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.

Muscles are Cool but be Careful

Posted 24 February 2008 by kiez

As we all know muscles and big bodies are in trend and especially when it comes to summer and party time. I mean who don’t want a hot body to show the girls right? The problem is that everyone wants this and they don’t care what they have to do to get it. A new coming trend is to pump oil injections straight into your muscles. If you do this in biceps it will increase with 5 cm over a few minutes. This is very popular now and especially at parties. What people don’t know is that if you hit a blood vane you could die or cause a lot of pain and damages to your body.

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A oil called Synthol is the most popular oil, this oil is mixed between several other oils and contains 7,5 percent lidokain which will make it lesser painful to do the injection. Only 30% of the oil you inject into your body will go away, the rest of the oil will stay there for many years. The 70% will remain into your muscles and each time you take a new injection your muscles will get bigger and bigger until they blow apart and you have to lay down in a bed at the hospital without being able to move your body for the rest of your life. So for the teens that read this and think it is so cool to be big I suggest that you think twice before you do this.

Listen to the Body Signals

Posted 23 February 2008 by kiez

thomas-stellander2006-7.jpgIt is important that you as a bodybuilder learn how to listen to your body’s signals and understand what they are all about. The ground rule here is that pain is negative because pain will reduce what you possibly could have gained. This can also damage your body and give you even more pain, so I am not all in for the well known “no pain no gain” line. The bodybuilders in today’s society is training way to hard this results in that they use longer time to regain there muscles and they cannot train as often as they should. The pain only belongs when you are in a competition when you give everything your body can handle. On a normal training session you should however not train until your muscles starts to really hurt.

You only have to use common sense when you think about what pain gives you. The body gives the builder pain because it does not want to continue with what you are doing. In many cases the builder understands this but still they push their bodies to the limit on each training session. This can work fine a few times but if you do it often it will stop your progress and cause more pain, damages and other nasty things. If you are one of the pushing types try to take it easy on your body for a while and you will see a lot more progress, because your muscles will be able to heal and regain completely.

Do you want to look bigger than you really are?

Posted 22 January 2008 by kiez

kroppsbygging07-2.jpgI got a trick for you if you got a rather small body and want to look bigger there are many ways to go and tricks to choose from. Here I will tell you about the tricks that really work. Everyone always think that biceps is more important that triceps but I can tell you that it is really the other way around. Think about it if you have a big biceps and a small triceps not many people will notice and biceps is twice as small as the triceps. However if you have a big triceps it will look like you have wider shoulders than you really got. Another example is to train your shoulder a lot, especially the outside-shoulders. Then your back will seems to be bigger and people will think you have a bigger V-angle than you really have. There are many manipulation tricks like this and they are really great if you simply want to look bigger. Remember people can mostly only see your biceps when you flex it, but triceps they will see all the time. Other things that are important are to keep your waist as slim as possible. The slimmer your waist is the bigger your shoulders/back look.

So basically you have to start focus more on you back then on your chest and more on your triceps than on your biceps. Almost all the hottest and biggest builders train like this because for them it is only about how big they look, not how big they really are!

It works a little bit like a magician they always show you something that is not really there.

From Skinny to Fit: Basic Steps

Posted 22 January 2008 by kiez

kroppsbygging4.jpgThere are tons of small guys who wish they was bigger so I made a small guide exactly how you should do it. I know many guys who are going to the gym everyday but never even gain 1 CM on their biceps. This happen mostly because the person who want to get bigger don’t eat or he eat too much health food! Yes it is possible if you are very skinny. I meet many guys who are very fit but they are again very small, kind of like Bruce Lee. They always ask me how to get bigger and I reply them with “what do you eat everyday” then they say like “ohh today I ate salad and chicken filet and rice”. At this point I usually ask if they only eat what they read in magazines about fitness building etc. They usually answer yes and say the follow a nutrition program 100% but still they don’t gain any weight!

The fact here is that if you are skinny as hell you got to eat as hell as well. You cannot only eat health food you have to eat everything, everything you find in your house I mean EVERYTHING! Eat pizza, bacon, moms baked potato dinners etc. If you do this you will notice that you start to gain weight. You would probably don’t gain a lot of fat since you are already so skinny. Continue to eat like this until you get a little bit round. I don’t mean fat just like Bruce Willis for example. When you get like that you start with your nutrition plans and you will increase a lot in body mass. This is almost the only ay you can get big if you are very skinned and ripped.

Important steps for a bigger body!

Posted 15 January 2008 by kiez

modell_kroppsbygging.jpgIt is very important to visualize you goal if you are an active bodybuilder, you really got think and picture yourself how you want to look like in the future. Most bodybuilders creates a ego for their bodies and treat the body like a holy temple, all this sort of things are necessary if you really want to be the best. You have to make sacrifices to get where you want to be! Many body builder today are stopped mentally because they only train and eat like a bodybuilder but they don’t actually think like one. When I say this I mean that you got to think of your as the one or the best. You cannot be number 2 or 3, you have to work really hard to be number one and stay number one. If you get control of your mind and thought when you go to the gym you will increase you weight a lot more. I remember when I started body building I was 54 KG and 1.78 CM tall. I really wanted to get a good and firm body, so when I was under the bench and felt like I could not lift it anymore I used my mind to lift it for me! I did that with simply picturing myself in the future how I want to look like, and those kinds of mind tricks gave a lot more power. So I have to say it again “visualize you goal before you start going to the gym” When it comes to training there are tons of bad ways to train and just a few good ways. However as long as you use your body’s muscles you still train and increase the ability of you body. Some bodybuilders today has been brain washed by training programs and when they get home form work and tells themselves “ohh I forgot to buy proteins bla blas bla” and then they decides not to hit the gym because in their training programs it says you MUST take proteins after training. Another example is when you get to the gym you found out you forgot carb’s to take after training you then decide to go home because you think that the session would be a waste of time. This is bullshit and I bet many of you have these kinds of restrictions on your head. It is better to be active with your body even you don’t eat anything then doing nothing and eating a lot.

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