There are a variety of products that make use of MRI’s patented No2 formula. No2 is truly a breakthrough in the supplements industry, having first been released in 2002 and since then winning many enthusiastic reviews from customers who could feel the difference. However, between the many selections offered by MRI (Black and Platinum series) and other companies, including popular selections like BSN NO-Xplode, Universal Animal Stak 2, MuscleTech NaNO Vapor, Iron Tek Pro Vaso and BNS Nitrix, how can you tell which is the best No2 product?

What Does this Mean for You?

What is the best No2 product, according to customers, reviewers and industry insiders? Everyone has a differing opinion. Some insiders like the Nox2 by Pinnacle formula, as it is similar to MRI’s product but for a lesser price. Pinnacle Nox2 uses its own exclusive system called an A-DS Advanced delivery system, to achieve the same effects as regular MRI No2. The product helps to spike absorption of active compounds to regulate uptake and help maintain the hemodilation for hours on end. BSN’s Nitrix has its following, and some say its formula is more scientifically effective than even MRI’s brand. BSN’s formula is called Methocel, and provides Nitrix users with a constant and steady release rate maintains its intensity for about a full day’s time. Syntrax Nitrous is a more amplified product, and operates as a muscle injection system for longer pumps, more energy, and shorter recovery. The product is custom-made with the intent to overcome obstacles that other nitric oxide products have faced.

Nitrous has a neutral taste and is sold as a powder instead of tablets or caplets. This makes the product easy to mix into your favorite drink. If you’re looking for intensity, then MRI’s No2 Black series may be the most intense formula you have will find. No2 Black uses a purer Arginine-AKG called ArginPure; along with pHylex9 technology, alpha-lipoic acid and NOS-enhancing peptide fraction technology (which increases the synthase enzymes for more nitric oxide production). This mean you can gain 950% more nitric oxide for your workout.

The No2 Black is even stronger than the Platinum series and is ideal if you are looking for flash recoveries and stronger endurance. Customers have been enthusiastic about No2 Black, calling it extreme with great potential for vascularity and longer blood surges. Some bodybuilders say the pump sensation can last beyond a day. The No2 Black series actually carries a warning label due to its high potency, warning people with medical conditions to consult a doctor before using.

What about Side Effects?

Are there any side effects to taking No2 supplements? MRI has stated that there are no side effects when No2 is taken in moderation, and as directed with plenty of water. (64 ounces a day is recommended) There have been minor side effects reported upon over-dosing and failure to drink recommended amounts of water. These include diarrhea, nausea and weakness or fatigue.

However, you should know that scientific studies have no concluded whether or not there are any long-term effects from No2. MRI claims, of course, that their product is safe because Arginine has been used in supplemental treatment for years and has never shown other symptoms or side effects. Is it true that No2 operates in the same manner as an anabolic steroid drug? No, because No2 is not a drug-it is a supplement that uses natural substances to enhance performance. Though Ed Byrd stated that No2 does not function as a steroid, he says that he does seek to find steroidal effects in his products without the risk of unhealthy side effects. After all, it’s not steroidal drugs that people fear-it’s the harmful consequences that can result.

In 1965 a man named Joe Gold had a simple dream. His dream was to open a gym in Venice California. He did this and called the gym Gold’s Gym. Today, Gold’s Gym is the largest fitness club chain the world and is the symbol for bodybuilding gyms.

Gold’s Gym Internation, Inc. began with a single gym located in Venice, California. This gym would become the center of the bodybuilding sport in the United States. The original slogan for Gold’s Gym was no-frills gym for serious weightlifters. However, over the years they have changed that slogan so they can appeal to a more broad class of consumers. The new Gold’s Gym has a variety of classes that appeal to everyone. Classes that are offered range from group exercises, Pilates, yoga, and spinning, and of course, it isn’t a Gold’s Gym without personal trainers and pure weightlifting.

The primary income the company makes is from selling franchises and operating the company-owned gyms. They also make money off of selling apparel and accessories with the Gold’s logo. The Gold’s logo, a bald-headed weightlifter holding a barbell, was created in 1973 by Ric Drasin who was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s training partner for four years.

