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26. The Importance of Maintaining A Weight Training Log By Raymond Burton
    Do you find gyms intimidating? Feel lost while doing your workouts? Tried different programs with no results? Not always sure of want exercises you are supposed to be doing? Or maybe you’re burnt out on the exercises your doing. A weight-training log may be exactly what you need.Walking into a gym full of big bodybuilders or women built like models can be very intimidating. Having all these beautiful people working out around you can make you wonder if you’ll ever be able to look like that. We…



27. The Role Of Whey Protein In Achieving Significant Muscle Gain By Richard Mitchell
    Most bodybuilders would agree that supplementing with whey protein is an important element in achieving serious muscle gains. This article will examine the facts relating to whey protein as a supplement and help you decide whether you need to follow this particular strategy. Whey protein is produced during the process that sees milk turned into cheese. It is also found naturally in dairy products, eggs, soy and vegetable proteins but none of these compares in quality to whey protein powder. I…



28. Health Benefits of Muscle Building By Tim Gorman
    Everyone knows that muscle is much more attractive than fat. So when you lose weight, you want to build more muscle and not just diet to lose fat. But there are other health benefits to building muscle mass that should motivate you to hit the gym.First of all, when you build muscle, you automatically reduce your percentage of body fat. And, you look better too. Muscle mass is approximately half as big as the mass of fat deposits.That means that while five pounds of fat is approximately the…



29. Always Shock Your Muscles For Maximum Growth By Kris Bierek
    Always try to "trick" your muscles into growth. You never want to do the same exercises, reps and sets for each and every workout. You always want to shock your muscles into growing and adapting to new stimuli, so make sure to always switch up your training routines, number of sets and reps for each training session. Also, make sure to train at a high level if intensity and really push each set to positive failure (barely getting the last rep up).You should always focus on increasing the weigh…



30. Two Major Training Mistakes You Must Dump Immediately! By Trent Brook
    The number of myths about natural bodybuilding are too numerous to mention. For every guy who knows the principles of effective bodybuilding, there are countless others who don’t. Those lacking the knowledge to train properly will argue until their strides split open or until Frankie No-Gains asks them for a spot. I don’t argue anymore. I just figure they can either take it, or leave it.Bodybuilding is not complicated. It’s simpler than your brother’s, cousin’s third husband. Plus, it al…



31. Exercise The Right Way - The Standing Calf Raise By Richard Mitchell
    Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from the perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing the basic exercises that constitute the core of most bodybuiders' training regimes. It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail the processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using the correct techniques before moving on t…



32. How to Weight Train for Maximum Muscle Gain By Anthony Ellis
    Weight training involves the use of equipment that enables variable resistance. This resistance can come in the form of "free weights" like barbells and dumbbells, machines that use cables or pulleys to help you lift the weight and bodyweight exercises like pull-ups or dips.Free Weights vs. Machines vs. Bodyweight ExercisesFor maximum muscle gain, the focus of your workouts should consist of free weight exercises. Not machines or bodyweight exercises. This is not to say that you should not use…



33. Six Minute Abs By Allen Martin
    Six minutes out of your day. All you need is a level floor.Start this torture session just as the end credits begin to roll. A few Sprint, Bell Atlantic, and Burger King commercials later, Jerry should be starting in with the monologue that kicks off the ensuing episode. And by then, your midsection should be burning like charcoal.Contrary to what many believe, Abdominal workouts do not need to be done in the gym. Your abs don’t need to be tormented through the hi-tech apparatuses or by the sq…



34. Body Building Mind Games: Don't Let Your Weight Determine Your Mood! By Jasdeep Singh
    Is the 'I Feel Fat Day' (IFFD) syndrome affecting your output? That extra flab can overpower you and your work. Thee feeling of being fat can morph into an emotion like 'happy' or 'angry'. Days overpowered with that feeling have been designated as 'I Feel Fat Day' (IFFD). So don't let your weight determine your mood.How many times have you heard your colleague quipping, "I feel fat" or "It's a fat day feeling?" Can't fit into your favorite pair of jeans? How about a snide comment from a relati…



35. Lifting for the Love of It! By Aaron Anderton
    Over the last couple of years I have taken a number of layoffs, for a variety of different reasons. Many times I wonder why I lift at all. The prevailing belief is that lifting must be one’s top priority if one is to be the best at it. That may be true and that is one of the biggest problems I have had. Lifting is not my top priority, it is more like fourth after God, family, and work. Actually work is only ahead of lifting because I need it to support my family, otherwise it would be fur…



36. An Amazing Technique That Can Make Your Gains Skyrocket While Others Have Reached A Sticking Point! By Trent Brook
    If you clearly understand and apply the principles involved in natural bodybuilding, you will experience very rapid muscle gains. However, over a long term, eventually a ‘sticking point’ or plateau in your training may be reached. It is at this point in training that further muscle gains can sometimes appear almost impossible. Sticking points are almost always a direct result of overtraining. More often than not, this plateau can be overcome with a brief layoff.The reasons for such a “pla…



37. Know Your Muscle Building Exercises - The Shoulders By Richard Mitchell
    Every bodybuilder and weight trainer will have his or her favorite exercises for each body part. That's how it should be - as you progress through the various stages of learning you'll understand what works best for you. It is useful, however, to take stock of your progress every so often and carry out an analysis of where you are and what changes, if any, are needed to move onwards and upwards. Part of this analysis should include an assessment of the core exercises that make up your bodybui…



