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Strength Training for Body Builder

Monday, July 26th, 2010

All exercises can be done at home, with or without weights. Beginners start without weights, then you can increase the resistance with two dumbbells.
All exercises are complex exercises or basic exercises in which several muscles are used simultaneously.

  • Push-ups: Tired muscles: chest, triceps, shoulders

The greatest benefits are achieved if you keep your back straight throughout the exercise.

Tired muscles: posterior thigh muscles, glutes, lower back
Lie stretched out flat on the floor, arms. Lift up your right leg, stay briefly in this posture and lower back leg. Exercise with the other leg.

Tired muscles: upper straight and oblique abdominal muscles
Like the classic crunch. In addition, if you lift your head and your shoulder blades off the floor, rotate the left elbow toward right knee. Repeat the exercise on the other side.

  • Squat, with or without riposte:

Benefits: leg and buttock muscles

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Health Nutrition for Body Builder

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Nutrition

  • Do you eat instead of three large meals 5-6 smaller the better, ie, add the main meals with healthy snacks.
  • Healthy snack: fruit, raw vegetables, nuts (especially almonds).
  • Brush on 6 days a week, the unhealthy snacks from your diet: chips, cakes, sausage, candy. Listen to nibble on!
  • Do not drink sweetened beverages and refrain from alcohol largely. Drink at least 1-2 liters of water, mineral water and herbal tea a day.
  • Set on whole grains to (mostly).
  • Dairy products: Switch to low fat versions.

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Guide on carbohydrate

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

carbohydrate Carbohydrates

Most bodybuilders focus on the consumption of protein and carbohydrates are left in the background. In this article we will leave everything you should know (and need to know) about the carbohydrate and carbohydrate supplements. Taken seriously you have to work your muscles, you must be eating a proper diet and Carbohydrates are a very important piece of the puzzle.

What are carbohydrates?

Before talking about the amount of carbohydrates you should consume to build muscle, we need a quick lesson in nutrition to know about carbohydrates, the source and the different types. Basically, carbohydrates are of two types: simple and complex.

Simple carbohydrates are found in natural and processed sugars and are rapidly absorbed by the body for use as energy. This energy is not long lasting and can often be followed by a drop in energy levels, resulting in the person feel tired and lethargic. Simple carbohydrates are generally not recommended for muscle building or maintenance of health.

Complex carbohydrates are those which constitute the bulk of the energy source in the body. Complex carbohydrates come in foods such as wheat, rice, potatoes, bread and oatmeal. Complex carbohydrates take longer for the bodies are converted into energy, but this energy is of long duration. A regular serving of foods rich in complex carbohydrates is recommended for all athletes. (more…)

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Weight Gain Pills

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

I am sure that in their quest to gain weight information that have come across some ads for weight gain pills. You know the ones that promise to increase your appetite, decreased metabolism, by magic or redirect some weight gain exactly the places you want.

Excellent, so pop a couple of pills before each meal and you’ll soon know exactly where you want to be – no need to train, and you can eat what ever you like. These websites usually have very convincing evidence, but do not cite research or studies. These products do not work as dramatically, as suggested in the ads, but can have a positive impact on their objective of gaining weight.

If you stop and control the ingredients of the pills, you see that are almost identical to the average multivitamin.

What manufacturers have done is to find a new market for their products in the industry of weight gain, and just returned from their branded products as a supplement to gain weight – a heavy brand! The reason why some people work is because small vitamin deficiencies can have a direct impact on their ability to gain lean muscle weight. If you have decided to employ an intensive training program and then the extra stress on your body create an increased need for nutrients, and a multi-vitamin should be the first thing in mind. (more…)

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Diet And Nutrition Development Plan For The Body

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Diet And NutritionIf you are a bodybuilding enthusiast and starting to build muscle mass and adding, then we must look carefully at the diet plan and then try the test the principles recommended by the experts. Fortunately, the nutrition of a body builder’s diet does not have to be very difficult because most people seem to think. Ideally it should contain balanced amounts of all major food groups that should be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle. The diet plan must include not only all the essential nutrients, but will help you build muscles as well.

Therefore, to begin a body building diet has to be richer in protein than any other diet plan. You also must have the right amount of carbohydrate energy transfer. Of course, any diet plan for a body builder has to be without trash like fried foods and sweets such as candy, etc flour products and alcohol are strictly prohibited and should do everything possible to adhere to a strict diet regimen if you want to add that extra mass and attractive build muscles.

