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Building Muscles by working out at Home

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Muscle building is a craze today and you will find people of all ages and sexes interested in having biceps and triceps and strong muscular bodies. You need to train to build muscles and have to visit the gym. You do not have to spend too much on gyms and trainers to build muscles. Some weight training equipment is cheap and easy to use at home too.

One such item which can help you with weight training and muscle building is a dumbbell or a barbell. It is a known fact that machines cause unnatural movement patterns where you can skid, slip, fall and suffer from serious injuries. Using free weights is a sensible option as they force you to control and balance the weight. This helps you much more with your muscle building aim. You can do many different exercises with a barbell and save lot of money and space in your home.

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The truth about running & muscle building

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

It took me a lot of hard work, muscle building, and ice packs to realize the truth about running. You’re not going to look like an Olympic athlete just because you run a lot. In fact, if you’re training for a marathon you may not lose any weight at all, as shocking as it may sound.
About a year ago I was 20lbs overweight and toned wasn’t even in my dictionary. A friend of mine suggested that to lose all the weight, we train hard for a marathon. I was never a runner so this task seemed absurd to me, but I sure loved a challenge.
We started running about 9 miles a week, and I started to see a few pounds slip off. I was pleasantly surprised as how quickly the pounds were melting way. You have to keep in mind I hadn’t exercised in months so the mere thought of physical activity had my sweat glands going.
It wasn’t until we started running 26-30 miles a week that I realized I wasn’t going to lose any more weight. More exercise, more weight loss, right? Wrong! The more you exercise the more you need to eat. Food is needed to replace energy lost, so man, was I eating! I ended up losing maybe 5 lbs during training!It took me a lot of hard work and ice packs to realize the truth about running. You’re not going to look like an Olympic athlete just because you run a lot. In fact, if you’re training for a marathon you may not lose any weight at all, as shocking as it may sound.
About a year ago I was 20lbs overweight and toned wasn’t even in my dictionary. A friend of mine suggested that to lose all the weight, we train hard for a marathon. I was never a runner so this task seemed absurd to me, but I sure loved a challenge.
We started running about 9 miles a week, and I started to see a few pounds slip off. I was pleasantly surprised as how quickly the pounds were melting way. You have to keep in mind I hadn’t exercised in months so the mere thought of physical activity had my sweat glands going.
It wasn’t until we started running 26-30 miles a week that I realized I wasn’t going to lose any more weight. More exercise, more weight loss, right? Wrong! The more you exercise the more you need to eat. Food is needed to replace energy lost, so man, was I eating! I ended up losing maybe 5 lbs during training!

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Choosing the correct exercise program

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

One of my friends who was overweight wished to reduce her weight to solve her health problems. She fell in the obese category and was suffering from a host of health problems like acidity, pain in the spine and neck and chest pains. She went to different doctors for treatment but was not satisfied with the treatments given by them. When she got chest pains and the doctor did not find anything wrong with her reports, she decided to take matters in her hand.

Her first priority was to reduce weight and so she joined a gym and started exercising. She spent two hours daily at the gym on different machines. She started exercising according to the advice of the trainer at the gym and day by day started losing weight. When I met her after a gap of five months, I did a double take as I could not recognize her. She had lost all the extra weight and she looked wonderful. Where previously she would clothes for extra large sizes, now she was able to wear all kinds of dresses and the best thing was she looked wonderful. I was and am very happy for her as now she can enjoy life as wants to and she does not feel inferior to anyone and has become confident.

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Six Small Meals a Day

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I know that when one is thinking about healthy ways to gain weight high school wrestling is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind. Ironically, though I learned several ways to lose weight, it was wrestling that helped me stumble upon a smart way to build muscle mass. Several of my buddies had been cutting weight by what some would call controlled anorexia. Seeing how weak this made them during practice, I set out for a way to lose weight and still maintain my strength.

I began to read books, magazines, and internet articles that would help me develop a way I could metaphorically have my cake and eat it to. I found the “six small meals a day “diet while in my research. When I began the diet not only did I find that I was losing a substantial amount of weight healthily, I was also gaining muscle mass much faster than I had before. I was really pleased with the results of this diet and would suggest it to anyone who has a healthy work out program.

