Archive for 'Staying Fit' Category
Bodybuilding: Effective Ways To Handling Criticism
11 June 2008It’s important to set the way we’ll respond to different critics throughout the journey of achieving our personal and bodybuilding goals. As are other areas of life, Bodybuilding is a sport of opinion. When we step on that stage, or conduct our daily business, whether with associates or judges, it’s our relationships with these people, […]
Personal Pyramid
19 March 2008As a young man I often did not appreciate many of the things that were being taught to me in school. It’s not until you start to age that you look back on things and wish you had applied yourself just a little more.
Just recently I stumbled onto some information about The Great Pyramid of […]
Muscle and Fitness — The Second Key To Successfully Achieving Your Fitness Goals
12 February 2008Lets discuss Muscle and Fitness — The Second Key To Successfully Achieving Your Fitness Goals. But just before that, I’d like to remind you about what the previous article discussed.
In a previous article called: “Muscle and Fitness — The First Key To Achieving Your Goals”, you were given ten steps to follow. If you haven’t […]
Maximum Muscle Development with Chaos Training
11 February 2008Chaos is the scientific study of orderly disorder. It offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, and the unpredictable (viz., the chaotic) had been observed. If a rock cliff is inspected, with its many jagged and irregular patterns splitting off in all directions, it can […]
The Ultimate Hard Body Exercise
17 October 2007The Front Squat:
As you may have already discovered, the squat is at the top of the heap (along with deadlifts) as one of the most effective overall exercises for stimulating body composition changes (muscle gain and fat loss). This is because exercises like squats and deadlifts use more muscle groups under a heavy load than […]
Successfully Building Muscle
7 October 2007Adding muscle weight can be a longer and more difficult process than most realize. Many start lifting weights in hopes of gaining muscle mass without seeing the whole picture to gaining muscle. This often leads them to become discouraged because they think lifting weights is all there is to it.
Train Hard With Weights […]
Increase Your Training Intensity - Negative Repetitions
3 October 2007You can only build muscle tissue if you can generate progressively stronger muscular contractions, so this calls for an emphasis on finding ways to increase exercise intensity. This should not be confused with exercise duration as maximum training intensity will actually shorten the time needed to achieve maximal muscular growth.
In an earlier article I outlined […]
Build Big Biceps? Strong Arms And Solid Triceps?
30 September 2007In every gym that you go to, you will see people pumping their biceps. Biceps along with the pecs and abs are sometimes called vanity muscles because they are the most visible and therefore commands the most respect. Invariably, when you ask someone to show you his muscles, he will probably flex his biceps.
Before we […]
Dumbbell Workouts - A Smart Way To Exercise
21 August 2007Dumbbell workouts have been around for many years, especially as part of weight training equipment and programs. Fad workouts and equipment have come and gone, but dumbbell workouts have remained an easy, inexpensive way to get in shape and strengthen muscles. Their reliability and effectiveness are just some of the reasons for the longevity of […]
Know All about “Power Push Ups”
4 August 2007Push ups are the most convenient way to build up your
chest, shoulders, arms and upper back. It can be performed
at any place, and you don’t need to carry your gym with you
wherever you go.
Do you know that most of the men who train with weights
cannot do single handstand pushups? When I first found this
out I […]