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Body Transformation: Zsolt Pajer Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I have been working out since I was 16, but never took it seriously, and never paid attention to the meals. In 2007 I had a small surgery and was not allowed to lift anything heavy, nor could I do any cardio for a year....
Body Transformation: Zach Stubbs Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change If I had one word to describe myself during those days it would be careless. I ate everything that could add inches to my waist without the first thought that it was truly destroying my gym efforts. I was overconfident in that imagining I could do things my own way and get...
Unsatisfied With Results? Make A Plan, Take Action
These are the realest words I've ever written. What if? You are out of shape. You are broke. You are weak. You are unhappy. You hate your job. You are with the wrong person. You are frustrated. You are stressed. You are overweight. You are underweight. You are aging faster than you should. Your life...
Training The Subconscious To Maximize Your Success
The mind is something that most people don’t really try to change. We look at it as something that was already programmed and given to us to use for our journey in life. A lot of people pass off their thought processes as a part of their personality. They can't help the way they are. They want to ch...
Harnessing Motivation: The Secret to Training for Both Physical & Mental Health
How do you choose your workouts? Do you follow a predetermined workout program, or do you wing it depending on how you feel each day? Do you perform specific exercises because your coach told you to, or do you switch them up when you’re feeling like doing something different? There are many reasons...
Body Transformation: Tracy Fenske Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I ate out a ton. Ate a lot of processed foods, Hamburger Helper, Mac and Cheese, fried foods, drank 3 to 4 times a week, smoked a half pack of cigarettes a day. Did not exercise and did a lot of yo-yo dieting. What was your turning point? I was at a friend’s wedding when...
ISYMFS: Top 9 CT Fletcher Workout Videos Of 2014
#ISYMFS! Here are CT Fletcher's top 10 ranking workout videos from 2014. Videos are pulled from content created only during the current year and are ranked in terms of video views. Videos created prior to 2014 are not included. #1 - Hulk Smash! Ct Fletcher introduces you to "Da Hulk" #2 - Bonus...
Through Commitment I Will Be A Champion
Motivation is over rated, it's a surface level emotion. To change your body and life, a person needs to make a commitment. "There is no doubt that we make many commitments - such as commitments to our employer, our spouse or significant other, our parents, our friends, etc. However, the most importa...
10 Inspirational & Motivational Quotes From Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
If you grew up in the late 90s it's almost a guarantee that you've heard or said that famous catchphrase: "Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?" While wrestling may not have been everyone's cup of tea, it's hard to admit that you haven't come across Dwayne Johnson on the big screen, be it in the...
The Mind Is Everything
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha Even 2500 years ago, one man and his followers believed undeniably that the mind conquers all. I once took an Eastern Civilization class where I found myself connected to the Buddha’s ideas and ways of living. I had always known that wh...
Team MusclePharm Tearing Up Instagram: 14 Awesome Pics
At MusclePharm we practice what we preach and that holds true for every MusclePharm athlete. This includes everyone from our Co-Founder Cory Gregory to the iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger (also see Arnold Schwarzenegger workout) to C.T. Fletcher, NFL stars Colin Kaepernick and Laron Landry and more. Th...
Body Transformation: Tammy Ramos Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior my pregnancy, I didn't have much of any concern for a healthy lifestyle. I was always skinny and never watched what I ate. Nachos, pizza, burgers! Lol. Age and the baby made it finally catch up to me! What was your low point or turning point? A short time after I had...
Tap Into Your Biggest Success Resource
The reason behind the name of this article was to give the idea that there is more to a strong and healthy body then what you do in the gym. Yes, being physically fit is a powerful foundation but you have to think about the big picture. To me being the strongest, fastest, most powerful version of yo...
Are You Swole, Jacked Or Yoked?
Are you swole, jacked or yoked? Let's take a look at modern lifting lingo and see what it says about your physique. Words like meathead, yoked and swole are everyday words to us bros who lift weights. (Do you even lift?) But to the regular schmoe, or to the iron game newb, these words can make no se...
15 Celebrity Dads With The Best Real DadBods
For whatever reason, this year "dadbods" are all the rage. Used to described someone who isn't 100% shredded but also isn't overweight, the term is popular for describing very casual gym-goers (little to none) who can put down a six-pack of brews and a large 2-topping pizza by themselves any night o...
Stop Being "Good Enough": Build The Mentality Of A Champion
Do You Have “Good Enough” Syndrome? My high school basketball coach always used to say “Everyone loves to win, but not everyone truly hates to lose. Those that hate to lose are the ones that will eventually win.” This statement has always stuck with me because it holds true with all areas of life, a...
Body Transformation: Steven Mott Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I was VERY unhealthy. In high school I was 195 pounds standing at just under 5’5”, So I was a pretty big kid. The only sports I played were through a PlayStation. I pretty much ate nothing but junk food and drank pop like it was water. I should have watched my diet more...
Body Transformation: Stephanie Althea Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? Prior to my transformation, my lifestyle was shameful, and a reflection of how I felt about myself. I was stuck in a cycle of emotional eating; stuffing my face, feeling guilty about it, and stuffing it some more to quie...
Body Transformation: Stephanie Fischer Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior to my change I would still hit the gym about 4 times a week but the difference in how I was working out has changed dramatically as has my diet. I used to go and focus on cardio, lifting weights was like extra and I would do it without any plan. I didn't do sets. I ju...
Sports Psychology: Developing Your Mental Strength And Inner Leader
It takes a special kind of mentality in this world to be a leader. It doesn’t come as a surprise that leadership and innovation are rare and prized qualities since much of society is structured to operate around these individuals. For example, most workplaces have a general manager (read: leader) th...
Body Transformation: Shani Mojica Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Before I began my fight to be fit I felt like a slug. My energy levels were often low and my eating was sporadic and full of sugars, coffee and weekend alcohol binges. Consciously, I was always thinking about fitness but my efforts to lose weight would culminate in the fo...
Body Transformation: Shaun Dillon Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Before my transformation I was a typical guy in his mid-twenties. In high school I played a lot of sports and was always in great shape, but after school I started college at Ohio State and continued to lift weights on occasion, but I did no cardio and ate whatever I wanted...
Body Transformation: Shane Stadtmueller Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I have always led a very active lifestyle, whether is be playing sports such as basketball or soccer, enjoying the outdoors snowboarding, hiking, running, biking, water sports, or in the gym lifting weights. When I go...
Setting Goals: A Realistic Approach to Consistent Gains
Everywhere I look, I see training information geared towards the hardcore. There’s nothing wrong with this – we all need motivation. The problem comes when examining the population of people who are actually reading and taking this information to heart. 9 times out of 10, they’re novice lifters who...