Body Building Information

Nutrition if by far the foremost essential element and is perceptively responsible for either victory or failure in training for most fitness course and body building. Only thing you need is proper guidance and basic understanding of the relationship between nutrition, recovery and performance. This article will serve you in getting basic understanding about the nutrition for body building.

Following are the important nutrition for body building.

a) Daily Calorie Intake: Today calorie intake is as inevitable as Carbohydrates, proteins and Fats. You requirement of daily calorie need can be calculated with the given formula, if you want to maintain your current mass, multiply your body mass with 15. And for those who want to gain weight deliberately, multiply body weight [ Continue Reading ]

Ever wonder why some guys can train in the gym day after day, month after month, year after year, suck down raw eggs and protein powder and pop every body building supplement pill they can get their hands on…and BARELY see any progress?!

And what about the guy who seems to go to the gym, just look at the weights, follow it up with a diet of Twinkies and cheesecake and somehow add an inch to his biceps in the process?

Frustrating, right?

While body building magazines and “guru’s” would love for you to believe that building muscle is as simple as “performing this exercise for this many reps”, it’s actually a very PERSONAL process and YOUR body building results will depend on many factors…including the body you were born [ Continue Reading ]

Taking traditional exercises and using them with a keg is half the battle of Keg Conditioning. I have to admit, there are far too many advantages to using a keg over a barbell. Instead of listing them with a series of bullets, today, I am going to explain how the Hammer Curl is enhanced as a result.

As you know, the Hammer Curl is an excellent method of arm flexion. It is a bit more difficult than the traditional barbell curl due to the neutral grip that must be used. The neutral grip is a palm facing each other hold and this represents a direct carry over to life. Many people will skip over Hammer Curls since they can not lift as much weight using that exercise. Call me crazy but if I wasnt good at something, I would focus on that something…

Hammer Curls with [ Continue Reading ]

Is strength training without weights really effective? And will those exercises really benefit you to strengthen your body? The answer to both of those questions is YES, and I will show you why. Body weight exercises can be some of the most beneficial ways to build muscle without any weight training equipment. One example is you can use the resistance of your own body weight performing pull ups. This is a wonderful exercise for building muscle in your back, shoulders, triceps, and chest.

There are many strength training exercises without weights using your own body weight that you can do, they are:

Pull-ups (chin-ups) A Pull-up will build muscle and strength in the back, shoulders, triceps, and chest. You will even seem some growth in the biceps. Pull ups are [ Continue Reading ]

Is weight training exercise important when dieting? Many experts will quickly tell you “yes” if you ask them this question. Why? It’s because weight training builds muscle and helps increase the body’s metabolic rate. This means, that even while resting, a person who weight trains and who has built more muscle in their body will burn more calories than a person who doesn’t do any weight training.

Plus, weight training workouts typically burn more calories per minute of exercise than cardio workouts do.

But, for women especially, the thought of doing weight training exercises with the intent of building muscle scares them because they think it will make them look less feminine and too masculine. A woman shouldn’t worry though. Unless [ Continue Reading ]