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Part 2 - top 10 leg exercises

7. Glute-Ham Raise (not shown)

Chances are, your gym won’t have Louie Simmons’ Westside Series glute-ham developer. It’s rare unless the place where you train is the type patrolled by beefy powerlifters and chronically hazy with chalk dust. But if it does, or if you can get your hands on one, do so because the glute-ham raise on this apparatus is one of the very best strength- and muscle-building exercises you can do for your lower body. “We do no less than 600 [reps] per month just for maintenance, and at other times we use 135 pounds of heavy weight,” Simmons says, the “we” referring to the select group of powerlifters and athletes who train at his exclusive Westside Barbell gym in Columbus, Ohio.

Main Areas Targeted: Glutes, hamstrings

Strengths: From a muscle-stimulation perspective, the glute-ham raise has been found to be on par with an exercise higher on our list, the revered Romanian deadlift, as reported in a small comparative study of hamstring exercises published in the June 2014 issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. With the specially designed Westside bench you’ll get support in all the right places, but don’t let a lack of equipment dissuade you. You can alternatively do glute-ham raises with a partner holding your legs (kneel on the floor and keep your hands out in front to catch yourself as you lower your torso to the floor) or kneel on a lat-pulldown station seat so your heels are under the knee pads, placing a barbell or a sturdy stick on the floor that you grasp for balance (lower yourself via the power of your hams and glutes, then reverse).

How-To: Get into position on the bench, securing your ankles between the rollers, your knees on the pads and your feet on the platform. Start with your torso and thighs aligned and perpendicular to the floor. Cross your hands over your chest. Slowly extend your knees by lowering your torso as far toward parallel to the floor as you can go. Flex your hams to bring your body back to vertical. Note that when performing reps correctly, the calf/ankle area will alternate between touching the bottom and the top roller.

Erin Says: “This exercise is most effective when the knees are the lever for the movement. Keep your hips, back and shoulders in line, and pull yourself up with your hamstrings and glutes. To make the exercise more challenging, hold a plate or use resistance bands.”

6. Walking Lunge

Lunges come in more varieties than Taylor Swift breakup songs. You can do stationary lunges in any direction — front, side, backward or any point in between — and have a damn fine exercise on your hands. But walking lunges ultimately made our list because a) they’re slightly more functional since you continually move forward instead of standing still and b) they provide an excellent finisher to any leg workout. No less than eight-time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman used to take a loaded barbell outside and lunge through the Metroflex Gym parking lot in the Texas heat to cap his leg day, which with thighs as big as 36 inches around in his heyday was a sight to behold.

Main Areas Targeted: Quads, hams, glutes

Strengths: “The walking lunge is a dynamic movement, requiring coordination and muscle recruitment to perform correctly,” explains Gene Flores, CSCS, a physical therapist and orthopedic clinical specialist at Vargo Physical Therapy, an outpatient clinic in Reseda, Calif. “This exercise is predominantly a unilateral activity no matter which way it’s performed, with emphasis on the front rather than the back leg. You’ll get a good amount of co-contractions from above and below the knee joint, from the hip and core to the ankle and foot.”

How-To: Holding dumbbells in each hand, step forward with one foot. Bend both knees to lower your torso toward the floor, making sure your front knee doesn’t pass your toes at the bottommost position. Stop just short of your rear knee touching the floor, then drive through the heel of your front foot while bringing your rear leg forward until you return to a standing position. Then step with the opposite leg into a lunge, repeating the pattern. Continue alternating down the floor. “The cues I utilize when teaching this movement are to always have your core engaged, with a neutral spine or slight lordosis (extension),” Flores says. “Most important, do not let the front knee turn in or out excessively.”

Erin Says: “I like this exercise as a finisher. Be sure to keep your knees behind your toes, step evenly on both sides and keep your upper body tall.”

5. Bulgarian Split Squat

Did Bulgarian strength athletes really use this movement as a training cornerstone? The myths may not match the reality, but the name has stuck to what is, all in all, a pretty solid exercise. That is, if you tweak the common variation (shown here) as proposed by well-known Canadian strength coach Charles Poliquin. He contends that over-elevating the back leg — putting it on a flat bench or even higher — reduces the stability of the front leg, thus limiting your strength potential and putting you at risk for injury while also unnecessarily stressing the spine. His solution? The exercise that lands at No. 5 on our list, a split squat in which you elevate the back leg only 6 inches from the floor.

Main Areas Targeted: Quadriceps, glutes

Strengths: This move focuses on each leg individually, so you can pay full attention to each without a stronger leg compensating for a weaker one (as can happen on any bilateral exercise). In other words, any weaknesses in your strength or thigh development have nowhere to hide.

How-To: Holding a dumbbell in each hand, step forward with one foot and rest your rear foot on an elevated platform or bench, top of the foot facing down. Bend your front knee to lower yourself, making sure that knee doesn’t track out ahead of your toes. (If it does, take a longer step out from the platform.) When your knee joint forms at least a 90-degree angle, reverse the motion, driving through the heel of your forward foot to return to standing. Do not forcefully lock out the knee.

Erin Says: “This is a staple in my routine. Just like other unilateral exercises, start with your non-dominant leg. It’s always best to train weaknesses when you’re fresh.”

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weightlossfitness2 · 5 years ago

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How to Combat Poor Movement in Your Upper Body Training

Poor motion high quality is a pandemic amongst athletes, and while a lot of them are capable of establish their very own weaknesses and imbalances, I’m all the time shocked by athletes’ reluctance to deal with and treatment them. It appears to be a lot tougher for them to be humble and regress to mastering the fundamentals than it’s to raise heavy shit and muscle their manner via a exercise.

For the perfect leads to your higher physique work, you want to basically appropriate your motion. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mobility, stability, and motor management play a essential function in an athlete’s skill to carry out and keep harm free. Mobility is the diploma of uninhibited vary of movement round a joint, and stability is the resistance provided by muscle tissues, ligaments, and tendons surrounding that joint to guard it in opposition to harm.

Motor management refers back to the physique’s functionality to take sensory enter from the setting and execute the right muscle co-ordination in response. Mobility, stability, and motor management are all inter-related within the human physique, with most motion high quality points arising from issues inside this trifecta.

Fixing Poor Movement within the Upper Body

In this text we’re going to take a look at the best way to enhance motion high quality within the higher physique with mobility, stability, and motor management targeted workouts. Sports-specific wants apart, the majority of my preliminary programming for my purchasers’ higher physique work focuses on the posterior chain, and there is not any change right here. I imagine in lengthening the entrance and strengthening the again of the physique first.

Perform the workouts beneath to be sure you’re hitting the best muscle tissues on the proper instances to enhance your efficiency and scale back your harm threat when coaching your higher physique. These workouts will enhance your general mobility, stability, and motor management and ensure your trifecta stays stable.

Remember:

Mobility + Stability + Motor Control = Correct Fundamental Movement Patterns

Let’s check out mobility first.

Mobility

Limited vary of movement compromises essentially the most fundamental of motion patterns, as tightness impacts the flexibility to interact the best muscle tissues in the best sequential order.

This inevitably results in imbalance and harm as compensation by extra dominant muscle tissues happens. If your higher again is motion restricted, your decrease again will compensate for it, resulting in instability, ache and harm.