Since the creation of the Gym in 1965 the company has changed hands several times. Joe Gold sold the company for $50,000 in 1970. The company has just changed hands to the TRT Holdings company in 2004 for about $160 million dollars.

The reason Gold’s first gym is considered the icon for bodybuilding gyms is because of the migration of the bodybuilders from “Muscle Beach” to the Venice location. The reason many bodybuilders love Gold’s Gym in Venice, California is because Gold himself had designed and built all the equipment himself and it was some of the best equipment in the world.

The sport of bodybuilding first got its big recognition through the 1977 moved, Pumping Iron, which featured bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger and was shot at Gold’s Gym. This movie brought the sport of bodybuilding to the world, and also showed the future actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the future greatest bodybuilding gym, Gold’s Gym.

It opened a simple gym in Venice, California and has now grown to a major company with over 600 gyms in 27 countries and 42 states. It also can brag that it claims some 3 million members worldwide. Not to bad for a simple bodybuilding gym created by a man who would only stay with the company for five years.

Pyroglutamate is the basic form of pyroglumatic acid and it can be found in small portions in the body. It is considered to be an uncommon amino acid derivative and it especially serves an important role in the nervous system, specifically in the proper functioning of the brain.

Since pyroglutamate is predominantly found in the brain, it has the capacity to pass through blood and brain barriers thus enabling it to reside in the cerebrospinal fluid and the blood.

Other names for pyroglutamate include: Adjuvant, acid lactam, Alpha-aminoglutaric, Amino Mass, arginine pyroglutamate, Arginine Pidolate, Deep Thought, glutimic acid, glutamic acid lactam, glutiminic acid, Mental Edge, PCA, Piraglutargine, pyroGlu, pyroglutamic acid, pyrrolidon carboxylic acid, 2-oxo-pyrrolidon carboxylic acid.

There are several benefits that can be derived from pyroglutamate. It is known to improve the capacity of the brain to retain information and is thus helpful in maintaining a sharp memory. It also increases alertness and learning capacity. Another benefit from pyroglutamate is that it increases the ability of a person to concentrate and is effective in reducing anxiety and depression.

Pyroglutamate can be naturally derived from fruits, as well as dairy and meat products. The presence of pyroglutamate in these food products increases nitric oxide production which enhances blood flow and therefore causes a better delivery of nutrients and oxygen to the muscles. With this, a potent neurotransmitter is increased which is closely associated with the memory.

When arginine binds with pyroglutamate, arginine pyroglutamate is formed. With the presence of arginine, natural growth hormone is stimulated. This is one of the fastest and safest ways to enhance growth as a replacement to highly effective growth enhancement treatments. Arginine promotes protein synthesis, in return causing a speed and increase in muscle growth.

In 1981, arginine pyroglutamate was put on the spotlight by Italian researcher A. Isidori M.D., and some of his colleagues in the University of Rome. In a study that was conducted, arginine pyroglutamate combined with lysine was found ten folds more effective in increasing levels of human growth hormones.

These are the most common effects of arginine pyroglutamate:
• Improves the brain’s cognitive function
• Improves sexual functions
• Improves circulatory system
• Improves blood flow
• Improves protein synthesis

Working per se, Pyroglutamate has been found effective in increasing memory levels on alcohol-induced memory deficits among humans. Recently it has also been found helpful in decreasing states of dementia. Pyroglutamate significantly increased attention span and psychological performances among patients tested.

Indeed, pyroglutamate proves to be beneficial in improving memory skills and treating moderate cases to severe cases of memory loss and dementia.

Let’s also start by saying that you don’t have to run post cycle therapy………you also don’t have to wipe your ass after taking a dump: it’s just a really really good idea to do these things

The first thing we need to understand is what is going on with our bodies when we’re taking anabolic steroids:

Exogeneous anabolic hormones (or derivatives of anabolic hormones) are being brought into your system. This causes the body to take a number of responsive actions. The first and foremost (as you already know) is increased muscle mass. Unfortunately, other things are also going on that aren’t so great

When an enzyme or hormone is brought exogeneously into the system, chemical balances shift around to attain a certain equilibrium. This is a chemical concept known as Le Chatelier’s Principle of Chemical Equilibria. In a nutshell, your body will increase production of estrogen, cortisol, and other hormones in response to heightened testosterone levels, while simultaneously slowering (or completely stopping) natural production of testosterone. Biologist call this negative feedback…….biology sucks doesn’t it?

