2014 Fitness Universe Recap

Congratulations are in order for the outstanding team of Australia athletes that competed in the Fitness Universe™ Weekend in Fort Lauderdale Florida. The show attracts some of the finest Natural Bodybuilders, Figure Athletes, Physique, Model and Bikini competitors from across the world. Let’s take a look at some of the results. Melissa Darmawan collected a
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Shannah Baker Profile

Shannah Baker Natural Bodz Magazine
Name: Shannah Baker |    Height:  167cm |    Weight: 59kg    |    Age: 23   |    Location: Gold Coast, QLD Who or what inspired you to get involved in the health and fitness industry? I first started my fitness journey to get in better shape for my wedding and honeymoon (September/October 2013). My partner was always very supportive and encouraging, being into health and fitness himself,
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2014 ANB Asia Pacific Report

NATURAL ATHLETES FROM ACROSS THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION MUSCLE-UP AT ROBINA’S MAIN AUDITORIUM ON THE GOLD COAST FOR ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE EVENTS TO DATE   Athletes from Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Japan, Papa New Guinea and every state in Australia made their way to Queensland’s Gold Coast for the biggest Asia Pacific International
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Whey Over The Top

By George L. Redmon PH.D.N.D.   Studies have suggested for some time that whey protein can up-regulate immune system surveillance systems due to the presence of several live bioactive fractions. Those fractions include beta-lactoglobulin, alpha- lactalbumin, glycomacropeptide and lactoferrin. Lactoferrin has been shown to stop the growth of pathogens commonly associated with food poisoning. Interestingly,
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Low GI – Fact Vs Fiction

Imagine a categorizing system in which numbers are assigned to foods, allowing you to choose the foods that curb appetite, help shed excess pounds, lower your risk for diabetes, and improve heart health. These in fact are the claims of popular diets that use the Glycemic Index— GI diet, for short. What is the Glycemic
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Why you should tell your trainer to shut up!

By Regie Simmons The one-liners above are just a sample of the clichés personal trainers utter to clients during training sessions to motivate them through a workout. Motivation is after all one of the primary reasons why people seek out personal training services, and pay big bucks for them. A friend recently confided that she
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Probiotics 4 Muscle

By Trends in sports nutrition have evolved toward utilizing multi-purpose formulas or products. Adding probiotics to a protein powder would offer bodybuilders, athletes and health enthusiast immune protection plus a multitude of applications that enhance pre- and post workout efforts. Additionally, new data indicates that specific strains of probiotics increase the utilization of protein by
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Bad Fat Into Good Fat

By Regie Simmons In the old Westerns it was always easy to identify the bad guys because they always wore black. But, in the ensuring decades it has not been as easy to delineate the good from the bad. Bad guys don’t always were black, and every once in a while a so-called bad guy
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Garcinia Cambogia

I am pretty sure we would all agree that dieting sucks. It leaves you with constant cravings… crazy hunger pains. This usually causes people to give up on their diet and eventually gain all the weight back plus more! For this reason, most conventional weight loss methods have a terrible success rate. Very few people
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Cheat Meals!

When is cheating good for you? In most cases cheating in any field is frowned upon, but what about a little cheat meal here and there in a well planned diet program. Do people throw in cheat meals purely for a psychological reasons or are there real benefits to throwing in a few cheat meals
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