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201. Re-ignite Your Chest Training Progress By Gregg Gillies
     Effective Chest Training, Like Everything Else, Begins With The Proper MindsetAn attitude of always wanting more, never being satisfied, is a key element in becoming successful in whatever you do. There's always a higher level of development to achieve—if you're constantly searching for it.Having that mindset is essential to lasting success. It's also the cornerstone of the habits you need to develop if you want to maximize your chest training. You'll also need to cultivate such winn…



202. 15 Muscle Building Rules for Skinny Guys and Gals! By Anthony Ellis
     WHY CAN'T YOU GAIN WEIGHT?Though there may be many reasons why you may be thin, the most apparent reason is because of your genetics. If your parents are naturally thin or have a small body frame, then you will most likely have the same small body type.To some degree, your size can also be controlled by your metabolism. If you have a difficult time gaining weight of any kind (fat or muscle) then you most likely have a fast metabolism. That simply means that your body burns calories at a faster…



203. Muscle Building Workouts - Build Muscle And Fitness The Right Way By Tony Farrell
     Does this sound familiar to you?You have goals for your muscle building workouts. You follow a regime that allows you to achieve those goals. You're doing everything right. But, you fall on your butt.Then you find that you get back up and start the whole process working on your muscle building workouts all over again. Only to find that you keep falling down, getting back up again and repeating this over and over.You do this until you think that you are never going to achieve anything here. You…



204. Target: Rear Delts: One Simple Movement and They’ll be on Fire! By Nick Nilsson
     The Bent-Over Lateral Raise is one of the most common exercises used for working the rear or posterior deltoids. For most trainers, it can be difficult to really feel the rear delts working during this movement as the larger, stronger muscles of the back have a tendency to take over.To really get the most out of this exercise, you need to remove the back muscles from the equation. This can be easily accomplished with a simple technique.How to Do It:First, get yourself into position for the Be…



205. Your Body Building Workout Routine Not Working For You Anymore? By Tony Farrell
     When you come up with your Body Building Workout Routine, you generally stick with that routine for quite some time. You'll find that, at first, your body building workout routine is great and you seem to be getting a lot out of it. Therefore progress is being made.When it comes to bodybuilding - No. I got that wrong, when it comes to any form of fitness the progress slows down. As you increase your muscle size, fitness level or body tone, you seem to get to a stage where progress is minimal.…



206. Reasons Why Leg Training Should Not Be Ignored By Ryan McKenzie
     As a modern weight lifter or body builder, I want you to picture something. Picture yourself as an extremely musucular person with very little body fat. Now picture yourself walking down the beach and everyone is staring at you. You think they are staring at your body because it looks like its etched in stone, but the real reason is your extreme lack of leg development, otherwise known as chicken legs.I would estimate that close to 75% of trainers do not work their legs, greatly reducing th…



207. Exercise The Right Way - The Wrist Curl 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 …



208. How Proper Calorie Fragmentation Improves Body Composition? By Hristo Hristov
     It is a well-established fact that calories control everyone's bodyweight. No matter how many meals a day you have, it is the calorie balance in the end of the day that matters. If you eat fewer calories than you are burning, you will lose weight. It won't matter if these calories come from chocolate, bagels, meat, eggs, fruit or whatever else.Calories control bodyweight.What about body composition? The two major components of body composition are lean body mass and fat mass. Suppose you just …



209. Why You Must Use The Right Dumbbells For Your Workout By Paul Article
     A dumbbell exercise program is effective with the right equipment These days, more so that in decades gone by, dumbbells are growing in popularity in fitness centers and health clubs across the United States.In addition, they are increasingly being purchased by people who want to include them in their personal gyms at home so they can conduct a dumbbell exercise program in the comfort of their own home when it suits them best.Rubber encased dumbbells are usually the most popular choice of dumb…



210. Tips to Help You Gain Weight By Anthony Ellis
     There are a couple of reasons why most people fail in their attempt to gain more muscle mass:A. Improper diet.Most people are not eating enough protein and eating too many simple carbs.They are not stressing their muscles during each workout. You don't have to kill yourself, but you must subject your body to out of the ordinary stress each workout to grow muscle.B. They lack consistency.They do not stay focused throughout the entire 12-week period. If they don't see results immediately, they …



211. The Dangerous Secret of Extreme Muscle Growth By David McCormick
     You've decided to join a gym, but you're not sure the best way to work out, and don't want to pay for a personal trainer who may not really know what he's talking about? Already an experienced weight lifter, but aren't getting the results you want? Read on for the best tips for working out if you have a full gym facility, and the secret to extreme muscle growth. Before and After You should always warm up before lifting any weights. This means a light jog or other low-impact activity that wil…



212. Increase Your Training Intensity - Pre-Exhaustion 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 pre-exhaustion has to play in intensifying the …



213. The Baby Boomer Athlete By Louise Roach
     Are you a Baby Boomer? If you were born between the years of 1946 to 1964, you are part of the 79.1 million Boomers, comprising 29 percent of the total US population. According to the AARP, every seven seconds a Baby Boomer turns 50! And, about one-third of Americans who take part in sports activities are Boomers.As this generation grows older, they are working harder to keep their youth and vitality, are staying active with physical activity, and unfortunately are experiencing more injurie…



