Muscle Building Articles

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Sasha James @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 4:25 PM

You are not inspired for gym today? Are you maybe getting tired of not seeing results from your workouts? Despite you try hard to follow exercise routine and diet it seems you don't advance fast. Many people are facing this exact same problem while trying to build muscle tone, burn that extra fat and gain muscle. I had hard time to find fast, effective method to build muscle tone and gain muscle. Here is how I came to the solution. Sure, I tried so many things; internet is filled wit... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Kyle Oxenham @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 12:02 PM

Whether you want to lift more weight or get stronger, Knowing how power is developed in your body is key to getting stronger and more powerful in your sport, activity or weight training itself. There are 5 key components to developing mega power: 1. Starting Acceleration 2. Progressive Acceleration 3. Power Output 4. Stability 5. Re-coordination The First stage to power development is: 1. Starting Acceleration: This is the initial burst of p... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Cliff Baker @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 5:51 PM

Natural Bodybuilding simply refers to a special type of bodybuilding regimen. It's one of the many different approaches that an individual can take when competing in the sport of bodybuilding. Natural Bodybuilding is the most commonly used term when performance-enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids, human growth hormones or other restricted drugs, are not used to aid in the building of muscles by a bodybuilder. Prohormone and diuretics are also substances that are illegal in the sport ... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Robert Kokoska @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 9:06 AM

The world of physical fitness centers itself on muscle building for weight loss. Men are constantly fed more and more information telling them that them ore muscle you build, the more weight you will be able to lose. But, how accurate is that statement really? Does muscle really effectively burn fat from the body without any extra effort? Studies have been conducted on many occasions related to the amount of calories burned for every pound of muscle built. These studies have concluded on ... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Benjamin Brook @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 4:42 AM

The main aim that every bodybuilder has in mind when considering choosing proper bodybuilding diets, is that the diet they choose should help to build more muscle while at the same time remove fat from the body. What's more, such diets in most instances will mean eating plenty of proteins and carbohydrates as well as limiting fat consumption to the recommended percentage of a total diet. As a matter of fact, under normal circumstances such a diet would mean consuming forty percent protein a... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Jimmy Smith @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 1:44 AM

Harrison Fords Indiana Jones workout is about as tough of a movie star workout as it gets. For Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford is performing an intense workout and nutrition regime since the movie requires him to be in top physical shape since he needs to sprint, jump, role, crawl and just about anything else that someone combing through long lost ruins would need to do. His girlfriend recently took a moment to talk about the nutrition that is fueling his tough workout. He is on a strict hig... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Jimmy Smith @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 1:09 AM

Christian Bales Batman workout for the upcoming Dark Knight sequel has turned the actor from skinny to jacked in a matter of weeks. For the Dark Knight, Christian Bale underwent an intense training regime to make sure that he was a believable Batman. Anyone who has ever watched Christian Bales workouts know that he can change his body for whatever the role calls for. Well for Batman, he had it tough. Not only did he have to add substantial muscle since no one wants to see a scrawny and we... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Nina Redza @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 2:52 AM

Why should women embrace strength training exercises as a part of their lifestyle? The reasons are many but one main reason is that muscular tissues are intended to be used to maintain physical fitness and longevity. We all want to live a long and healthy life, strong and full of vigor! For those who have been avoiding these irons like a plague, let me list down 6 benefits of strength training. 1. It makes you strong Do you feel frustrated for not being able to move things or carry... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Benjamin Brook @ Saturday, 24th May 2008 @ 9:12 PM

If you're a bodybuilder and you can't seem to find the energy to get through your workouts, you won't be able to stand out amongst your competition once on stage. In order to make it as a champion bodybuilder, you have to give your all during each and every workout. If you're sluggish, however, you may have to take another look at your diet or you may have to go even further and try some bodybuilding stimulants. Bodybuilding stimulants will give you all the energy you need to... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Cliff Baker @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 6:25 PM

Bodybuilding is best done in a gym complete with free weights and exercise equipment. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford going to the gym. This includes students, teenagers, and individuals still working out their bills and debt payments. Does this mean that bodybuilding is a luxury only afforded by those with good credit scores? Thankfully not - there are many ways to build muscle without having to go to a gym. You may not have the benefit of free weights, but your own body weight ma... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Steve Hochman @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 5:34 PM

