Blog by Travis

Our society is always searching for quick fixes to every problem. Why would we rather smoke a cigarette than take the time to research stress relief techniques and find out where the source of stress is coming from so that you can prevent it from coming back in the long run? Most people are [...]

Knee health is critical and will have a profound impact on your daily life. Do you find yourself struggling to run, bend your knees or getting out of your seat without feeling knee pain? This could be due to joint issues, but most likely this is because you haven’t taken proper care of your knee. [...]

Our shoulders have a great range of motion. We can both scratch our backs and lift an object out in front of us. However, with this mobility comes great vulnerability. Our shoulders do not receive a lot of oxygen and nutrients, and this is why a shoulder injury will take a long [...]

We all have heard about Creatine. Some people have a misperception that Creatine is a steroid-like supplement with adverse health effects. To what credibility are these claims? Can Creatine give you that extra boost to get you past a plateau? What is it, where does it come from, and how does it help you? Let’s [...]

Too often we are given the wrong information regarding the most effective way to build muscle. There is a lot of bull that makes building muscle seem like an impossible task to ever achieve. However, I am all about being efficient, simple, and realistic. I believe that many people make building muscle [...]

Today while I was working out, I made a new friend; we’ll just call him Joe. Joe was curious about my reasoning for working out – after all, I’m not a student athlete. I told him that I was training currently for a bodybuilding competition and afterwards I would try to further pursue [...]

We have heard the expression that if it is too good to be true then it probably is. However, there is no easier method of filling in the gaps that your diet leaves open than to supplement with proper vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Yet we still overlook this overly simplistic method of filling this [...]

For the first post of my blog, I deemed it of urgent importance to explain the basics of building muscle before getting into more specific topics. This is the check list that you need to go by before asking yourself why you are not gaining muscle.