Q & As Of Body Building For Beginners!

Posted 10 November 2008 by Mr. Muscle


Simple Q’s and A’s of Body Building for Beginners:

 

In muscle building there are several factors that we have to consider.  One is genetics.  Some people are blessed with good genetics, meaning their muscles tend to follow and bulk up quickly with the routines done.  Next is diet.  Dieting plays also a major role in your total physical appearance.  Your muscles may be bulky but you’ve still got a lot of fat around.  So with proper diet these excess fats and weight could be worn off.  Another is exercise.  Exercise differs according to light weights, high reps, high sets, frequent sessions and long duration. Combing this three could make you muscle building a success.

 

What is the best time to workout? 

This depends on your availability or the gym.  But some say that it is more advisable to workout in the early evening as our body is suppler in the afternoon and evening rather than in the morning.  But if you are a morning person and choose to workout during this time of the day, its best that you warm up well before taking on your muscle building routines.

 

What are the advantages of body building?

Body building basically is not only a sport but also an art and beauty as well.  It promotes good health and discipline in terms of health.  Creates self-confidence because of your improved physical look. 

 

Do I need high-tech equipments for me to succeed with body building?

No, you need not have expensive and state of the art equipment to help you succeed with body building.  Be very resourceful and creative.  But of course specific types of equipment could help a lot.

 

Do I need to go on a strict diet?

It a yes and a no.  Yes because during body building you need only the right amount of essential nutrients – Carbohydrates, Fats, Protein, Vitamins and Minerals, Fiber, etc.  Cooking plays an important role too.  Like when cooking vegetables, don’t soak them in water before cooking because the useful element are washed out by the water.  As well as cutting and chopping them into small pieces and do not overcook them.  It’s a no because you still can get to enjoy meat, poultry, fish, anything natural as long as you consume it in moderation.

 

Do I need to use supplement while body building?

Well, it’s really up to you.  It depends maybe with the type of supplement you are going to use.  If you really opt to use supplements try the safe and natural ones instead.  Like whey protein and milk.  Try ask from experts or a doctor to know the possible side effects that your supplement of choice would have.  But steroids … a no,-no.  Various studies have shown steroid are a source of many side effects.  And steroids usage is still illegal.

 

What if I experience fatigue during body building?

Fatigue is the state of the body where it can no longer carry on activities including exercise.  To prevent fatigue, do not overdo your routines.  This would not result to a faster building up of muscles but only fatigue.  If you feel you’re suffering from fatigue … slow down a bit and wait till you feel that your body has returned to normal condition before going back to your regular routine.

Gain muscles and put on weight!

Posted 23 September 2008 by Mr. Muscle

Have people been calling you a kiddo or cute boy even if your 20? Have heard of people gaining weight while building muscle mass? This is a package deal not just for people who are thin and want to gain weight but also to those  people who want to look like a man.

Have you heard people saying you can gain weight by eating more food which are rich in calories, yeah that will certainly gain you weight but with fats and flab’s. The right thing would be the balance of everything from eating to exercise just more effort than you use to do. To gain something you have lose something so why not cut off your movie’s and little bit of time pass with your friends and dedicate that time in gym and other sport activities which will not only gain you friends but girlfriends too.

A noticeable change in your body will not just catch attention but will add self-confidence and point of appreciation to your self. There are combinations of things which will help you gain this consume more calories than burning off, proper workout and eating right kind and amount of food.

Gain weight and muscles, this is what all men want when they reach a certain age were they get conscious about how they look and what is the perception of other people towards them.  People say gaining weight and muscle is much easier than loosing weight but I can say that it’s almost as difficult as cutting off those pounds from your body. It has the same process of doing certain things, hitting the gym and being dedicated to it.

In this kind of situation were you want to develop something upon your body and you can’t see your self going anywhere even after working out and doing all those lifts possible. Then the testimonial works the best, try hanging out with those big guys who have this huge muscle’s ask them how they got there macho body, read books that is the best way to get tips and guide.

I don’t know the fitness level each one would have but people must be having the same mind set that would be rewarding for them to reach that gym body they see. It’s not a magic to get what we want in life everything is worked hard for so even for this you don’t have to crib or just wish that you can be a heavy build guy. As our 5 fingers are different god has made every body type a bit different too. There are people who generically have faster metabolism and others must be having slow but everything is possible in the world of today. You can just do anything and everything you desire for.

