Alcohol and Bodybuilding A large proportion of people lifting weights in a bodybuilding style in the gyms throughout the country are 18-35 year olds. A lot of people in this age group also like a few beers on a weekend, including myself, but what effects does it have upon your training? Well, the three most [...]
Sleeping and Fat Loss To increase fat loss, it is important to get a good night’s sleep every night. Sleeping well stimulates growth hormone secretion (GH), which is a powerful fat loss hormone and regulates the body’s proportions of muscle and fat.. Conversely, sleep deprivation can lead to: reduced growth hormone levels reduced ability to [...]
If you are a bodybuilder or an athlete and you want to add muscle mass quickly, then you are going to have to live with adding a little bit of fat as well. That being said, the following typical daily diet should enable you to add much more muscle than fat, meaning that you may [...]
Top Tip Number 7 – Drink 8-10 Gasses Of Water Per Day To Boost Your Metabolism By Up To 25%! Drinking plenty of water increases your metabolic rate by up to 25%. For optimum increases in your metabolic rate, drink half a litre (just under 1 pint) of water 8 times per day. Keeping well [...]
Perform Aerobic Exercise First Thing On A Morning On An Empty Stomach Anaerobic exercise or Anaerobic Interval Training is high intensity exercise, such as powerlifting, bodybuilding, weightlifting or sprinting that is composed of around 10-14 sets of exercises that last anything up to 2 minutes. Anaerobic exercise is used by athletes to build power and [...]
For those involved in regular bodybuilding to develop and modify their muscles, a variety of specialised products can be used to aid in the training regime for this activity. Different types of equipment can be used to target specific muscle groups and types of movement and so bodybuilding supplements can be used to regulate the [...]
The deltoids are the curved muscles that sit on top of each shoulder. They are made up of 3 components: the front head, the side head and the rear head. The key to developing powerful shoulder muscles is to incorporate a wide range of exercises into your routine. By altering your delts workout regularly you [...]
High Intensity Weight Training Promotes Fat Loss! Weight training is all about intensity. If the muscles are trained to a higher intensity than they are used to, then they will have been given the required stimulus for growth. Larger muscles, means a higher metabolic rate, which means you will be burning more calories per day [...]
If you are new to the gym and keen to make gains but are unsure about which supplements to take, then the first thing you need to do is to address your diet as a whole and keep any supplementation as basic as possible. Take time to learn about food fundamentals such as which are [...]
Only Consume Simple Carbohydrates on a Morning and Before and After Training Complex carbohydrates can be found in foods such as wholegrain breads, wholegrain pastas, oats, muesli and brown rice. Complex carbohydrates are broken down into glucose more slowly than simple carbohydrates and therefore provide a sustained stream of energy, which helps maintain steady insulin [...]
