Health and Fitness

Bodybuilding is not only a great pass time but is very healthy for you as well. Bodybuilding in general is a pretty straight forward process of eating, lifting and resting properly, so as to spark the development of new muscle fibers. Bodybuilding is very challenging at times but is always very rewarding when you put on those extra few pounds of muscle. This article discusses some tips and information on how you can start turning your body into a muscular machine.

Exercise

When bulking you are going to be spending and focusing more time on lifting weights than on cardio. For the most part when bulking you should cut down on cardio to about 2 sessions a week and they should not be done on the same days that you weight lift. Weight lifting for mass requires a heavy amount of weight with fewer reps. The most common rep range for bulking…

The ideal scenario to be in as a bodybuilder is maximum hypertrophy. This means our body is producing the most muscle tissue that it possibly can. This will make you a much larger individual, which is the goal of bodybuilding.

The majority of hypertrophy occurs while you’re asleep. A typical bodybuilder will sleep 9hrs, which means the body goes without nutrients for most of that time. The process of building muscles relies on the protein in our body. The nutrients from protein stay in the body for roughly 2-4hrs, so that means during the night, 5-7hrs your body goes without any nutrients. Therefore it is essential that you eat something that will prolong digestion while you sleep. In this case it is dietary fat. When you mix dietary fat and protein before bed, you will have the protein last throughout the night.

To continue on with the protein in your system, this…

I’m going to share with you some of the more powerful bodybuilding techniques that you can do. This will lead to increased energy, muscle and testosterone. Remember that these need to be done on a regular basis to have any long-term effect.

Try doing the full squat instead of a regular squat. Regular squats you just go squat down to the point of sitting in a chair. A full squat is when you go down until your butt is almost touching your ankles. This will really give your legs a workout.

A military press is another great exercise to put in your routine. You need a barbell and you’re going to hold it above your head, gripping it at shoulder width. Next, you’re going to bend your arms and let it come down to your chest, then explosively push it back up. This will work the shoulders and upper chest area.

Try the…

If you have it set in your heart to achieve big female muscles like the bodybuilders on television than you need to understand the core philosophy to achieve this. For females, it is much more difficult to build muscle tissue than it is for men, but essentially it all works on the same philosophy.

The muscles on your body are there to serve a purpose. If you sit at a desk all day, than your body adapts to that need. Having large muscles serves absolutely no purpose for you in that position. If you worked on a farm and had to do heavy lifting all day long, your muscles would adapt for that purpose.

The reason your muscles adapt to a change in purpose is simply that they think they won’t survive if they don’t. When you first start lifting weights, your body is shocked. It’s doing something it never anticipated to…

Want a sure-fire way to help your body rid itself of unsightly body fat, better yet, keep it off for good?

Learn to accelerate your body’s metabolism. One way to do this is by incorporating resistance training (weight-training) into your routine. That’s because the more muscle mass you have, you more body fat you will lose, even at rest!

Your metabolic rate determines how your body utilizes calories throughout the day for energy.

Metabolism is simply the speed in which your body burns through food. It is the conversion of digested nutrients into components for energy or building muscle.

Having an accelerated metabolism means that we will burn more calories often because our body will be utilizing and burning off food more often. One way to accelerate our metabolism is by increasing our amount of lean muscle tissue in the body.

Muscle helps speed up your metabolism. Since muscle is metabolically active tissue, the more…

If you want some results from training in the gym you have to train big.

It won’t help if you enter the gym and just go through your motions without any sweat at all. You will have to overload your muscles to stimulate muscle growth.

The truth is that muscles only grow if they get stimulated in a way that activates their natural survival response.

People doing serious training are always at a higher risk of injury. But there are several simple steps that when performed carefully will reduce your risk of injury.

You just cannot afford being injured since it will stop you dead in your muscle-building tracks.

Here are my personal tips for you to reduce your risk of getting hurt while working out.

1) Don’t neglect the warm-up phase

Proper warmup is the best thing you can do for avoiding injuries. It only takes around 15 minutes, but it will prepare your mind and…

Last night a couple of good friends came over to the house. It was great to catch up with good friends and have a few laughs. Now Dale and Howard are in the early 50’s and they both look amazing. They’ve followed my training and diet strategies for several years and look and at least 20 years younger than their chronological age. In fact they run circles around their friends who are half their age.

After we caught up on all the developments in our personal lives the topic quickly changed to “yep, you guessed it” diet and exercise. Both of the guys commented on how much bigger I am since we last spent time together a little over 6 months ago. IN fact they said “okay Wade, what’s are you doing to pack on so much muscle?” “Are you eating a ton of protein, come up some wild supplement, or…