Le Chatelier’s Principle for the scientifically impaired:

Let’s pretend A and B react to make C (can’t get much simpler than that).

A + B ——–> C

So we have a mixture containing A, B, and C. According to LeChatlier’s principle, if we add more C to the mixture, the amounts of A and B will increase. If we remove some of the C from the mixture, A and B will decrease. And if we were to add A, B, or a combination of the two, C will increase. Still with me here? Good.

What’s going on when we come off a cycle:

Ok, so while we’re on the cycle, are natural test production is going down to compensate for the exogeneous test intake, and our production of other steroid hormones (i.e. Estrogen, Cortisol, etc.) is going up to compensate for the heightened test levels. When we come off a cycle, we cease intake of exogeneous testosterone. In other words, we have very low test levels, and very high cortisol and estrogen levels: it’s the EXACT OPPOSITE of what we had while starting our cycle.

REMEMBER Le Chatelier’s Principle because this is where it gets really important. When we have an excess of one hormone, the others will start shifting around, to attain a certain equilibrium. Ok, I’m gonna say it (and bold it) again because it’s just that important. When we have an excess of one hormone, the others will start shifting around, to attain a certain equilibrium. It is a very common misconception that we want to eradicate estrogen . High estrogen levels play an integral part in Post Cycle therapy. That’s right, you want to welcome high estrogen with open freaking arms, but there’s a trick to it. And that trick is the almighty SERM (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator).

SERM’s: the foundation of post cycle therapy:

Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators are (and damn well should be) the foundation for any proper post-cycle therapy plan. A post cycle therapy plan without them, isn’t a PCT plan: it’s a bunch of crap you decided to take after doing a cycle. The purpose of a SERM is to block the negative effects estrogen, while your hormone levels go back to equilibrium.

SERM’s are prescription drugs, and are NOT SOLD IN SUPPLEMENT STORES. In fact, there are only 3 ways ( can think of) in which you can obtain a SERM:

1) Through a Doctor’s Prescription.

2) Through the Black Market (a.k.a. illegally)

3) As a research chemicals intended for use in lab rats.

The Different SERM’s:

Tamoxifen (Nolvadex):

Reputation: Most popular SERM for post cycle therapy

Pros: Cheap. Effective for gyno prevention.

Cons: Heptatoxicity. Studies have shown it to lower IGF levels (I don’t feel like citing, but it’s about 20% decrease…IMO no biggie).

Popular Dosage (for a 4-week cycle): 40/40/20/20

Note: Tamoxifen Citrate is less potent, and should be dosed at an extra 30%.

Clomiphene Citrate (clomid):

Reputation: Second most popular. Usually taken the first week or so to speed up Testosterone recovery with Tamoxifen being taken the whole therapy.

Pros: Better than Tamoxifen for HTPA regernation. Less heptatoxicity. Does not lower IGF.

Cons: Less effective against gyno. Can cause emotional issues. May Cause blurred vision. Hot Flashes.

Popular Dosage (for a 4-week cycle): 100-200mg/100mg/50mg/50mg

Toremifene:

Reputation: Very popular on this board

Pros: Much less toxic.

Con’s: $$$$$expensive$$$$$

Popular Dosages (for a 4-week cycle): 120-240mg/120mg/60mg/30mg

Raloxifene:

Reputation: Very effective against gyno

Pros: Strong protection against gyno. Less toxic than Tamoxifen.

Con’s: Cost Restricting. Can cause abnormal blood clotting in the eyes, lunges, and legs. May also cause hot flashes trouble breathing, and blurred vision.

Popular Dosages: (for a 4-week cycle): 120-240mg/120mg/60mg/30mg

Moving down the post cycle therapy Hierarchy: Cortisol Control

Excess cortisol can be damaging to your newly found muscle mass. Because of this, it is a good idea to use something to block or lower the excessive cortisol levels. Always start high, and taper your way down. Here’s what we have to work with:

B-Androstenetriol (b-triol): This is one of the better cortisol suppressors. It has a terrible oral bioavailability, and should be taken transdermally. Dosages range from 25-50mg every 12 hours.

