try cutting up because I just didn’t have the money to eat a lot. I …
I was left this comment by one of my readers… “Hello John! Thank you for posting no nonsense street smart info that actually works. This is the month of Ramadan. Around a billion people fast (eat and drink nothing) from dawn till sunset. I have found no information on the internet about how to eat to during bulking phase and …