Archive for October, 2008

Spirit Lying Behind Muscle Building

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Alien asked:


Muscle building is magnificent ways of accomplishing strength by replacing a novel body structures having curves, organic strength as well as lines. This requests accurate work out with muscles. Muscle building is an overwhelming practice, also a leisure pursuit which is highly authoritative, in view of the fact that it is worthwhile in addition to that it also offers you some real great paybacks; such as an enhanced appearance, increased strength, growth in confidence plus including all, a hale and hearty look. It is an acknowledged fact that encompassing muscles, is to a great extent more gorgeous than a fat body. Building muscles is not an easy task to perform, but it is fairly simple. If you are ready to put in the appropriate effort, then you will surely not face any problem in building muscle.

Muscle building is extremely in good turn with fitness devotees all over the world. A grand look along with budding self confidence nature is what everybody desires to accomplish. Muscle building is the course of accomplishing muscle from end to end with the amalgamation of exercising using weights, hoisting the sum of calories addicted, along with its recreation. The spirit lying behind muscle building is to be figured up as follows: promoting the muscle with an adequate amount of calorific in take to give support in the muscle development and no more.

Muscle building is over and over again perplexed with burning of fat. Despite the fact that some quantity of fat is burnt, it does not go ahead in losing weight. Muscle building is confirmed to be obliging not only for development in athletic aptitude but at the same time it also set in motion your basal metabolism as well as endorses fat smoldering. Muscle building is incredibly significant if losing fat is a preferred consequence of your work out. The moment you bend over your body your mass reaches up to a certain extent, you can intake more for the reason that the muscle requires a more fuel to utility.

Muscle building is an extended procedure which can even take months for noticeable outcome. It solely depends on your permanence, calorie ingestion as well as proper rest which recompense you with immense prizes, which is an overwhelming body everybody will envy. Muscle building is a progression, easy to trail but it desires effort as well as uniformity to bring about your goals.



Anthony

Top 6 Nutritional Supplements and How to Take Them for Muscle-building and General Fitness Training

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Bill Willis asked:


Given the huge array of nutritional supplements in fitness and bodybuilding, it can be very frustrating when you want to take your training and diet to the next level with supplementation. Most of these are a waste of money- There are 6 nutritional supplements available, however, that are indispensable for enhancing muscle-building and fat loss. Given the importance of a good diet, this should be the highest priority in any fitness training program. Once your diet is tuned to perfection, adding the right nutritional supplement at the right time will take a great thing and make it better.

Certain bodybuilding supplements are extremely valuable in particular situations, especially when the goal of your weight training program is to lose fat while building muscle. Our bodies have been designed to survive the harshest of conditions, readily storing body fat during times when food is plentiful and shedding it (along with muscle-tissue) when food is scarce. While this characteristic of our metabolism kept us alive through the ice-ages, it makes things really difficult for building a lean-muscular physique (that is if you are not busy running from saber-tooth tigers and fighting rival tribes!).

The right supplementation in the context of your bodybuilding or fitness workouts (pre and/or post-workout) can “trick” the body into thinking it has what it needs so that muscle-mass is preserved. What happens during intense weight training and cardiovascular exercise is that our bodies, along with burning glycogen and body fat, are also very efficient at breaking down muscle tissue. This metabolic adaptation helps to preserve energy stores at the expense of metabolically costly muscle-tissue; if you are starving the more muscle you have the quicker you will die (good for us back in the cave-man days, but bad for us now!). Our muscles are constantly being broken down and built back up from hard weight training, and if we could shift the balance just slightly away from degradation (catabolism) and toward accumulation (anabolism), this would have a huge effect on the effectiveness of our muscle training program.

My top-6 list of indispensable nutritional supplements:

1. glutamine

How Glutamine works: glutamine is known as a “conditionally essential” amino acid; it becomes “essential” during intense exercise such as weight training or cardiovascular exercise, as the need for glutamine is greatly increased. During bouts of intense activity (or stress), glutamine enters the bloodstream and travels into the liver where it is converted into glucose; this newly synthesized glucose helps to fuel the working muscles. This process is known as gluconeogenesis-the process of turning a non-carbohydrate substance (glutamine and some other amino acids) into glucose which can be used for energy. While this all sounds great for the muscles, the problem is that the primary source of glutamine during exercise is from broken down muscle tissue; the body actually breaks down muscle tissue to help fuel the working muscles by preserving their glycogen stores1. Supplying the muscles with an exogenous source of glutamine (i.e a glutamine supplement, has been shown to reduce muscle degradation during intense exercise-the body is “tricked” into not breaking down as much muscle tissue.

