Muscle & Fitness UK Edition Magazine - UK | June 2014

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Weight Of The World by MATT TUTHILL
Patrick McCullough waited in a back room of the Consol Energy Centre in Pittsburgh with a wooden shadow box in his hands. Inside was a gold medal he’d won for swimming in the Special Olympics, a photo of himself, and a note to John Cena, thanking him for “taking time out of your busy schedule to make my wish come true”.
Patrick, 18, who suffers from Down’s syndrome and a rare heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot—a leaky heart valve that’s been replaced once and is in danger of needing replacement again—had qualified for the Make-A-Wish programme. Like so many kids before him, Patrick made the request to meet his favourite WWE Superstar, John Cena—a request that would be granted. After an initial meeting with the McCullough family, Cena gave 20 tickets to Patrick’s parents, Carol and Joe, so that Patrick could bring all his friends from Reading, Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh to watch the Royal Rumble.

Easy Muscle Meals by DEVIN ALEXANDER
Guys who don’t cook always use the same two excuses: 1) I don’t have time, or 2) I don’t know how. Kiss both of them goodbye. Even if you’re pulling 12-hour days, you have time for these recipes, which are so simple they’ll come out perfect on the first try.

Straight-Up: Arms by ERIC VELAZQUEZ
Nothing beats arm day. Like our weekly appointments with Homeland and Game of Thrones, we truly look forward to hitting our biceps and triceps. The skin-stretching pump and vascularity are immediate, visual indicators of a job well done. It should be noted, however, that the presence of a pump alone does not constitute the promise of growth. Training heavy will never go out of style, but when it comes to arm day, we (sometimes) smartly show restraint on load selection. A barbell curl where we sloppily swing the weight from A to B rarely does as much good as performing a rep precisely and with control. Adding weight in a safe manner allows us to build up our strength and heaps of dense, gravity-defeating muscle. Any good routine should include heavy and lighter work to target more total muscle fibres.

Also in this issue
58 Continue The Challenge
72 Rock Hard: Nutrition
75 Rock Hard: Supplements
48 Weight Of The World
102 M&F 75 Years Anniversary
122 Ella Es Muy Caliente
86 The Best Band-Only Shoulder Workout
92 Get Fit Fast
138 Bodyweight Street Workout
144 Straight-Up: Arms
154 Peak Contraction
159 M&F Expert
160 Training Talk
168 Performance Nutrition
170 Nutrition Made Easy
174 Research Briefing
176 Dan Hardy Column
178 Building Muscle
182 Bikini Body
184 Kings of Strength
78 Easy Muscle Meals
116 Is No Still A Go?
128 Fat Burning - Part Two
14 Welcome
16 Arnold’s Page
18 Hot List
20 Edge
188 Last Set
190 Under The Microscope
192 Hot Bodies