Methyl B-Androstenetriol (mb-triol): This is an enhanced version of b-triol designed for oral use. Found in the following products: Retain (by Anabolic Xtreme), Restore (by ALRI), Thyrogen-X (by ALRI)

7-Hydroxy-DHEA: Another potent cortisol suppressor with great oral bioavailability. Found in the following products: Lean Xtreme (by Designer Supplements), Reduce XT (by SNS)

7-oxo-DHEA (7-keto-DHEA): Still a decent contender, this has a terrible oral availability and an even worse half life (2 hours). This is best taken transdermally, where such effects can by bypassed.

Cissus: Unlike the above, the components of Cissus do not suppress Cortisol, but rather block cortisol receptors (better than Nandrolone or Dianabol according to some studies). Dosages vary significantly (pending extracts). SuperCissus by USPLabs is a high quality Cissus product.

Branched Chain Amino Acids: These should be a staple to begin with, but are a great anti-catabolic that mitigates the muscle-wasting effects of cortisol.

At the bottom of the post cycle therapy hierarchy there’s AI’s, Test Booster’s, and other ‘natural’ anabolics

Way too many different things going on in here to go into too much detail. Just a word of caution (and this is my personal opinion), but if you’re post cycle plan starts to look like a constitutional amendment: you’re over-doing it. And the worst part is if something goes wrong, you won’t have a damn clue what caused it.

Honorable mentions of this part of the hierarchy:

Jungle Warfare (by ALRI)

MassFX (by Anabolic Xtreme)

Hyperdrol (by Anabolic Xtreme)

Ecdysterone/Turkesterone

Creatine Monohydrate

Can you tell I was bored after work today?

Bodyweight exercsies are very quickly becoming an extremely popular way to improve ones body. But this great popularity also comes with lots of "myths" surround bodyweight training. I'm here to clear all these up and get to the bottom of all the confusion:

Bodyweight Training Myth # 1: The Only Way to Lose Fat with Bodyweight Training is to Perform Super High Repetitions

Most people stick to basic pushups, pullups, and bodyweight squats. And when the workout starts to get too easy, they simply add repetitions or add sets, especially if their goal is to lose fat. The only thing this does is make a workout last incredibly long.

The real way to lose fat with bodyweight exercises is to make your workouts more intense and challenging. Do this by using intensity techniques such as circuit training. Circuit training is where you choose 4 or more exercises and perform them back to back with little to no rest in between each exercise.

Bodyweight Training Myth # 2: Bodyweight Exercise is another Form of Cardio

I think there's a confusion between bodyweight exercises and calisthenics. Calisthenics is aerobic exercises using your own bodyweight. Exercises such as jumping jacks, run in place, and high knees would be classified as calisthenics. Bodyweight training is strength exercises using your own bodyweight.

Pushups, pullups, and bodyweight squats are not a form of cardio. Both bodyweight exercises and calisthenics are very good ways to use your bodyweight to lose fat. However, you do need to place a distinction between the two. These two words are not interchangeable.

Bodyweight Training Myth # 3: There's No way You can Burn fat and Build Lean Muscle mass at the Same time with Bodyweight Exercises

People are starting to understand how you can burn fat and gain muscle mass with high intensity weight training. So why can not you do the same with bodyweight exercises? If you use exercises that challenge you enough, then you can easily burn fat and build muscle at the same time.

Once again, the formula to achieve this is to organize difficult movements into workouts using high intensity techniques. One of these techniques is circuit training. But I'll now reveal a second effective training techniques called interval training. Interval training is simply alternating between periods of high and low intensity training intervals.

Bodyweight Training Myth # 4: Bodyweight Exercises will not work if you're Overweight or Obese

If anything, overweight and obese individuals need to perform bodyweight exercises. This is because the greatest problem with these individuals is a lack of mobility. Greater mobility and flexibility can be achieved with very simple bodyweight movements such as the chair squat.

The chair squat is exactly what it sounds like: sit on a chair, and get up. But think about how many times we sit down and get up on a daily basis. This is the most basic function of our lives, and yet our hip muscles are not being effectively strengthened to perform such a basic activity.