One of my favorite all time lines from a television sitcom is "Would you rather have rock hard pecks or saggy man breast?" Well think about it, which would you rather have? Men aren't supposed to have breast so let's figure out how to get rid of those saggy man breast and build some rock hard pecks and massive chest muscles. Follow these top 6 exercises to build your chest muscles and in no time you will have massive and impressive chest muscles. Tip 1: Do not loc... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Steve Hochman @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 4:22 PM

Bulging biceps can be accomplished by doing some very simple exercises everyday for only 14 minutes. These exercises include barbell curls, cable curls, curl bar preacher curls, incline dumbbell curls, and hammer dumbbell curls. Drop-setting is a technique used to build the most unbelievable biceps. If you long to have bulging arms then you should learn this technique. A drop set can be performed by lifting a weight that you can barely lift in repetitions of 10 to 20. When you complet... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Rob Ryan @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 5:16 AM

With Health and fitness being the most searched category on the web, it's obvious people are concerned about the way the look and feel. Problem with this is, every marketer, supplement manufacturer, big pharma and every concievable diet and fitness plan imaginable is pulling out all the stops to capitalize on the huge demand with endless, worthless crap that only their irresponsible criminal minds could conjure up. Not only are most of these weight loss pills and supplements worthle... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By adrian Alexa @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 4:32 PM

A lot of people eliminate cool down from their bodybuilding or fitness workouts because they consider it unimportant. The truth is that cool down is just as important as warming up and plays a crucial part in staying injury free. Cooling down after a workout is important because it promotes recovery and aids our bodies to get back to a pre-workout level. During every single workout session the body gets damaged by various elements including damage of muscle fibers, ligaments and t... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Cliff Baker @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 3:26 PM

There are 6 basic muscle groups that you need to develop when bodybuilding. These are as follows: Chest Triceps Biceps Shoulders Back Legs There is an array of exercises that work these muscle groups, many of which involve free weights (dumbbells, barbells, etc.) and exercise machines. Of the two, free weights are better for building muscle mass as these involve more muscles for balance and stabalization. But whatever the exercise, it's important to reach musc... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Sasha James @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 1:55 PM

Getting to our goals fast and taking our physiques to "the next level", is desired thing of everyone training in the gym. It doesn't really matter if you are a beginner or advanced weight lifter; whether we've been training for 5 months or 5 years; are genetically-gifted or consider ourselves a "hardgainer" are young or old; an ectomorph, endomorph, or a mesomorph; male or female; train naturally or with drugs we all strive for fast and constant improvement. Thi... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Craig Nybo @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 11:34 PM

Without a proper warm-up and cool down as part of your workouts, you cannot hope to perform at maximum capacity. A proper warm-up before exercise is necessary for two reasons; one, without proper warm-up exercises, you run the risk of injuring yourself; two, your goal is to perform each exercise with precision and at peak performance; you can't do this without performing warm-up exercises. For strength training workouts, your first warm-up should take place even before you hit the we... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Chris Kennelly @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 1:14 PM

According to research the average person should do a daily exercise of 30 minutes daily for walking. A recent study of overweight men and women showed that just walking 30 minutes a day without drastically changing your diet plan allowed the individuals to lose weight and body fat after walking or running on a weekly basis of 12 miles. Also a control group was made with the same age group of people but took the daily walk or run out of the equation. The people with no exercise put on extra weigh... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Amy Nutt @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 2:15 AM

Electronic Muscle Stimulation Devices, or EMS devices, create electrical signals that stimulate the nerves. The devices are usually connected to the individual through electrode pads that are adhesive and they are very lightweight and battery-operated, which makes them so portable that they can be used just about anywhere. Physical therapists and doctors prescribe these devices to reduce or completely avoid muscle atrophy in patients, especially after a surgical procedure or a severe inju... more...

Fitness » Muscle Building | By Cliff Baker @ Tuesday, 20th May 2008 @ 1:20 PM

Many are not aware of this fact, but bodybuilding is different for all ages (well, between adults and teenagers anyway). Teens generally need less rigorous workouts than adults do, since you have to consider the growth spurt factor. Regular, vigorous workouts may actually decelerate growth in teens. Teenage bodybuilding should focus on getting and maintaining good health through proper diet and mild cardiovascular workout. Regular cardiovascular workouts can give you a good health boost.... more...