Upper Body Mobility Issues

In the higher physique, widespread mobility points embody tight pectorals, inside rotators, stiffness within the serratus anterior, and blocking of the thoracic backbone.

These points make it very tough to maintain a proud chest and lively again in actions corresponding to Olympic weightlifting. It may also be laborious to attract the shoulder blades collectively throughout pulling actions corresponding to pull ups.

Let’s check out some workouts you possibly can implement into your program to alleviate higher physique mobility points.

Upper Body Mobility Solutions: 1. Mobilize the Thoracic Spine with a Foam Roller

One of the best methods to mobilize the thoracic backbone is to make use of a foam curler. Stiffness or blocking within the thoracic backbone impacts respiration and posture and reduces the vary of shoulder motion, notably when lifting overhead because it modifications the place of the shoulder blade on the rib cage.

Roll from the higher trapezius all the way in which right down to the underside rib.

Perform with a impartial backbone, then in extension.

Avoid the neck or cervical backbone space on the high.

For additional launch, it’s also possible to use this technique with two tennis balls taped collectively in a determine of eight to isolate and mobilize every vertebral joint.

Upper Body Mobility Solutions: 2. Mobilize the Serratus Anterior with a Foam Roller

The serratus anterior is answerable for holding the scapula to the rib cage. A decent serratus anterior is extra widespread than you assume, and performs a significant function in pulling the shoulder ahead. You also can use a foam curler to mobilize this space.

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Start at your backside rib and roll throughout the muscle fibers from again to entrance.

Repeat for every rib.

You can foam roll pre or submit exercise, on restoration days, and earlier than mattress. I discover that spending 10-15 minutes focusing on particular areas earlier than a dynamic heat as much as be essentially the most useful. To obtain the perfect mobility beneficial properties, Andy Ginn suggests releasing the serratus anterior earlier than focusing on the pecs and inside rotators with dynamic heat up mobility sequences just like the one I’ve given beneath.

Upper Body Mobility Solutions: three. Open the Chest and Shoulders with a Dynamic Warm Up

For a basic opening of the chest and shoulders, I favour utilizing a resistance band within the easy mobility sequence I’ve given on this video.

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Perform 10 reps of every train proven right here. These variations of the shoulder dislocate are impressed by my expertise with The Real Movement Project. They open the chest and the entrance of the shoulders first, earlier than engaged on retraction and drawing the shoulder blades in the direction of the backbone.

I like to recommend finishing this sequence after foam rolling earlier than all exercises involving the higher physique.

Stability and Motor Control

Stability is rapid integrity round a joint within the presence of full vary of movement. Stabilizers are reflex dependent and depend on motor management relatively than energy to operate correctly. Motor management and stability are co-dependent, which is why I’ve put these two parts collectively.

The greatest manner to enhance stabilization is to enhance motor management. If your alignment is sweet and your physique place is the place it must be in your higher physique actions, your mind will routinely fireplace the focused muscle tissues to present you integrity, joint compression, and an ideal axis of rotation round which your main movers can do their job successfully.

Upper Body Stability and Motor Control Issues

The most typical motion fault I see within the higher physique is dominance and over-development of the higher traps. This could possibly be because of purposefully coaching the muscle with workouts like shoulder shrugs, or via continual poor posture and reinforcing poor motion patterns via quantity or load. Your higher traps are most probably dominant in case you spherical your shoulders in your pulling actions or shrug your shoulders when urgent overhead.

Overactive higher traps over time can grow to be uncomfortable stress across the neck, potential stress complications and within the worst instances, continual irritation and ache. You must learn to decrease the involvement of the higher traps and recruit the mid traps and rhomboids, the decrease traps, and the exterior rotators. A weak and/or unstable shoulder girdle won’t solely have an effect on your main higher physique lifts. It also can have an effect on your decrease physique compound workouts just like the entrance squat and deadlift.

Let’s check out some workouts you possibly can implement into your program to enhance your higher physique stability and motor management points.

Upper Body Stability and Motor Control Solutions: 1. The T3 Raise

One of my greatest takeaways from studying beneath Charles Poliquin was the T3 Raise and its contribution to scapular stability. If the scapula fails to stabilize, shoulder advanced operate is inefficient, which leads to decreased neuromuscular efficiency and harm within the shoulder space. Stablizing the scapula prevents this and enhances motor management on this space of the physique.

I discover that performing this as a single arm variation permits me to really feel my decrease traps have interaction extra in my exercise. When your decrease traps have interaction within the T3 Raise, you must get a pinching feeling proper beneath the shoulder blade that refers contralaterally down and throughout in the direction of the alternative hip.

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Start with the hand immediately beneath the shoulder. I prefer to exaggerate the preliminary motion by reaching my fingertips towards the bottom in protraction earlier than retracting the shoulder blade.

Keep the retraction while the arm strikes as excessive as potential at a 45 diploma angle, with the thumb up.

Keep the arm as straight as potential.

Pause on the high, then decrease with management earlier than repeating.

Make positive to maintain the hips and shoulders stage all through and to brace the backbone.

Start along with your weaker arm, and in case you fail at a particular repetition, simply full the identical quantity on the opposite facet. This is a superb train to deal with any imbalances you might have within the scapular space.

Perform two units of 12-15 reps and superset the T3 Raise and the Sidelying External Rotation train given beneath. The T3 Raise might be carried out earlier than or after your exercise.

Upper Body Stability and Motor Control Solutions: 2. Sidelying External Rotation

External rotation is without doubt one of the most vital parts of any higher physique coaching program for postural energy and harm prevention. The rotator cuff tendons present stability to the shoulder, and the muscle tissues enable for rotation of the shoulder. As exterior rotation isn’t immediately addressed as a element of every other train, it should be labored in isolation.

Sidelying exterior rotation is arguably the best exterior rotation train to carry out, as you should use the wall to align all the physique accurately and for a tactile cue to sign the highest of the motion. As a tenet,you must have the ability to full one repetition utilizing 10% of your 1RM bench press weight in accordance with Poliquin’s structural steadiness ratio.

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Lie in your facet along with your heels aligned to your sacrum and the again of your shoulder blades.

Rest your head in your forearm, and draw the stomach button in. Hips and shoulders must be stacked.

Bend the highest arm to 90 levels and place the elbow on the highest of the hip bone. This is your pivot level.

Full vary of movement for this train is from inside rotation (hand and forearm shifting throughout the physique in the direction of the bottom) to exterior rotation (forearm and hand pointing in the direction of the ceiling).

Try and hold the shoulder from rolling forwards on the interior rotation, and squeeze the again of the shoulder on the high of the motion.

Perform two units of 12-15 reps and superset the T3 Raise and the Sidelying External Rotation. Like the T3 Raise, the Sidelying External Rotation might be carried out earlier than or after your exercise.

Upper Body Stability and Motor Control Solutions: three. The Hanging Retraction

The Hanging Retraction is my favourite pre-pullup drill. A superb cue for this train is shoulders broad, sternum up. As nicely as a pull up bar or rig, it’s also possible to carry out this train on a lat pulldown machine.

