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Weekly Dose of Testosterone
A Newsletter from T-Nation.com!
In this edition of the Dose:
1) Fast links to butt-kickin' new articles!
2) Exercise of the Week: Deadlift Walks
3) Supplement Spotlight: REZ-V
4) Hot Topics of the Week
5) Mini-Article: Pass It On, by Dave Tate
6) Double Take: The Top 7 Upper Back Exercises
The latest exclusive articles:
Focus on Figure With Gina Aliotti: Q & A With One of Figure's Rising Stars! — Gina answers questions about mass (without the fat ass), carb cycling, ab training, and triceps development, along with a whole bunch of other curvaceous stuff.
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Destroying Fat: War Room Strategies to Maximize Fat Loss — by Christian Thibaudeau. Finally, a fat-loss program we can sink our teeth into! Hmm, maybe that metaphor doesn't work here, given that this program is about how to lose fat by working out in the gym (you know, the ballsy way) instead of by counting calories.
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10 Keys to the Lean & Sexy Look, Part I — Why, if you follow Jen Heath's 10 Keys, you'll be lean and sexy by the time you finish reading the article! Working out will be almost a formality. Well, not exactly, but these 10 keys are a damn good start to getting the look you want.
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Spot the Fake! Seven True Studies, Plus One We Made Up! — Does bodybuilding make you rich? Should you give your pregnant wife fish oil so she'll pop out a more athletic kiddo? What effects do short steroid cycles have on the heart? If elevated T-levels make women more, um, libidinous, what can we do to raise those levels? Read on and find the answers to these questions and more!
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A Lesson in CNS Intensive Training — by Mike Boyle. The central nervous system - it's been called it the "last frontier of weight training." Regardless of whether it's the last frontier or not, it's mucho important. Knowing how to manipulate it can accelerate your progress almost beyond belief, regardless of whether you're a competitive athlete or a bodybuilder.
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Ribcage Expansion: Fact or Fiction? — by Ellington Darden, Ph.D. Didn't it seem that the bodybuilders of yesteryear had bigger chests? (We're talking chest circumference here and not pec size, mind you.) Ellington thinks so and he knows why - it was all due to the all-but-lost art of ribcage expansion.
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BONUS ARTICLE: Perfecting the Romanian Deadlift — Believe it or not, the RDL is a very difficult movement to learn, but Mike Robertson's detailed instructions, photos, and video will have you doing a perfect RDL in moments.
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10 Keys to the Lean & Sexy Look, Part II — If you read the first part of Jen's article, you're only half Lean and Sexy! Here's part 2 so you can complete the transformation.
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Make it Harder: How to Make Easy Exercises More Difficult and More Effective — The Atomic Dog's out in the nuclear doghouse. (He chewed up Tim Patterson's favorite workout shirt.) As such, TC wrote a plain ol' regular training article instead of his usual hallucinogenic-mushroom fueled rant.
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Exercise of the Week: Deadlift Walks
We picked this up from Chad Waterbury. First move the hooks or barbell supports to the front (outside) of a squat cage or power rack. They should be set up just below your knees. A couple of blocks will work, too. Now load up the bar with about 65% of your raw deadlift max and place it in front of the power rack about two full steps away from the supports. Take a shoulder-width stance and use a pronated grip (both palms facing you).
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Deadlift the weight as you normally would, then take two steps forward, reset your stance and place the bar on the uprights, hooks or blocks. Release all muscular tension, re-lift the weight, take two steps backwards, reset your stance and lower the weight again. That's one rep! Without resting, repeat for the desired number of reps. You may then go to the corner and throw up.
Supplement Spotlight: REZ-V
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With REZ-V you get the following possible benefits:
• Acts as both an estrogen antagonist and an aromatase inhibitor.
• Increases Testosterone without causing testicular shutdown
• Promotes blood vessel health and cardiovascular health in general
• Exhibits anti-cancer effects, particularly anti prostate-cancer effects
• Exhibits anti-aging effects
• Promotes fat loss
• Has anti-inflammatory properties
• Acts as an anti-oxidant
• Exhibits anti-arthritic effects
• Shows anti-fungal and anti-viral effects
• Acts as a liver protectant
More info HERE!
Hot Topics of the Week
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Mini-Article: Pass It On
by Dave Tate
Many years ago, in a dark stairway in the back of a junior high gym that smelled like sweat stained wrestling mats, was a ninth grade wrestler who'd only won one match in the last two years. This same kid wasn't a very good athlete up to this point. He played many sports and always did okay but was never good enough to start or be a standout.
As he waited for his mother to pick him up he decided to run the stairs instead of just sitting as he'd usually do. After about five minutes he was thinking he'd had enough and would call it a day and sit down to wait for his ride. About this time, the head wrestling coach walked by and asked him what he was doing. The kid replied that he was running the stairs because he was sick of getting beat all the time. The coach then spoke one sentence that stuck in the kid's mind for the rest of his life: "If you work hard enough you can do whatever you want to do."
I ran the stairs for the next forty-five minutes and didn't lose a match during the entire season. I went on to have a very successful career in sports. That one sentence taught me how to run for what I wanted and I've been running ever since. One kid, one sentence and a totally changed life.
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Why do I do this? Why do I write these articles? Why do I spend so much time helping people for free? Why do I care so much when I know most lifters and coaches will never listen? The answer is simple. Why did my coach care so much when he knew most of his athletes would never listen? Because I listened. What would I be today if he didn't care? I owe it to him to pass on the great gift he gave me. This is why I try so hard.
I'm sure you have the same type of story. Somewhere, some time, someone took the time to help shape your way. You owe it to them to pass on what you know. When we leave this earth, it's not what we take with us that maters, it's what we leave behind. There have been many people along my path and I can tell you today I'll never forget who they were and what they did. This is the greatest success in life one can have.
Vince Lombardi once said, "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour — his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear — is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious."
Do you want to lie on the ground victorious or with your face in the dirt?
Double Take: The Top 7 Upper Back Exercises
by Charles
Poliquin
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Click HERE to read this classic T-Nation article!
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