Body Building Information

So, you’ve figured out your diet. You’re eating frequent small meals that are high in protein, whole grains and vegetables. Now, you’d like to add a few supplements to your diet. (Make sure your diet is rock solid before adding supplements—because a “supplement” is just that “an add on, not a base”). However, with so many supplements out there and a limited budget, how do you know what to purchase and what should be disregarded as marketing hype? Well, below is a list of supplements in order of importance:

Daily Multivitamin

A lot of people may overlook this supplement, but it is nonetheless the most important. Vitamins and minerals contained in multivitamins are essential to many functions of the human body. These [ Continue Reading ]

It’s hard not to stare at the physical specimens who walk around the gym with bodies like Greek gods. You’re sitting their in your baggy T-shirt and ten pound dumbbell watching them bench 250 like there’s nothing to it. It’s only natural to wonder how you can pack on a couple pounds of muscle so that you can stop sweating out of sheer embarrassment. But few people realize that there is a science to building muscle.

First let’s talk about the actual exercise. One mistake that people often make is that they get into a routine at the gym. They do the same exercises with the same weight in the same order every time they go to the gym. While that might help you build a little muscle, you’re going to hit a plateau. I compare it to reading [ Continue Reading ]

For muscle building and enhancing athletic performance, creatine is probably the most effective, research-proven supplement that we’ll ever saw until now. Once inside the muscle, creatine increases muscle cell volume and stimulates contractile protein production to provide better and faster results. Popular misconception among many weight lifters and other athletes is that creatine prevents fat loss if used regularly.

You can read opinions that for building muscle, creatine is a great supplement but if you want to get lean, creatine supplementation is something you don’t want around you. There is no scientific evidence to support this. I will provide you with the scientific evidence that is relevant to creatine and fat loss so that you can make an informed decision [ Continue Reading ]

I believe anti-aging is multidisciplinary and is based on individual choices. Anti-aging is a lifestyle! Each person chooses how to progress down a certain path to health and well being. Below is a list of factors to consider in designing your own personal anti-aging program.

Rev Up Your Metabolism

Aging is accompanied by a decrease in your metabolic rate and an associated increase in your fat storage. As such, your body fails to burn excess fat as we grow older. To combat this anti-aging effect we need to control our metabolic rate by increasing daily activities. The best way to do this is to perform a 20 minute cardio-vascular fitness program a few days a week to help rev up your metabolism. The best time to perform this fat burning workout is when you wake and before [ Continue Reading ]

Every gym is full of males and females of all different ages and sizes. As people get older, their goals change or become different, so it’s very essential that people train in the gym differently when their goals differ from what they’ve been training to achieve. It’s also good to respect others in the gym and the stages they’re going through. Separation of each age bracket of life into every day goals at the gym lets us develop realistic expectations about what we want to do to ourselves, and also makes it easier to keep track of when we reach these goals, or when we fall short and realize what we need to do in order to improve as more time passes by.

In Your Twenties
The ideal goal for most people in their twenties is to gain as much muscle mass [ Continue Reading ]