38. Your Strength Workout Will Work if You Know the Basics of Strength Training By Phyllis Rogers
    If you are considering adding strength exercise to your exercise program, your workout will have better results if you do the exercises in the most effective way. Number One Rule when you strength train: if it hurts, don’t do it.. If any exercise causes pain, stop immediately. Modify the exercise or do another exercise that works the same body parts but is not painful. If you are just learning the exercise, reread the instructions to make sure you’re doing it correctly. Pain is your bod…



39. Building The Mind Of A Champion: 12 Mental Factors Which Help You Become Your Muscular BEST! By Pete Siegel
    Thinking back on all the work I did with bodybuilders who went on to win major titles, one thing becomes perfectly clear regarding why they reached the top. Through training their minds, they became as mentally tough as they were physically developed; this was the factor enabling them to ultimately take top honors.They would also be the ones who were able to get more out of themselves each workout. They were the ones who were able to push themselves to heroic dimensions so that every fib…



40. Exercise The Right Way - The Leg Press By Richard Mitchell
    Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from the perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing the basic exercises that constitute the core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail the processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using the correct techniques before moving on to…



41. Know Your Muscle Building Exercises - The Chest By Richard Mitchell
    Every bodybuilder and weight trainer will have his or her favorite exercises for each body part. That's how it should be - as you progress through the various stages of learning you'll understand what works best for you. It is useful, however, to take stock of your progress every so often and carry out an analysis of where you are and what changes, if any, are needed to move onwards and upwards. Part of this analysis should include an assessment of the core exercises that make up your bodybui…



42. The Secret Muscle-Building Technique You Must Use In Your Workout Routines By Faisal Khetani
    Are you searching for that "one" solution that blasts your plateau and sends your muscles into an explosive growth phase all over again?The solution to your problem has been under your nose all along...I'm not going to waste your time with "exercise variety" and "switching rep schemes", because chances are, you already know these common techniques and use them in your workout routines anyway.What I want to share with you is something fairly known in the weight lifting industry, but seldom used…



43. How to Become a Bodybuilding Champion – The Art of Weight Lifting By Greg Ryan
    In no disrespect to weight lifters, but bodybuilding and weight lifting are two totally different mindsets and training techniques. People will ask me the typical questions in the gym, “How much do you bench press? How much do you squat?" Quit frankly, I do not know. I do not pay attention to that part.Weight lifters lift the weight, bodybuilders FEEL the weight. Becoming a bodybuilding champion is not determined by how much you can lift on a certain day, but how you look and how you got to th…



44. A Beginner Workout Routine To Build Muscle By Shawn LeBrun
    This outline for a workout routine to build muscle has been devised for people just starting out in weight-training. It is simplistic in it’s approach, which is also why it is very effective for building muscle mass.The key to proper weight training is to establish a good foundation in which to build upon, much like building a solid foundation for a house. If you cut corners and build a weak foundation for a house, as time goes on, the house will become weaker and less sturdy. Same thing with …



45. Abdominal Muscles: Why You Do Not Have "Killer Abs" or a "6 Pack" By Chris Chew
    Ask any woman what is the most attractive part of a male body and most of the time, they will tell you it's the six pack abs meaning that your abdominal muscles showing up with beautiful definition. The abs is considered by many as a sexy muscle and is a symbol of a fit and healthy man. Women are instinctively drawn towards a man brimming with health and fitness because it is a primitive indication that the man is strong enough to protect her and her brood.A rippling six pack abs is one such i…



46. Bodybuilding Protein By Mark Newport
    What helps make comedy also builds muscle…This is key to getting the most out of your bodybuilding protein intake. There’s not much point in stuffing down that half chicken and protein shake…only to roll over and have a nap.No, we need discipline here…and that means properly timed meals to give a little helping hand to the natural processes that are stimulated by intense exercise.After a weight training session, your muscles will have been traumatised and at a microscopic level there will be t…



47. Build Thick and Wide Back Muscle to Compliment Powerful Chest Muscle By Chris Chew
    Want Your Back Thick And Wide To Complement Your Powerful Chest Muscles?I believe that most of you who are reading this article are already working out in gyms and have already build awesome muscles especially on your chest and arms. However, I do note one discrepancy is that whenever I visit the gyms, for some reasons or another, people seem concentrate on building massive chest muscles but neglect their back muscles. Perhaps it is the out of mind out of site syndrome. You can't see your back…



48. 8 Simple Ways To Lose Fat By Shawn LeBrun
    1. Set a goal for yourself and get real about achieving it.Until you set a goal of how much body fat you want to lose, you are just dreaming. It needs to be specific and written down. If losing body fat is what you want to do, you must be willing to achieve it at all costs.If you do not want to lose body fat enough, you will continue to give yourself reasons not to work out. Get real and tell yourself that you are going to do this, no matter what. Before any other step, this is the most import…



49. Increase Your Training Intensity - Training To Failure By Richard Mitchell
    You can only build muscle tissue if you can generate progressively stronger muscular contractions, so this calls for an emphasis on finding ways to increase exercise intensity. This should not be confused with exercise duration as maximum training intensity will actually shorten the time needed to achieve maximal muscular growth. In an earlier article I outlined the ways in which you can intensify your training. Here we'll focus on the role that training to failure has to play in intensifying…



50. How To Get Incredible Gains If You Aren’t Getting Them Already... And... How To Get Them Fast! By Trent Brook
    The key to rapid muscle growth, is to perform all your exercises well outside your comfort zone. If you had performed the barbell curl to the point of complete and momentary exhaustion, instead of “copping out” at the tenth. Then your bicep muscles would be forced to work harder than normal. Much harder. As a result, they would grow and build size rapidly.What matters here is not the number of repetitions performed beyond the initial ten. What’s most important is that you understand the …



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