Young elite athletes are infatuated with sports supplements. But when it comes to their anxious coaches and protective parents, where's the common ground? We open a round-table debate that covers all sides of this controversial topic...
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BEEF UP!
Here's everything you need to know to make beef the ultimate muscle food. We wouldn't steer you wrong even the mightiest carnivore to consider trying tofu, beef is now back in fashion. Bodybuilders everywhere are trading in a skinless chicken breast or two for a nice, thick steak. And for good reason: any way you slice it, beef packs some serious protein and other vital nutrients. But the buyer should still beware. Choose the right cut and you've got a high-octane muscle food; choose the wrong one and you could be sending your buff-to-blubber ratio into a downward spiral...
A former heavyweight contender shows you how to get a ripped midsection the old-fashioned way. This might sting a little.
It takes only a few minutes of speaking with heavyweight boxer-turned trainer Justin Fortune to come to this realisation. A faint smile crosses the affable Aussie's face, and you get the idea that this summation is one of the more benign epithets he has heard from a lifetime of days working on building sites and nights spent first in power lifting weight rooms and later in boxing gyms. Without skipping a beat, he nods: "Absolutely." ...
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CORRECTION: We unfortunately omitted Reflex Nutrition from the list of ESSNA members in our story called "Making a Difference" on p. 176 of the July issue of M&F. We apologise to Reflex and ESSNA for this oversight. The corrected article can be downloaded by clicking below.
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