214. Beach Body Abs By Nathan Boyd
     With the return of warm weather in the spring, thoughts can never be too far behind of the approaching summer and the many wonderful outdoor activities that we’ll often associate with it and among our top favorite summertime activities will always be the trip to the beach. Warm blue skies, refreshing ocean breezes, hot sand, cool waves and the many attempts at constructing the perfect sand castle; you can swear you’re almost there just thinking of it. But that mental image just wouldn’t be com…



215. How to Become a Bodybuilding Champion – The Art of Off-Season Training By Greg Ryan
     It would be safe to say that most competitors who gain a lot of weight and let themselves go during their off season have a shorter bodybuilding career than others. Why is this? Who won the race the Tortoise or the Hare? Why?All or nothing, fat in the off-season- lean in the on-season behaviors never finishes the race.Becoming a champion is like training for a marathon for twelve months. There is no taking off a month of running expecting to be right were you left off, neither is there a off-s…



216. Abdominal Exercises For Beginning Bodybuilders. By Richard Mitchell
     The abdomen contains the muscles that most beginners struggle with because they take a long time to develop and need a low level of body fat to be seen. The abdominal muscle group consists of three main muscles: 1. Rectus abdominis - commonly known as the abs, this is a large flat muscle wall that runs from the lower chest to the pubic bone. 2. Obliquus abdominis - commonly known as the obliques, this muscle runs diagonally along the side of the mid-section from the lower ribcage to the pubi…



217. Strength Training Develops Solid Softball Players By Lynn VanDyke
     Softball is a popular sport these days. Corporations, adult leagues and inner-city competitions are fueling the demand for skilled and competitive players. While softball may be experiencing a surge of interest, the basic techniques to improve your game and gain a competitive edge have remained the same.Many do not realize that basic softball movements such as batting and throwing are not a directly related to arm strength. The movement begins in the legs. The power is then transferred int…



218. Dorian Yates' Secret: What Lean People Are Doing To Get That Way By Marty Gallagher
     A consensus has arisen within the bodybuilding world over the past twenty years regarding the exact modes and procedures needed to become lean as humanly possible while retaining muscle mass. Across the nation and the world, bodybuilders are lifting weights, hitting aerobics and eating with discipline in order to melt body fat. While they might quibble over the content of the workout or the food selections, perhaps they’d argue over what was the superior cardio mode, what they wouldn’t argue a…



219. Muscle Building Workout For This Week! By Jasdeep Singh
     As experts says, "NO PAIN, NO GAIN." This specially applies to Muscle Building. If your fast life, strict job schedule or family commitments dont allow you to keep regular dates with gym, you can always workout at your home. After all, you just cant compromise on your health. Here is making things easy for you:Workouts to build biceps and triceps this week:1) Bicep Curls using resistance tube: Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and feet pointing forward. Now, press the resitance tube un…



220. How To Get A Flat, Toned Stomach By Lynn Bode
     One of the most common fitness questions this time of year is “How can I tone my stomach for swimsuit season”? Typically, people believe that the guaranteed quick route to obtaining a rock-solid six-pack is a path packed with hundreds of sit-ups or abdominal crunches. Wrong!The reality is that even if you do crunches every day you aren’t guaranteed to get the stomach you desire. Getting those highly sought after, toned abs requires more work than just abdominal exercises. Plus, as far as stoma…



221. The Ab Wars By Josh Henkin and Keats Snideman
     One of the hottest debates that still lingers in the fitness/rehab and sports performance industries is that over the correct use of the abdominal wall during movement and exercise. On one side, you’ve got the drawing-in camp that believes that the only way to safely protect your spine during exercise and movement is by drawing or “sucking” in your abdominal wall. This supposedly recruits what is known as the “inner-unit” musculature and primarily the infamous “transversus abdominus muscle.” O…



222. Build More Muscle and Lose More Fat by Discovering the Power of Training Variables! By Mike Geary
     Everyone will inadvertently hit a frustrating plateau in their training at one time or another. You're cruising along for a while, gaining strength, losing fat, looking better, and then all of the sudden it hits. Suddenly, you find yourself even weaker than before on your lifts, or you find that you've gained back a couple of pounds. It happens to everyone. Most of the time, these plateaus occur because people rarely change their training variables over time. Many people stick to the same type…



223. “Bodybuilding Sins” That Cause Back Pain and Missed Workouts By Jesse Cannone
     It’s one thing for someone who sits at a computer all day and never exercises to have back pain, but for a bodybuilder, someone who spends hours and hours each week pouring everything they’ve got into building muscle, it should be criminal!The reason we say this is because, if you are going to spend so much time, money, and energy trying to build the “perfect body”, you have to make sure that you not only look good, but also feel good…We’ve identified what we call “Bodybuilding Sins” that lead…



224. Building Better Biceps By Allan Lye
     Two of the nine pivot points - those stunning body parts located precisely where they attract the most attention - are the lower biceps and long head of the triceps. When fully developed, these muscles lend a mystical beauty to the physique that size alone can't.BARBELLS FOR BICEPSTo work the lower biceps, use a preacher bench that has a rounded face and well-padded corners. Place a towel over the bench so the vinyl doesn't rub the skin off your elbows.First, do a set of dumbbell curls with a …



225. Tips for Building Muscles Quickly By Tim Gorman
     Maybe you are thinking of starting a muscle building routine, and you want to plan an effective strategy. Maybe you’ve already started working out, but you just aren’t seeing the results you wanted. Either way, follow these tips, and you will begin to see results faster than you thought was possible.First of all, when you start working out to build your muscles, you want to be careful not to over-do it. Sure, it may seem like the harder you work, the more reps you do, and the more weight yo…



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