Muscle Gaining

Benefits Of Keeping A Training Journal

Can you realize what valuable information we gain from these books? Without a doubt, we begin to notice patterns in our training performances and when our good and bad days repeat themselves in our log book. This information really helps us prepare for a race because we know when to "back off" from training.What Can You Keep In Your Journal?You can keep the following information: your waking pulse, weight, number of hours slept, your willingness in training, things like that. You can also record...

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...

Hardgainers

What is a "hardgainer"?A Hardgainer is a genetically-typical person (if there is such a thing).He/she is born with no special genetic 'gifts' which enable them to pack on muscle mass quickly. Such people cannot gain lots of strength using VOLUME training, but a hardgainer can make impressive gains using less frequent workouts with considerably less volume (see topic Supersets).Estimates of the percentage of the population who are "hardgainers" range from 60% to 95% (Steve Holman "The Home Gym Ha...