Body Building Information

Before you think about running a marathon, it is advisable to do an assessment – a self-assessment that is. Do you have the required discipline, commitment and desire to run and complete a marathon? Are you prepared to participate, in a consistent manner, in the preparation and practice that is required leading up to the run? If you have never run before, it is suggested that you should have run for at least a year prior to starting a marathon run. As a beginner, there are some basics to consider.

A medical check up should be the first thing that you do. It would be wasted time to get halfway through a training program and find out that you shouldn’t have started, or that you required some prerequisite prior to starting. You also need to think about your health and [ Continue Reading ]

Rather than saying Diet success, healthy living success fits better for me. In January of 1997 I attended a party at which I was the heaviest, out of shape person. The next day, I woke up, called a friend crying and made a commitment to start walking two or three days a week at our local mall after we’d dropped our kids (the ones not in strollers) at preschool.

I had gained weight and kept it with each pregnancy and I was older,(40) when I had my last child. I quit weighing myself but I knew I was over 200lbs. and a size 20. I am 5′6′ and around 150lbs was what I considered my fighting weight. My husband had often commented that I ate as much as a man. He’s just a little mean honest!

Well here’s the story, after 6 months of walking for [ Continue Reading ]

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 ]

This time is your time, from birth to age 18 it’s been about you and your family, after graduation it’s all about getting a good job, finding a better half and eventually settling down. However, from the age of 18 until whenever the time is that you graduate – you get to make every decision for what you’re going to do and who you’re going to be. Whether it’s earning your degree, finding your calling in life, or finding yourself.

All of the decisions you make during the time that you spend in college will most likely decide where you spend your time working and making a difference for the next 30 years, who your colleagues and friends are going to be, and the person the world sees you as. If you are spending your time in college drinking [ 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 ]