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Grab the bar and are available right into a lifeless grasp with a barely wider than shoulder-width grip.

Make positive your lats are in a stretched place and your elbows are locked.

From the beginning place, provoke the motion by attempting to drag your shoulder blades down, resisting the temptation to unlock your elbows.

Pull the shoulder blades down, squeeze, then return beneath management to the beginning place.

Perform one set of 6-Eight reps earlier than doing pullups or any higher physique targeted exercise.

Move Well Now for Dividends within the Future

The significance of addressing your motion high quality within the higher physique can’t be overstated. Mobility is the muse upon which motor management, stability, energy, and energy is predicated, however simply having the mobility to carry out a sure motion doesn’t imply that you’ve the motion data to carry out these actions accurately.

To construct this information, you want to groove correct motion patterning till the motion turns into computerized. With these workouts, you take step one towards getting there.

If you possibly can’t transfer effectively, you possibly can’t transfer successfully, and you’ll battle to make any beneficial properties in your higher physique coaching. Never sacrifice your kind for load, quantity, or pace. Remember it’s not observe that makes good. It’s good observe that makes good.

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It’s not a blue wave. It’s a realignment of American politics

(CNN)In next week’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump is poised to put his stamp on each party’s demographic and geographic base of support as surely as he formerly fastened it to one of his hotels.

Democrats’ top opportunities to capture Republican-held seats are concentrated in well-educated, higher-income and preponderantly white districts. Most of these seats are centered on economically thriving suburbs around major metropolitan areas where Trump faces widespread resistance among white-collar voters, especially women, on cultural and personal grounds.

With only a few exceptions, Democrats face more uncertain prospects in Republican-held House seats centered on the blue-collar, exurban and rural communities where Trump remains popular, the analysis found. Of the 43 Republican-held seats that CNN considers leaning toward the Democrats or toss-ups, only nine are in districts where the white population exceeds the national average and the share of residents with college degrees lags the national average.

This stark divergence carries several clear implications, both for election night and beyond.

The trench dividing America

Most immediately, it means that Democrats, while still favored by most analysts to win control of the House, are operating with relatively little room for error because they are trying to gain the 23 seats they need predominantly on one part of the playing field: well-educated suburban seats. Even if they do reach a majority next week, its likely the Democratic hold on the House will be precarious and very slim unless they can also capture a respectable number of the small-town and blue-collar seats now considered toss-ups.

The longer-term implication is that this election now seems highly likely to widen the trench between a Democratic Party that increasingly controls the major metropolitan areas largely skeptical of Trump and a GOP whose dominance is barely dented in the rural and exurban areas where he remains strong.

Already, the CNN analysis shows, about two-thirds of House Republicans represent districts where the education level lags the national average and nearly three-fifths hold seats where the median income is lower as well. By contrast, about 53% of Democrats hold seats where the education level and median income exceed the national average. If Democratic gains next month are concentrated mostly in white-collar seats, the Republican caucus will tilt ever further toward lower-education and modest-income seats while the Democrats will bend further toward the opposite — expanding the distance between the two sides and making compromise between them even more difficult.

That geographic divergence represents the stark separation in demographic responses to Trump’s tumultuous presidency, with minorities, millennials and college-educated whites, especially women, recoiling from him in large numbers and blue-collar, older and evangelical whites providing him robust, even record, levels of support.

Not a wave, a realignment

In an NPR/Marist Poll released late last week, for instance, Democrats led on the “generic” ballot for Congress by 76 percentage points among African-Americans, 42 among Latinos, 35 among 18- to 29-year-olds and 9 among whites holding at least four-year college degrees. Republicans led by 56 percentage points among white evangelical Christians, 28 among rural residents and 21 among whites with less than four-year college degrees. College-educated white women preferred Democrats by 18 percentage points; non-college white men backed Republicans by 33 points.

“It’s part of the sorting of the parties more by demographic characteristics, education being a very important one,” says Gary C. Jacobson, a professor of political science emeritus at the University of California at San Diego who specializes in Congress. “The whole story of this election is Trump and how he affects voters. He clearly has driven away educated voters, especially educated women, with his style. Rural people, blue-collar people, don’t mind it so much. They cut him some slack because they think he is on their side.”

Similarly, longtime Democratic pollster Stanley B. Greenberg argues that those debating whether this election will produce a Democratic “wave” are analyzing it through the wrong lens. It’s more likely, he says, that this election, punctuated by unusually high turnout, produces a realignment in which the groups alienated from Trump — led by college white women, minorities and millennials — consolidate around Democrats just as the groups that favor him, such as blue-collar and evangelical whites, consolidated behind Trump in 2016.

“I think he got his realignment … but now we are seeing the reaction to that,” Greenberg said.

To analyze the House battlefield CNN senior political producer Aaron Kessler used data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey five-year average to create a demographic profile of each House district. Each district was measured on whether it ranked above or below the national average across a series of key characteristics, including education and income levels, the share of the population that is nonwhite and the median age.

Then we compared those results with the latest CNN ranking of the 96 House districts considered most likely to switch parties (that includes 95 seats described as toss-up, lean or likely toward either party, and one Republican-held seat now considered “solid” for Democrats). That analysis produced several distinct patterns.

Democrats are best-positioned in wealthier, more educated districts that didn’t like Trump in 2016

The most striking is the concentration of the Democrats’ very best chances in relatively affluent and well-educated districts. CNN rates 14 seats now held by Republicans as solid, likely or leaning toward the Democrats next week. The median income exceeds the national average of $55,322 in all of those except the Tucson-area seat being vacated by Arizona Republican Martha McSally (who’s running for the Senate), where former Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick is a strong favorite.

The share of adults with college degrees exceeds the national average of about 30.3% in all of them except the New Jersey seat left open by retiring Republican Rep. Frank LoBiondo (where Democrat Jeff Van Drew is highly favored because Republicans nominated a fringe candidate who has expressed racist sentiments) and the northeast Iowa seat where Democrat Abby Finkenauer is mounting a strong challenge to Rep. Rod Blum.

The other seats leaning toward Democrats that currently are held by Republicans are all in districts that are relatively better educated and affluent. They include Rep. Mike Coffman’s suburban Denver seat, Barbara Comstock’s seat in Northern Virginia, the suburban Minneapolis districts of Reps. Erik Paulsen and Jason Lewis and other open seats in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Orange County, California.

Of these 14 GOP districts that CNN classifies as most likely to flip, eight of them voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016. Trump won each of the others by 5 points or fewer.

Beyond these 14 Republican-held seats that CNN rates as leaning to the Democrats, control of the House will likely be decided in 29 more GOP-held seats CNN classifies as toss-ups.

These also lean toward better-educated and more affluent districts, though not as lopsidedly as the Democrats’ best chances. Of the 29 Republican-held districts considered toss-ups, 18 exceed the average median income and 17 exceed the average education level. In 2016, Clinton carried 13 of these 29 Republican toss-up districts.

In all, that means of the 43 Republican-held seats that CNN considers at greatest risk of falling to the Democrats, 31 (or nearly three-fourths) exceed the median income, while 29 (or just over two-thirds) exceed the average education level.

