Posts Tagged ‘Body Building’

Think putting yourself on a muscle building diet has to be a painful process? Whether your goal is fat loss or muscle building, getting proper nutrition is at least 80% of the game. If you don’t have that figured out, you are going to be a long time away from seeing results.

The good news is that your tastebuds don’t have to suffer if you don’t want them to. There are plenty of ways to get in your proper nutrition while keeping things interesting. If you think gaining muscle means suffering through can of tuna after can of tuna or pounding back a protein shake as fast as humanly possible, you need to think again.  Read more... (1539 words, estimated 6:09 mins reading time)

If you visit a muscle building forum, you will undoubtedly see a few threads full of people arguing about the pros and cons of soy versus whey protein for muscle building purposes. So in this article, I’m going to try and sort it out once and for all. It’s a pretty simple issue really, so it won’t take long to get to the truth.

The Biological Value indicates both how digestible the protein is and how available the protein is for use by the body. Biological value began as a percentage – A whole egg rated at 100% nitrogen absorbed. According to the study conducted by a medical doctor by the name of Aaron Tabor, soy protein versus whey protein has a bigger advantage especially when it comes to your exercise.  Read more... (468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Ahh, supplements, how they have changed the muscle building world. 50 years ago, there were men who posessed god like physiques and they didn’t have access to any supplements. They had to rely on blood and guts to achieve their goals.

These days though, things are a little different. You don’t have to get very far in a bodybuilding magazine or speak to muscle building enthusiasts for long before the topic of supplements come up. Some people swear by them, claiming them to be responsible for remarkable results, others swear that they are useless, claiming that they got where they are because of hard work.  Read more... (553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

There are several muscle building exercises that will help you to develop a great physique. They can be divided into two categories, strength training and fat burning training. They can be done with or without weights. You will need to develop some goals and an exercise routine to achieve them.

Muscle building exercises: With all your training there are 3 important things to understand.

1. Firstly you always need to be challenging. Once you find that you can do the set of exercises easily, then put on 5 to 10 pounds more and repeat as many of the set that you can. In this way you will be continuously strengthening your muscles. You will develop more growth and burn off more fat by doing this.  Read more... (415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

It is vital to your success that you have muscle building plan. It is no good just rushing in and starting training with no real plan in place. You cannot succeed like this and all your hard work will go to waste.

Muscle building strategy #1: prepare for your training by setting some goals: setting goals is important for your success. This will give you a road map to guide you to success. It is wise to have milestones for these goals. This will make your task easier as you will be able to achieve your objectives in small chunks instead of being presented with a large amount to achieve.  Read more... (408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Are you eating your prescribed six bodybuilding meals a day and not gaining muscle?

Have you been blowing your hard-earned cash on body building supplements with techie names like “Nitric-this” and “Cell-Max-that”, yet still fall short of getting the size gains you’re after?

You’re not alone. Thousands of muscle building enthusiasts are needlessly struggling – grunting and sweating for painfully little progress – and mislabeling themselves “hard-gainer”.  Read more... (743 words, estimated 2:58 mins reading time)

Everywhere you look, it’s either the best supplements to get ripped, or top foods to max muscle gains – it seems like eating to boost health and performance simultaneously isn’t important, isn’t possible or it’s simply too boring to talk about.

 

Don’t become another victim to eating just for looks and performance.  It’s very important to eat the right foods for the right reasons, and staying healthy is definitely one of those reasons.  Remember, if you aren’t healthy, everything you’re working towards, and all the training you’ve done means nothing. 

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I have found when corresponding with many gym goers and fitness enthusiasts, that there is a massive disconnect in what they say and practice depending on the day of the week 

 

These are people who train hard, eat right and do all things they’re supposed to do to the point that they’re on auto pilot, soaring towards their goal.  Then, something strange happens.  One day, usually on the weekend, all of these habits seem to walk to the back of the plane, kick open the emergency exit door, and jump out without a second thought.  Read more... (1476 words, estimated 5:54 mins reading time)

Some of the biggest excuses I hear about healthy eating, be it for health reasons, or to lose weight or gain muscle are  – “healthy food doesn’t taste good,” (which is a serious problem because if your food doesn’t taste good, it’s very unlikely you’ll stick to the plan) “it takes too long to prepare healthy food”, and, “it’s too complicated.”  These excuses are usually the result of thinking you need to slave over a hot stove preparing 6 course meals all day long.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

 

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