Real Muscle Building

Tired of the B.S., hype, lies and gloss associated with muscle building? Welcome to the world of real muscle building. The real world of results, setbacks, juggling jobs and training and staying-motivated. You won’t find any glamour here, just the real deal.

Day Off To Regroup

After another lousy nights sleep (I didn’t manage to fall asleep until gone 5:00am), which resulted in me getting up late feeling muggy and lethargic, and seriously behind in my diet, I’ve decided to have the day off. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on June 6th, 2008 in Blog

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A Bit Naff

Today didn’t go too good. I can’t say I’m surprised, really. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on June 4th, 2008 in Blog

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Good Ol’ May

Well, it’s the end of the month. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on May 31st, 2008 in Blog

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Not Bad, Not Bad

I was pretty apprehensive about benching today, it being the first time since I experienced pain in my right shoulder early last week. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on May 21st, 2008 in Blog

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No Pain, But Strength Gain

With my shoulder not in the best shape recently, today I was expecting to have a pretty lousy workout – especially since my scheduled workout involved a lot of shoulder work. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on May 19th, 2008 in Blog

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Shoulder Clicking Like A Mouse Button

For around 3 years, stemming from a bit of an accident, I’ve had what you could call an iffy shoulder, and while the pain took a long while to subside, it’s started to creep back in now I’ve started training. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on May 16th, 2008 in Blog

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Shock Ya Body, MIC Check 1,2

Yeah, I know it’s “roc” rather than “shock”, but the latter suits the purposes of this post much better – and makes me look like one smart geezer too, I hope…
Anyway, recently I received a comment on an article I wrote on building biceps in which the commenter mentioned “static contraction training”. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on May 9th, 2008 in Blog

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It Was A Good Day

Yesterday I trained late, around 4PM. I’ve tried this before, and I felt very sluggish and wished I’d worked out earlier. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on May 3rd, 2008 in Blog

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I Need To Eat More Calories

I’ve been stuck for a while now. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on April 26th, 2008 in Blog

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The Good And The Bad

So where have I been? Nowhere really. I was out all last week – again – unfortunately. (…)

Posted by Mr. X on April 18th, 2008 in Blog

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