It is important to remember that a body builders’ diet plan should take into account body weight and body fat and levels of any recommended diet should be adjusted accordingly. It is also recommended that anyone who is willing to increase muscle mass, you must break their daily food intake into several meals rather than focusing on a few meals to have on our daily requirement. Below is an example of body building diet plan, which generally works well with one focused on increasing muscle mass: (more…)

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Fast Muscle Mass Building (part II)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Please note that when I say hard work, I’m talking about the effort put into your exercise, not how much or how long you work for. Get results in the gym, like any worthwhile success is about quality of work they put into the gym, not quantity.

If you really want to gain weight and build muscle fast then hard work is not an option. You can fiddle around with a lot of great exercises and routines all you want, but if you want results, you have to earn through their own sweat and tears.

This should be a reminder disappointing for most of you. There is great joy and a sense of power we can get from hard work and weight training is one of the purest and rawest of forms. There’s really nothing else out there who can relate to the ruthless and barbaric form of weight training.

It is, in essence, the man closest to a good buzzword, from hard work. And the results are always so well worth the work. To the extent that we have a solid routine and appropriate and consistent diet can actually learn to enjoy the hard work and the process of growth and development, both physically and mentally.

However much the industry can discuss, the technology can never substitute for hard work in weight training results. Sure, there are supplements and machines and computers that go out every day they say to make our journey to greater muscle seems “easier”, but none of these alone will replace the key ingredient in bodybuilding results. (more…)

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Myths about Protein and Protein Supplements

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

In the world of bodybuilding, the hottest topic in the gym is always protein and protein supplements. No wonder, since the protein is important for building muscle, but there are also three common myths that you’re likely to hear about proteins and protein supplements too.

The first myth is that athletes do not actually need more protein. This myth is totally false. Much research has been conducted in this area, and the persons involved simply need more protein. The more active you are the more protein you need.

Recent research suggests that active people need 1.2 to 1.4 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. This is 150% to 175% more than the recommended daily allowance of protein. The strength trainers need even more protein, and 1.7 to 1.8 grams of protein recommended for each kilogram of body weight for this group of people.

The research also found that athletes who only in the recommended daily amount of protein actually lose muscle instead of winning. This is due to a decrease in whole body protein synthesis, which is common in athletes. The increase of protein recommended for athletes helps the body maintain a good balance of nitrogen, which is essential for bodybuilding. (more…)

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What You Should Know About Bodybuilding

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

- As a beginner you should only go to the gym three times a week during the first two or three months, no matter if you wait to go every day, there’s no better way to failure to attend every day, with the forgiveness of all still recommend that instructors follow the same stupid training, which attend 6 of the 7 days a week to the gym.

- Food is the basis in this sport, anyone can train hard for an hour and a half 3 or 4 times a week. Feeding means up to 80% of the results you observe in terms of getting muscle tone, strength, hypertrophy, or fat loss.

- Eventually you will have to be willing to eat 5 times a day, and forget about the eating habits that people “normal” is. If you’re not willing to follow a diet, forget to get results quickly. So with the lifestyle, if you’re a person accustomed to social gatherings, in which often abuse alcohol, tobacco or recreational drugs, and litter reveals to you “binge” eventually have to leave all this if you want be serious in this sport. (more…)

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Accessories and Dietary Supplements

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Dietary Supplements

Let’s face paying advertising companies announcing additions to this editorial is what makes this magazine can be maintained, the sale of supplements is a very lucrative business.

Although there are very good products, I must warn that no supplement will provide you a benefit if you fail in the first three pillars mentioned in the preceding paragraphs.

The issue of supplements is one of the most confusing, even more tangled with the full range of products and the hype of companies that promote each of them aggressively and that promise magical results quickly. (more…)

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Diet for Bodybuilding

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

So, although it seems very basic concept, in real life there are very few people who take seriously the importance of proper diet. Just remember how many people know that all the time complain that they can not gain muscle, not enough “?” And others say they can not lose fat?

Next time, ask how many calories a day, or the amount of each nutrient they eat is more, without being so scrupulous, just find out if they have no idea what a well-designed diet.

These unprotected souls wander the world believe that the solution to increase their muscle mass training is a novel, a magic routine or exercise in particular, the truth is that things are not that simple, for cite you an example, there is a girl my gym that makes each day of the week 2 hours of cardio, imagine the following scenario, I get to the gym, I change to train, I have my meeting with weights and cardiovascular exercise, give me a tour of the juice bar and although almost I never do, (well, the truth every day) before I made a look at the climbing area to see if you still encounter a pair of firm buttocks of some feminists who encourage me to stay, then I become a charmed snake moving their eyes to the rhythm of climbing, but almost always awake from my trance when I think I should go home and take my drink for the replenishment of proteins and good, in what was?, I remember!, so the that girl, believe it or not, spend over 2 hours and she is still in the cardiovascular exercise machines! (more…)

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