NEED2SLIN IS THE NEXT GREAT BODYBUILDING SECRET REVEALED!

Identifying the prime directive of bodybuilding is quite simple: build muscle and burn fat. Merely saying so is the easy part. Actually doing it is a whole other story. That’s because the optimal (not to mention successful) execution of the endeavor requires that you do both concomitantly.

Anyone who’s ever cinched up a lifting belt knows that’s no easy task. That’s because bodybuilding is a complete departure from what your body wants to do. Our bodies are programmed for efficiency and survival, not bodybuilding. What that means is that your body is constantly striving for an equilibrium that keeps metabolically active tissues to the bare minimum. Your body’s natural adaptive response is to rid itself of excessive metabolically active tissue (muscle) and maintain adequate energy stores (fat). In other words, it only wants what it needs. If you have ever broken a bone and been in a cast you know what I’m talking about. The adaptive response to your arm being in a cast will be atrophy after several weeks of not using it. And the lack of activity the injury caused you will likely make you a bit fatter than before the mishap.

If you’re anything like me, you are tired of buying endless pre and post workout supplements, stacking so many things on top of one another that it looks like you’re making a model of the Empire State Building! So
just imagine how pleased I was when forum member Matt Weik (Met-Rx Employee and Rx Muscle’s Met-Rx Forum Representative) presented me with a sample of the company’s new protein blend ‘PROTEIN REVOLUTION.’

"Visualize yourself hiking up a mountain...you've hiked for 45 mins and you are almost there. Would you stop 5 steps before the top of the mountain? NO!"

I love that quote from this interview with Ms Olympia contender, Zoa Linsey because it sums up what leg training HAS to be all about. It has to be taken beyond the comfort zone and into the pain zone. It HAS to be extreme and no one can accuse Zoa of cruising through a leg workout with a "let's get this done and get out of here" attitude. The legs you see in these pics are a result of hard work and extreme training....how extreme?

Have you ever performed areola donut pexy or do you not like this practice? If you do perform it, is the scarring always permanent or can it heal???

This inquiry relates specifically to male breast reduction or gynecomastia surgery, where there is an excess of skin, frequently in combination with a large areola.  And the answer is, yes, I do perform skin resection when necessary as a "donut pexy."   I have a number of patient examples of this procedure, but one that is particularly appropriate to accompany a reply on this website can be found on my site at:

Myofiber size is dynamically regulated, increasing, and decreasing depending on muscle use.  Hypertrophy is defined by increases in myofiber cross-sectional area and mass, as well as myofibrillar protein content. During muscle growth, cell surface receptors, relay signals from extracellular growth factors, hormones, and cytokines through cell surface receptors into the interior of the myofiber. These signals are then distilled through a myriad of signaling pathways to regulatory compartments known as nuclei within the myofiber.  Therein, "myonuclei" harness growth factor-induced signaling into transcriptional signatures, protein synthesis, and notably, muscle growth. Myofibers contain many hundreds of nuclei each of which has a nuclear domain