Tom Venuto of BurnTheFat.com sent me this excellent article on life extension and I found it a very interesting read. Life Extension is a hot topic at the moment and is directly related to a healthy body building lifestyle, so I’ve decided to create a new category on the site for articles of this nature. If you don’t know about Tom’s book then you can read my Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle Review.

Here is the article…

On a recent episode of the Oprah show, one of the guests was a 51 year old man with the heart of a 20 year old. He’s been following a calorie restriction plan and they said he might be one of the first people to reach 120 years old by following this plan. There have been stories both in the lay press and scientific press about calorie restriction for years and it has been a frequent talk show topic on other many other TV shows. However, before you cut your calories in half in hopes of adding another decade onto your life, you’d better get the other half of the story they didn’t talk about on Oprah.

I’ve seen a lot of strange things in the health field, and although calorie restriction (CR) is the subject of serious and legitimate scientific study, I consider CR to be one of those strange things. Of course, that’s because I choose a different lifestyle – the muscle-friendly Burn The fat, Feed The Muscle lifestyle – but there’s more than one reason why I’m not a CR advocate: Read the rest of this entry

This is our very first article on home gym equipment. We understand that many of you out there don’t go to a gym, or even have a gym close to your home. Hopefully, if you are looking at putting together a home gym then this and future articles on home gyms and fitness equipment will help you find the right equipment to suit your budget. Look out for many more articles coming soon!

Home gym equipment follows bodybuilding as being a big business. Experts in many different fields come up with the equipment’s design. Engineers use their education to design equipment that will maximize the bodybuilders’ time and energy when working out. Read the rest of this entry

Crunches are a great exercise for targeting the lower and upper abdominals, plus your obliques – depending on how you choose to perform the exercise.

Crunches are one off the simplest exercises to perform and can be performed virtually anywhere. There are also several variations of this exercise which can be used to target your oblique muscles more intensely. Read the rest of this entry