If you’re serious about building a stellar body, then you may want to try the ultimate combination: Whey Protein and Creatine. Each of these supplements have immense benefits in and of themselves, but combined their effectiveness is unmatched.

The Individual

Whey protein is a low fat, fast acting protein. That means that when you take Whey, you’re not taking any excess stuff into your body. You’re not taking any fat in either. You’re also giving your body proteins it can use immediately to start start building muscles and increasing recovery with. It’s digested quickly and requires very little calories or time to turn into immediately usable building blocks for muscles. Whey is also a complete amino acid. Meaning that it provides your muscles with many proteins that it can’t produce in and of itself and has to get through supplements or foods.

The Individual Benefits of Creatine

Creatine is one of the few supplements that actually has an impact on your level of energy, level of power and level of stamina during a workout. Unlike many other supplements where you’ll gain muscles “eventually” by taking it, Creatine you feel the benefits right away. You’ll feel more explosive strength as you’re working out and your recovery times will be cut down dramatically. Furthermore, Creatine also increases your water retention, which means larger muscles faster with no loss in muscle definition or shape.

The Power of Whey and Creatine Combined

Now, imagine what it would be like to combine both of these incredibly effective compounds. First of all, you’ll have more power to work out from the Creatine. You’ll be able to push your body further and workout harder. You’ll also immediately start seeing muscle gains from the water retention effects of Creatine.

Then however, once your workout is complete, you have Whey to help you rebuild your muscles. The muscles that you pushed into overdrive with the power you got from Creatine can recover quickly while building massive muscles with the protein that you’re taking in through Whey.

In short, these two really have amazing synergy when combined. One’s primary purpose is to help you push your body further, beyond what you may normally be able to push it to. Another’s primary purpose is to help you give your body the building blocks it needs to rebuild after pushing your body to the limit. Together, these two really work wonders.

Does Combining Them Decrease its Effectiveness?

One common question is whether or not combining these two supplements decreases the effectiveness of one or both. The short answer is no. Whey is made from a distillation process that takes milk and makes it into an easily digestible protein. Creatine is made from a compound that’s found naturally in your body already. Would combining milk and a natural compound in your own body decrease the effectiveness of either one? Of course not.

The Ultimate Combination

Combining Creatine and Whey truly is the ultimate combination. The benefits of both of these supplements working together cannot be underestimated. In fact, these two supplements work together almost like lock and key, helping one another to give you exponential results.

1. You Give Up Too Soon

Content marketing is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s a long game.

You can’t post 3 articles on your blog then whine about how nobody is reading your stuff… or commenting or sharing.

The most successful content marketers have been going at it for years – putting out high-quality content that’s relevant and valuable to a targeted audience frequently and consistently for several years – before they became that “overnight success.”

Once your momentum picks up, so will your ROI (return on investment.)

Winning Strategy:

Get focused.

Invest time and energy to produce quality content that’s valuable and relevant to a specific audience – show up frequently and consistently.

If you don’t show up for your peeps, how can you expect them to show up for you?

Identify one or two formats and channels that cater to your ideal audience, highlight your strengths and work well for your subject of expertise… then get really good at it.

Don’t spread yourself too thin by trying to do everything just because everyone else is doing it.

Then be relentless – make it a non-negotiable part of your marketing plan to produce and promote your content.

2. If You Build It They Won’t Come

Having a website with a blog doesn’t mean your ideal audience knows about it.

2.7 million blog posts are published everyday. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. You get the idea.

The most successful content marketers spend 20% of their time in content production, and 80% in content promotion.

If you don’t put in the consistent effort to get your content in front of the right people, it’s not going to do anything for you.

None of us are entitled to an audience. Work to earn their trust and respect.

Winning Strategy:

You probably don’t have a load of time to spend on promoting your content everywhere… nor do you have a team dedicated to that effort.

That’s why it’s critical that you not only know where your audience hangs out but also be able to write headlines and descriptions that speak to them and make them want to read/listen/watch your stuff (i.e. to click through.)

Identify a few places you can focus your promotional effort and resources, then test and track your results so you can make adjustments to your tactics.

3. You’re Stuck In Your Bubble

Just posting on your blog and trying to get people there can be an uphill battle – especially if you’re working on getting traffic, don’t have a big list or the SEO juice of an established site.

