The Muscle Couple with another article on the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. Risks: Asleep, and Helping to Keep the Weight Off “Children under 5 who do not get at least 10 hours of sleep at night are almost twice as likely to be overweight or obese later in childhood, a new study reports. And [...]

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The Muscle Couple use to train Dog Crapp (DC) style and we believe it has a lot of merit in relation to the rest pause and negative tenets it espouses. It’s definitely worthy of you reading to learn more. DC TRAINING Declassified: The Definitive Guide | Wannabebig. In our opinion, nothing rivals focused, within perfect [...]

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The Muscle Couple saw many cool things this past weekend at the Olympia Fitness Expo in Las Vegas. Nothing impressed us more than the radical new exercise device: The Isolator We are huge fans of this product and recommend it as enthusiastically as anything we’ve ever tried. The Isolator will provide every training modality an [...]

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The Muscle Couple had another epic day at the Olympia Fitness Expo in Las Vegas. As we type this, the Mr Olympia is being crowned right now.  Will it be Jay Cutler defending his title?  Or will Phil Heath or Branch Warren unseat Jay? We’re too tired to talk about all the cool things that [...]

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The Muscle Couple had an epic but incredibly long day at the Olympia Bodybuilding and Fitness Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center. We are dead tired from all the walking and standing around.   Before we hit the sack, we wanted to throw up some pictures and mention a couple of companies we found intriguing. [...]

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The Muscle Couple came across this post on Above Top Secret by a poster known as “DevolutionEvolvd” It definitely challenges many accepted paradigms relevant to dietetics and nutrition. But the author clearly is onto something. We’re reposting it in it’s entirety as we find it “interesting” to say the least. TMC comments are interspersed throughout. [...]

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Just a quick shout out to inform our friends in the Fitness Community we’ll be walking the grounds of the Olympia Expo Weekend at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Please email either of us if you would like to meet up or discuss potential synergies with the site. jay@themusclecouple.com or anh@themusclecouple.com Here is a blurb [...]

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TMC loves this article. 50 Rules Of Fat-Burning: The Strongest Clinical Research From Around The World We also think this site is pretty cool too: Simply Shredded.com Check it out when you have a few minutes. Some of our favorite rules from the article with our our own commentary: Get Fat Not only will certain [...]

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TMC finds this data mind numbing: “The authors concluded that the individual cost of being obese is $4,879  for women and and $2,646 for men. Adding the value of lost life to these annual costs produces even more dramatic results: $8,365 annually for obese women and $6,518 annually for obese men. The analysis demonstrates costs [...]

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TMC likes this article and feels it’s worthy of your eyeballs. 7 Tricks to a Speedier Metabolism. This is a really good one: 2. Stressing out When you’re on edge, you’re likely to sleep less and eat more, which can affect your thyroid, a gland that produces hormones which regulate metabolism, body temperature, heart rate [...]

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