2. Branched chain amino acids (BCAAS)

How BCAAs work: Unlike glutamine, BCAAs, consisting of leucine, isoleucine, and valine, are essential amino acids, meaning that the body cannot synthesize them from precursors-they must be obtained from the diet. Like glutamine, there is a greater requirement for BCAAs during intense exercise such as weight training and they are derived primarily from catabolized muscle tissue. BCAAs are broken down into (among other things) alanine and glutamine (remember glutamine?) which are in-turn used to generate glucose in the liver. Supplementing with BCAAs will help to prevent their degradation in muscle tissue, limiting muscle-degradation and speeding up recovery. Leucine itself has been shown to stimulate protein synthesis, and research has shown that the BCAAs have a positive effect on recovery, can reduce fatigue, and encourage an overall anabolic state in the muscle. BCAAs seem to be especially effective in times of reduced calorie intake (i.e. while dieting down to lose that last 5lbs).

3. Protein: (whey protein isolates)

How whey protein works: This one may seem like a no-brainer; proteins are made of amino acids and as discussed above, certain aminos can greatly enhance your weight training efforts. Whey protein is a great protein source because it is very high in both BCAAs and glutamine; any whey protein will have these qualities, but after a weight training workout timing is the key. Many whey proteins are a mixture of both whey isolate and whey concentrate. Whey protein isolate is absorbed extremely fast, while whey concentrate is broken down more gradually over time. Fast-acting proteins such as whey isolate are known as “anabolic proteins”, dumping tons of amino acids into the bloodstream very quickly, promoting muscle-growth. Slower acting proteins such as whey concentrate, soy protein concentrate, or calcium casienate (milk protein) are known as “anti-catabolic proteins”; they provide a slow, steady release of amino acids into the bloodstream helping to reduce muscle-protein breakdown for fuel. After a weight training workout, we want our protein to get there fast-whey protein isolate is ideal for this purpose.

4. Creatine monohydrate:

How creatine works: Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the primary energy source to fuel intense muscular contractions, such as those during sprinting or weight-training. ATP contains a high-energy phosphate bond, which is broken down into ADP (adenosine monophosphate), releasing the energy necessary for muscles to contract. Every muscle cell has a store of phosphate, from which ADP is recycled back into ATP to continue fueling contractions. As this pool of phosphate gets depleted, so does our ability to make ATP; when we run out of ATP the muscle is exhausted and unable to further contract (i.e. the muscle fails such as on the last rep of a bench press). It was discovered some time ago that our muscles can actually be “loaded” with additional phosphate, which can extend our capacity to do high-intensity exercise. Phosphate is stored in the muscle as creatine phosphate, which acts to replenish cellular phosphate stores. When creatine monohydrate is ingested, it is converted to creatine phosphate and absorbed into the muscle cell, helping to replenish the phosphate pool. After an intense workout, muscle phosphate levels are drastically decreased. Supplementing with creatine post-workout replenishes creatine phosphate stores much faster, speeding recovery. Creatine also acts through unknown mechanisms to increase protein synthesis and muscle growth. For every molecule of creatine absorbed into the muscle, several molecules of water are absorbed, giving the muscles a fuller, more pumped appearance. A hydrated muscle is an anabolic muscle.

4. Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)

How EFAs work: Without getting too much into fatty acid biochemistry, EFAs are required by the body for a countless number of processes, and are an essential element to any nutritional supplementation regimen whether for bodybuilding, athletic training, or general fitness training. The typical American diet is largely deficient in EFAs, and dieters often have less than optimal levels while on low-fat diets. There are 3 basic EFAs which are named based on their chemical structure, including omega-3, 6, and 9. Most commercial EFA supplements are a blend of the various EFAs, providing an ideal EFA profile.

