Boise, ID (PRWEB) July 20, 2007 -- Bodybuilding.com announced their 2007 Supplement Award Nominees today, which recognize industry leaders delivering quality, highly effective products. Leading the way with 15 nominations was MuscleTech, followed by Optimum Nutrition and BSN, each with 14 nominations. Winners will be announced live at the 2007 Mr. Olympia Expo Stage. This year's Olympia Weekend will feature Mr. Olympia, Ms. Olympia, Fitness Olympia, Figure Olympia, and others. The event is scheduled for September 27 - September 30, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"This award allows the customer to vote on which supplements they think are the highest quality and most effective in helping them exceed their shape and fitness goals," said Ryan DeLuca, CEO of Bodybuilding.com. The top selling products in each award category, out of the 5,900+ products Bodybuilding.com carries, were selected as this year's nominees. The winners will be selected by votes cast online at Bodybuilding.com (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/supplementawardpage.htm) by visitors to the website, industry experts, and employees of Bodybuilding.com.
This year's Bodybuilding.com Supplement Award categories are:
? Supplement Of The Year
? Brand Of The Year
? Muscle Builder Of The Year
? Fat Loss Product Of The Year
? Protein Powder Of The Year
? Creatine Product Of The Year
? Protein Bar Of The Year
? New Product Of The Year
? New Brand Of The Year
? Nitric Oxide Product Of The Year
? Glutamine Product Of The Year
? Multi-Vitamin Of The Year
? Joint Supplement Of The Year
? Energy Supplement Of The Year
? Best Labels Of The Year
? Best Ads Of The Year
? Tanning Product Of The Year
? Break-Out Brand Of The Year
Anyone can cast their vote for their favorite supplements by visiting Bodybuilding.com. This is the company's third year offering the distinguished Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards. Last year, more than 132,000 votes were cast. Last year's Supplement Award winners can be viewed at http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/supplementawardwinners.htm
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Why Your Muscle Pumps Have Nothing To Do With Your Muscle Gains
Your back is firmly planted on the bench as you wrap your chalked hands around the cold, steel bar. Your training partner helps you un-rack the weight as you power the bar up and down, squeezing your chest and triceps on each grueling rep. You complete your 6 repetitions, re-rack the bar and stand up.
Your chest feels tight and engorged with blood. You take a look in the mirror, thrilled with how full and vascular your pecs appear. You feel strong, powerful, healthy and motivated to blast through the rest of your workout with your newly achieved “pump”.
Let’s face it, a pump feels incredible. For those of you who aren’t quite sure what I’m talking about, a pump is the feeling that you get as blood becomes trapped inside your muscle tissue as a result of resistance training. The muscles will swell up and increase in size, vascularity and tightness.
There is certainly nothing wrong with achieving a pump in the gym, and it is simply a natural result of intense weight training. However, contrary to what the majority of weightlifters may think, a pump is in no way indicative of a successful workout. Anyone who uses the intensity of their pump as a gauge for the effectiveness of their workout is making a costly error.
On countless occasions I've heard lifters raving about the massive pumps they get in the gym as they share methods for achieving the best pump possible. "Dude, this will give you a crazy pump!" If you have already been working out for a decent amount of time then you know exactly what I'm talking about. While a pump does feel extremely satisfying, just remember that it means very little in terms of muscle stimulation and growth.
A pump is simply the result of extra blood within the muscle tissue. Think of it this way: if I took a pair of 10 pound dumbbells and performed 300 reps of a bench press movement, I would achieve an incredible pump. If muscle pumps meant muscle growth, then super light weight, ultra high rep programs would be the most effective way to grow. Any serious lifter with half a brain knows that this simply is not the case.
Do you want to know how to truly gauge the success of a workout? Here it is…
Take your workout records (in terms of weight and reps) from the previous week and compare it to the current week. Did you improve? Were you able to either increase the resistance slightly on each exercise, or perform an extra rep or two?
If so, you had a successful workout, regardless of how much blood you were able to pump into your muscle tissue.
Building muscle mass and strength is all about training with 100% intensity on every given set and then striving to improve from week to week. If you are able to consistently achieve this, your muscle size and strength will increase faster than you ever thought possible, with or without a pump.
I hope this article cleared up your confusion on the issue of "muscle pumps". There's so much misleading muscle-building information circling around on the Internet these days that it can sometimes be impossible to know who to listen to. If you want to learn the truth about 14 other common, counterproductive "myths", visit my webste below for details.
About The Author
Sean Nalewanyj is a bodybuilding author, dedicated trainer and writer of top-selling Internet Muscle-Building E-Book: The Truth About Building Muscle. Learn why 95% of trainees in the gym will NEVER see any significant results by visiting his website: MuscleGainTruth
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