Muscle Gaining

Night murderer of bodybuilders: Apnea

An important side effect of bodybuilding is a stronger and thicker neck because of which you can become a victim of a night murderer, nocturnal apnea! Are you in danger during sleep? Well let`s find out some things about sleep apnea. Imagine yourself sleeping in your bed. Suddenly you feel like someone has put a plastic bag on your head and you struggle to get free in order to breathe.. Finally after minutes that seemed to be hours you get free from that plastic bag and start breathing freely. ...

Prevent Lower Back Pain With These Tips

Bodybuilding is hard where you can experience a lot of pain and if you want to get good proportions you have to exercise every muscle in your body including the back muscles. But if you are not careful with the back exercises you can injure yourself and back pain affects about 7 out of 10 people. Here are some tips to prevent lower back pain:prevent back pain exercising regularly keep your back and abdominal muscles strong always stretch before any strenuous physical activity to prevent b...

A good tip for bodybuilding, sleep!

Sleep, the body builds itself at rest, not in the gym and it`s true. It is easy to think of sleep time as lost time but, if you are out to improve your physique, sleep time will be your most productive bodybuilding training time. Stop getting up with an alarm clock, get up when you`re rested after a good night sleep and you'll start getting bigger and bigger every day. This means you should sleep eight to eleven hours to be completely rested. You're wasting hours at the gym if you're not u...

Steroids Estrogen and Fatigue

Steroid Fatigue is a common catchphrase these days, and refers to another important function of estrogen in both the female and male body, its ability to promote wakefulness and a mentally alert state. Given the steroids that have aromatase inhibitors, bodybuilders today are noticing at some points more fatigue and extreme estrogen suppression than they had in the past. This suppression from the estrogen is often associated with fatigue! Under these conditions, the athlete,though on a p...

Insomnia can Trigger Diabetes

Do you often have insomnia or sleep less than 6 hours per night? You risk on getting sick of diabetes or you know the worsest effect.. you risk muscle mass loss!According to scientists from Holland the body needs at least 6 hours of sleep a night to absorb the sugar in blood, sugar that is accumulated during the day thus preventing diabetes. Sleeping 6 hours a night also regulates your blood sugar level but for gaining muscle mass you need at least 8-10 hours of good sleep so do something with y...

Thomas Jane Muscles on Men’s Fitness Cover

Thomas Jane is known for his movie "The Punisher" where he had a nice pack of muscles but the 41-year-old man knew too well the risks guys like Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man), and Ben Affleck (Daredevil) took when they slipped on the leather and spandex showing their body and because he had those big muscles he managed to look like the hulking caucasian character from "The Punisher" and recently, Thomas Jane got on the cover of "Men`s Fitness" magazine (see photos/pics) :D ...

Ups `n Downs in Bodybuilding Part 3

As you have seen in the photos from part one and two i`ve put some muscle mass.But i was greedy and wanted more and more. People at school really started to annoy me with their foolishness.I hate people that talk from heard abouts when they see that you got some muscle mass.For example people usually asked me something like: "hey man, do you take proteins (supplements)?" Like proteins are some kind of steroids or something, i mean you get proteins from eating regular meals! Some people are so du...

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...

Hugh Jackman`s Workout

At age 40, Hugh Jackman has a frame packed with hard muscle mass while being leaner than at any time in his life.He trains at the crack of dawn because research suggests that people who train in the afternoons consistently do workouts of far less intensity than those who do train in the morning. A typical Jackman workout takes an hour to 90 minutes, including warm-up and cardio sessions.His personal trainer Mike Ryan bases the weights workouts on big compound lifts and adds some twists, so Hugh...

Amino acids

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, and unlike the two other basic nutrients – sugar and fatty acids, amino acids contain nitrogen – about 16%.Amino acids are used in most body processes from regulating the way the body works to how the brain functions - They activate and utilize vitamins and other nutrients.Proteins are chains of amino acids linked together, bound together with peptide bonds and there are about 29 amino acids commonly referred to in human health. The liver manufac...