by Mark McManus
In anticipation of next week’s free book of meal plans, here’s another ANABOLIC menu to get your teeth into! It’s a low-GL, high protein affair, highly suitable for the GLAD bodybuilding diet. It’ll net you a muscle-fueling 232g protein! To get...
by Mark McManus
If you watch one movie this year, make it Cereal Killers. It’s the movie with 100,000 calories, 100 eggs, 70% fat, 28 days…and the TRUTH about fat. Turning the food pyramid on its head, film-maker Donal ditches wheat and sugar in a food plan consisting of...
by Mark McManus
Philosopher Bertrand Russell once said that, “The very best proof that something can be done is that someone else has already done it”. I second that – big time! For the start of a new year, I have a story from you from a 19yr old hardgainer skinny...
by Mark McManus
“Never in my wildest dreams did I ever envision myself, at 63 years old, on stage at a bodybuilding contest!” Would you take up bodybuilding and start to compete in your 60’s? I think it’s an awesome example to set! I like anything that smashes...
by Mark McManus
Are you throwing away muscle gains by consuming most of your protein from denatured sources? If so, you’d need to know! Have you heard the term “denatured protein”? Sounds bad, doesn’t it? DE-NATURED. You’ve almost certainly heard someone...
by Mark McManus
After just 10 weeks, this 25yr old English guy looked in the mirror and said, “I was looking at myself and even I WAS SHOCKED! I had become my own success story” He’s Fil Ace Biggs, 25 years old from Woking, England. For authenticity, this is his...
by Mark McManus
Ah! It sucks! When the weight stack just can’t cope with your superlative strength! You’ve taken a machine to the limit, so what can you do? Here are 9 different things you can do when you’ve kicked a machine’s ass. (1) Change to a free weight...
by Mark McManus
Going from 20% body fat to under 10%, while putting on muscle – not bad, eh? But as Donald said in his testimonial, it’s the “new normal” for Muscle Hackers. This latest transformation comes from 39 year old Stuart Riches. To check...
by Mark McManus
I LOVE getting testimonials from women! I get emails from girls all the time saying, “All your info is for guys, what about us girls?” My reply is, “My info is for everyone.” The very idea that there should be a different way of training or...
by Mark McManus
Training to positive failure is always a cantankerous issue, but it really shouldn’t be. By positive failure I simply mean: That point in a set when you can no longer perform another full positive portion of the rep unassisted (and in the prescribed form). At...
by Mark McManus
Make sure your diet includes the proteins I recommend in this article for better and faster muscle gains. Muscle IS protein. And you need protein to build muscle. However, just wolfing down protein from any old source may not yield the results you desire. Some...
by Mark McManus
A Canadian novelist, called Craig Davidson, totally transformed his body in just 16 weeks…with steroids! This story may be familiar to some of you, but it was news to me when I saw a friend comment on this Guardian story on facebook the other day. He says he was...
by Mark McManus
Is it normal to rock a six-pack all year round? In the world of MuscleHack, it most certainly is. Of course the bodybuilding orthodoxy tells us we must have bulking periods (adding muscle and fat) and cutting periods (losing fat and muscle). Thank God it’s not...
by Mark McManus
Want the world’s cheapest pre-workout supplement? I’m going to tell you how to make your own for about 10% of what the supplement companies are charging you! I’ve even made a video (below) to show you exactly what to do. I highly recommend you use...
by Mark McManus
One of my readers, Manoj, asked how he could follow a low-carb bodybuilding diet like MANS while being a vegetarian. Manoj eats eggs so that’s a great protein source that should form a staple in a vegetarian, high-protein diet. I hope you eat other diary products too...
by Mark McManus
Do you know what the Line of Pull is? If not, you need to know. It has a BIG impact on your gains. Here’s why… We all want to achieve maximal contractions in our workouts in order to stimulate maximum growth. So it’s important to understand that: a...
by Mark McManus
Once you understand exactly what muscle growth actually is, you’ll be in a much better position to make it happen. In order to really comprehend this, we need to take a look at the structure of muscle tissue. The most important part of this diagram is the item...
by Mark McManus
Wanna knock out more reps? More Reps = More Growth Stimulation. Is it okay to pause during a set? Will this lead to more reps? I shot a video to answer the question with a demonstration of how to put this to use right now. Like I say in the vid, I don’t make a...