Mike Matthews
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Mike Matthews Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Fitness, Weight Loss, Muscle Building, Healthy Liftstyle
- Best Sellers
- Bigger Leaner Stronger, Thinner Leaner Stronger, The Shredded Chef
- Career Focus
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- Affiliation
- Muscle For Life
Hi,
I'm Mike and I believe that every person can achieve the body of his or her dreams, and I work hard to give everyone that chance by providing workable, proven advice grounded in science, not a desire to sell phony magazines, workout products, or supplements.
Through my work, I've helped thousands of people achieve their health and fitness goals, and I share everything I know in my books.
So if you're looking to get in shape and look great, then I think I can help you. I hope you enjoy my books and I'd love to hear from you at my site, www.muscleforlife.com.
Sincerely,
Mike
Mike Matthews Books
Bigger Leaner Stronger
http://www.muscleforlife.com/books/bigger-leaner-stronger/
Thinner Leaner Stronger
http://www.muscleforlife.com/books/thinner-leaner-stronger/
The Shredded Chef
http://www.muscleforlife.com/books/the-shredded-chef/
Muscle Myths
http://www.muscleforlife.com/books/muscle-myths/
Cardio Sucks
http://www.muscleforlife.com/books/cardio-sucks/
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8 Healthy, Pre-Packaged Snacks Perfect for Losing Weight or Building Muscle
Quick, healthy, and tasty snacks are an easy and enjoyable way to meet your dietary numbers every day. We all wish we could always have fresh, delicious, low-calorie foods within arm’s reach…but that’s just not the case. Packing fresh foods and transporting them around every day is a hassle, and especially so among those of us that travel quite a bit. Therefore, I decided to put together a list of my 10 favorite pre-packaged snack foods…and all are under 150 calories, so you can decide how much to eat based on your weight goals. 1. Fage Total 0%
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Cardio and Muscle Growth: Friends or Foes?
Many people think cardio should be avoided at all costs when trying to build muscle. Are they right? Many guys fear the treadmill, believing it has a mystical ability to shrivel up muscle and sap strength. And many bodybuilder types bash cardio simply because they don’t like doing it. While it’s clearly evident that excessive cardio causes muscle loss (just look at any marathon runner), what about moderate cardio? Will it interfere with your muscle growth? Or will it help? Well, it can go both ways, actually. 3 Ways Cardio Can Help With Muscle Growth
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Weightlifting and Flexibility: Does It Make You Inflexible?
Many people believe that weightlifting impairs flexibility. Is this true? Athletes were once advised not to lift weights because it would make them stiff and inflexible, and hurt their performance. Well, we now know better. Sure, being a hulking brute naturally limits your flexibility (big bodybuilders have an interesting time wiping on the toilet and showering), but research has shown that weightlifting itself, with a full range of motion, actually increases flexibility just as well as, or even better than, static stretching.
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6 Ways to Kick Your Metabolism and Fat Loss Into High Gear
Do you want to speed up your fat loss? Here are my six favorite strategies for melting fat away as quickly as possible. Have you ever been in the following situation? You feel like you’re giving 110% in the gym, you’re doing cardio, and you’re eating clean…but you’re still a bit soft in the middle. What gives? Well, what many people don’t know about getting really lean is it is really nothing more than a slow accumulation of doing a bunch of little things right. If you do only some of them right, you probably won’t get there.
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Use Stevia as a Zero-Calorie Sweetener with Benefits
Stevia is a healthy, tasty way to sweeten just about anything and control blood sugar levels. Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (and particularly carbonated soft drinks), can lead to weight gain and increase your risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Not to mention the daily highs and lows that come with regularly spiking your blood sugar levels.
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5 Ways to Break Through Weight Loss Plateaus: Part One
Have you hit a weight loss plateau? It’s time to learn why, and what you can do about it. Fat was practically falling off your body just a few weeks ago, and now you’re wondering if your scale is broken because no matter what you do, your weight won’t budge. What gives? Why did your routine suddenly stop working, and what can you do to push through this weight loss plateau? Understanding Weight Loss Vs. Fat Loss... “Weight loss” is a tricky little devil because it doesn’t differentiate between changes in fat, muscle, and water.
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8 Signs of Overtraining That Most People Don’t Know
Are your workouts dragging? Feeling fatigued all the time? Having trouble sleeping? You may be suffering from overtraining… Overtraining is an insidious trap because it goes against our natural instincts. In most endeavors in life, you can expect to receive rewards in proportion to what you give in time and effort. Work more and harder in your career, and you’ll usually grow your business or wind up getting promotions and raises. Spend more time with friends and family, and you’ll usually build stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
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Do Fructose and Fruit Make You Fat and Unhealthy?
Does regular fructose intake ruin insulin sensitivity, cause weight gain, and damage your metabolism? Many health gurus claim that fruit can cause horrible things in the body due to the sugar molecule it contains, known as fructose. I’ve known many people that were thoroughly convinced that they would get fatter if they ate any fruit (many of whom were already overweight, which is ironic), and that couldn’t believe I was able to stay in the single-digit body fat percentages eating over 100 grams of carbohydrate from fruit every day (apples, oranges, and bananas are my favorites).
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Carbohydrates and Weight Loss: Should You Go Low-Carb?
Do carbohydrates actually cause weight gain and prevent fat loss? The hysterical crusade against carbohydrates has reached a frantic pitch these days. From the scientifically bankrupt theories of guys like Gary Taubes to the trendy low-carb diets like Paleo, Zone, Dukan, and so forth, the carbohydrate is now the victim of the same level of persecution that saturated fat endured for decades.
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5 Ways to Break Through Weight Loss Plateaus: Part Two
Picking up where we left off, here are the remaining 3 ways to blast through your plateus and supercharge your weight loss: 3. Increase Your Cardio If you know that your daily caloric target is good and you have absolutely no calorie creep, then you should increase your cardio. You can add another day if possible (I don’t recommend more than 4 days per week if you’re also weight training), or add time to each day (I like to add 10 minutes to each session and see how my body responds).
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6 Ways to Naturally Boost Your Testosterone Production
Boosting your testosterone levels is one of the easiest ways to get bigger, leaner, and stronger. That’s why millions of guy take dangerous steroids, and millions more buy products that claim to be able to boost testosterone naturally (but do very little, in reality). So, are there healthy, scientifically proven ways to increase your testosterone production without taking drugs or wasting ungodly amounts of money on fancy supplements? Absolutely. There are six easy, healthy ways, actually. If you incorporate all into your daily routine, you can notice quite a difference. #1
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What is the Best Protein Powder for Building Muscle?
With so many options out there, what is the best protein powder for building muscle? In order to get an answer to that question, let’s first take a look at protein itself. There are two main sources of protein out there: whole food protein and supplement protein. Whole food protein is, as you guessed, protein that comes from natural food sources, such as beef, chicken, fish, etc. The best forms of whole food proteins for building muscle are chicken, turkey, lean red meat, fish, eggs, and dairy.
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