The Ultimate Drug Carbs are a drug. As with any drug, knowledge of effects—and side effects—is the only way to guarantee a positive outcome. Drugs often hit market before we’re aware of the full gamut of their effects, leaving consumers scrambling for answers, alternatives, and adjuncts. It works … [Read more...]
Excerpt: The Carb Nite Solution
March 3, 2013 By 9 Comments
Cutting Calories You can’t help but notice the methodical chanting of athletic trainers, nutritionists, and even your friends who religiously watch Dr. Oz: calories in, calories out. But what does this even mean? Sheepishly, you ask and discover their simplistic logic. Lower caloric intake to less … [Read more...]
Excerpt: The Carb Nite Solution
March 1, 2013 By 20 Comments
In advance of the reloaded edition of The Carb Nite Solution we'll be releasing later on this year, we've decided to treat you to a few excerpts. Here's the first installment: We’ve All Been There Nearly all of us have battled with our weight. For some of us, this started as early as our teens. … [Read more...]
Gold’s Gym Manifesto: What I Learned in Venice
February 27, 2013 By 7 Comments
By Monte Spicer Bodybuilding is dead. The sport is still around, and people still compete, but the atmosphere around the game isn't even close to what it used to be—and it never will be again. When I talk about training atmosphere, my frame of reference from my bodybuilding career is the time I … [Read more...]
Caffeine and Creatine
February 24, 2013 By 11 Comments
Judging by reader response, there’s been some confusion regarding creatine and caffeine use, and I want to make sure, once and for all, that everyone knows precisely what to do with both. In the series of creatine pieces we just published, I suggested that you shouldn’t take creatine with … [Read more...]
Carb Back-Loading: Training in the Morning
February 21, 2013 By 15 Comments
In the main Carb Back Loading manual, the idea of training first thing in the morning is discussed in great detail. Ideally, you’ll be able to train in the late afternoon or early evening, at around 5 PM or thereabouts. That’s the “sweet spot” that helps CBL take advantage of your body’s natural … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Guide To Creatine Supplementation Part 3
February 19, 2013 By 42 Comments
You’ve been asking for this one for a while, so here it is: Part 3—and the conclusion—of DH’s Ultimate Guide To Creatine Supplementation. At this point, assuming you’ve read the first two installments of this series—and if you haven’t, you should go back and read them now—you know more about … [Read more...]
DH Contest: Win a Free iPad!
February 15, 2013 By 2 Comments
We’re giving away two iPads. Want one? To celebrate the release of the incredible GAIN Fitness Shockwave Protocol iPhone app, we’re having a contest that doesn’t require you to do much of anything to enter. The Grand Prize? One of two fully-loaded iPads we’ve sprung for. You’ve got fourteen days … [Read more...]
The Secret Weapon: An Interview With Monte Spicer
February 13, 2013 By 3 Comments
“When you’re talking about the training of athletes, the fitness industry can be a very strange place. On one side, you have a lot of people making a lot of noise about how athletes should be trained and treated—and as it turns out, most of these people don’t actually train any athletes, and they … [Read more...]
The DH Guide to Gym Etiquette
February 12, 2013 By 13 Comments
We’d all love to live in a perfect world. Aside from everything else that’d be perfect, we’d all be able to train in private gyms, free of the ubiquitous bullshit that’s unavoidable in your typical commercial facility. You know exactly what I’m referring to when I talk about “private gyms”: those … [Read more...]
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