Author: rxbodybuilders

The body building industry is today full of skinny body builders who, despite intense workouts, remain feebly muscled. Others have attained a marginal hypertrophy and then hit a plateau for ages. These body builders no longer dream or even hope to bulk up solely because they blame poor genetics. Multitudes of those who once ventured into body building have quit or are just about to because they have established beyond any doubt, that they are hard gainers. The sad thing about these body builders is that they can never harness the effort necessary or the mindset crucial to explore new…

Q: What do bodybuilders, non-bodybuilders, astronauts, garbagemen, supermodels, carbaholics, and every other group in the world have in common? A: They all want a well chiseled midsection – a six pack of abs. However, many people believe that ab development is just like any other muscle group. You train them now and then, and by sheer willpower alone, they’re pop out one day in all their glorious sexiness. This, obviously, is not the case. Developing a great midsection is a combination of training, diet, cardio, and avoidance of all those little bad things that keep those abs hiding. Here are…

Helmut Strebl deservedly nicknamed the shredded. This bodybuilder, among others, is distinguished by defined muscles and a minimal percentage of subcutaneous fat. He achieves a similar result due to a special approach to the training process. Having exchanged the fifth decade, he feels great and does not cease to perform at various competitions. The professional career of Strebl is not limited to participation in competitions. He actively maintains a diary of his trainings, and also conducts classes on an individual basis. Helmut has an outstanding athletic figure and ideal proportions, therefore is an excellent motivating example for many bodybuilders. Realizing…

Bodybuilding is a fever that is very contagious and the further it spreads the better for the victims! It leaves them feeling healthier and looking amazingly great…if all illnesses were like this one the world will be such a better place. Who would want to be immunized or vaccinated? The pros in body building were all once beginners and some if not most may have even been in a worse shape when starting out as compared to you. This is an art that requires physical discipline and mental discipline as well. It entails more than just walking into a gym…

Teenage body building has of late become fashionable. This may have arisen from a belated impression that muscled physiques now have on the youths. Most modern youths yearn to show some muscles all in a bid to be termed as sexy and or macho. To teenagers, body building has become purely a way of enhancing appearance or amplifying athletic abilities. And anything popular with teenagers, be it drugs, parties or sex, body building has also acquired a negative connotation among teenager’s parents. Most are sure that their sons and daughters love body building only because there is something sinister that…

Q: What are the best protein sources for bodybuilders and building the body? A: I feel that they fall in this order: Meat Poultry Eggs Fish Whey protein powder Milk Cheese Nuts and nut butters Truth is, eggs have the most perfect amino acid profile and should be a staple of all bodybuilding diets – at least in the morning. However, red meat offers the vitamins and minerals, iron and more importantly, creatine content that you need to succeed in building muscle. If it’s lean meat you’re looking for, then chicken and turkey have some of the leanest profiles. As…

There are various machines that can be used to apply tension and stress to the body. Some of these machines include free weights and training machines. There are various equipments which include; barbells, dumbbells, leverage machines, body weight exercise, and manual resistance. It is always recommended to use various machines in our training since not only does it boost our motivation but it also helps enhance the muscle development process. In bodybuilding using different techniques will provide certain benefits. The first one is the ability to improve your body posture especially when you get old. Many people experience poor posture…

The early 90′s were full of controversy for women body builders. For instance, the Ms. Olympia contest of 1991 became the first ever aired live on TV. In this contest, the legendary Lenda Murray had faced a fierce challenge from Bev Francis, the runner-up to the title in 1990. Francis had previously been a powerlifter and had only converted to body building in the mid 1980′s, gradually, she refined her supreme physique in line with contest judging standards for body builders. To make matters worse for Lenda, Bev entered the 1991 Ms. Olympia larger and more defined than in all…

Sets and reps.. They are the mainstay of all workouts. After all, without their measure, no workout would have meaning and no body could be built. But are sets and reps more about creatively expressing a kind of bodybuilding license or personal philosophy, or are they truly scientific tools by which we build precise body parts of a certain size and shape? Art and science can converge, particularly in this case. That’s because sets and reps and the results they bring in particular and specific combinations, deliver very definite things based on mathematics. The mathematics of training include sets and…

The fitness craze is a booming commerce Industry and here in lies the danger. A forty year old man is conned to believe that he can be transformed to look as good physically as that 25 year old, muscle bound, college dropout staring at you in the middle of the keep fit magazine. What they deliberately and purposefully fail to tell you is that this boy spent more time in the gym than in the classroom and that is why he looks the way he looks. The myth that a forty year old pen pusher, as they call us, can…