Health and Fitness

Believe it or not, nine out of ten lifters in the gym do not know this simple fact… and it’s actually a shame.營gnorance of this fact cost guys countless hours of wasted time and effort in the gym and ultimately leads to failure. They become discouraged due to the lack of results despite there greatest efforts. But why is that? The answer is simple. They do not understand the fundamentals of building muscle! Most guys have the perception that they are building muscle while they are in the gym sweating and pounding away at the weights. Actually, you are doing the exact opposite! Give me a minute and I’ll explain… During your weight training you are actually breaking down your muscles, not building them.

When you train properly (which means training to muscular failure) you are creating microscopic tears in your muscles. This explains the soreness that comes with the few…

Most people fail to lose weight because they are clueless about what works and what doesn’t. You’ve got to learn the facts about weight loss otherwise prepare to fail.

Diet and Exercise are the two main things that impact your weight. If your diet and exercise is right, you will have a perfect body. If either of these is not right, you will be overweight or too skinny. So it is really important to get your diet and exercise right.

Your Diet – Your diet must be nutritious. Forget about starving, low-carb diets, low fad diets and other nonsense diets. All of them don’t work and are useless. If you eat less, your metabolism will slow up and you will end up gaining more weight and fat. If you eat too much, you will feel tired and your digestion will take time.

Again, you’ll gain more fat and weight. You must eat in such…

For some people it is easy to gain weight. They go to the gym a few times a week, lift a few weights, hop on the scale and they weigh more. For others, they can work out with a set training program, eat right, sleep right, and still don’t seem to gain any weight. These people are called hardgainers.

Hardgainers are genetically wired differently than other people. Their muscles simply don’t recover from a workout as quickly as other people’s do. When they copy a workout they found in a muscle magazine or got from a super strong friend, this isn’t going to help them bulk up. It will actually have the reverse outcome as they are overstraining their muscles and working out without them fully healing themselves. This will weaken the muscles and make them more susceptible to injury or illness.

Finding a workout that allows for the ample amount of…

You’ve made the commitment to get into the gym four days a week, giving 100% of your effort to each weight lifting workout you do.

You haven’t skipped a session in over three months now and are noticing progressive increases in the amount you are able to lift.

You are even starting to take notice at your transforming image in the mirror.

When everything comes to a stop.

Does this sound familiar to you?

If so, you’re experiencing a muscle building plateau, which is something that’s very common among those performing intense weight lifting sessions.

The Reason For A Weight Lifting Plateau

The first step to getting past this is understanding the primary reasons why weight lifting plateaus happen.

The definition of a plateau is a stall in progress, despite keeping up with your usual workout efforts.

There are many different reasons that could be behind this plateau, so pinpointing what’s going on will be important to you getting…

You’ve heard all of the same stuff before. “If you want to lose weight, you’re going to need to do cardio.” Although cardio vascular exercise is extremely important, many people do it all wrong.

No More “Stupid” Cardio

I’ll admit, I use to believe in the 20 – 45 minutes of cardio a-day to lose weight, but then I started to do something out of the ordinary: I started thinking for myself.

I researched the best possible way to lose body fat, and the information I got in return was surprising, and yet, oddly exciting. I found out you don’t have to do hours of cardio a week to burn fat.

What I also found was a way to maximize my muscle gaining to burn even more calories! The truth of the matter is: you can lose fat, and still build muscle. Although this is really no surprise to me, I was astounded to…