Posted in Nutrition & Weight Loss, Understanding The Facts! on March 31st, 2010 by admin
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Let’s skip all the long exaggerated hype and jump right into the straight hard facts. Face it; your body is loaded with pure chemicals that are causing you to
Posted in Understanding The Facts! on March 15th, 2010 by admin
LPL is a fat storage hormone that’s your body
produces when it goes through a stage without nutrition for more then 3 hours. You see, the best way to keep our bodies running in top form is to have smaller healthier sources of nutrition every two through three hours equaling up close to six meals a day. This is a fact!
Now when you deprive your body of the important nutrients needed to keep everything running in the most efficient manner possible, your body sends signals to your brain informing that your bodies nutritional intake is lacking. Now at the time when this act occur, that’s when your body kicks in your LPL (fat storage hormone) Exactly what this hormone does is store fat on your body to preserve it for energy while at the same period of time, it eats away at the muscle diminishing it for nutrients that your body is starving for. So in reality you are getting hit with a double whammy because your loosing muscle while gaining unwanted fat all at the same time. So be sure to have proper nutrition intake!
Posted in Understanding The Facts!, Weight Lifting & Other Training on March 15th, 2010 by admin
So what is the correct rep range for you to
stay in to gain the most effective and optimal muscle building results? Now I’m sure most of you have heard that working with lower reps and heavier weight builds bulk while utilizing higher reps with lighter weight will result in getting you ripped. Well I can tell you that only half of this is the truth. The other fictional half I will leave for later and you will learn as you continue to read on what the truth of the other half really comes down to in another article.
So which is true? If you sided with the lower reps and heavier weight, then you are 100% correct. But you must follow the specific rep range formula, not just any lower reps and heavy weight is going to do the trick. So what you need to do is utilize heavy weight with lower reps performing them between a 5-7 rep range. This is without a doubt the most effective means for stimulating muscle growth. So utilizing a rep range between 5-7 means that for every set that is performed, you need to have weight that’s heavy enough where you cannot possibly pass over 7 repetitions, but light enough to get to full 5 repetitions while keeping absolute perfect form while performing each set to absolute failure each and every time. You need to always keep a focused mind and perform each set to a 110% effort and intensity!
Be sure to check out my brand new up coming book “The Truth to Xtreme Muscle Building” coming soon to a PC near you!
So what is the correct rep range for you to stay in to gain the most effective and optimal muscle building results? Now I’m sure most of you have heard that working with lower reps and heavier weight builds bulk while utilizing higher reps with lighter weight will result in getting you ripped. Well I can tell you that only half of this is the truth. The other fictional half I will leave for later and you will learn as you continue to read on what the truth of the other half really is. So which is true? If you sided with the lower reps and heavier weight, then you are 100% correct. But you must follow the specific rep range formula, not just any lower reps and heavy weight is going to do the trick. So what you need to do is utilize heavy weight with lower reps performing them between a 5-7 rep range. This is without a doubt the most effective means for stimulating muscle growth. So utilizing a rep range between 5-7 means that for every set that is performed, you need to have weight that’s heavy enough where you cannot possibly pass over 7 repetitions, but light enough to get to full 5 repetitions while keeping absolute perfect form while performing each set to absolute failure each and every time. You need to always keep a focused mind and perform each set to a 110% effort and intensity!
Be sure to check out my brand new up coming book “The Truth to Extreme Muscle Building” coming soon to a PC near you!
Be sure to check out my brand new up coming book “The Truth to Extreme Muscle Building” coming soon to a PC near you!
Posted in Nutrition & Weight Loss, Understanding The Facts! on March 14th, 2010 by admin
The largest single component of the body is
water. So many people living today overestimate the high importance of water “H2O”.
First some quick tips
1) Fat tissue holds some of the lowest amounts of water.
2) Muscle holds the highest concentration of water.
3)An athlete individual will contain higher percentages of water compared to the average person.
4)Water carries a variety of essential functions that are necessary for proper health and living.
Some of the great things that water does for your body is that it aids in digestion and elimination of toxins and body temperature is directly maintained. Water also acts as a transport medium for nutrients. You also always want to be sure to have an efficient amount of H2O daily, because for the individuals that lack in their intake of water, when more water is lost then taken in, dehydration develops. This brings me to another important issue that almost virtually everyone fails to know.
Now hear me out on this! When you already begin to feel the thirst for liquid your body craves, you have already begin to put your body in the beginning stages of dehydration. Even a 10% loss of water can cause unwanted disorders, such as dizziness, muscle spasms, failure of proper kidney function, and difficulty concentrating. So you see why water is such a crucial daily importance.
Keep a proper water intake of 8-10 8oz cups of water, this will add a high value rate to the body. This type of proper water intake, will cause water loss also, which is part of a bodybuilders diet for pre conditioning before his or hers competition. What proper impartation of water will do as far weight loss is concerned is your body having all that H2O coming into you, you will start to flush all water weight, carrying with it toxins, out of your entire system. Reason being is because your body tells itself that your carrying to much water being stored within, therefore resulting in the loss of water weight, giving you a leaner, more slender appearance.
