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Steroids, for years, have run rampant through the sports world. UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have revealed that a combination of corticosteroids with traditional antimicrobial therapy may help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone. That is meaning that using steroid sometimes is useful for our health. People start using steroids to create a more direct, fast acting way to stimulate strength, enhances their glycogen levels after a workout and increases the way of their body synthesizes protein, for achieving tone, leaner looking muscles without having to sacrifice size to aerobic works out.  To obtain the more efficient and maximized result and in shorter time they started to combine steroids. read more »

According to the Medical  Dictionary Steroids represent a general class of chemical substances that are structurally related to one another and share the same chemical skeleton. It is a terpenoid lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton with four fused rings, generally arranged in a 6-6-6-5 fashion. We can find them in plants, animals, and fungi. All steroids are made in cells either from the sterol lanosterol (animals and fungi) or from the sterol cycloartenol (plants). read more »

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2009 Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Results

Most Muscular Award – Branch Warren

Best Poser – Kai Greene

6th place – Moe El Moussawi

5th place – Silvio Samuel

4th place – Toney Freeman

3rd place – Branch Warren

2nd place – Victor Martinez

1st place – Kai Greene

2009 Arnold Classic Strongman Results

10th place – Dave Ostlund

9th place – Oleksander Pekanov

8th place – Ervin Katona

7th place -Andrus Murumets

6th place – Brian Siders

5th place – Phil Pfister

4th place – Vidas Blekaitas

3rd place – Travis Ortmayer

2nd place – Mikhail Koklyaev

1st place – Derek Poundstone

2009 Arnold Classic Deadlift Championship Results

Heaviest deadlift men – Brad Gillingham 881 lbs

Heaviest deadlift women – Priscilla Ribic 540 lbs

Men’s pound for pound results

5th – Pat Benningan
4th – Jeremy Hartman
3rd – Craig Terry
3nd – Brad Gillingham
1st – Robert Herring

The 21st Arnold Classic, the premiere event in men’s professional bodybuilding, hosted the sport’s elite competing for top prize money and the coveted Audemars Piguet watch. Branch Warren, Victor Martinez and more compete on the historic Veterans Memorial stage.

This spectacular event annually features the presentation of the Arnold Lifetime Achievement Award, world-class entertainment, and the final event of The Arnold Strongman Contest. A total of 13 bodybuilders participated in the 2009 Arnold Classic competition. US Bodybuilder Kai Greene won the 1st price and recived a check about $130,000. Congratulations. Victor Martinez of the United States won 2nd place. And Branch Warren placed 3rd in this year’s Arnold Classic. read more »

The 2009 Arnold Sports Festival, the world’s largest multi-sport fitness weekend, took place on March 6-8. With 17,000 competing athletes, from Bodybuilding to Ping Pong, the Arnold Sports Festival is the largest sports event in the World, nearly 2X the size of the Olympics.
The participants at Arnold Sports Festival competed in the following compartments:

Arnold ACTIVE AGING Festival read more »

As an experienced strength trainer, one of the biggest mistakes I see new members make is working out for too long, too often. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s two-hour, twice-daily workouts back in the 1970s are the stuff of legend, but times have changed.

Schwarzenegger was a pioneer, read more »

In bodybuilding, possessing the right genetics for gaining muscle, losing body fat, responding to chemicals, and shape/structure are often the keys to who succeeds and who fails in the sport. However, none of these tools matter much if the athlete doesn’t possess the mental fortitude, focus, and discipline to spend the years engaged in consistent training and dieting which are required to maximize potential. The truly successful bodybuilders are the ones with the correct physical tools, who have the mental ability to train with the intensity and focus required to fulfill the potential for which these tools allow. Bodybuilding mentality in the gym should be simple – train hard and train smart. There are some additional strategies, read more »