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Ecomonics and Muscle Building

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

You wouldn’t have thought that these to two things would ever be mentioned in the same sentence, much less analyzed in a bodybuilding article, but we did. You might not have realized it, but this could be affecting you as well. Take a look at our latest article:

The Economy Shouldn’t Affect Your Muscle Building

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Muscle Building Workouts For Your Heart

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

I’m pretty sure that if you’re reading this site your main goal when picking up a weight when you participate in your workout program is to build muscle mass naturally and gain weight fast. However, there are many good “side effects” that come from consistently lifting weights. As a matter of fact, so good that they’ll help you live longer.

According to the Archives of Internal Medicine you’ll lower your risk of dying from heart disease if you take naps regularly to go hand in hand with the rest and recuperation you’re supposed to give your body from the workouts. In fact, the percentage you’ll lower this risk is by 37 percent! You see, it’s not just about the big pecs and ripped abs!

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Can I Use Vitamins To Help Me Build Muscle Fast?

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked this question. Many hardgainers feel that they can gain weight or build muscle mass by taking “extra vitamins”. Well, can you or can’t you? To answer this question take step back and think about it. When it comes to eating to gain weight what have I always said is the bottom line? Eating extra protein? No. Upping your fiber? No. Making sure you get your monusaturated fats or fish oils? No. In order to give your body the nutrients it needs to put on muscle mass and gain weight in the form of lean tissue the bottom line is and always will be overall calories. So, what you need is to eat an amount of calories that will allow your muscles to recover, recuperate, and grow.

So, how many calories are in vitamins? None. Zero. Nada. Vitamins are one thing, and calories are another. Yet, they are not one and the same. Vitamins help certain body functions, but they aren’t calories. So, you can take all of the multi-vitamins in the world but you won’t gain one ounce of muscle mass or gain any weight because they aren’t calories…period. So, to answer the question, will taking extra vitamins allow you to put on some size and bulk up?…….only food will.

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No Sleep? No Testosterone…No Muscle Mass

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Sure, you’ve heard it a thousand times, “You need to get your sleep so that your body can recover and you can gain weight and build muscle mass”. However, a recent article no sleep and muscle building in IronMan magazine provided some hard hitting and concrete studies that really hit home with this information.

In the article of the magazine it said “Lack of sleep interferes with testosterone even more. In a study published last year, 12 healthy men…had their testosterone levels monitored after a night of sleep. The less sleep the men got, the lower their testosterone…A study of young men found that sleeping during either the day or night led to more testosterone release. When young men are deprived of sleep, their testosterone levels plummet rapidly…A lack of REM sleep appears to have a particularly potent blunting effect on testosterone release”.

So, hurry up and get to sleep if you want to keep the muscle building, weight gain wheels in motion.

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Placebos Can Give False Credibility To Muscle Building Supps

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

According to a recent research column in Muscular Development magazine, and I quote, “Bud Winter, the legendary track coach of Olympic athletes such as John Powell, Lee Evans, Tommy Smith, and John Carlos, used to to give his athletes “Bud Winter super pills” to improve performance. Winter claimed the pills helped his athletes run faster, even though they were made from sugar. They were nothing more than placebos that worked by the power of suggestion…..Placebos show the importance of positive thinking for success in bodybuilding and sports”.

As I’ve always written, many, of not most supplements aimed at muscle building and gaining weight, such as shakes, pills, powders, and bars, are not what will help you build and gain muscular weight. The big factors in accomplishing this will always be having the right workout routine and eating the correct amount of calories, week in and week out. How many people do you yourself know that takes every bodybuilding supplement known to man, yet don’t ever seem to gain any weight, or build any more muscle mass? What about prisoners? They don’t take any of those nutritional supplements, yet they’re bigger than your average gym rat? Kind of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

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Pilates: Good For Building Muscle Mass?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Many popular workout routines and programs have been taking mainstream gyms and exercise enthusiasts by storm. But when it comes to pure muscle building or gaining weight, are certain regimens efficient, such as Pilates? Sure, Pilates may enhance your stretching capacity or your range of motion, aka ROM. However, just because you can stretch further or hold a position for longer periods of time doesn’t necessarily mean that it will stimulate muscular growth and development.

In order to cause hypertrophy in your muscles you have to cause certain things to happen during your workout program. Things such as tension, time under tension, intensity, muscle flow, lactic acid accumulation, etc.,must all take place to cause your muscles to become physically bigger. Does your current Pilates routine cause these mechanisms to go into motion to help you with your muscle building / weight gain goals?

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