Author: rxbodybuilders
Let’s pretend two individuals are sitting at home on the couch one day. The first guy, Mr. Skinny, is 130 pounds. The second guy, Mr. Muscle, is 240 pounds. They both sit on the couch at about 10% body fat. Mr. Muscle just sits there holding about 110 pounds of muscle that Mr. Skinny does not. We give them the same pile of food to eat, every day, for one month. Totaling 4,000 calories, this it’s a diet rich in poultry, beef, rice, and pasta. They have to just sit on the couch and do nothing for that month. What…
Explosive, or ballistic training, involves lifting extremely heavy weights in a style not typically associated with bodybuilding. Instead of calmly moving the weight in a controlled manner, the trainer drives the weight up in an explosive manner. Speed is emphasized. The goal isn’t the ‘pump’, as with most training. The goal is simply to lift a heavy amount of weight as fast as possible using the entire body. Explosive lifting leads to greater core strength, which will make the body stronger the next time you attempt to lift weights in your standard, controlled manner. Explosive training is what many new…
People most of the times take their body for granted. They never pay much attention on how to care and enhance its functioning. Just like the muscles. Muscles play an essential role in human anatomy. It protects the bones, makes our body move, uphold body posture and even provide heat to maintain regular body temperature. Advance technology made people’s live easier. A person will not stand up and change channel manually, they have remote controls for that. You can do your shopping while resting on the bed with the use of internet. These kinds of activities make a person lazy…
Although stretching should not be undertaken as a distinct workout routine by itself by a body builder, it is important to incorporate stretching exercises in your bodybuilding regime. Ideally, stretching exercise should be performed as a warm up routine for five to six minutes preceding the weight exercises. This helps amplify the efficiency of the training session in three specific ways. These three are discussed in details here under. The first benefits of including stretching exercises in your training regimen is increasing your muscle group’s and body part’s range of movement. This can be simply put as increasing flexibility of…
here is nothing as wonderful as having a good looking body physique. This is because it will make you get noticed by the opposite sex. If you are a woman, having a beautiful figure will make you get noticed by the guys and if you are a gut having a muscular well toned body will make you a looker among women. If you are overweight however you tend to be ignored by the opposite sex. It does not matter how great your personality is, if you do not have a good looking body physique no one will take notice of…
Strength training should be a part of everyone’s fitness routine. Not everyone desires to spend hours in the gym gaining massive muscle growth. However, for most of us, a basic muscle and fitness plan can help us shed unwanted pounds and gain energy and stamina improving our quality of life. Bodybuilder or homemaker, everyone wanting to start a new fitness plan or program needs to understand a few basics. 1. Strength Training There is no need to ‘pump iron’ with endless repetitions. For those not used to any type of strength training, simple body exercises using their own body weight…
When you sign up for a gym, chances are that if you’re really serious with working out, that you will be a member for quite some time. This means that you have to make the gym environment as conducive as possible. Not only for you but also for the other people around you who hit the gym with the hope of building their muscles o for whatever reason. You can make both your experience and that of the others around you to be a living hell or you can have the best time possible. Here are some tips or rather…
Have you been failing in bodybuilding no matter how hard you try? If your answer to this question is yes, then the reason why you have not been succeeding could be because you are committing the following mistakes which could be jeopardizing your muscle growth. 1. Ignoring the self For you to be able to grow your muscles you need to first understand the state your body is in. You need to take note of the current state of your body so that you can be able to choose a training system whichM will help you realize your goal. There…
Are you currently an intermediate or superior bodybuilder who just can’t appear to spurn growth in your legs to keep up with that of the upper body? It’s not an uncommon condition to deal with. Inside the gyms and bodybuilding phases across the world, you’ll meet a lot of bodybuilders who focused on their chest and arms in the beginning many years of their coaching, and neglected their legs. When they finally did start training legs, their upper bodies by now had a one to two year advantage when it comes to all round advancement. They may well have worked…
The human body seems to adapt to the workloads we throw at it rather easily. It seems like we’re always working to find ways to keep the muscles of our body guessing as to what we are throwing at them. Bodybuilders know that the moment our bodies “learn” our workouts, they lose all effectiveness. For this reason, we must keep using alternative training protocols and techniques in order to prevent the body from adapting. Here are four tips for increasing your intensity in the weight room. They can be used on any exercise for any body part, and are equally…