While reading this article this would have given you the inspiration that saying that hey I still have a chance to get that kind of imagine but saying and doing it is a completely different word. If people start doing what they say they would have reached places, but this articles and reading materials are just guide the doing is all depended on you.

7 steps to professional body building

Posted 20 August 2008 by kiez

Do you have any aspirations to become a bodybuilding and fitness professional one day?

I would like to put the pain and frustration that I had to offer through my best. I want to share with you what I learned, you help you succeed and achieve your dreams:

1. To develop, create or invent a “turnkey” system or structured plan (ie training, nutrition, supplementation, lifestyle, or a combination of all these factors) to target audience or market niche.

2. Create a very recognizable, gadget-type name or title to your system would be an extremely useful marketing tool now and in the future (ie bold ideas, Mass. Machine, Max-OT, Heavy Duty, etc. .)

3. Master your craft and develop your style as an inspiration writer. Get a short, 10-chapter book in progress that explains your unique history and the system and do so as soon as possible in your journey in the company fitness.

4. Master your craft and style as an emotion-inducing the president. Get to as many people as you can and as often as possible.

5. You must treat your passion for bodybuilding and fitness as a moneymaking effort from the beginning of your journey. So, of course, you never expect it will eventually become a moneymaking enterprise. Of course, you like helping people and the same goes I. And, yes, you’ll have to share your expertise for free as you establish yourself as an authority. But let me make this perfectly clear: there will be a point in time when the pleasure to help others just for a “pat on the back” will no longer be a sponsor. That is what the forces of health professionals and many of the physical condition to end what they do. They move on to other things in their life-long before they have mastered their skills and touched as many lives as they wanted.

6. Remember that when you’re in a company with the specific purpose of making money, you really connect to your audience and have a sincere desire to help them improve their quality of life.

7. Be persistent. Stay true to yourself, your dreams and your plans and continue to seek ways to create the extraordinary life you want to do in the bodybuilding and fitness world. The road you are about to begin will be difficult at certain times. But is not it true that nothing great that the value of having a life?

Quick Muscle Building - 3 ‘Rules’ You MUST Follow!

Posted 09 August 2008 by Mr. Muscle

Let’s define first what is Muscle mass. Muscle mass is actually the specific size of your muscle. Its tone and the noticeable details of it. You increase muscle mass by lifting heavy weights repeatedly until you reach your desired muscle dimension. It basically has to have a combination of the right diet, training and supplementation. Here are some of them:

Rule #1: Do it with the Right Diet.

There is this principle in mass building that consume the food for the specific activity you are going to do and not for the activity or activities that you have done for the day. Keep in mind that you want to build muscle mass and not fat. Keep in mind also the following:

• You have to drink 6 to 8 glasses of water during the day. This will keep you hydrated and energy flowing in your workouts.

• It is also important that you don’t skip meals when you a trying to lose weight. This is a no-no! This will only knock off your metabolic balance and will just signal your body’s protection to hold on to fat. Then in turn burn muscle for energy instead of fat.

• Record or keep a calorie journal. With this in hand, you will be able to monitor your calorie intake and identify if you have to add or cut-back on food intake. It is best also to keep track of your weight and your activity or workout done.

• Eat to four to five small meals a day instead of three large ones. This will signal your body to continuously burn the calories effectively and efficiently and thus minimizing craving for food. Food cravings tends to promote overeating.

• Be aware of the nutritional information found on food labels when shopping for your food. Watch out for sodium content which could allow water retention.

• And, keep your carb intake at a low level especially during your first few weeks of your workout.

Rule #2: Do it with the Right Training

Many people are still blinded by myths on building muscle mass. This include lifting too heavy weights or the “no pain no gain” expression to see quick results but only to find out that this may cause serious injuries. Doing resistance training instead to build muscle is one key. Your usual push-ups and pull-ups can only do certain extent in bulking up your muscles. But you need other forms of resistance like using dumbbells, weights and/or bands to getting your muscles grow further off the normal.

It is with the right intensity that would contribute more to muscle building. Intensity meaning being able to lift the right and maximum amount of weight you’re your muscle can handle throughout your whole workout session. Then do repetitions. Intensity not the weight of your equipment counts.