The Republican-held toss-up seats divide into two sharply delineated categories. The largest group generally resembles the affluent, well-educated suburban GOP seats where the Democrats’ best chances are concentrated. These include open seats outside Seattle; Charlotte, North Carolina; and in Orange County, California; and challenges to Republican incumbents Mimi Walters and Dana Rohrabacher also in Orange County; Dave Brat in Richmond, Virginia; Peter Roskam outside Chicago; Mike Bishop near Detroit; Leonard Lance in New Jersey; Brian Fitzpatrick near Philadelphia; John Culberson near Houston; David Young near Des Moines, Iowa; Kevin Yoder outside Kansas City, Missouri; and a rematch between Republican Rep. Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor after Balderson narrowly won last summer’s closely watched special election for a district around Columbus, Ohio.

Many of the remaining GOP-held seats CNN rates as toss-ups will test the Democrats’ ability to make gains on Trump’s strongest ground: mostly white, heavily blue-collar areas. These include challenges to Republican incumbents Bruce Poliquin in Maine, John Faso and Claudia Tenney in New York, Mike Bost in Illinois, Scott Taylor in Virginia and an open seat in Kansas.

The toss-up seats also mark the first battlegrounds where the Democratic advantages among minority voters may meaningfully affect the battle for House control.

The most competitive districts are more white than the national average

One of the most striking aspects of the 2018 landscape is how few of the highly contested seats contain large numbers of nonwhite voters. Of the 14 Republican-held seats that CNN rates as tilting toward Democrats, the minority share of the population exceeds the national average of about 38% in just the Southern California open seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Darrell Issa.

In the 29 Republican-held toss-up seats, minorities exceed their national share of the population in just 11. Those seats are entirely situated across the Sun Belt: challenges to Republican incumbents Walters, Jeff Denham, Steve Knight and Rohrabacher in California; Carlos Curbelo in Miami; Culberson in Houston; and open seats in California, Florida, New Mexico and North Carolina.

The relative shortage of competitive seats with substantial minority populations underscores the structural hurdle Democrats face in the House from the concentration of nonwhite voters inside large metropolitan areas where the party is already strong. Already, about two-thirds of the seats Democrats currently hold have more minority voters than the national average, while fully four-fifths of the GOP-held seats are more white than the national average.

Compounding the Democrats’ challenge this year, Hispanics represent the largest minority population in almost all the competitive Republican-held districts (North Carolina excepted) and Democrats remain concerned that turnout among them won’t be nearly as high as they have hoped after all the provocations from Trump.

The battlegrounds are also older than the rest of the country

The nature of the House battlefield also dilutes another Democratic advantage: the party’s edge among younger voters, particularly in the Trump era.

The NPR/Marist Poll released late last week, for instance, found that exactly two-thirds of those ages 18 to 29 disapproved of Trump’s performance, and nearly as many indicated they intend to vote for Democrats. But the CNN demographic analysis found that the median age exceeds the national level (almost 38 years of age) in 30 of the 43 Republican-held districts rated as toss-ups or better for the Democrats.

That’s a stark contrast with the House districts Democrats now hold, almost three-fifths of which are younger than the national average, largely because of the party’s reliance on minority-centered districts with many children and young adults. (Three-fifths of current Republican seats are older than the national average.)

“Democrats have a serious structural problem in where these people are located,” notes Jacobson. “Gerrymandering is a small part of the story; it is much more where people choose to live. If you look at Democratic demographics, African-Americans, Hispanics, young people, gay people, they all hang out in cities. They are attracted to big metropolitan areas.”

The remaining two tiers of Republican-held seats at the periphery of the Democrats’ target list would require the party to push even further into blue-collar and Trump-friendly territory.

CNN rates 20 Republican-held seats as leaning toward the GOP, which means they are competitive but Republicans are favored to hold them. Of these, 16 have fewer minorities than average, 13 are older than average, 10 are below the average education level and nine lag the median income. In 2016, Trump carried all but two of these districts (the seats near San Antonio and Dallas held by Reps. Will Hurd and Pete Sessions, respectively).

CNN classifies another 25 Republican-held seats as likely Republican, meaning that they are still potentially competitive but are considered long-shot chances for Democrats. Of these, 20 have fewer minorities than average, 18 are older than the national average, 15 lag the average education level and 14 trail the national median income. Trump won all of them except the two held by Republicans David Valadao in California’s Central Valley and John Katko in upstate New York.

Still, for all these obstacles, the history of big midterm elections — like 1994, 2006 and 2010 — is that the party out of the White House usually wins some seats that had largely been considered safe. That’s often because the incumbent takes the contest much less seriously than their counterparts in the toss-up districts. Republican Rep. Rob Woodall’s seat in Georgia’s Atlanta suburbs, now classified as likely Republican but drawing late interest from both sides, is one that could fit that description this year. Late Republican ad buys in unexpected seats, such as a district in South Carolina, raise that possibility too.

The only Democratic-held seats that CNN rates as toss-up or better for the GOP are two open seats in Minnesota: Both districts are older, more white and less educated than the national average. Six other Democratic-held seats are considered competitive but leaning or likely for the party to hold: Of these, four are above the national average in diversity, and four are below the average median income. Four are better-educated than the average.

All these patterns point toward the same conclusion: Democrats can likely win back the House, albeit with little margin for error, primarily by exploiting white-collar unease with Trump. But to generate big gains, they will also need to overcome the formidable defenses that Trump and the GOP have built beyond the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.

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Republican in Maine congressional race fights to hold on to seat

LEWISTON, Mass. – Maine Congressman Bruce Poliquin is an oddity in New England, the very last Republican serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in a part of the country dominated by Democrats.

The businessman captured the seat in Maine’s sprawling and mostly rural Second District in 2014 but, before Poliquin, Democrats held the seat for 20 years and they want to reclaim this ground, which…

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Milk & Bone chart their own electro pop path

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Milk & Bone chart their own electro pop path

Montreal duo of Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne met studying jazz together

Camille Poliquin (L) and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne of Canadian duo Milk & Bone perform on stage in Quebec City during the 2018 Festival d-Ete on July 13, 2018. / AFP / Alice Chiche

With smooth minimalist electro pop and lush vocal harmonies, Milk and Bone has found a growing audience while charting an unusual path for French Canadian artists — singing entirely in English.

The Montreal duo of Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne met studying jazz together and playing as back-up musicians when, sensing a chemistry between them four years ago, they posted on their personal social media accounts a snippet of a song that became New York.

To their surprise and delight, they quickly amassed a following. The two friends had suddenly become a band. They rushed to find management, figure out a look and choose the duo’s name, whose meaning they still struggle to explain.

“We never saw it coming because at first this was just a platform for people we knew to listen to our music,” Poliquin said alongside Lafond-Beaulne at their hotel in Quebec City where they played the historic provincial capital’s summer festival.

Pressure — like many of Milk and Bone’s songs, marked by chill but dominant percussion, melancholic keyboards and delicate, complementing layers of the two women’s voices — has been streamed nine million times on Spotify or the sharing site SoundCloud.

The lyrics delve into emotional sagas, often on uncertain romances. Pressure likens a lover to the solace of a robust shower while Daydream — a track off their second album, Deception Bay, which came out earlier this year — conjures up a dreamy fantasy boyfriend.

