The Muscle Couple is so proud of our trainer and close personal friend: Markus Reinhardt For any of our readers familiar with the Iron Game, Markus was at one time one of the top up and coming bodybuilders in the world. He was a popular cover model for many of the Men’s Fitness and Bodybuilding [...]

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TMC woke up this morning dreaming about Carbs! Well what do you know-ITS CARB TIME!!!!! 2 Bowls of Oatmeal down, I’m firing out this post from a break in training in Chicago. Anh got her posing suit back late Monday afternoon.  I have not seen it on her yet, but I’ve heard it looks amazing.  [...]

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The Muscle Couple is in the home stretch.  Only 4 more days to go. Anhski will be a solo act the next 4 days as she tries to remain militant on her “De-Carb and Carb Up” Phases. It doesn’t hurt eating “Season Salted Ribeye and Salmon” every 2.5 hours with some leafy greens thrown in [...]

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The Muscle Couple is pressed for time today. Jay is headed to Chicago for training for a new job with AutoTrader.com at 6:20AM tomorrow.  Lots of packing and preparation for that. We also need to get our first depletion workout in today before 1:30PM.  So things are going to be interesting for Jay as he [...]

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TMC back again with the 411 on the dreaded “Depletion Workout“. First the “science” on why we perform this kind of training protocol. Just as the last post detailed why a “De-Carb Phase” is necessary from a dietary perspective, the same logic holds true with our muscle glycogen stores. The goal is to maximally deplete [...]

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The Muscle Couple is about to go anal and technical on “yo asses”.  ;) For those readers who have competed or ones contemplating doing so in the future, the next 3-4 days of posts will be something to “save/bookmark”. Lots of thought and preparation have gone into these plans.  And we must credit all of [...]

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As promised, here is Jay’s “current day” to maintain condition before the Depletion Workout and De-Carb /Carb Up. (both separate and detailed posts in their own right) 6AM Wake Up-VPX Redline Black on Blue, 4 Fish Oil Caps, 3 Green Tea Caps, 3 ALCAR Caps, 8 Ounces Distilled water, apply Ami-Lean to abs and obliques. 6:15 [...]

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The Muscle Couple is now only 10 Days out from Fitness America Weekend!!!! As promised with our daily new content up to the day of the show, we wanted to relay what Anh’s current “maintain present condition” day looks like. 5:30AM Wake Up, chase and feed Muscle Bs.   Take Thermogenic Supplements VPX Redline Black [...]

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The Muscle Couple just finished preparing our food for the upcoming week. We’re now in the home stretch with only 6 days until “The Last 7 Days”. When you prepare for a fitness/bodybuilding competition, you find out it really all comes down to The Last 7 Days. It’s what separates the winners from everybody else. [...]

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The Muscle Couple is now in the last stages of our diet and prep for Muscle Mania/Fitness America on Nov 18-2oth. From this blog forward, there will be a daily post documenting everything as we make final preparations to dial everything in. It’s been an incredible journey so far and we can only imagine just [...]

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