Question About Dr Clay’s Caloric Intake

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Question: Dr. Clay, I read an interview with t-nation that you maintain your physique with roughly 2200 calories per day or so. Roughly how many calories did you consume to gain your serious mass for the first time? Did you pull and cut down to your current weight or did you gain slowly over the [...]

The KEY to Making Progress: Failure

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They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing yet expecting a different result.  Here’s how you can avoid being insane. Assuming you want your body to progress, you have to challenge it!  You have to push it to its’ limit (like the girl to the right) and give it a reason [...]

The Red Meat & Muscle Gain Connection

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If you’ve been around the iron game for any length of time, you’ve probably heard that eating red meat is a must for those looking to gain muscle mass. For years I shrugged this off as another one of those old wives’ tales that just won’t go away. I always keep an open mind about [...]

Muscle Gaining Nutrition for Women: latest article at Figure Athlete

I’m not sure what I did to be so lucky as to have two featured articles comes out on the same day at two of the best fitness websites in the world… but somehow it happened. FigureAthlete.com just posted a nutrition article written by yours truly.  It’s called “Muscle Gaining Nutrition for Women.” After you [...]