One consistency is that the songs are always in English. Both women, who are in their 20s, speak English fluently although they are French Canadians.

“When I do write in French I find myself writing something outside of what happens to me, while we like to write music that is from the heart,” Poliquin said.

“It’s a generation thing as well. People our age are a bit more open and just want to do whatever we want to do,” she said.

Montreal, with its complicated linguistic politics, has generated plenty of native English-language artists, from the iconic poet turned singer Leonard Cohen to indie rockers Arcade Fire.

But French Canadians crossing over entirely to English is less common. Celine Dion, Quebec’s best-known singer, performs in both English and French.

Lafond-Beaulne — who feels that French carries a “harder” sound when sung — said Milk and Bone has not faced much backlash over singing in English.

“People like to know why, and when we say it’s not a conscious decision, they get it,” Lafond-Beaulne said.

As Milk and Bone pulls in larger audiences on the road, the duo is also planning to release collaborations with other musicians, although they cannot yet publicly reveal details.

At Quebec City’s summer music festival, known in French as the Festival d’ete de Quebec, Milk and Bone opened for Cyndi Lauper and Lorde on an all-women night on the vast main stage.

The duo perched themselves on a podium behind their drums and synthesizers, the group’s name written out in oversized balloon letters as two air dancer puppets shot out of vents.

When the duo first tasted success, the pair tried to find a persona. At first they thought to associate with anime culture and released songs with subtitles not only in French but in Japanese before settling on a stage look that is somewhere between free-spirited partying and lounge chic.

Poliquin said that visuals amounted to a new, and sometimes overlooked means of self-expression for musicians.

“You can see right away if a major [label] is behind the aesthetic and it doesn’t quite fit,” she said.

“It’s fun to think about the visuals,” added Lafond-Beaulne. “It’s like you’re a teenager finding who you are. And now we’re adults — young adults.”