5. Meal replacement powders (MRPs): Commonly known as the “protein shake”, MRPs serve not only as a convenient protein supplement, but as a substitute for regular meal.While real food is always best, the busy schedules of most people simply cannot accommodate the optimal 5-6 meals per day-MRPs are a great way to stay on the diet in spite of the most hectic of schedules. There are many brands commercially available with different nutrient profiles; choose the product that tastes good and provides the nutrient profile that fits for your particular diet plan.

6. Multivitamin/multi-mineral supplements: While in an ideal world we would get all the vitamins we need directly from the food we eat, in practice we can all benefit from a quality multivitamin. Stay away from the typical once/day tabs found at the supermarket. It is questionable whether these are absorbed well at all. Stick with those vitamin/mineral supplements derived from whole-food extracts-these are more readily absorbed. In addition, whole-food based multis may contain unknown substances which are found in food which are either essential or beneficial; science is constantly discovering new nutrients present in food-our current list is far from comprehensive.

There you have it, the only nutritional supplements you need to care about. They have been proven both anecdotally and with rigorous peer-reviewed research to enhance the muscle-building and fat-burning effects of any weight training and fitness program including.



Elijah

Does anyone have a good muscle building routine?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
muscle building
bobby s asked:


Could anyone share their muscle building routine with me? I cant seem to be consistant with my weight training, or routines i make up. Thanks!

Skye

Muscle Building Nutrition

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Shawn Lebrun asked:


The body needs nutrition just like anyone else’s. However, it is key to get the right kind of nutrition for it, the proper muscle building nutrition.

As you go on about your exercising, it will mean virtually nothing if you’re not maintaining your body in the correct way. By eating the right things, and having good nutritional choices, you’re making the best use of this time exercising.

The types of foods you eat, and what they contain in them is very important to your muscle building. Any food you eat will contain carbohydrates, fat, and protein.

Muscle will make you heavier, but fat is not something you should desire.

Try to eat less fatty foods, about 20% total. The more protein you consume, the better your workouts will go.

The general standard is 20-40-40.

This means that you should consume about 20 percent of fat, and 40 percent of carbohydrates and protein to ensure that you are maintaining your nutritional standards.

Carbohydrates come from food that is very good for you, including vegetables, oatmeal, and potatoes. This should not be confused with the carbohydrates you can get from sugary treats or unhealthy, fattening foods and desserts.

When it comes to which fatty foods to avoid, you should have no problem steering clear. If it is not something you think you should eat, then you probably should not be eating it. Loading up on your protein and health foods should give you a good idea of what not to eat.

Muscle building nutrition does not solely involve the foods that you eat. How you eat those foods is also very important.

Consume regular meals per day, up to four on average. This means that instead of eating bits of foods all day, or even large quantities of foods all day, you should be keeping a balanced nutrition.

There is a way to accomplish your physical goals, as well as decreasing your fat, and that is by staying on top of what you eat.

By staying healthy and eating regularly, you can keep up your muscle building nutrition in an excellent way. Always eat breakfast, and make sure to consume healthy fruits and vegetables with each meal that you consume.

Remember not to cut fat out of your diet, just avoid any unhealthy fats such as foods containing vegetable oils or corn oils.

Drink lots of water, not drinks with caffeine.

Caffeinated drinks not only contain sugars that are bad for you, but they also contain a lot of calories which will make you time at the gym feel pointless.

Keeping water by you to hydrate with, or of course, the healthy green tea, is always a great idea. Finally, unprocessed foods are more nutritional than processed foods.

Unprocessed foods include meats, vegetables, and fruits, whereas processed foods include things such as canned meat, frozen dinners, or pizza.

Building your body muscle, while maintaining your nutritional, balanced, diet is a very important thing. It is necessary to always eat right while trying to build an attractive physique.

No matter how much time you spend at your gym, the fuel you put into your tank is always going to be the key to what makes you run right.

For more information on muscle building nutrition, check out the Simple Steps To Get Huge And Shredded program, that contains muscle building nutrition tips to build muscle and lose fat.



Landon

is cheese good for building up muscle?

Monday, October 27th, 2008
muscle building
Erik M asked:


is cheese deep good for building muscle(i know it has calcium) is it good for the muscle?

Margaret

The Best Muscle Building Exercises

Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Shawn Lebrun asked:


Everyone wants a healthy, good-looking body. And the truth is, you’ll have to work hard in order to achieve this.

