By Jeff Anderson For those people trying (struggling?) to gain weight and build muscle mass, you know that your nutrition program is a key factor. But not all food is created equal. In fact, there’s a secret underground legion of do-gooders that faithfully join together to come to the aid of frustrated hardgainers and take [...]

By Mike GearyCertified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist Ideas for healthy post-workout shakes to help build muscle and enhance fat loss As you’ve probably heard before, your post-workout meal may very well be your most important meal of the day. The reason is that when you’re finished with an intense workout, you’re entering a catabolic [...]

By Sean Nalewanyj “Gain 10 pounds of muscle in 3 days” the large advert in that muscle building magazine promises you. A model with massive muscles, grinning at you, and a couple of before and after pictures have you hooked. Strategically placed phrases like “scientifically proven” and “the secret professionals use” will make you reach [...]

By Vince DelMonte Here are four ‘little known’ how-to-action-steps that will force you to GAIN WEIGHT – musle mass that is, even if you are underweight! Are you sick and tired of people telling you how to gain weight. It probably sounds like this: “All you have to do is eat, eat and eat some [...]

By Mike GearyCertified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist In most of my Lean-Body Secrets Newsletters, I like to provide a healthy snack or meal recipe that not only is delicious and healthy, but also helps to get you closer to that hard-body appearance that everyone is looking for, while also more importantly, improving your health [...]

By Tom Venuto QUESTION: Tom, I’m really confused about eggs. I’m not even sure if you’re going to be able to answer this or not, but to me and I’m sure others, it’s a very confusing and important topic. I only use egg whites because I did believe that the yolks are bad because of [...]

By Jeff Anderson “Vegetarian bodybuilding diet”?!  Are you CRAZY?! You can’t build muscle without meat! (Can you?) Well not many people know that I was a lacto-vegetarian bodybuilder for 8 years before I bit into a Big Mac during one of my wife’s pregnancy cravings and was brought to the “Dark Side”. But while I’m [...]

[ Editor's Note:  Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. ] Want to know what your real odds are of having a heart attack? How about a stroke? Diabetes? Okay, this isn’t sounding like a positive letter… but hang in there. It gets a [...]

by Mike GearyCertified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer You’ve been deceived into thinking that saturated fats are bad for you, but let’s look at some facts below… I’ll preface this article by saying that it will help if you have an open mind and accept that some of these facts are a slap in the [...]

By Tom Venuto QUESTION: Tom, I’ve been reading your stuff for years and I also read a lot of other sites and message boards including some of the low carb boards. I have finally come to the conclusion, both from all my reading and my personal experience, that the idea that one will lose weight [...]