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The Best Chest Exercises You Have Never Heard Of by Nick Nilsson

If you want to build some massive muscle and super strength in your chest, then you've got to read Nick Nilsson's latest ebook, The Best Chest Exercises You Have Never Heard Of. It's chock-full of the best exercises you have never seen for building a powerful chest!

Nick, known as the Mad Scientist, is well-known for inventing new exercises that are not only unique, but - much more importantly - effective at building muscle size and strength.

You should really check it out.

Nick Nilsson's The Best Chest Exercises

Eggs - They Are Not Just for Breakfast Any More!

In the bodybuilder's quest to pack on muscle mass, he or she often finds it very difficult to consume enough protein to effect the size and strength gains he or she wants. Even using the Gallon of Milk a Day program, it can be difficult to choke down the 2 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight it takes to build muscle.

Enter the lowly egg.

To learn more about how to incorporate eggs into your mass-building program, check out How to Consume More Protein Without Supplements.

Real Man Muscle

Ever heard of a guy with the funny name of Zach Even-Esh? He's the author of REAL Man Muscle and if he's any indication, his system flat-out works! He is an animal - lean, ripped, muscular, and HUGE!

His REAL Man Muscle system is based on 15-minute workouts that anybody can do. He prescribes body weight exercises, stone carryingn, and lots of dumbbell work. You can literally go to the park and do a complete workout in 15 minutes or less.

And I love his delivery! He's your typical "gym rat" ("No pain no gain, pussy!") - he delivers his course in a frank, "get-in-your-face" manner. I love it! Takes me back to the day when I was training with guys twice my size! They were tough dudes, but as nice and helpful as can be.

Zach seems the same way. He truly does want you to succeed in your muscle-building and body-fat-shedding objectives. In fact, he devised the REAL Man Muscle system when he was down and out, drowning in debt, and working his tail off trying to put food on his family's table! He didn't have time for marathon sessions in the gym anymore.

Sound familiar? It does to me, too! Give his system a try. It's backed by a 60-day, No-Questions-Asked Money Back Guarantee.

Pressed for Time? Here's a Killer Workout

We're often short of time for our workouts. Work, family, and other commitments take up a lot of time (and deservedly so) - and since there are only 24 hours in a day, we must figure out ways to work out AND sleep!

The best workouts, by far, are brief. A standard rule of thumb is do more in less time. But how much time is enough? It is my firm belief that you can get a lot of work done in 10-15 minutes!

What?

Yeah, 15 minutes or so. You see, a lot of us go to the gym to fraternize or show people how strong we are. We grunt and groan, using poor form, and crushing our joints in the process.

Way back when, guys like Serge Nubret used to bench press 150-200 pounds, tops. They made light weights heavy by using strict form and slow, deliberate movements. This not only saved their joints, but it also made them "feel" the weight.

In short, they made the mind-to-muscle connection. This is key to building muscle. You gotta feel it.

Jon Benson, in 7 Minute Muscle, knows this; in fact, he's built a killer workout system based on 7, 14, and 21 minute durations. His system is built completely around the mind-muscle connection. If you want to build a killer body without killing yourself in the gym, you have to check out 7 Minute Muscle!

The short story: Work one major muscle group per work out and workout every day.

Ways to Get Stronger

Many bodybuilders and people seeking to build their muscles don't think in terms of strength training, whereas most athletes want to maximize their strength. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive.

In fact, they're inseparable. If you gain muscle, you no doubt will gain some strength. And the opposite is equally true: If you gain strength, you will gain some mass.

Muscles get stronger because they have to. Place greater loads on them and they're forced to adapt. While a lot of strength gains come from building a better link between the mind and muscles, some of it does come because the individual muscle fibers have gotten stronger; their contractile ability has been increased.

Take a look at some of the top bodybuilders of all time. Guys like Arnold, Franco Columbu, and Lou Ferrigno were (and still are) some of the strongest guys on the planet. In fact, both Arnold and Franco were weightlifting champions before they became bodybuilders.

I can remember both Franco and Ferrigno competing in the Worlds's Strongest Man competitions and doing very well. Back then, bodybuilders were thought of as weak.

They were by no means weak.

Some would argue that building strength is a prerequisite of building muscle, and I would agree. My own personal story was one of wanting to build muscle and "only" gaining strength. But the added strength I achieved enabled me to build muscle faster because I could lift heavier weights in my bodybuilding routines. The strength comes first. The muscle comes later, especially if you're a hard gainer like me.

