Post Competition Rebound

For those of you who have competed a few times, you are probably well aware of the window of opportunity you have as a bodybuilder to add a great deal of muscle right after a show.  After remaining in a relative calorie deficit for weeks and months, your muscles are depleted and ready to absorb [...]

Pre-Contest Diet Approach

As I mentioned in a previous post, I realize I’m doing this backward and should have posted this stuff as I was approaching my competition, but I didn’t do that.  So here is what I did:  On January 1, 2008 I began cleaning my diet up.  By this I mean I cut out junk food [...]

“The Slingshot”

Back in the early to mid 1990’s, there was a bodybuilding magazine called Muscle Media 2000.  It was sort of an underground publication that, in my opinion, was on the cutting edge of bodybuilding diet, nutrition, and supplementation strategies.  The guys who began it later began a supplement company called EAS who brought creatine monohydrate [...]