Muscle Building Blog

Friends call him "The Commitment," a nickname that fits Matt Corso perfectly. The Salem State University senior business major has made body building his sport and is loving every minute of it. He enters only natural competitions, which means his muscles and finely tuned body are the result of hours of working out and following a strict diet. The results are not aided by any steroids.

Did you know that over the average life span, a heart beats 2 to 3 billion times? As one of the hardest working muscles pumping oxygen and essential nutrients throughout your body an average of 100,000 times a day, the heart needs a lot of help to stay working fit.

Clothing that tones your muscles, ballet as a workout – and a new way to diet. Gillian Orr rounds up the very latest fitness trends

Arif Sakhi preened and posed his well-oiled muscles to win the "Mr Afghanistan" crown earlier this year, but behind that perfectly sculpted physique his vital organs were breaking down under the strain of steroid abuse.

Bronze bodies and rippling muscles will be the rule next month when the California Natural Bodybuilding, Fitness, and Figure Championship return to Windsor on August 7.