For the budding bodybuilder as well as for the strength trainer just starting out, I'd suggest getting as strong as you can in the exercises you will build upon. For power lifters, this would be bench presses, deadlifts, and squats, as well as some isolation moves that build strength in the supporting muscles. For bodybuilders, add in isolation movements like curls, presses of all kinds, shrugs, rows, dips, and pull-ups.

The surefire way to measure progress in your bodybuilding and strength routines is to monitor the weights you lift. The muscle size gains will follow with proper nutrition and rest.

How to Build Muscle Guides

Get a sneak preview of my latest site, Muscle-Building Guide Reviews. In the coming days, I'll add more muscle-building systems. This will be the definitive place to go for guides about building muscle,  losing fat, and getting buffed, ripped, and fit.

Introducing the Hard Gainer's Manifesto

I'm working on a brief that will blast your muscle-building efforts into the stratosphere. Unlike most of the muscle-building systems out there (see Muscle-Building-Guide-Reviews for more information about these very comprehensive "One Size Fits All" programs), the Hard Gainer's Manifesto will concentrate on muscle-growth in people who can't seem to gain muscle no matter what they do.

I know what it's like to be a hard gainer. Muscle growth didn't occur rapidly (I daresay any at all) for me. That is, until I figured out the secret, which I'll reveal to you in the Hard Gainer's Manifesto.

This report will be brief, to the point, and most importantly -- EFFECTIVE!

It's no joke, I practiced bodybuilding for nearly 20 years before I figured out how to gain muscle mass (I'm a slow learner, but you can benefit from my failures). But when I did finally "get it" (the lightbulb burst on), I gained 60 pounds of solid muscle in a year!

Yes, 60 pounds in one year. Without drugs. Without HOURS in the gym. Without paying thousands of dollars for a personal trainer.

You can do this, too. Now, I can't guarantee that you'll pack on 60 pounds. You may not want to. It's up to you. The cool thing about bodybuilding in general, and what you'll find out in the Hard Gainer's Manifesto, is that if you get "too big" you can stop.

It's really that simple.

So head on over and sign up to be notified about when the Hard Gainer's Manifesto will be released. You'll be glad you did.

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How To Build Muscle FAST

I've written an article that got published at Article Base called How To Build Muscle As Fast As Possible.

It lays out the exercise plan and the meal plan. Feel free to substitute any of the isolation movements and any of the food, as long as it's high protein, low carbohydrate! It's a simple plan to follow but it requires some High Intensity Training (HIT) and some real dedication to eggs and milk and a LOT of supplements!

Not saying you could look like Arnold in his prime, but you can pack on the muscle faster with this method than any other. Give it a try for 4-6 weeks. It's a month of your time invested in the most-proven weight gaining plan ever devised.

How Barack Obama Can Bulk Up for the Presidency

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has a lot going for him: He's leading the polls, he's smart, athletic, and confident. But he's missing something: Heft.

Mr Obama is clearly a very good athlete and practices good eating habits. He's especially fit.

But he's just too narrow. He needs to build some delts! Especially if he's going to go shoulder-to-shoulder with guys like Putin.

To build wider delts, Barack needs to develop the lateral head of the deltoid. He should do the following:

1. Start off with slightly-bent knees and an ever-so-slight bend forward at the waist. Grap two dumbbells, not very heavy. Now, with slightly-bent arms, slowly raise the dumbbells from your sides up to a parallel position, making a "T." Do 12 reps.
   
2. Immediately after finishing #1, move right into dumbbell presses, with a twist. Start with the dumbbells as if you just finished a curl (palms facing you). Then raise the bars while simultaneously rotating your palms and elbows in a semi-circle such that your palms, at full extension, are facing away from you. Do 12 reps
3. Repeat until your delts are crying, "JOHN MCCAIN!!!!"
   

This combination, or superset, pre-exhausts your lateral delts and ties in your laterals with the front delts, effectively building a broader set of shoulders.

I believe that if Barack Obama had followed this plan six months ago, he'd be up by 3 percent more in the polls!

He just doesn't look tough enough to take on the world. This work-out will give him the breadth of shoulder that every effective leader needs to rule the free world!

This is all said in jest, of course. But he does need bigger shoulders!

For more work-out routines, bodybuilding information, and muscle-building tips, take a cruise over to Muscle-Build.com, where you can find more exercise routines to build bigger arms, thighs, chest, and back.