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When it comes to building more muscle mass, many people tend to focus on protein and carbohydrate intake, unwisely forgetting to take fat into account. The problem is, without eating a moderate amount of healthy fat, you're denying yourself the possibility of achieving what Hans and Frans might call maximum pumpitude.

A study that appears in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise reveals that guys who ate a normal diet that included a moderate amount of fat gained five poun… Continue

Trust me, you don't need eighty thousand square feet of gym space to get a solid workout. All you really need is a little area to call your own and a willingness to break a good sweat, as evidenced by a great -- but simple -- fitness move known as the Prisoner Squat.

To perform this leg-blasting and heart-pumping exercise, start by standing with your feet just slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Next, lace your fingers behind your head. From there, bend at the hips to lower your body down… Continue

One our ILLF magazine picks, Maximum Fitness, recently offered ways to save 5,000 calories through a mix of food choices and life/fitness activity. Best of all, they tell you how to do it in ONE DAY!!! Since we thought this was too good not to pass along, here's here's how you, too, can drop som cals.

STARTING FIRST WITH THE DIET ...

* Save 617 calories by eating an apple and drinking a black coffee (123 calories) instead of a muffin and a double-double coffee (740 calories)
* Save 1,313 calor… Continue

Remember the Marlboro Man? He was a pretty tough looking hombre, wasn't he?

And how about those male movie stars from the golden age of cinema; they looked like pretty tough with those cigarettes dangling from their lips, didn't they?

Well, if the makers of these commercials and films really wanted to portray cigarette smokers accurately, they may have been better off using more wimpy looking guys.

It turns out that there is yet another reason (add this to the list of the hundreds of others)… Continue

Do you remember what you wore to work yesterday? Or where you put your car keys this morning? Or what the phone number was to the house you grew up in? If not, then maybe you need to get out and start exercising, as doing so has shown to improve memory.

MRIs taken of the brain of healthy adults taken after exercise showed signs of what Columbia University Medical Center researchers called "memory-cell" growth. Earlier studies led to similar results in mice. These studies may motivate physicians… Continue