Muscle Gaining

Barbell and Dumbbell Rows to Build a Bigger Back

Row Row Row your boat, let`s go down the sea.. what am i talking about here? Do you want a bigger and thicker back? Try implementing some "rows" to your routine because building a great back without at least one rowing exercise in your routine it is not possible! Every type of row is a compound lift, which means it stresses numerous muscles simultaneously. Chin ups, pull downs and pullovers force you to do the former, and rowing emphasizes the latter. Due to the mechanics of these motions, t...

Beer, Muscle and Bodybuilding

Let`s talk about beer and the damages of it on muscles in bodybuilding. First of all, if you occasionally drink a beer, don`t worry it won`t affect your dreams to get buffed up with big hard rock muscles! Still you know Arnold Schwarzenegger`s line about drinking soda? That line can also apply in the case of beer (alcohol) or even steroids and junk food and it is: "Why take something the body doesn’t need right now?" Although beers are among the best alcoholic beverage choices in bodybu...

How to Bench Tips and Common Mistakes

If you don`t know how to bench properly and in order to correct your eventual common mistakes to improve muscle growth please read carefully this "How to bench tips and Common Mistakes" post. Lack of over-all body tightness is one of the mistakes Keep the bar in line with the wrist and elbows (tip) Don’t push the bar off you. Push yourself away from the bar to bench better and grow muscle faster Tighten your back (good how to bench tip, isn`t it? :D) Get your upper back and core stren...

Stretch marks in bodybuilding

Stretch marks are a form of scarring on the skin with reddish or purple lines. They are caused by tearing of the dermis, and over time can diminish but not disappear completely. Stretch marks are often the result of the rapid stretching of the skin associated with rapid growth (common in puberty) or weight gain (muscle building, bodybuilding) or in some cases, severe pulling force on skin that overcomes the dermis's elasticity. In our case here where we discuss about bodybuilding, stretch ...

Fish Oils Can Inhibit Muscle Recovery

Fish contains high levels of Omega 3 fatty acids, which inhibit prostaglandin synthesis, and that`s bad for muscle growth and recovery because prostaglandins are important for building muscles. I won`t talk about prostaglandin but instead i will talk about the fish oils that can inhibit muscle recovery in immobilized persons.Researchers from the Food and Nutrition Department at Seoul National University examined the effect of fish oils on muscle recovery in rats.The rats were assigned like so: a...

Gerard Butler`s Workout and Diet Plan

In my personal opinion, Gerard Butler is a great scottish actor with charm and a funny person.. After filming the movie "300", Gerard got famous i might say for his shredded body with well defined muscles (great physique), and now recently after filming "The Bounty Hunter" he also got a new girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston. I think they look nice together but Gerard Butler is picky with his girls and now he was seen with a french 29 year old lady named Laurie Chloewa. All the muscles you see on G...

Ups `n Downs in Bodybuilding Part 2

After 5-6 more months of training i`ve started putting some muscles and i met a girl. We started talking and we hooked up.I don`t know how i let her do it, but she made me forget about my dream of bodybuilding and she was rather jealous and that fact made me lose many opportunities. With the time passing by i`ve noticed that i`ve been skipping meals because i stood with her everyday and didn`t have the time to eat. That little factor made me lose about 50% of what i`ve achieved in the gym, so mo...

Meals Replacement Products

The Two Ways To Naturally Speed Up Your Body's Metabolism: -The first is through resistance training, lifting weights. Lean muscle tissue is a very metabolically active tissue, it requires a lot of energy to maintain. The body gets this energy from burning calories. So the more lean muscle you have, the faster your metabolism becomes and the more calories that you will burn at rest. -The second way to effectively speed up your body's metabolism is by eating small, well-balanced, nutritious mea...

Enzymes

Enzymes are specialized protein molecules facilitating most of the body's metabolic processes - such as, supplying energy, digesting foods, purifying your blood, ridding the body of waste products.Enzymes are vital to our health and change the rate at which chemical reactions happen, but without any external energy source added or by being changed themselves.Without enzymes in your body, you could have the best nutritional plan around, and supplement your diet with a lot of vitamin supplements,...

Building Muscle Mass

It is known that if you want to lose excess weight you need to build some muscle mass! When the muscle is bigger, automatically it needs a lot more calories to maintain itself. So there are some tips: 1) You don`t have to do many repetitions in order to increase your heart rate (for burning calories). A high number of repetitions are used for building up your body's endurance levels only, not for mass and the focus should be on overloading the muscles by using heavier weights. Find an...