Remember, if nobody consumes your content, your content isn’t doing anything for you.

Venture out into the big wide world… publish your content in places where your ideal audience already goes.

Winning Strategy:

Guest posting is a great way to get in front of a new audience. Make sure to identify blogs that share a similar audience so when you link back to your site or promote your lead magnet, you’re building a high-quality audience in the process.

You may need to start small, and work your way up to bigger sites. Go, start somewhere. Don’t doubt yourself, but don’t take “yeses” for granted.

Appropriating or re-publishing your content on platforms such as Medium or LinkedIn Pulse is another good way to make your content go further.

There are some nuances to making sure that content on these platforms doesn’t cannibalize the SEO juice of the original content on your website – e.g. applying a canonical tag, using the “import” function on Medium, changing the title and writing a different intro etc.

There are some tradeoffs and you need to assess where you’re at with your content marketing and what you want it to do for your business. E.g. if you want to get as many eyeballs on your content as possible, it may be worth it to republish the content on popular platforms even if those posts rank higher than the original post on your own site.

4. You Serve Up a Wall of Text

… and make other user experience or navel-gazing mistakes.

The point of content marketing is to get people to consume your content so you can achieve whatever goals or next steps you want the readers to take.

If you serve up a wall of text riddled with jargons or run-on sentences and zero consideration for readability – you’re losing your readers at hello.

Winning Strategy:

While your content needs to express who you are – your values, convictions, points-of-view, and expertise etc. – it needs to take user experience into consideration.

Formatting your content properly will encourage readers to stay on the page while writing in short sentences and avoiding long paragraphs can increase readability and the likelihood that your content will be consumed.

While I’m adamantly against “listicles” that have no depth, it doesn’t mean you can’t use numbering to help give clarity and hierarchy to your content.

Dividing up your article into sections, and delineating them using subheads, can vastly improve readability while also help you clarify your own thoughts during the process.

Better communication makes you more convincing. It’s a muscle you can train… and it gets easier.

Poor organization and spelling or grammatical errors are distractions. No matter how good your thoughts are, if they’re not communicated with care, it’ll undermine your authority and credibility – doing more harm than good.

In many countries, steroids are legal and even can be purchased over the counter. As a results many of these injectable anabolics are administered by the user. Below is information aiding in the conversion of such drugs. This article does not endorse the use of illegal drugs.

I. U.= international unit. This is a unit used to measure the activity (that is, the effect) of many vitamins and drugs. For each substance to which this unit applies, there is an international agreement specifying the biological effect expected with a dose of 1 IU. Other quantities of the substance are then expressed as multiples of this standard. This also means that this measurment is not based on sheer volume or weight of the substance, but rather the effect.

ml = milliliter. This is a VOLUME measurement. it is 1/1000 of a liter. when talking about water or similar liquids, it is equivalent to one cubic centimeter.

cc = cubic centimeter. This is also a VOLUME measurement. Most syringes measure their capacity in cc’s. If you have a 5cc syringe, it will hold ~5ml of liquid in it.

mg = milligram. This is a WEIGHT measurement. It is 1/1000 of a gram. the amount of chemical substance is often measured in milligrams. For injectable solutions, this will be reported as a concentration of weight to volume, such as mg/ml (milligrams per milliliter). In the case of orally administered substances, the weight of chemical is labeled, athough the actual weight of the pill/capsule may be much higher, because of the use of filler substances. This means that a small pill may be much more potent than a large pill, so don’t judge a pill based on its size, but the actual amount of substance for which it is labeled as.

mcg = microgram = 1/1000 of a mg (milligram) There are one thousand micrograms in one milligram.

Conversion factors:

1000 mcg (microgram) = 1 mg (milligram)

1000 mg (milligram) = 1 g (gram)

1000 g (gram) = 1 kg (kilogram)

1000 ml (milliliter) = 1 liter

1ml (water) = 1cc (water)

1ml (oil) ~ 1cc (oil) (~ denotes approximately equal to)

Examples putting it all together

Say a user has some Drug XYX from two different companies. One is ‘XYX-300’ from QV, and one from BM which is ‘XYZ-100’. Both of these are XYZ DRUG, but they have different concentrations. What this means is….

for the XYZ-300:

if you take 1 ml (one milliliter) of this solution, it will take up ~1cc (one cubic centimeter) of space in the syringe. There will be 300mg (three hundred milligrams) of XYZ in this dosage.

for the XYZ-100:

if you take 1 ml (one milliliter) of this solution, it will take up ~1cc (one cubic centimeter) of space in the syringe. There will be 100mg (one hundred milligrams) of XYZ in this dosage.