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Here Are the House Seats Democrats Are Hoping to Win in 2018 Welcome back to House Party , our column looking at the 2018 House of Representative races as midterms approach. Democrats will have to face a choice in next year’s midterms: How should they handle the voters who voted twice for Barack Obama before flipping to Donald Trump ? On one hand, their choice seems inexplicable to dyed-in-the-wool liberals; on the other, if they backed Obama they surely shouldn’t be abandoned. How to appeal to these voters is a big question in all of the below districts, which have gone Obama–Obama–Trump. I know that some of that shifts is due to people leaving the electorate, but if you look at some of the spreads in these largely blue-collar areas you can’t help but determine there are people who’ll vote for certain Democrats—just obviously not Hillary Clinton. Maine’s Second Congressional District (Northern Maine) 2016: Clinton 41–Trump 51 2012: Obama 53–Romney 44 2008: Obama 55–McCain 43 We start with Maine’s Second Congressional District because man, if you don’t think there are people who voted for Obama twice then Trump, then explain those spreads to me (and turnout was actually slightly up in 2016). The district is white working-class to the core, but Trump was the first Republican to carry it since George H.W. Bush. For a long time the area was represented by Democrat Mike Michaud, a gay former millworker who never attended college. But when Michaud stepped down to run for governor, Republican Bruce Poliquin won his seat. The Democrats’ previous candidate against Poliquin was a college professor who grew up in New Jersey, and she didn’t win more than 45 percent in two tries. So now they’re running Jared Golden , a Marine turned state representative who grew up in a dairy farming town outside Augusta. If you watch Golden’s video you’ll see Poliquin try to escape a constituent questioning him on his healthcare vote through a nursing home patio door. So Republicans are already running scared in these Obama-Trump areas, literally. And Poliquin’s approval is 42-50, actually worse than Trump’s 46-49 in the district . However, Golden may not be the nominee. Lucas St. Clair isn’t the name of a soap opera villain; he’s a rich guy who lives in Portland but is moving here to run for the seat. He’s best known in the district for being the son of the Burt’s Bees founders and leading the movement to create a national park in the area. To be fair, St. Clair showed some political skill in working with hunters and snowmobilers on the project, but it’s hard to argue he’d be a stronger candidate than Golden. New York’s 21st Congressional District (North Country) 2016: Clinton 40–Trump 54 2012: Obama 52–Romney 46 2008: Obama 52–McCain 47 Representative Elise Stefanik worked in the Bush Jr. Administration before she was elected to Congress; proof that she never should have been trusted with any further public service. But she still represents the most rural seat in New York (which has historically been controlled by Republicans, though it was held by a Democrat from 2009 to 2015), taking in almost all of the state from the Erie Canal north to the Canadian border, and has won her first two elections in blowouts (thanks to some help from a Green Party candidate who isn’t running again). In 2018 her most touted opponent is former St. Lawrence County Legislator Tedra Cobb, who has also worked to provide home heating oil to low-income people in the area—a huge deal in rural northern areas like this. Contrast that with someone who worked for the geniuses behind the Katrina response and voted to take away residents’ health care, and you have an obvious—if not exactly guaranteed—path to victory. Cobb has banked nearly $130,000 so far, a decent sum in a cheap area, but she’s been out-raised by attorney Don Boyajian, who just moved to one of the district’s rural towns from the Albany area (To be fair, Stefanik was also a recent transplant when she first ran here.) Cobb certainly has a better profile for Democrats, but Boyajian might be able to do a better job of keeping up with Stefanik, who’s sitting on $900,000. New York’s 19th Congressional District (Hudson River Valley) 2016: Clinton 44–Trump 51 2012: Obama 52–Romney 46 2008: Obama 53–McCain 45 The 19th is a mishmash of liberal Hudson River Valley towns and Republican outlying areas. Much of the area was represented by now-Senator Kirsten Gillibrand while she was in the House, but she had to be far more moderate than she is now to win here. Moderate (by today’s standards) Republican Representative Chris Gibson represented the seat after it was created in the 2012 round of redistricting until his retirement last year, when John Faso took over. Faso won against a weak carpetbagger from New York City (Zephyr Teachout) last year, but he hasn’t been able to scare off Democrats in 2018. Faso got a lot of traction painting Teachout as an outsider, which is why it’s alarming that none of Democrats’ top four fundraisers (Brian Flynn, Pat Ryan , Antonio Delgado, and Gareth Rhodes) were domiciled here in 2016 . All have better ties to the district than Teachout though, with the exception of Delgado. Attorney Dave Clegg and teacher Jeff Beals have better claims to being local, but they’ll need to get their fundraising numbers up to keep pace with the top tier. Democrats should be particularly wary of Rhodes as he’s been an aide to Andrew Cuomo, one of America’s most worthless Democrats. But there’s still plenty of time for voters to figure out which candidate would actually be the strongest. New York’s First Congressional District (Eastern Long Island) 2016: Clinton 42–Trump 54 2012: Obama 50–Romney 49 2008: Obama 51–McCain 48 Most New Yorkers associate the eastern end of Long Island with the upscale Hamptons vacation community, where a lot of city dwellers have second homes. But the majority of voters here live in the more conservative (though still swingy) New York exurbs. And those other parts of the district are understandably wary of the Hamptons—culturally the resort are is more aligned to New York City than Long Island. Southampton native Tim Bishop held this seat for Democrats from 2002 to 2014, but his family had lived in the area for centuries, so he could claim townie status. Last year’s Democratic nominee, Anna Throne-Holst, lost to Lee Zeldin not much worse than Clinton's 55–40 defeat. Throne-Holst is a Swedish immigrant who had moved to the Hamptons 20 years ago as a teenager and was a poor cultural fit for the remainder of the district. But Zeldin, a Newsmax regular, certainly hasn’t shown any inclination to tack to the middle, so a stronger Democrat could take him down. Democrats’ best chance at taking him out may also be an immigrant, though one with a far different backstory than Throne-Holst. Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning left Northern Ireland during the Troubles and eventually moved to a blue-collar part of Brookhaven with her NYPD officer husband. She then worked her way up through the school bus drivers’ union and New York’s labor-dominated Working Families Party. But she won’t have the primary to herself. Manhattan rich guy Perry Gershon thinks a house in the Hamptons makes him a native and has used his finance connections to raise a ton of money. But Browning’s blue-collar bona fides make her the ideal candidate in an area that swung hard from Obama to Trump, and the party should be wary of nominating anyone like Gershon, who likely doesn’t know the parts of the district that aren’t on the Hampton Jitney. New York’s Second Congressional District (South Shore) 2016: Clinton 44–Trump 53 2012: Obama 52–Romney 47 2008: Obama 51–McCain 48 Peter King survived the 2006 and 2008 waves and was for a time one of only two Republicans in the New York congressional delegation. So he’s not an easy out. Long Island knows what it likes, and that’s angry Irish guys with massive heads. But there’s a chance King will retire, and if he does, he’ll probably wait until after the filing deadline. There are a lot of ambitious Republican politicians in his district, and he’ll likely want to make sure that his daughter will be his replacement. A contested primary could put that plan at risk, so he may want the state party to decide the nominee instead of his voters (a special election or resignation before the primary would put the decision in their hands). So Democrats will need to keep their heads on a collective swivel here and make sure they have a nominee capable of winning, which they might have in lighting company CEO Tim Gomes. He’s wealthy enough to seed his campaign $1 million (a boon for the already overextended DCCC), but he had a nasty habit of being a registered Republican for the last nine years (he says he voted for Obama both times). So he’ll have to convince the primary electorate that he’s a good soldier or they could turn to UN staffer Liuba Grechen Shirley instead. Also, wealthy candidates frequently loan themselves large sums to try and scare away other challengers without actually spending the money, so we’ll see if Gomes is actually do what’s necessary to take down King (who’s sitting on more than $2.7 million). New Jersey’s Third Congressional District (South Jersey) 2016: Clinton 45–Trump 51 2012: Obama 52–Romney 47 2008: Obama 51–McCain 48 The Third District is based in two counties: Burlington and Ocean. Burlington (where more than half of the voters live) is based in the Philadelphia suburbs and is trending Democratic: Clinton won this side of the district 55-38. Ocean County is a refuge for people who leave New York City because it’s too liberal (cops and Hasidic Jews), and that side voted for Trump 65-32. The current representative is Republican Tom MacArthur. If his name sounds familiar it’s because he was the “moderate” congressman who gave Paul Ryan a key vote that helped pass the American Health Care Act. That immediately put him in Democratic crosshairs and the party has coalesced around Andy Kim, a former Obama national security aide, as its standard-bearer. Both national parties realize the race will be competitive and will pour plenty of resources into it, but MacArthur can count on his sizable personal wealth. New Jersey’s Second Congressional District (South Jersey) 2016: Clinton 46–Trump 51 2012: Obama 54–Romney 45 2008: Obama 53–McCain 46 For years Democrats have assumed that they’d pick up this seat when State Senator Jeff Van Drew finally ran against Representative Frank LoBiondo or when LoBiondo decided to retire. Every cycle since 2006, LoBiondo made noise about retiring, Dems asked Van Drew to run, but neither happened. But LoBiondo retired on November 7 and Van Drew announced his run last week. So the Democrats got their manic pixie dream candidate, just 12 years later than they wanted. In New Jersey county parties have a big say in who wins the primaries, as the ballots are purposely confusing so that voters are inclined to vote for the county-endorsed candidates. Van Drew will have the backing of the county parties in South Jersey so even though he’s more conservative than the Democratic electorate (he’s opposed some gun control measures and same-sex marriage), he’s the heavy favorite. Meanwhile the Republican field is still sorting itself out, with former Atlantic City mayor Don Guardian, former Assemblyman Vincent Polistina, and trucking company owner Mike Torrissi all being recruited. Illinois’s 12th Congressional District (Metro East) 2016: Clinton 40–Trump 55 2012: Obama 50–Romney 48 2008: Obama 55–McCain 44 With a 15-point Trump win, you’d figure Democrats would have written this seat off. But Democrats can still win elections here. To wit, Senator Tammy Duckworth won by a near identical margin to Clinton in Illinois—both were at around 55-40. But Duckworth actually won the 12th as Clinton was getting blown out here (to be fair, Duckworth also lost the Sixth District while Clinton won it, and that seat is a Democratic target too). Like many of the districts on this list, it’s willing to vote for Democrats not named Hillary Clinton. Democrats’ top recruit, St. Clair County State Attorney and Navy vet Brendan Kelly, was willing to take on Representative Mike Bost. Kelly is known locally for prosecuting some high-profile political corruption cases (in illinois you have many opportunities to do so). Meanwhile Bost has always had a bad temper and still calls Asian people Orientals, so while he may resemble Trump in some regards he’s actually never gotten more than 54 percent of the vote in the 12th. So this is a winnable seat for sure. Iowa’s First Congressional District (Northeast Iowa) 2016: Clinton 45–Trump 49 2012: Obama 56–Romney 43 2008: Obama 59–McCain 40 When you look at those Obama numbers you realize why the First tops Democrats’ hit list. Representative Rod Blum certainly hasn’t done himself any favors; in a bizarre May interview he tried surrounding himself with children as he refused to answer questions about taking donations from outside the district. While previous iterations of the First have elected Republicans down-ballot while supporting Democratic presidential candidates, Blum isn’t as moderate or genial as those past representatives. And his approval rating in the district (33-51) is actually worse than Trump’s (45-50). Into the breach has stepped State Representative Abby Finkenauer. She’s racked up some big union and elected official endorsements, becoming the favorite for the nomination over other contenders like former Department of Labor official Thomas Heckroth. National parties have spent heavily on this district in 2014 and 2016, so whoever gets the Democratic nomination next year can expect plenty of help on the airwaves. Iowa’s Third Congressional District (Des Moines and Southwest Iowa) 2016: Clinton 45–Trump 49 2012: Obama 51–Romney 47 2008: Obama 52–McCain 46 While Finkenauer has separated herself from the pack in the First, the Democratic field in the Third is fluid. And while the two districts voted for Trump by similar margins, the Third has less historic Democratic strength—it includes much of greater Des Moines so it contains its fair share of college-educated Republicans who voted for Clinton but may still back incumbent David Young. However, the district has soured on Trump more quickly than other areas that voted for the president— his approval here is 43-53 . There are half a dozen Democrats running here and nobody has really separated themselves from the pack. The good folks at Iowa Starting Line have a well-done rundown of where the primary race stands . It’s long, so just know that any one of five candidates could win the nomination, though local businesswoman Theresa Greenfield is the favorite right now. Notably, if no candidate gets more than 35 percent of the primary vote, the nominee will be chosen at a convention dominated by party activists. Minnesota’s Secod Congressional District (Southern Minneapolis/St. Paul Suburbs) 2016: Clinton 45–Trump 46 2012: Obama 49–Romney 49 2008: Obama 51–McCain 48 The Second District race in 2016 was like the presidential contest writ small. Republican nominee Jason Lewis was a vulgar local radio host. Democrat Angie Craig was a bland health care exec who didn’t run on much other than opposing Trump. Lewis narrowly won. Remarkably he’s been able to keep his favorability ratings almost even (39-40) as his colleagues in other vulnerable districts are underwater, and his net favorables are better than Trump’s (44-52) in the district. Craig is running again, and it’s hard to fault her for making another try; without the Comey Letter she might be the incumbent right now. But local high school football coach and history teacher Jeff Erdmann wasn’t impressed with her campaign last year and is now running to her left. High school football coaches make for good candidates (seriously!) because they have built in name recognition and connections, but he’s only got $7,000 in the bank while Craig is independently wealthy and raised $4.8 million her last time around. But whoever does win will be able to count on plenty of outside help in one of Democrats’ top takeover targets; Lewis remains vulgar and still votes with Trump on things like the tax bill and the AHCA. Next week, we'll look at seats Clinton won but Obama lost both times. Robert Wheel (a pseudonym) is an attorney who lives in New York. He tweets here , and his DMs are open. December 4, 2017 at 03:08PM

