www.CriticalBench.com and Vince Delmonte believe micro-tears in the muscle is overtraining.
Critical Bench is a website dedicated to strength training, power lifting and affiliate marketing. Vince Delmonte is the author of No-Nonsense Muscle Building, a highly successful bodybuilding book.
The latest article on Critical Bench was written by Vince Delmonte and he has something interesting to say in the article.
He believes that micro-tears in your muscles is a result of overtraining.
Overtraining in your muscle has been shown to:
- Decrease testosterone levels
- Decrease thyroxine levels
- Increase cortisol levels
And can also cause:
- Higher resting heart rate
- Weak appetite
- High blood pressure
- Weight loss
- Trouble sleeping
- Increased metabolic rate
- Irritability
- Early onset of fatigue
So what we can conclude is that if we create micro-tears in our muscles, we have just decreased our testosterone, increased our blood pressure and fatigued our self, to mention a few.
The reason we find this fascinating is because the rest of the world believes that micro-tears in your muscles is what actually causes them to grow bigger and stronger. Without creating micro-tears in your muscle, you’re not going to gain any muscle. So does Vince have an explanation to this or should we recommend he change his book to “Nonsense Muscle Building”?
Beside this small issue, the rest of his advice is pretty good!
Protein Powder Manufacturers in Trouble with FDA
Quality Formulation Laboratories Inc., American Sports Nutrition Inc. and Sports Nutrition International LLC are in trouble for failing to report what their powders contain and for having a filthy manufacturing plant.
The following is copy pasted from the FDA’s official website:
The government’s complaint, filed July 1, 2009 in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, alleges that the companies have failed to follow current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) by manufacturing and storing food under filthy conditions and in conditions that may cause major food allergens to enter into products not intended to contain them.
During a recent inspection, FDA investigators found that several of the companies’ products contained milk ingredients that were not declared on the product labels. In addition, the company failed to clean processing equipment between batches and control allergens in the facility.
FDA investigators also discovered live and dead rodents and rodent urine, feces and gnaw holes on bags of product.
So if you’ve found any black pellets in your protein powder lately I can safely assure you that it’s only mouse poo and if you continue to consume that protein powder, chances are you’ll get very sick.
The companies promised to make corrections, but they failed to do so. The complaint requests a court order to stop the companies and its officer from manufacturing and distributing the products until needed corrections are made.
“This company has consistently failed to correct filthy conditions in their plants and to make sure that allergens are appropriately declared on the labels, despite frequent warnings to do so,” said Michael Chappell, the FDA’s acting associate commissioner for regulatory affairs. “The FDA will not tolerate companies that fail to provide adequate safeguards.”
Congratulations to the FDA for taking action on these guys, now how about inspecting the gazillion other supplements on the market that have chemicals we’ve never even heard of. Yerba Mate Powder? I hope that’s not ground up mouse poo!
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm171458.htm
Where to find GREAT fitness advice for free!
If you’ve been into fitness, bodybuilding or supplements for a while you will definitely be familiar with www.Bodybuilding.com
Bodybuilding.com is the largest fitness related website on the internet, and possibly up there with THE largest websites on the internet, regardless of topic.
There’s basically 4 parts to Bodybuilding.com
- The Store – Where you buy supplements and gear.
- The Super Site – The information section with regular articles, interviews, videos, galleries and more.
- Body Space – Like Myspace but for bodybuilders.
- The Forum – The biggest fitness related forum on the internet and about the 10th largest forum of any type on the internet.
Destroying the Industry Giants – JCD Fitness is trying to spread the truth about exercising for fat loss.
Those people that keep up to date on the fitness industry (like people who read The Fit News 
) know that fat loss is all about calories, but that’s not what the industry giants are trying to tell everyone.
If you read fitness magazines or watch fitness shows on TV, you’d more likely believe that fat loss is about doing the right exercise, like abs exercises on a fancy plastic machine that can fold up under your bed, or a set of barbell lunges with torso twists and bench dips. We’ve all read or heard of these silly exercise routines, and sadly a lot of people believe that they are the key to fat loss.
Well here at The Fit News we like to see fitness authorities telling the truth, and JCDFitness is one of those who’s just written a brilliant article that anyone trying to lose weight should read.
3 Exercises For Ultimate Fat Loss
Despite sounding like a typical magazine style title, the content of this article is quite the opposite. You could even say he’s making a joke out of the current fat loss industry.
Here’s a short excerpt from the article:
“Cutting Through The BS
No matter what anyone says, squats, bench presses, pink dumbbell curls or deadlifts are not going to make you drop body fat. There are actually no exercises that can make you lose fat, period. You can do all the movements known to man, stuff yourself silly and still never drop an ounce of body fat. If these movements were responsible for fat loss, every powerlifter on the planet would be ripped.”
So head over and read the article. And if you’re not in any rush to start losing fat, recommend the link to someone who is.
www.LiveStrong.com To help the public or to just make money?
If you’re keeping up to date with the news you’re probably already knowledgable about Lance Armstrong’s comeback from retirement.
Actually, his adverts are all over the TV right now! And for a good cause, because he’s still promoting the awareness of cancer with www.livestrong.org, but you might not be aware of his other project, www.livestrong.com (note the .com not the .org)
Californian Franchise Restaurants will have Nutrition Data Brochures
A new law that’s in testing phase in California will see popular fast food franchises displaying nutrition brochures for each meal.
Personally, I don’t like the idea. You wouldn’t believe how disappointed I was when they started displaying the individual items and costs of every item in show bags at the annual fair. It used to be a surprise! Now they’ve got every single tiny lolly worth 5 cents all added up to show you how much money you’re saving! Well, in a similar way, restaurants will be telling you exactly what’s inside the food so you know how much fat you’re going to gain by tomorrow morning.
It sounds like the government believes by showing this information, people will be able to make wiser choices when they purchase food. But I have a feeling it’s not going to work. You always see obese people lining up for cake or chips at restaurants while all the thin people sit back and finish their salad. They don’t care, if they knew the calories and fat content of the cake it wouldn’t change their mind at all, but we can’t make predictions just yet. Perhaps the Californian people are ready for a change.
I think Arnold would be better off building a bunch of free gyms in his name and promoting weight lifting instead!
www.Traineo.com – Website Review
Traineo is a weight loss progress tracker. We’ve seen quite a few of these sites pop up lately and they are becoming quite popular. This review aims to tell you what Traineo is about, how you can use it and whether it’s really worth using. Let’s get started…
Food Inc. A documentary about the food industry
Now we may be fitness fanatics but this kind of thing affects us too! If achieving your fitness goals is 75% about food, then we should definitely be taking note of what we eat and how healthy it really is. Here’s the trailer:
Thanks to Fit Sugar for pointing out this one.