If you put the syringes side by side, they appear the exact same, so what is the difference? the XYZ-300 has a concentration of 300mg/ml, while the XYZ-100 only has a concentration of 100mg/ml. This means that the syringe with XYZ-300 has three times (3x) the amount of DRUG XYZ in the same exact volume as the syringe with XYZ-100.

The amino acid Lysine is known as a dietary supplement that has amazing health benefits. Although it is a common amino acid, found in many foods, it has been shown that it is only effective as a healing dietary supplement when taken in concentrated forms when you need to correct a physical disorder.

Lysine has been used to help horses and other live stock to firm muscle because it is an agent in muscle building. Athletes or others who may have had an operation or who are recovering from injuries to bones and muscle have shown that adding Lysine as a supplement will increase the rate of healing. Lysine brings a rush of blood to the injured area of the body. Since it does act almost immediately to attack any break in the body, it has also been used as a treatment for viral herpes infections.

Since lysine is an amino acid, a good food source is meat and dairy products. People who are vegetarians may exhibit signs of slow growth, retardation, and other disorders related to the lack of this vital amino acid in their diet. A word of caution about taking Lysine supplements concerns already taking prescription medications for infection. The Lysine supplement with the prescription medication might make your light headed or dizzy as it is a powerful blood thinner agent almost as powerful as garlic.

One good point to remember is that if the tomato was considered to be the love apple or an aphrodisiac, Lysine supplements can be seen as the fountain of youth encapsulated form. The older you get, the more lysine you can ingest without any side effects.

Lysine directly affects all organs of the body that store high volume of blood like the kidneys and the liver. If you have a kidney infection, lysine will target that part of your body as it will also act on your liver. Recommended dosage should be followed and any health problems should be taken under the consent of your attending physician.

Imagine this scenario. You join a gym; all charged up to become fit & muscular. You work hard on your muscle building routines & keep pushing yourself. You feel happy with your effort. After all, you have managed to stick to your fitness routine, much longer than before! But no matter how hard you try, you are not growing your muscles anymore! Sounds familiar? More then likely, you have been getting one or more of the following fitness principles wrong.

1. Avoid Over-training

Each time a muscle is used in an intense activity, it actually breaks down muscle fibers. Hence, they need some time to recover & be ready for training again. Most good muscle growing routines target a group of muscles only once or twice in a week. This ensures adequate time for muscle growth.

2. Avoid Prolonged Workouts

When looking to grow muscles, think quality over quantity. With longer workouts, your cortisol levels begin to rise. This can cause damage to the muscles rather than muscle growth. Your workout duration should ideally be between 45 minutes to an hour; with adequate periods of rest in between.

3. Grow Muscles While You Sleep

Sleeping for 8 to 10 hours a day is essential for ensuring muscle growth. The rest period gives the body a chance to grow new muscle fibers.

4. Restrict Alcohol Usage

Alcohol interferes with the body’s ability to generate muscle mass. It can also reduce the general fitness levels.

5. Inject Variety in Your Fitness Routine

Make sure to change your exercise routines every 6 to 8 weeks. This ensures that muscles don’t adapt to the same exercises; which will in turn restrict muscle growth.

6. Constantly Challenge Your Muscles

Muscles grow in response to the stimulus of working against a load; or resistance. Hence, it is of the utmost importance to try & increase the load with every exercise session. This ensures that the muscle is challenged all the time.

7. Get Plenty of Proteins for Muscle Growth

Proteins are called the building blocks of the human body. Thus, make sure that you include an adequate supply of proteins in your diet. You may want to consider using protein shakes or supplements; if your diet is low in proteins. A quantity of 1 gram protein equivalent for every pound of body weight is usually recommended for effective muscle growth.

Follow these principles & stay focused. Although there are many more factors which also play a part, the above fitness tips should help you get started on your way towards having the body your working for.