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Natural Healings: Boost Your Body’s Self-Recovery Abilities!

Chiropractic is basically the realignment of the spinal column to fit the optimal position for nerve signalling, organ function and pain relief. As the spine is the main highway for nerve signals to the entire body, this implies a lot of things. Firstly, if your spine isn’t in its proper position, your spinal nerves could be pinched, restricting your nervous system’s function and causing other ailments.

So how does chiropractic help us fitness lovers in our pursuit for a better body? If you know how the muscle-building process works, you would know that when we’re pushing our physical limits in the gym, we’re actually breaking down our muscles. And when we eat and sleep, our bodies fix themselves, repairing the muscle damage and making it stronger. Chiropractic treatments can adjust the body to its most natural and optimal musculoskeletal position, allowing optimal mobility and recovery.

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EnergyOne Presents Energy Rush – 10pm to 1am, 8 Aug, SAFRA Toa Payoh

Listen up fitness enthusiasts and lifters in Singapore. On 8 August, SAFRA EnergyOne will be hosting Energy Rush, a fitness event where participants get to train and interact with local bodybuilding & fitness icons, participate in challenges with prizes and sample free drinks & products!

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Why You Should Avoid Herbalife’s Fit Club Like A Plague

So recently I noticed tonnes of people spam promoting this thing called Fit Club on Facebook. And I even received a flyer at my doorstep. Fit Club is a mass outdoor training group created by Herbalife and promoted by their distributors. Here’s one of their flyers.

Before I go on to explain why anyone who really wants to get into their best shape should avoid Fit Club, I’m going to give credit to Herbalife/Fit Club because despite everything I feel wrong about them, they have actually achieved something.

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How To Maintain Muscle Mass During Ramadan

During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are required to fast from sunrise to sunset. Thus, Muslim athletes would be highly concerned about maintaining their muscle mass and performance during this Holy Month. As a non-Muslim, I couldn’t truly say that I have experienced fasting and I that I know how to maintain muscle mass while fasting. However, I’ve interviewed some of my friends who practice fasting and are top competitive athletes. And here are their recommendations.

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First and foremost, it is important to note that the changes I’m making to my training and nutrition are what I feel suited for myself in the month of Ramadhan and might vary from individual to individual.

Let’s address my training routine first. My training time will be around 9 pm during the month of Ramadhan. Personally I feel, it is impossible to put on size during this month, so the best I can do for myself is to maintain/keep whatever gains I’ve made from the past months. My main goal in each workout is then to let blood flow into the exercised muscles and feel the ‘pump’ without overtraining (or training until failure). My training frequency will be about 4-5 times in a week, about 1 hour to 1 1/2 hour each time.

With regards to my nutrition, I will still ensure that my body receive enough macronutrients to hold my current muscle mass. This means that I will still break my fast with lean meat and complex carbohydrates and the same meal-plan after my workout at night. For the last meal before I start my fast, I will definitely include a serving of casein and a big bowl of steel cut oats. Most importantly, our muscles consist of 75% water, hence it is important to keep myself hydrated as much as possible. This means I will be drinking water (if possible with some sea salt to hold the water) when I break fast and when I start the fast. Occasionally, I will include watermelon to help keep myself hydrated, and to satisfy my sweet tooth as well.

Train hard, be consistent, be humble, and put your faith in God.

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Why You Should Never “Dirty Bulk”

 

 

Dirty bulk is vaguely defined as building muscle aggressively without any caring about how much fat you’ll gain along the way. Some people do it. And others prefer “lean bulking”, which means gaining muscle mass with minimal fat gain. I’m against dirty bulking. In my opinion, if you’re a bodybuilder, your goals are always to build or maintain as much muscle mass as possible while losing or maintaining as little fat as possible. It’s just that when you’re bulking, building muscle mass takes top priority and when you’re cutting, you focus on losing fat. However, you never totally abandon a goal while focusing on the other.

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Top 8 Tips To Maximize Hypertrophy By Australian Strength Performance

Australian Strength Performance is a Melbourne-based performance centre that focuses on providing its clients with the the most science & experience backed training and nutrition programs. It was founded by Benjamin Siong. During his career Ben has worked with champion state and national athletes, bodybuilders and fitness models, including Miss Universe Australia 2011. However, it is his expertise in creating remarkable physiques in record time that has earned him the signature title of Body Composition Specialist.

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The Muscle Women Of Singapore

As a bodybuilder myself, I understand the sacrifices and difficulties one have to go through to obtain the perfect physique. Therefore, I respect all my brothers who are in this sport along with me. However, I have even higher respect for my sisters in the sport too, because other than just the strict diet and intense training, they have to face something we male bodybuilders will not – social stigma and also their not-so-anabolic natural hormonal environment.

Still, against all odds, Singapore somehow is able to produce a disproportionately high number of successful female bodybuilders. In this article I have a chance to interview three very successful and up-and-coming female bodybuilders. Read about their diet, training and their views on female bodybuilding and society.

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