Muscle Gaining

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...

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...

Ups `n Downs in Bodybuilding Part 1

My passion for bodybuilding started really as a cliche if i can say, after i saw an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie " The Terminator". When i saw the movie i was 14 years old and didn`t know anything about this world of bodybuilding and how to build muscles, i just thought that Arnold was born with those huge muscles. After i saw it i went to my parents and told them: "I want those muscles" and they said something like: "Ooh no, they are so ugly and grotesque" but i knew the fact that Arnold`s bo...

Lady Gaga`s Workout And Diet Plan

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga in the last 2 years had a huge succes in her singer career. Lady Gaga is hot, nonconformist and has a great body but all that looks are not easy to maintain, and she invests a lot of money and physical effort to stay in that gorgeous Lady Gaga way. Workout Description Lady Gaga`s trainer, Harley Pasternak is the writer of "the 5 factor workout", that Lady Gaga is using in her training routine.The workout consists in barbell dumbbell comb...

The Best Bicep Exercise

The best bicep exercise is the standing barbell curl.The full range of motion makes it be a great factor because your arm goes from being fully extended to fully curled but the most important factor that makes this exercise to be the best muscle builder for your bicep is the amount of weight you can use in your routine because the heavier the weights you lift the stronger you become and the faster your bicep muscle grows. Even though this is the best bicep exercise, you still have to use it i...

Eat Better To Prevent Heart Disease

Spinach: Spinach and many other green leafy vegetables such as lettuce contain folate, also known as vitamin B9. Although folate deficiency is well known for its effects in causing spinal malformations in newborns, recent studies reveal that folate may have a role in heart disease by reducing circulating levels of homocysteine in the blood. High homocysteine levels increase your risk of heart attacks as well as stroke; therefore, increasing your dietary intake of folate-containing foods may hel...

Minerals a very important factor of our diet!

Although minerals may be required in small quantities, they are still vitally important to our general health and wellbeing. 1.Calcium Calcium is needed for so many different functions in the body, from bones, to blood clotting, your muscles etc. People often think of bones as a static piece of the body, where very little change occurs, but that is a totally incorrect perception. Bone is a dynamic part of the body and calcium is constantly flowing into, and out of it.Calcium is needed for th...