Posted in Understanding The Facts!, Weight Lifting & Other Training on March 14th, 2010 by admin
So how to perform a warm up correctly, well a good warm up consist of about 5 minutes of
a good steady pace cardiovascular activity such as a rowing machine, jogging, recumbent bike, or elliptical. Any of those activities will suite you just fine and I’m sure you’re already wondering what is the reason for doing five minutes of a cardio activity. Well the reason for engaging in a cardiovascular activity is to increase the core temperature of the body. In doing this, you will stimulate your heart and lungs and lubricate your joints as well because there will be an increase of secretion of synovial fluid. As you’re warming up your core doing your 5 minutes of cardio, I want you to get your mind mentally prepared for the weights you will battle that lies ahead of you. It’s highly important to have a 100% focused mind on anything your trying to accomplish because it will only greatly benefit you and contributes to give that 110% effort which is one of the main keys that is needed to put forth that intensity that plays a vital role in the success of your workout. So once your 5 minutes is complete, the next component of your warm up will be the final section of this process.
So now that your core is all warmed up and you have your heart rate up, your blood is flowing, the oxygen to your lungs is pumping. Now you’re all already to begin your five warm up sets. You may be thinking to yourself, that’s ridiculous and way to many sets of a warm up and that’s the whole workout in itself. If you’re one of those people who believe this, you’re wrong. Like I’ve been saying, a proper warm up is very important and very crucial to do, so do not not skip out on this because you will only be loosing the benefit for yourself.
Your 5 warm up sets are very easy compared to your actual workout. These 5 warm up sets are utilized with only 50% and 60% of the weight that you would perform during your actual workout. Now if I were going to perform a flat bench press for the first exercise in my routine, then the flat bench press would be the exercise I perform to begin my 5 warm up sets. Now how to start out your 5 sets for a warm up is rather simple. First I will tell you that for any warm up or your actual workout, the first exercise must be a compound lift! For an example: lets say I’m going to flat bench press 200lbs for the first exercise in my actual workout, then to start out my five warm up sets, I would subtract 50% away from 200 which leaves me with 100. So 100lbs would be the warm up set I would perform. The math for this equation is very simple so don’t be intimidated.
Posted in Understanding The Facts!, Weight Lifting & Other Training on March 11th, 2010 by admin
Free Weights vs. Machines
When this subject arrives it is plain and simple for me to tell you, stick with free weights. The main reason this being is because compound free weight movements allows you too handle and stimulate maximum amount muscle fibers for the individual that is lifting. When you engage in compound free weight movements such as a flat dumbbell bench press, you have no alternative choice but to follow through with balancing the weight you will battle against resistance utilizing all of your unused stabilizer muscles.
What’s going on exactly here is that you are not given a self guided path of predetermine motion what so ever, all the pressure and responsibility to balance and follow through with the complete repetition of the exercise is securely placed upon the entire muscle region. Now the problem I have with self guided machines is exactly what I just said. Machines are self guided with a predetermine chosen path. This is the problem that lingers and will always remain with the machine movements. The main problem with this is if it gives you a chosen path to follow, your muscle fibers are not nearly being recruited enough to get the full potential benefit from the exercise being performed. This is why virtually every time we step up to a machine, we are able to handle much more weight then our normal muscle capacity rather then with free weight movements because of the simple fact that machines are easier.
Posted in Understanding The Facts! on March 11th, 2010 by admin
The infamous muscle pump, I’m going to break this down to you as simple as possible, everyone loves to achieve a great muscle pump but in reality it doesn’t effect your outcome of how big your muscle grow.
Everyone has heard that heavy weights allows you to bulk up while lighter weights allows you to become ripped. Now I’m here today to tell you right now that only half of this is true. Lifting lighter weight at a much higher rep range doesn’t and will NEVER allow you to become ripped but I’ll save that for another posting.
So the part that’s true of course is the heavier weight does allow you to achieve the muscle build up that we all strive for and love. Now as far as the muscle pump goes, when we start to battle the resistance of weight against our bodies we force blood to become trapped inside our muscles.
As a result of this act, we achieve the well known muscle pump. Now for most of those who know what I am talking about, know how wonderful they feel. Your muscle swells up showing you to be bigger and you feel super tight, it’s a good rush to say the least but it has absolutely nothing to do with your muscle gain.
If it were true that the pump was an absolute need for bulking then all we would have to do is grab a pair of light weights and get to work. For an example; I can go up to the weight rack grab myself a pair of 20lbs dumbbells and perform 200 repetitions of a flat bench press and I would have an incredible muscle pump that would feel amazing.
