Author: rxbodybuilders

Whenever you over train or even when you are on the verge of overtraining, there are some indicative signs that should prompt you to initiate corrective actions immediately. Whenever any of the following symptoms is seen, sit back and evaluate your training. You just don’t want to over train. Instead of building new muscle, training taken to the extreme, can cause losses in both muscle size and strength due to catabolic metabolism. And beside the serious cases of catabolism that occur after overtraining, you should be cautious of taking your body to an area prone to injuries and muscle damages.…

For many bodybuilders, the traps are a muscle group which doesn’t require much brain power to train. There are only a few movements which specifically train them, and they are all virtually the same. Simply put, they are some variation of shrugs – front, reverse, dumbbell, and barbell – in which you move the weight about three inches, from your waistline to your belly button, using only your traps (the muscles connecting the neck to the shoulders) to move the weight. A variety of movements is best for complete trap development, even though they are all pretty much the same.…

Cardiovascular exercise is an integral part of shedding body fat so that your muscles will show to their fullest extent. However, the devil is in the details when it comes to making cardio as effective as possible. Very often, a trainer will fail on his goals of getting ripped – but not because of lack of effort. Rather, it will be a result of efforts being misguided and energy being misrouted. Let’s look at a few of the essentials of cardiovascular exercise in relation to weight training. We lift weights to grow bigger and stronger muscles. This is a fact.…

There is no one who was born a body builder and we all learn and practice to become professional body builders. The profession can also be termed as not really a talent to any individuals therefore leaving the field open to anyone who might want give it a try. Body building is normally started from nothing and only that one step is required of advancing to exercise and eventually success follows later. By the term starting from scrap, there is a very broad meaning and a wide discussion can be derived from it. Since body building involves exercises one has…

For most men of average height (5’7” to 5’10”) who engage in weight training, hitting the 200-pound mark at under 15% body fat marks the transition between beginner and intermediate bodybuilder status. Hitting 200 pounds means you have the foundation built. It’s time to start focusing on the details. Supplementation Begin adding things you haven’t tried before to erase deficits which should now be becoming more apparent. The more food you consume, the more important essential fatty acids will become. Glutamine will assist you in dealing with the new joint aches and pain that will come with weighing more as…

Many top bodybuilders have recently spoken out about their preference for alternating nearly “all-barbell” and “all-dumbbell” days. They believe that training in this manner, they are able to isolate certain muscle fibers and stabilizer muscles, which can often become overlooked using the same exercises in the same order each week. Let’s look at a standard example of how chest day could be trained in consecutive weeks, alternating barbell and dumbbell day. Workout #1 – Barbell Day Flat barbell press Incline barbell press Hammer Strength Bench Press machine Dips with attached weights Barbell pullovers Workout #2 – Dumbbell Day Incline dumbbell…

In the world of competitive bodybuilding, the illusion of size often trumps actual size. Bodybuilders will choose to under-develop certain muscle groups in order to make other body parts appear larger. For example, some bodybuilders will avoid abdominal training in order to make the shoulders appear larger and wider. Or, another example is the new pros that have had to reduce their quadriceps training in order to let their genetically challenged calves appear larger. The forearms are a muscle group whose training is debated among bodybuilders. Some bodybuilders feel that the biceps appear larger when the forearms are small. Some…

Strength training is training to increase your strength – but you didn’t need me to tell you that, now, did you? Once upon a time, it was believed that strength training was only useful for those who wanted to build muscle mass: i.e., the sole province of bodybuilders. Nowadays, however, it’s well-known that athletes of any stripe can reap benefits from strength training as well. If you want to obtain these benefits for yourself, try these helpful hints. Training Frequency However intense your workout is, you won’t get any benefit from it unless you rest sufficiently afterward. You can improve…

Bodybuilders are different in the likes, all to do with bodybuilding. There are preferences of individuals and the bodybuilding field gives different options from which one can choose from in training. But it has been noted that there is perhaps no part of the human body that many bodybuilders want worked up, and a good look attained, than the abs. Girls prefer a slim flat stomach and for men it is everything linked to the six packs. The abs are almost becoming a symbol of body fitness or a determination of who is good looking especially for the guys. You…

Many people in bodybuilding are confused on what is the best approach to handle bodybuilding. It is with this kind of confusion that specialist in bodybuilding are required to intervene and give directions as to which way to adopt and recover the lost steps in bodybuilding. There are the compound exercises and isolation to choose from the bodybuilding routines and they tend to be very complicated. The specialists tell you that, compound exercises are the favorites for everyone wishing to have enormous exercises. But there comes times when one cannot be able to do the compound exercises and has to…