That starts with using the proper equipment, having a good diet, and a healthy way of living.

To get the most muscle growth possible, you want to use the best muscle building exercises in the gym. If you want to build muscle, you’re going to have to lift heavy weight using effective weight lifting exercises.

There’s no getting around this. If you want to build muscle, you will need to apply the appropriate amount of resistance to your muscle.

You’ll need to use simple compound movements. Compound movements are weight training exercises that use more than one muscle group to complete a lift. Free weights are dumbbells and barbells.

By using these effective muscle building exercises, free weights and compound movements, you force your body to work harder.

By forcing your body to work harder, you add more stress to the targeted and supporting muscles.

Remember to use proper form when lifting weight, especially heavy weight. Lifting heavy weight for the sake of lifting heavy will result in poor form, which will lead to injuries. You don’t want injuries.

If you’re a beginner, it’s best if you use a combination of free weights, machines and body weight exercises. In order to lift heavy, you need to establish the correct form and balance.

This takes time, practice and patience. Once you’ve established the correct form and balance, try adding more weight lifting exercises, especially free weight exercises.

If you’re having trouble or not sure about certain weight lifting exercises, always ask for advice. Never attempt an exercise you’re not sure about. Ask a gym employee for advice.

If you can’t find a gym employee, ask one of the regulars. The regulars are usually more than happy to provide some guidance and help when it comes to muscle building exercise.

Before going into a heavy weight lifting workout, make sure you’re properly warmed up. Never attempt to lift heavy weights when you’re cold. Lifting heavy weight when you are cold will result in injuries.

Always remember to include a warm up (5 to 10 minutes) using an aerobic activity, followed by 5 to 10 minutes of stretching in your weight lifting exercise routine.

Here is a series of muscle building exercises that you could use for the chest area:

Flat Bench press Flat bench press with dumbbells Flat bench dumbbell flyes Incline bench press Incline dumbbell press Parallel bar dips Decline dumbbell bench press Incline dumbbell flyes

Muscle building exercises for back:

Bent over rowing Wide grip chins Lat machine pull downs Low cable pulley rows One arm dumbbell rows Dead lifts Shrugs Good mornings Hyperextensions T bar rowing

Exercises for hamstrings:

Lying leg curls Stiff legged dead lifts

Exercises for shoulders:

Press behind the neck Seated dumbbell press Side lateral raises

Muscle building exercises for calves:

Standing calf raises Seated calf raises Leg press calf extensions Standing one legged calf raises

Exercises for biceps:

Standing barbell curls Seated alternate dumbbell curls Incline dumbbell curl Standing dumbbell curls

Exercises for quadriceps:

Squats Leg press Leg extensions Hack squats

Muscle building exercises for triceps:

Close grip bench press Lying triceps extensions Standing cable press downs Seated over head barbell extensions Triceps bench dips Overhead rope extensions

Exercises for abs: Crunches Knee ups Hanging leg raise Incline knee raises Incline sit-ups Roman chair sit ups

That was a list of the best muscle building exercises you should use in the gym. Always remember to use proper form on each exercise.

If you have any questions on how to perform one of these muscle building exercises, ask advice from someone who is experimented in s and than try to experiment through trial them. You don’t want to use trial and error, since you could harm yourself.



Christopher

Are Muscle Building Supplements A Good Idea?

Friday, October 24th, 2008
Shawn Lebrun asked:


Many individuals turn to supplements for muscle building.

They can be a good idea if you know what you are using. You definitely want to use those made from all natural ingredients.

That way you won’t suffer from negative side effects. While they use of steroids is still common you do need to know there can be serious side effects. In addition the use of steroids can be very expensive.

There are many online sites as well as health food stores that offer natural supplements.

Many of them are designed specifically to benefit the muscle building process.

In order to get the most benefit you need to find those that are right for your needs. For example fish oil supplements are very common for muscle building.

That is because they help to reduce inflammation in the joints.

The costs of muscle building supplements are going to significantly vary. Don’t automatically assume that a very expensive one is going to give you the best results though.

Take the time to compare the ingredients as you may discover some moderately priced supplements have the same things in them.

Many magazines promote certain types of muscle building supplements but you can be sure those will be expensive to help cover their advertising costs.

