MEN’S HEALTH

A better prostate check-up

Three things you should know about prostate cancer screening

Let’s face it: If you want a sex life, you need a healthy prostate. Heck, if you want a life at all you need a cancer-free prostate. You’ve probably heard it’s a good idea to get your gland an annual checkup. What you may not know is that it’s not always enough. Continue reading

Nutrition and Training

In a perfect world, you’d eat four to six small meals a day, and each one would consist of nutritionally balanced, freshly prepared foods that meet your individual needs. But let’s face it: Many of us barely eat one healthy meal a day. That’s why supplements can augment your diet with the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients you lack.

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Nutrition and Excercise

Many people swear that stretching has done wonders for them and judging by the competing philosophies and Zone diet-like controversies, you’d think it must do something. But so far, there’s very little scientific research to prove it. Still, don’t let that prevent you from seeking extra flexibility. The fact that science hasn’t caught up with athletic experience isn’t all that significant.

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Nutrition of men

Just because you’re in a program and you want to improve your body shape doesn’t mean you have to eat nutrition bars. In fact, adding calories to your diet will do little more than make you a porker. If you’ve just started to become active, try improving your over-all diet. Continue reading

HOT TIPS

There are two critical components to summer cooling: actual sweating and the evaporation of that sweat. You can stack the deck against heat stroke by following a few common-sense rules that help out one or both cooling factors: Continue reading

Personal Trainer Back exercise

Back exercise

As you look over our back training regimen, keep in mind which athletes have the greatest back development. One group that comes to mind immediately is gymnasts. Why? Because their skills and practice evolve around doing chin-up and pulling types of movements. Many people shy away from chin-ups because they’re difficult to do, but I believe they’re on of the best. You’ll find a special chin-up feature attached to this workout. Continue reading

The Men’s Health Personal Trainer Shoulder excercise

Shoulders (narrow)

Human anatomy, unfortunately, offers no way to make the bones of your shoulders grow farther apart. So the only way to make your shoulders appear wider is to build the muscles that surround your shoulder bones, particularly the meaty outside portion of the deltoid muscle. “But it’s very difficult to isolate that muscle,” says Juan Carlos Santana, C.S.C.S. “You need to take a shotgun approach, hitting the entire shoulder area: front (anterior), middle, and rear (posterior) delts.” Continue reading

The Men’s Health Personal Trainer Chest excercise

I’ve got a workout that combines the most powerful exercises for pec development. I’ve got tricks

and tips that will build you a chest like King Kong. And I’ll guide you through each move, step by step, so you can be sure you’re doing them right.

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