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Body Muscle Journal Q and A Forum
BMJ Volume 3
By: Body Muscle Journal Staff
Part 1 of 4
CHOCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Q: I get great results with Muscle Provider. How about some chocolate? You have chocolate Ultra Size so why not Provider?
A: Good news, we do but it only took us about 6,000 years! So chocolate lovers -- rejoice! We now produce Muscle Provider Swiss Chocolate Cocoa flavor and it is delicious.
Since Beverly first came out with Muscle Provider people have always asked for chocolate. Well, gee, all Beverly had to do was make a Chocolate option for Muscle Provider and it's sales would have gone like a wildfire on a 100-degree blazing, sunny August day in Tucson Arizona. But -- there was always this tiny obstacle. All the early samples just seemed to taste bad because it's difficult to "disguise" the extremely high quality amino acids and protein species in our Provider and just proved a much bigger problem with old Count Chocula, than it did the vanilla flavor. The most powerful proteins --- hydrolysate proteins, they just taste God-awful.
(Try biting into a Mass Amino tablet. If you can avoid pulling your face off then you pass for Terminator 3)! Oh sure, Beverly could have degraded the product or easily added hidden sugars or fats for flavoring a long time ago like so many other fly-by-night protein clowns, but that's not our style.
We are just not profit driven like some real creeps we have in this industry who flat-out lie and distort the value of the proteins. We are results driven. Today finally, chocoholics around the world will be in heaven because our food chemists have nailed a deliciously rich source of cocoa and have the proprietary formula just right. By weight, our incredibly anabolic protein, Muscle Provider, still has the same amount of protein and is structurally the same (about 70% whey isolates and, hydolysates), whey concentrates, casein, albumin and glutamine. The only difference, there are 2 extra grams carbohydrates per servings, but these are fibrous due to the cocoa so the active carb content is still the same and it is now even healthier. We also added a slightly larger scoop to give you a solid 20 grams (actual analysis 22g) protein per serving so you can tailor your drink to 20, 40, or 60-grams protein and beyond. Even just mixed in water, Muscle Provider Chocolate tastes very similar to chocolate milk - which is exactly what we wanted before releasing it to the public.
The look on your face when you try Muscle Provider Chocolate will be similar to Steven Wade's after getting a taste of the locals in Hawaii at the Aloha Muscle Expo.
We must warn you to drink this very carefully because if you actually mix it in skim or 2% milk, you may not ever want to eat whole food protein again.
Now as great as this may be, boy-oh-boy, wait until you see what's in store for Provider in 2003. It will be by far the most refined and smooth protein ever conceived, let alone ever made. It will be so good, it's even scary to us.
HOW MANY REPS?
Q: I am constantly reading books and articles in magazines on every type of training out there, but there is a very simple issue that no one addresses. How many reps should I be doing?
A: On the contrary, good writers almost always address this issue, but, often, it is overlooked by some because it is so simple. Most writers and "gurus" try to make the topic of reps into more than what it really is. We are going to break it down to the simplest of terms. The following was written in the 1950's by the late Irvin Johnson (also known as Rheo Blair). Rheo was one of the original diet and training experts in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
Jeff Williamson uses a variety of rep ranges to focus on strength, hypertrophy, and muscle quality.
By the way, what used to work in the old days, still works now. In fact, natural athletes should pay particular attention to how bodybuilders trained in the old days. Blair was a diet and exercise mentor before steroids came onto the scene. The truth is, things haven't changed that much - only the gyms have gotten fancier and the supplements taste and perform better. Rheo said, What worked then still works now! Just like dumbbells, Beverly has been around since the days before steroids. Both are still the backbone of any effective program, but over the years the gyms got fancier, the supplements more advanced, and the haircuts are much better.
What worked then still works now! Just like dumbbells, Beverly has been around since the days before steroids. Both are still the backbone of any effective program, but over the years the gyms got fancier, the supplements more advanced, and the haircuts are much better.
"In exercising you should use from 1 to 30 reps. One rep will do something for the muscles that 30 won't do, and vice versa. Two reps will work your muscles in a way that three won't and vice versa. Therefore, do a wide number of reps and work the muscles in many ways. There is no such thing as "one best set of reps". Variety is the spice of life even in exercising. Lower reps tend to build more strength, while high reps pump more blood into the region being exercised and thereby build size and local endurance." You have to have the low reps to get the thickness in type 2 muscle fiber. And you have to use high reps to work all other aspects of the muscle cell and red fiber. Both aid each other and go hand-in-hand, so use both high and low reps in your training program. If you are the type who likes to perform a lot of sets, and you recover, we would advise sticking to low reps when doing a lot of sets (approximately 5 to 8), but use higher reps when you are not doing as many sets. The point is, don't do the same thing day after day, which is what most bodybuilders seem to do. Get out of that rut! I've seen many bodybuilders improve faster when they threw away routines, walked into a gym, picked up a barbell without looking to see what it weighed, and just exercised in a very casual manner. They got variation this way, and the variation is exactly what their muscles needed.