You will find that these various muscle building supplements fall into different categories. Some of them are supplements to help your body get the vitamins and minerals it needs.

Sometimes a person just isn’t getting everything from the foods they consume so the addition of something like this can be useful.

Meal replacement powers, shakes, and protein bars can be useful but only if you remember they are merely supplements.

You shouldn’t be relying upon them in place of eating healthy meals on a regular basis.

Some people find consuming a protein bar though right before a vigorous workout is very helpful.

Others like the supplement drinks that are to be consumed immediately after the work out is over.

There are muscle building supplements that work well for helping a person to gain weight as well.

Look for those that are low in sugar but high in protein for the very best results.

You need to be careful about mixing more than one muscle building supplement with another.

You may end up rendering the overall effects of them not worth much at all.

Some of them do work well together though but make sure you research that information before you try it.

Take the time to find out all you can about a muscle building supplement before you buy it.

Read independent reviews online from real people that have used it as well.

This is one of the best ways to get reliable information that isn’t connected to someone endorsing the product.

Take the time to read labels so you are fully aware of the ingredients it contains.

You also want to look for those muscle building supplements that offer a money back guarantee. This way if you don’t get desired results you can return it for a refund.



Brianna

Can sex or masturbation prevent me from building muscle in any way ?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008
muscle building
?/? asked:


Im 17 years old and i really want to put on alot of muscle and get big. If i have sex or masturbate will that prevent me from building muscle in any way ? I heard that you lose testosterone when you have sex/masturbate and you need testosterone to build muscle. Thanks !

Hayley

Muscle Building Basics for the Brighter Crowd

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
hank eugene ezell jr asked:


If you need to build serious muscle you need to learn the fundamentals and enforce them. The muscle building and fitness industry has become overpopulated with sites marketing everything from overpriced supplements to weekend certificate “experts” pushing the latest physical fitness hoopla.

However do you know what to truly think in the physical fitness community while such a immense array of infringing information subsists?

Isin’t it time you acquired the muscle building truths and avoid the basic pitfalls? In this content you will acquire just that, the bare muscle building fundamentals, insured to sling your muscle increases! Let’s get initiated…

Are you constructing advancement in the gymnasium?

Has your strength conked?

Has your muscle advances plateaued?

Are you fed up casting forth 100% effort in your coaching program, only to be stuck at a complete standstill?

If you are frustrated with your lack of energy, strength, and developing you could be missing some mere and more common steps.

Mind you, these are steps you may already know, but when you get caught up in your training and nutrition, it’s easy to lose sight of the basics that produce results.

And so, let’s aim a step back and reconstruct your education program so it’s in force.

Desist from Overtraining. Sure, as a fitness person or muscle builder you have picked up these full term time and time again. In reality, you have heard it so much that you know you are not a candidate of overtraining.

Overtraining is simply missing necessity rest between exercises. Why is residing between workouts significant? The body reconstructs and grows when it’s allowed to rest. If you fail to receive adequate rest between workouts, your muscles can’t rebuild into a stronger and denser unit.

If you have been pipping the iron 5 to 6 days a week, carving your conditioning down to 3-4 days a calendar week may be just the recipe your body needs to overcome your plateau and start growing.

Keep it common - Muscle increase is a result of force versus free weight. This merely implies that high repeatings with light to restrained weight outcomes in muscular tissue endurance while engaging low repeatings with heavy weight results in muscle growth.

Hypertrophy occurs when a muscle uses its upper limit amount of power to capture a greater immunity.

To cast it plainly, maximal overcharge results in muscle growth.

Your body can adjust to general heavy weight with low repetitions at times so every 8 weeks or so it’s good to modify things up, such as impounding, repeatings, pace, and so on.

Good preparing rules to admit breaching a plateau include:

German mass training

Extreme bands

Hulk sets

Tri-sets

Dip sets

Vetoes

Etc.

i learned all this information from a muscle building program It changed my life forever. Maybe you should read about it.. If you decide not to at least take this free report on building muscle free of charge.



Benjamin

what is the best already made protein shake for building muscle?

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
muscle building
tino c asked:


i really dont like making protein shakes because they come out horrible. i was just wondering what is the best already made shake for building muscle is. i play wide out reciever i dont wanna get insanely huge just stronger and faster… what would u suggest?

Matthew