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The Bring Your Body Back Stack!

Hanging out with some of you young bucks, I'm confronted with the effects of declining anabolic hormones; something I've experienced ever since I passed my 45th year. Compounding matters, I've endured a heavy 15-month cortisol cycle brought on by custody battles, real estate mental strife, new business creations, and cross country moving.  The damage this has wrought has left me with a mere shadow-- less muscle, more chub-- of what was once a fairly decent physique. Apparently, I'm not alone in this situation as I receive numerous e-mails and posts on my Q&A thread about what I think is the best noncompetitive aesthetic "stack" to bring your body back to its heyday.

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The Powerhouse Gym Vacation

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Raymond Chandler

As I walked into Bev Francis' Powerhouse Gym, these words from Chandler rang out in my head. In order for his words to be realized in a bodybuilding sense, Chandler would agree that you'll probably need some kind of factory.  If that factory isn't equipped to foster a hardcore attitude, you're not going to grow any muscles. Environment plays a big role in your training attitude

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Whack Pack Field Triple to Hell in a Cell!

WWE2One of the best parts about belonging to the RX Muscle family is the trips.  Usually these ventures involve work (a lot of work), but sometimes they're more about FUN. This was one of those relaxing "fun" ones.

It all started a few days ago when WWE Superstar Triple H gave Dave six tickets to the WWE Special:  "Hell in the Cell."  After including himself and Colette, me, my son Max, and Big Sean Andros, Dave had one ticket left.  Who should we bring?

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Wipe the Bench Off. . . Or Don't?

I've come to tolerate many things in the gym that I would never tolerate anywhere else. I guess that tolerance has grown over time because back in the day no one would ever get away with some of the shit people get away with today. I'm talking about stuff like wonton little nerds sitting on a machine during primetime reading a book between sets like they are the only one in the gym, oblivious to the line of people waiting to use the thing. . . idiots who step in front of me while I'm in the middle of a set and block the mirror. . . people who take every pair of dumbbells from the 20s on down to some obscure corner of the gym to do walking lunges or some other useless exercise and never bring them back. . . and, as you can imagine, there's more.

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Coffee Blue: Can I Just Get a Cup of Coffee?

A week ago, I was out in LA standing on line at your basic trendy coffee joint that no upper-middle-class Main Street would be without these days. I sort of fell in with the eclectic band of Angelinos trying to feel like I really belonged there, even though I abandoned the place nearly 15 years ago. Although I was no longer one of them, many of us sported that same kind of vacant malaise that is common among early risers until we got a little help from our morning cup of joe; and for me it's mandatory before a workout.

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