Body Building Information

Many people,including some “experts”, define the best bodybuilding supplement as the one that helps build muscles the quickest. Is this a proper definition? And even if it is, how do you single out one supplement to stand above the rest?

To begin with, let us add a qualifier to our term. In my opinion the best bodybuilding supplement has got to be a natural substance. If it is not natural, it should not be part of anyone’s program. I just don’t want something from a chemical lab going into my body. I don’t care how many competitors, sports figures or marketing gurus say they wont harm you. Don’t use them.

Okay. So what is the best “natural” bodybuilding supplement? With so many different types and brands that you can use to [ Continue Reading ]

One of the first things that need to be addressed is your training session frequency. Take a gymnast for example, just by looking at them you can tell that a higher frequency of training over the typical once a week per body part recommendation is what it takes for massive muscle growth. This could be used in any facet of your life, whether you are trying to improve your golf swing, learn a new hobby, or building muscle, doing it more than once a week is essential.

Following that you need to concentrate on the session length. When you let your workouts stretch longer than 45 minutes, you are actually doing more harm than good. Research has shown that your testosterone levels peak at 27 minutes so cutting it off around 30 minutes might be the best idea. Research has also shown [ Continue Reading ]

While it is tempting to buy the hottest body building supplements on the market, it is also important to realize the underlying chemistry of these supplements and how that chemistry affects the body. While attempting to increase muscle size, these supplements might have surprising and unwanted side affects.

Water and creatine are excellent examples of why people need to pay attention to the chemical make-up of anything they might purchase First, consider the water molecule. Water is a truly amazing substance. Water can dissolve just about anything. That is why living things require it in order to get the most out of their nutrition and biology. Water is able to dissolve things because it binds with other chemicals. Water starts by breaking the molecular structure of compounds [ Continue Reading ]

Many people think about building muscles as abandoning life outside the gym and devoting hours in the gym like a monk in a monastery. Perhaps the only way to chisel the body into a hot muscular physique is by toiling hour by hour over the rusty iron day in, day out and year in, year out.

This need not be so. Although hard work is truly required, extreme fitness demands one to be a slave of the iron weights. Full-body workouts can make one progress and it easily fits in one’s schedule. This is very convenient if one is looking forward to achieving extreme fitness but finds it hard to hold on to a single workout routine.

Genuine full-body workouts done by athletes with an aim in mind makes for maximum muscle contraction using heavy weights, makes room for full recovery [ Continue Reading ]

Pro body builder Shawn Ray once said he could do the weights and the training in his sleep because it’s fun and relatively easy. It is only the other factors such as dieting and supplementing that really demands discipline.

 

It is also the primary reason why so many people are trying so hard in the gym only to see a small reward of muscle gain.

 

Are you one of them? If you are, it is high likely that the problem is not with your routines or workouts but rather your consumption of nutrition.

 

 

The great Larry Scott, the first ever Mr. Olympia in 1965 stated that body building is 90% what you eat. At that time, people thought that he was making an overstatement only for us to realize that he knew what he was talking [ Continue Reading ]