Muscle & Fitness UK Edition Magazine - UK | July 2013

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What’s The Deal With Fruit? by SHELBY STARNES, JESSE BURDICK, NATE MIYAKI & MIKE ROUSSELL
Depending on whom you consult, which diet you’re following, or what studies you read, fruit is either a healthy indulgence or a sugar-laden diet wrecker—nature’s own fat-promoting candy. We rounded up some of the fitness industry’s top nutrition experts to determine once and for all what place fruit has in the diet of a guy who wants to get big, strong, and lean.

Pain, Gain And Fame by SEAN HYSON & SHAWN PERINE
It\'s amazing what muscles can do for you. Apart from improving your appearance, increasing your self-confidence, and lengthening your life, they can take you to a lot of places you may never go otherwise. The journey Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscles have allowed him to travel has been well documented, and countless actors, musicians, and other talents have used working out to advance their careers and enhance their lives. Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars, owe a lot to their training. And isn’t it interesting that after everything else they’ve accomplished, after all of their hit movies and divergent career paths, they find themselves together in a film doing what each started as a hobby decades ago? Bodybuilding. It’s only natural. Because under all the glitz and glamour, costumes and make-up, lie two perenially ripped physiques. Wahlberg and Johnson are, at their core, like us. They’re bodybuilders.

Take Up The Challenge by STEVEN STIEFEL
Welcome to Part 1 of the 2013 edition of the popular Muscle & Fitness training series, the Rock Hard Challenge. Just as in past years, we’ve designed a comprehensive training, nutrition and supplement programme specifically for you. It’s an eight-week plan (divided into two 4-week segments) loaded with a wide range of intensity techniques sure to deliver maximum results in minimum time. Are you ready to get started? Are you ready to challenge yourself? Then let’s go!

Also in this issue
60 Take Up The Challenge
74 Rock Hard: Nutrition
82 Rock Hard: Supplements
90 Build Brute Strength
104 Straight-Up: Forearms
160 Isolation Exercises
166 Training Talk
112 Young People And Strength Training
120 The Science Behind Building Muscle
126 God Of War
138 The Battle Against Inflammation
150 UFC V Premiership Rugby: Survival Of The Fittest
174 Performance Nutrition
178 Protein Powder Cookery
180 Nutrition Made Easy
14 Arnold’s Letter
16 Editor’s Page
18 Edge
182 Andy Bolton’s Secrets of Strength
186 Bikini Body
188 Coach’s Clinic
192 Under The Microscope