Rule #3: Do it with the Right Supplementation

Supplements do help in how to bulk up really quick. But let’s be very cautious in choosing the right supplements to take. Some manufacturers say that the supplements they sell can fast increase your muscles but let’s be very aware that supplements have no specific regulations in ensuring consumers on the effectiveness or safety of a certain supplement product.

Remember the “No Therapeutic Claim” that they write on their medicine bottles? So let’s be on the safe side, ask around to those who have used and tried the product and ask for the actual effects it had on them.

So remember these 3 … Right Diet, Right Training and Right Supplementation.

High Carbohydrate Performance Drinks

Posted 13 May 2008 by kiez

Carbohydrate drinks are the first training sports drinks to gain popularity. Carbo Force by American Body Building Products was the first created as a beverage. Before that date, various powders were mixed with water by the athlete at the time of their use. Piles of independent research, done around the world, say that carb drinks will boost your energy.

What you must understand is that the body uses glucose as a car uses fuel. When low on fuel, it runs slowly or inadequately. As it is fed more fuel, it accelerates and it burn more fuel. Your body works the same with glucose.

Performance drinks work and they work well. But they will never be powerful enough to replace the dangerous steroids which many person use today. It is important to keep your glucose on a high level while you are active at the gym, and these drinks does exactly that in a very good way. I can guarantee better progress for a person that drink these drinks than a person who does not. What a drink like this basically does is that it gives you glucose and with this extra glucose you can push yourself harder and further than person who does not take these drinks. The effect is as i said above, far away from the powerful yet dangerous steroids but it is clearly the best legal and healthy boost you can get. I recommend that you start with one drink a day after you have been at the gym and your muscles will build up faster and you will have a lot more energy.

Start With Cardio Training

Posted 10 May 2008 by kiez

We see the gym every day. Guys are sweating and pumping iron for all they are worth. The muscles are massive, but we muster never forget the most important muscle in our body, the heart muscle. Weightlifting will not do much to keep this muscle in good shape, and it will not be enough to keep your weight under control from becoming chubby. The best path to fitness is usually an exercise program that combines a little strength training sessions each week with a daily dose of cardio. It is time for you to learn the basics of cardio training.

Benefits of aerobic exercise every day are numerous, but the most important is the health of your heart. When you work your heart all day, like other muscles of your body, it will grow bigger and stronger. Pump blood through your body more efficiently, bringing oxygen and nutrients to your body. The risk of health, such as heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular disease goes down and you will generally feel a lot better at all times.

It also has the advantage of fat burning which most of us do when your jeans are starting to feel a little tight around the waist. Cardio exercise burn fat more efficiently, leading to greater calories loss and the loss of excess pounds. If you are worried about getting a beer belly, spend some time walking all day and you can kiss it goodbye in no time. If you want to increase the results of your cardio workout when it comes to weight loss, combine aerobics with strength training for maximum fat burning.

The best thing about cardio exercise is that you can start anytime, anywhere. Of course, before starting any new exercise program, it is best to check with your doctor to make sure you’re sure you are up for it. Try a walking program by taking a quick stroll through the neighborhood or sign up for the local fitness and pay them a visit 3 times a week. I recommend that you get 30 minutes of moderate activity each day. You can share this in three 10-minute sessions, or do the whole shebang at once if you prefer that. Combining this program with two or three days of strength training will result in a leaner and healthier you.

10 Quick Tips to Build Mass Part 1

Posted 05 March 2008 by kiez

The muscle growth is the logical byproduct of muscle contraction. Much emphasis is placed on the concentric phase of a lift where the muscle shortens because it contracts. But stretching of muscle during the eccentric can have a negative effect on the phase where the muscle lengthens while maintaining the tension, this can directly cause muscle hypertrophy. Emphasizing the negative is a technique easy to overload the muscles and promote radical gains mass.

Fish containing larger quantities of fat - salmon, for example - give us the hugely popular omega-3 fat acids. Why is this important? With Omega-3 the muscle become more sensitive to insulin, from where they fuel glycogen storage and amino acid entry into the muscles, while preserving the glutamine stores.

I am not joking. Sodium is an essential mineral that is an absolute necessity for muscle growth. Sodium has a bad rap because it can cause water retention. On the positive side sodium, carbohydrate storage and improves the absorption of amino acids, while improving the response capacity of the muscle to insulin.