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Vince Del Monte’s No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 Review

Who is Vince Del Monte’s Program Good For?

If you’re wondering whether Vince Del Monte’s workout program called No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 (also known as Gene Expression Training) is right for you, then this review will help you make your decision. Below, I’ve given a complete review of the program in 4 different sections. At the end of this review, I also give my final thoughts on the program, as well as a final tally.

Title:

No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0

Author(s):

Vince Del Monte

Author Credibility

Vince Del Monte has been around for years. Some people may even say that he’s the O.G. of muscle building. Don’t let that discourage you though. It just means that Vince knows his stuff.

First of all, Vince used to be a fitness model, and he now keeps an incredible body year round. As you can see by the following pictures, Vince knows how to build incredible amounts of muscle:

Besides being a fitness model, Vince has built a huge following online. His Facebook page boasts almost 800,000 fans. People have a great B.S. detector, and if you’re a phony, it’s pretty hard to build up a fan base as large as Vince’s.

Upon doing further research about Vince, I found that he is investing in himself by constantly learning the latest and greatest methods for building muscle. In the past, he’s learned from Olympic Strength Coach, Charles Poliquin, and professional bodybuilder, Ben Pakulsky, to name a few.

All-in-all, Vince is a guy you can trust.

Author Credibility Score: 10/10

The Program

Why No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 Made?

Back in the mid 2000’s, Vince Del Monte came out with the program, No Nonsense Muscle Building. It was an instant classic. Over the course of the past 15 years, Vince has refined his methods. A lot can change in 15 years, especially with the newest research towards building muscle.

In Vince’s studies, he found that in order to build muscle, you first need to determine your muscle fiber type (Fast Twitch Dominant, Slow Twitch Dominant, Mixed). Once you know this, you can build a program designed towards your muscle fiber composition, and build more muscle in less time. Vince calls this “Gene Expression Training”.

With No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0, Vince has finally developed a Gene Expression Training system that is customized towards the individual, instead of building a cookie cutter approach for all to follow.

Before a customer can even purchase the program, they are asked a series of questions to determine their muscle fiber type. After completing the questions, Vince will then tell you which muscle fiber type you are, and then prescribe to you which program you need to follow.

Program Components

No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 by Vince Del Monte consists of the following components:

18 Week Training Program

Muscle Fiber Switch Trick

Training Manual

Nutrition Manual

Supplement Manual

Mass Mechanics Exercise Execution Guide

Secrets of Success

Quick Start Guide

Printable Workout Journals

All I can say is that Vince left nothing out of this program. It has everything you need to be successful building muscle.

The 18 week training program is incredible.

The first phase uses constant tension timed sets. Essentially, these sets teach you how to apply large amounts of tension to the muscle under a given time period (at least 20 seconds). What this does is signal the muscle to grow. The long periods of tension develop large amounts of metabolic stress. Research shows that metabolic stress and mechanical tension are two factors that induce hypertrophy in the muscle (AKA it makes your muscles grow).

The second phase uses Cluster Sets. This is a method used by olympic strength coaches to build size and strength at the same time. When done correctly, it is an incredibly effective technique to boost functional hypertrophy which is the growth of certain tissues that will make you both bigger and stronger at the same time.

The third (and final phase) uses Omni Sets. It is an advanced training method used to build muscle mass by targeting muscle groups from all angles. For example, if you only ever do flat bench press, you are limiting the amount your chest can grow since you’re only training a few of the muscle fibers optimally. With Omni Sets, you will use adjust the angle of the bench each set in order to work a different part of the pecs. For example, you may do the following:

Set 1: 60 degree incline

Set 2: 45 degree incline

Set 3: 30 degree incline

Set 4: 15 degree incline

Set 5: Flat bench

Set 6: Decline

Components 2 – 9 contain everything else you need in order to be successful with the No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 program. To tell you the truth, the essential parts of the program are component 1, and component 4, the nutrition manual. If you only had both of these, you could get incredible results and build massive amounts of muscle. The rest of the components are the icing on the cake.

The only downside to the program is that it’s only 18 weeks. After 18 weeks, you’ll need to move on to a more long term program approach before taking No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 for another whirl.

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Who is No Nonsense Muscle Building for?

No Nonsense Muscle Building is for any guy who wants to build muscle. The workouts are intense, so I think I’d only recommend it for guys under 55. I think guys between the age of 16 – 35 will get the best results with the program.

If you’re beginner, intermediate, or advanced, you can make some great progress with this program. Personally, I think it’s better suited for beginners and intermediate trainees, but advanced trainees can also learn a thing or two from the program.

Program Component Score: 9.5/10

Has No Nonsense Muscle Building Created Real World Results?

Upon researching No Nonsense Muscle Building, I discovered that back in late 2014 and early 2015, Vince put together a group of guys to test out the program. They were given the exact Gene Expression Training program for their muscle fiber type. This is what they looked like in the end:

As you can see, the guys who did this program got absolutely jacked.

A lot of programs are released before even being tested. Not this one. This one has been tried and tested, and it works.

Results Score: 9.5/10

Comparison to Other Programs

There are a lot of good muscle building programs out there, but not many great programs. I consider this to be a great program. I’d put it up there with other classic programs such as Ben Pakulski’s Mi40, and Mi40x, Ryan Hughes’ Muscle Matrix Solution, and Vinny D & BPak’s Hypertrophy Max.

Price

As I write this, No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 Gene Expression Training is on sale via this link (click here) for just $77.

That’s a frigging steal. It’s valued at $269, and its retail price is $99, but some some reason, Vince has it on sale for $77.