You see the point I’m trying to get across? If we needed the muscle pump for gains then all we would have to do is utilize small weights every time we step foot in the gym. Anyone with half a brain knows that it is impossible to achieve muscle buildup following a method such as this. This is why the muscle pump has absolutely nothing to do with your muscle gains. So make sure to always handle heavier weight at the correct rep range!
Posted in Understanding The Facts! on March 11th, 2010 by admin
Intensity! This is so extremely important in
order to achieve the muscle build up you are searching for. Now read this carefully because this is such a main key that so many individuals lack the their greatest potential! If you do not focus and blast through each set of every single workout, going beyond the constraint of your weight capacity and your previous weeks repetitions for that specific exercise you are performing, you will not force your muscles to grow any larger! You see, when you break down your muscle, your body tells your muscle that it needs to grow bigger and stronger due to the overloaded stress it was subject to. that’s when your strands of muscle fibers are next prepared to be restored. This act is called “hypertrophy” which will and only can take place in the way of building larger muscle due to when you take each set to a maximum of a 110% effort and intensity failing at a rep range of 5-7 for all major muscle groups.This is so extremely important in order to achieve the muscle build up you are searching for. Now read this carefully because this is such a main key that so many individuals lack to their greatest potential! If you do not focus and blast through each set of every singlegoing beyond the constraint of your weight capacity and your previous weeks repetitions for that specific exercise you are performing, you will not force your muscles to grow any larger! workout,
You see, when you break down your muscle, your body tells your muscle that it needs to grow bigger and stronger due to the overloaded stress it was subject to. That’s when your strands of muscle fibers are next prepared to be restored. This act is called “hypertrophy” which will and only can take place in the way of building larger muscle due to when you take each set to a maximum of a 110% effort and intensity failing at a rep range of 5-7 for all major muscle groups. Now some are fast twitch muscle groups which you want to take to a maximum failure of 10-12 reps.
I’ll be having an article speaking about and explaining the differences of the slow twitch, fast twitch muscle groups
Posted in Understanding The Facts! on March 7th, 2010 by admin
In this article I’m going to shortly expose the truth on the only three different body types
there are. Now these body types are based off the structure of your bone frame, which results in your total overall body appearance and muscle structure you will obtain.
Yesterday I went to a local boxing gym with some friends of mine for a good workout and I hate when you have those know it alls come up and try to explain something that just isn’t true. Now if an individual is teaching me something I do not know and is actually true, I have no problem humbling myself to learn, however, when I know there wrong, it really aggravates me when they try telling me otherwise. Now this guy was an older overweight guy that looks like he hasn’t worked out in a millennium and he started opening his mouth saying how he could get much bigger then I am and I replied yes it is very possible and would be much easier to achieve. The reason being I told him is because his body type is a mesomorphic, which means he has a much broader development of the shoulders “which is the width of the bones” nothing more. Mesomorphs, being that there shoulders are naturally broad which follows other traits that I will explain shortly, well these frames have a much greater potential for optimal muscle development, which is why almost every single Mr. Universe has been a mesomorph. There body type allows them to carry more muscle mass since there bones are thicker and wider. Well however, this man carried on debating with me saying how it’s because he used to work out, that’s why his shoulders are broad, Wrong! It is all about your genetics. He then tells me how he hasn’t worked out in years. Well anyone who has a brain knows that if you stop lifting weights you will drop weight almost immediately, noticeable decreases within 2-3 weeks. Now I challenge you to go and ask your doctor about the three different body types and you will see that I am correct and not just stating an opinion.
The man that revolutionized the bodybuilding world forever “The Mighty Oak, Arnold Swartzenegger” even talks about it found in his books. Now Arnold was an ectomorphic like me, meaning narrow shoulders, thinner bones, long limbs, hard to gain weight etc. If you are an ectomorphic as Arnold and I am then do not fear if you’re not a mesomorp, just take a good look at the man himself and look at the impressive physique he created through pure hard work and determination. People kept telling me that I wont be able to get up to 200 pounds because of my bones structure, my body type, well little do they know I surpassed 200lbs couple times because I was in an accident and lost weight due to my injury and built myself back up once again. So you too can achieve a great lean toned muscular developed body no matter what body type your genetics tells you.
Now the last one is endomorphic which is that short squatty looking body type, the very thick, wide waist & body followed by the short no neck look. They have that tree stump look to them. I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about. Now the people that possess this type of body structure obtain the most strength potential, which is why most of them are the men you see in power lifting and strong man competitions and sports such as that nature, however, this is the worst body type for bodybuilding hands down due to the lack of cemetery, the lack of ability to have good muscular proportion.
Here is a quick summitry
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Ectomorphic: characterized by long and thin muscles/limbs and low fat storage; receding chin, usually referred to as slim.
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Mesomorphic: characterized by medium bones, solid torso, low fat levels, wide shoulders with a narrow waist; usually referred to as muscular.
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Endomorphic: characterized by increased fat storage, a wide waist and a large bone structure usually referred to as fat.
Posted in Understanding The Facts! on February 26th, 2010 by admin





