Muscle Gaining

What Age of Children is Good for Weight Training in Gyms?

With all the youth including adolescents and children under the age of 18 belonging to different health clubs in America trying to get some muscle mass on their body, the question is at what age should those children and adolescents begin weight training? The concern is that youth who weight train at a early age may injure their growth plates and that is the problem, the end of the growing bone. So then at what age should youth including children and adolescents weight train to get muscles...

Susanne Niederhauser

Susanne Niederhauser is another female bodybuilder with well sculpted muscles as you can see in the photos from the gallery and she decided to enter a gym together with her older brother Dieter at the age of 17. Actually Susanne Niederhauser was looking for a hobby as a change to the office job. Susanne was fascinated looking at photos with the trained bodies of "Anja Langer" and Cory Everson" from the beginning. When Susanne Niederhauser watched the first competition in autumn 1987 she knew tha...

Kimbo Slice, Good Streetfighter, Bad MMA Fighter

Going from a streetfighter that was into the spotlight with YouTube clips to fighting with the top mixed martial arts organization in the world did not happen overnight for Kimbo Slice and his muscles. Kevin Ferguson (Kimbo Slice) spent a few years climbing the ladder in fly-by-night promotions such as EliteXC before getting a chance to go from a cage to the Octagon.Although the heavyweight muscle Kimbo Slice does have a big name in the mainstream media and is a fan magnet with huge muscles a...

Mickey Rourke`s Muscles: Steroids or Not?

Let me begin today with a very short version of the movie "The Wrestler" that has love, pity, sadness, muscles, brute force and lots of injected or oral steroids: Years have passed since the glory of "The Ram". The splendor, fame, fortune and applause have all faded away. Only the man behind the masked personality remains. Randy Robinson’s personal life is clouded with hard luck, personal demons, and the troubles of his past and present. Not all his battles are contained in the ring. Mickey R...

Muscle Atrophy

What is Atrophy?Well when you refere to it as an illness you`re probably right because in many cases atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body and it`s caused by mutations, poor nourishment, poor circulation, loss of hormonal support but it also appears when you don`t exercise your muscles and it`s called muscle atrophy.Muscle AtrophyMuscle atrophy as i`ve said earlier, appears when you disuse your muscles and it`s followed by loss of mass and strength. For example if...

Dolph Lundgren Today

It`s been 25 years since Dolph Lundgren appeared in the movie Rocky alongside Sylvester Stallone, and it seems that, today the swedish star, Dolph Lundgren may be having a harder time maintaining his physique. At a age of 52 years, Dolph Lundgren has gained some fat but his chiseled physique didn`t go away that much. These 2 photos were taken at the Mexican Riviera where Dolph Lundgren was in vacation.In order to improve his physique and athletic abilities for the role of Ivan Drago, Dolph Lundg...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Today

I don`t understand all the fuss debating on Arnold Schwarzeneggers body today.Arnold Schwarzenegger in his youth, was a great bodybuilder no doubt, but when he announced that he will leave the bodybuilding world what did you expect? He focused on other things than bodybuilding, like: family his career as an actor politicsand i agree with him. Now Arnold Schwarzenegger is 63 years old and still hits the gym regularly, but what do you think an 63 year old man can do? Not much i can tell ...

Mike Mentzer Tips

The Power of the Mind"The idea of a "healthy mind in a healthy body" comes to us from the age of classical Greece, 23 centuries ago. Theirs was a Golden Age which idealized the beauty of the human body and exalted the power of man's mind.The power (or health) of an individual man's mind is directly proportional to his conceptual range, i.e., the number of concepts his mind has integrated, how well he understands their exact meaning, and the number of logical connections he has made among them."M...

Tricep injuries

A tricep injury is likely to occur when the tricep muscle is placed under pressure it's used to or not prepared for. A tricep injury can also be caused by repetitive movements (like throwing). Bodybuilders will usually get a tricep injury from lifting to heavy or not warming up correctly.Warming upWarming up fills your muscles with blood and prepares them for the workout. You're triceps should be fully warmed up before attempting to start the heavy exercise.Try to warm up for 5-10 minutes using ...

Fundamental Knowledge to Reduce Fat

If this is your first time on a fat loss phase please remember that getting ripped takes a lot of dedication, time, discipline, and focus. Diet:Diet is more important than exercise when it comes to getting ripped. You can train very hard in the gym but if your meals consist of pizza, french fries, cheeseburgers, sodas etc. your abs will be just hidden :) all the time. In order to see visible results and not just muscle mass combined with a lot of fat try a low -moderate carb, low fat, high fibe...