Aerobic exercise has a detrimental effect on the massive building. Aerobic interfere with the force and recovery gains burning up precious glycogen and branched-chain amino acids (BCAA). Adding weight is the best way to improve your resting metabolic rate (RMR), the CMA is, the higher the calories are burned and it is easier to stay lean.

The amount of muscle strength of a product is proportional to the amount of muscle growth, you should be able to create. Force is defined as the mass (weight you use) multiplied by the acceleration (the speed at which you push a weight-resistance). To generate more force, and then gradually increase your poundages while removing explosive - in this context, you increase the speed in the second half of the rep.

10 Quick Tips to Build Mass Part 2

Posted 03 March 2008 by kiez

sergiooliva.jpgYou will never arrive at a positive nitrogen balance with a diet low in calories. It takes raw materials - carbohydrates, protein and fat - to build new muscle mass and support recovery. Increasing your calories by 50% (from 3.0000 to 4500 per day, for example) for three days can stimulate growth while adding little or no bodyfat. The key is to limit the increase in calories a period of three designated days, you will be able to stimulate growth by enhancing insulin sensitivity of muscles, and by giving more carbohydrates for the storage of glycogen. If you are in a state overtrained - and if you do not earn any new muscle mass, which is certainly the case - the extra calories encourage anabolism before storing fat can kick in That’s why you want to limit the increase to 50% within three days. After this period, your return to the typical dose of daily calories, you have stimulated new growth without adding unwanted fat.

Anabolism depends on an excess of calories. As you know, bodybuilders eat four to six times a day to increase the absorption of nutrients and to provide an influx of carbohydrates, protein and fat. Expansion on the four to six meals a day is expected to include a protein drink in the middle of the night, which can encourage additional growth. Glutamine EFX, supplying 30 grams of protein and carbohydrates as well as the “big three” (see tip # 10), is a good option for this late at night, the infusion of nutrients.

Your muscles respond to the formation of three ways. When you lead with many reps (over 15), there is an increase in stamina, without a substantial improvement in the size or strength. The six to twelve rep range - the range that all major bodybuilders rely on - favours an increase in the size and strength. Powerlifters generally remain low with representatives from two to four per package, which supplements the force with slight variations in size. However, if you set aside a week of training on the job with the weight of weak representatives from the improved strength will make you stronger when you return to the six and twelve representatives routine. The formula is: More power, more tension in the muscle equals more growth.

Hardcore Chest Training

Posted 01 March 2008 by kiez

johan11.jpgI wanted to start things with a bang, and even if I do not feel it is the most important body part, it is that I get the most questions about. It is considered one of the “showy” muscles, and most certainly the group of muscles that most people are trying to develop fully. Some of you might be thinking biceps, but today we will take a look at the chest, or pectoral.

Everybody wants a big chest. It is all too common to see novices lifters hard on the chassis endless series of presses and cable crossovers in search of full employment, thick pecs. It is also used as a reference point for the strength (although it should not be). If I had a penny for every time I heard someone ask this question, we all heard a million times, “How do you bench?” I would be rich. Anyway, the It is a fact that the chest is a very important group of muscles of the upper body to give the appearance of thickness of the upper body.

I am a great believer in the basics. Ultimately, enormous gains in muscle is the sweat, blood and time to strike while the iron is hot. There are no shortcuts to a value of anywhere to go, and a huge chest is no exception. Some are genetically blessed with a well-developed pectorals, and for others their chest is lagging behind. Anyway, the hard work and dedication is the most important factor.

Get Stronger With Mind Power

Posted 26 February 2008 by kiez

Your thoughts control a lot of your progress and experience as a body builder. First off you have to start think positive about yourself. Once you do this you have to start dream positive about yourself. You should do this as much as you can, for example when you take the bus you should dream about how you want to be and look like in the future and get positive thought to it because with positive thoughts comes positive actions. Another thing I recommend that you do is to make a plan where you write down what you will do better tomorrow. I can give you an example of a plan here:

  • Tomorrow I will only drink water because I don’t want to drink soda
  • I will lift 2 kilo heavier tomorrow in the gym
  • I will run 90 minutes cardio tomorrow
  • Cakes tastes like dog shit
  • I will have extreme amounts of energy tomorrow

This way you will improve you body and your mindset and it will make it easier for you to reach your goals. You just have to collect positive energy for the things you want to complete. If you want muscles it is important to attract everything that has something with muscles to do. Read about it and study it, set goals and work hard.

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