Author Archives: Stacy Achua

Powder Protein

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Here’s how to get more out of your protein supplement. Long gone are the days when protein powders tasted like cardboard, sand or grainy turpentine. These   days, refined manufacturing techniques and professional food technicians have created not just more powerful protein products, but powders that mix well and taste delicious. Today’s protein powders are versatile… read more

Ready to Rock the Beach

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After three months of hard work, you’re ready to show off the results—and enjoy raves. Here’s the conclusion to our Buff for Summer makeover. Bigger and tighter. More muscle, less body fat. Wider shoulders, thinner waist. Bulging biceps, deeply etched abs. Sounds good, doesn’t it? If you’ve been following our Buff for Summer transformation, you… read more

Buff for Summer Makeover: Getting Jacked

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The guys in our Buff for Summer Makeover are getting bigger and better. Here’s how to join them. Three months. It doesn’t seem like a long time. But when you’re in a Dave Hawk 90-day makeover, time takes on a different dimension. “Change is earned, not demanded or wished for,” says Hawk, a former IFBB… read more

Get Buff For  Summer In Just 12 Weeks

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Create a muscular, studly physique in only three months and become the hardbody every woman wants to be with and every guy wants to be. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how fat you are or how skinny you are: You can look like a beach stud this summer by following this three-month transformation.… read more

Domo Arigato, Dr. Tabata

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You too will be giving thanks to the Japanese scientist who developed this brutal training technique. Leave it to the Japanese to develop a training technique so torturous that most people can’t even complete it. So grueling that it leaves even highly conditioned athletes drenched and gasping. So punishing that it may well be the… read more

Brain Candy – Smart Supplements: From A To Z

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Keep your head in the game with these mind-pumping supplements. We pay a lot of attention to diet and training programs when beginning the new year, but usually resolutions fail because our brains aren’t engaged in the process. To make true progress in your fitness efforts, you need nutrients that will help stimulate your mind… read more

Get Your Body Back

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Eight guys over 40 take on Dave Hawk’s most ambitious transformation yet: the Primetime Muscle Makeover. With a boost from the new Amidren Performance Nutrition Series, Hawk shows you how to pack on lean mass, get ripped, and turn back your biological clock after turning the big 4-0. Mother Nature can be cruel. As men… read more

The 5 Rules of Exercise Nutrition

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Here’s how to keep your tank full and your body energized. According to some estimates, keeping fit is 80% nutrition. Whether or not you buy into that number, you know that all the exercise in the world can’t make up for a lousy diet. And if you’re an active person who is trying to change… read more

Harness the Power of Intervals

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Raise the intensity and get faster results with this proven training system. W hen it comes to weight management, lack of progress can be directly related to a lack of intensity. Getting a hard body demands hard work, and interval training is an excellent way to break out of your comfort zone and challenge your… read more

Girl Not Interrupted

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At 20 years old, Ella Kociuba is a record-breaking Spartan racer. Her doctors are just happy she can walk. The pain wouldn’t end. It seemed that Ella Kociuba, still just a child, would be permanently damaged. A competitive endurance horseback rider, Kociuba was only 12 years old when she was thrown from her horse and… read more