Is the program worth it for $77? Yes. Is it worth it for just $10? It’s a no brainer. I don’t even know how Vince can sell it for this price and still make money. His mistake is your benefit.

Price Score: 10

Final Thoughts

No Nonsense Muscle Building 2.0 Gene Expression Training is a great program, and an even better idea from Vince Del Monte. Essentially, you’re asked to fill out a short quiz. Your answers to this quiz will determine which muscle fiber type you are (Fast Twitch, Slow Twitch, or Mixed). Vince then gives you a customized muscle building program towards your exact body type. It’s genius.

Out of all the components, there are only really two you need: the training program and the nutrition program. Everything else is just icing on the cake. The program has been tested in real life, and it’s gotten real life results. I would go as far as saying that it’s an instant classic. At a sale price of $10, it’s worth it to buy just to give it a read. The program is packed with info, and if you decide to do it, then you’ll get great results.

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Castro twins' political ambitions collide

With Kevin Robillard, Zach Montellaro and Daniel Strauss

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DOUBLE TROUBLE — “Castro twins’ political ambitions collide,” by POLITICO’s Edward-Isaac Dovere: “Texas Democrats desperately want Rep. Joaquín Castro to run for governor next year — and they’re frustrated by what they see as his twin brother’s presidential ambitions getting in the way. The congressman’s decision whether to run against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is caught up in the Castro brothers’ unique mix of their deep personal connection and parallel political ambitions. Castro is being hounded by Democrats to get in but is torn, according to people who’ve spoken with him, over whether to take on a popular incumbent with $40 million in the bank. That’s where his identical twin brother, Julián Castro, comes in. The former Housing and Urban Development secretary and 2012 Democratic convention speaker recently launched a PAC and is spending the fall writing an autobiographical, campaign-style book, and has made his interest in 2020 clear.” Full story.

‘THE FLAKE’ — “Trump stokes primary challenge against Flake,” by POLITICO’s Alex Isenstadt in Phoenix: “President Donald Trump continues to amp up the pressure on Sen. Jeff Flake, savaging the Arizona Republican on Twitter and holding a private meeting with several of his prospective primary opponents. Before taking the stage in Phoenix on Tuesday evening for a campaign-style rally, the president huddled backstage with state Treasurer Jeff DeWit and former state GOP Chairman Robert Graham. Both are considering running against Flake, an outspoken critic of the president who recently published an anti-Trump book, ‘Conscience of a Conservative.’ Trump ripped the Arizona senator during the brief meeting, calling him ‘the flake,’ according to three people who provided an account of the discussion. Trump also discussed the potential for a primary challenge to Flake and told DeWit and Graham, both of whom have aligned themselves with the president, to get back to him about their interest in running.” Full story.

HISTORY 101 — “Where Donald Trump learned his tough love for history,” by POLITICO Magazine’s Michael Kruse: “Donald Trump has developed a sudden, surprising reverence for the past. ‘Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,’ he wrote on Twitter last week. These tributes to the Confederacy ‘will be greatly missed,’ he added. While this opinion meshed, perhaps, with his checkered record on race, his defense of aged statuary seemed to clash with Trump’s long-standing indifference to all things historical. Trump, according to those who know him best, is not a man given to backward looks — ’the most present human being I ever met,’ in the words of an intimate. Traditionally, Trump has seen the past as something to be either razed or twisted for expedience. He once ordered the destruction of a pair of unique friezes to make way for Trump Tower after he reportedly had pledged to donate them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the years, he has not so much read history as raided it, cherry-picking discredited scraps to wield as rhetorical cudgels.” Full story.

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NEW THIS MORNING — Jared Golden enters ME-02 race: Jared Golden, a state legislative leader and a Marine veteran, is launching his bid against GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin. A two-minute bio video introduces Golden’s military past, and criticizes Poliquin for his health care vote to “charge us more for less care” and for trade deals “that cost us jobs.” The district backed President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but supported Trump in 2016. Watch the video here.

PRIMARY PROBLEMS — Bartos attacks Casey, Barletta in first TV spot: Jeff Bartos, a self-funding businessman running for Senate in Pennsylvania, is up with his first TV ad. “Career politicians make big promises but fail to deliver,” a male announcer says over images of both Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and potential GOP primary rival Lou Barletta. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the ad is set to run on Fox News. Watch it here.

— Bartos’ ad means there is now television spending in five different GOP primaries for Senate, more than a year away from November 2018: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama, North Dakota and Nevada. And there are digital ads running in Arizona.

DAILY WAR EAGLE — Jody Hice endorses Moore for Senate: “Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia is endorsing former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in Alabama’s special Senate election. ‘I’m proud to support Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate,’ Hice said in a statement released by Moore’s campaign Wednesday. ‘My fellow members of the House Freedom Caucus and I need allies in the Senate. … The endorsement is notable given that Moore and Strange competed against Rep. Mo Brooks, another House Freedom Caucus member, in the Republican primary. Brooks ultimately did not make the runoff, and it’s unclear if he’ll endorse either Strange or Moore.” Full story.

— MORE ALABAMA — “DDHQ / Opinion Savvy Poll of #ALSen Runoff: Moore 50.3% Strange 32.2%” by Brandon Finnigan: Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore is enjoying an 18 point lead over incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, 50.3% to 32.2%. … Moore wins everyone else. He dominates every other age bracket, leads Strange among evangelicals by almost 30 points (57.5% to 27.9%) and leads among very conservative voters by a similar margin (61.6% to 29.2%). Regionally, he is the solid favorite in Huntsville (54.2% to 29.3%), Montgomery (57.4% to 21.7%), and leads in Strange’s home metro region of Birmingham by double digits (46.3% to 35%). Among likely Republican voters, President Donald Trump’s approval rating stands at 83.4%, with just 14% disapproving. The president endorsed the senator just before the first primary round, but Strange only leads among voters who disapprove. Moore beats Strange by 25 points (56.4% to 31.3%) among the voters who strongly approve, and almost 11 points (49.2% to 38.4%) among the voters who somewhat approve.” Full story.

ANYONE? ANYONE? — “So far, only one Democrat is openly eyeing this statewide race,” by The Boston Globe’s Jim O’Sullivan: “Massachusetts Democrats have been notably underwhelmed by the field jockeying to challenge Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, and so far the 2018 race has drawn little attention. Even further below the radar is the contest for who might join the eventual Democratic nominee on the ticket. Democratic activists, strategists, and officials say there is an unusual paucity of candidates for the No. 2 spot of lieutenant governor. Historically, that job has drawn multiple candidates from lower offices, who are seeking to raise their profiles and, if all goes well, secure one of the state’s six constitutional offices. This time, party insiders say, there’s just one so far.” Full story.

VIDEO DU JOUR — NRSC trolls Donnelly with Mariachi band: The National Republican Senatorial Committee decided to send a mariachi band to one of Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly’s campaign kickoff events to remind voters of his investment in a family company with a factory in Mexico. Watch it here.

STAFFING UP — Sophie Friedman has joined former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s campaign for governor as communications director. She previously did advance work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and before that worked for Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “And then the last thing is — memo to the White House! — be civil.” — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on “The Daily Show” last night.

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