Body Building Information

Just turn on the television, read a fitness magazine, or search the internet, and you will see that there are numerous ways to get fit and lose weight.  All of these programs and routines help you to lose those extra pounds, develop a lean sexy body, and maintain good health. Best of all, these total body workout programs are available on DVD, which in turn, can make our fast paced lifestyle a little easier.  It’s too difficult to take time for ourselves with so many activities during the day, and to actually stop by the gym. But most of us can find time to workout at home.  The gym is the space between the television and the couch.  Just switch on your TV and use some good workout DVDs. Gyms and health spas are taking a back seat nowadays.  Why?  Time is the [ 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 ]

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 ]

Most people think of home exercise as following some ‘leg warmers’ exercise video from 1982 or getting on the treadmill for 15 minutes. One of the main reasons for this narrow sighted problem is lack of knowledge about what can be achieved at home in terms of health and fitness.

Most people only know what they’ve been told or what they’ve read. Unfortunately most of what people are told is skewed or misleading for a host of reasons too deep for us to get into in this article. The important point here is that there is a better way to go about getting the body you want and the fitness levels to go along with it.

So often, a home workout routine gets reduced to 15 minutes of wasted time because of frustration, half hearted commitments and lack of [ Continue Reading ]

You have set your goals, you have an idea of the results you are trying to achieve, and now you want to implement a successful training regime to get the physique of a proper bodybuilder. Exercises are divided up into core exercises, which will always be included in your training plan, and various other optional exercises which you can pepper your routine with.

Altering the exercises you do will help shock the body, and increase muscle mass in your different muscle groups. There is a distinct difference between working towards mass, and generally exercising your body. To increase your mass, you need to use heavy weights, and only do three sets containing eight repetitions each. If your aim is to lose body fat, you will use lighter weights, and do more sets and repetitions. One of [ Continue Reading ]