How Often Should You Weigh Yourself I see so many people try to gauge their weight gain or loss by simply stepping on a scale once a week.


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Think of your body's core, as your power plant, where all of your energy comes from. If that power plant fails, and runs out of energy, how are you going to be able to live?

Core Strengthening Exercises

Knives and Knife Making

Have you noticed all of sudden interest in a food product called
"chia" lately? It seems like every new product takes its turn in
the spotlight but this one actually deserves some attention by
the fitness, bodybuilding, weightlifting and athletic communities.
Why? It turns out that chia has some very real benefits for the
human body.

Chia Bodybuilding and Cortisol

Are you locked into one approach to volume output when it comes to
training? Many guys get into a groove and just go with it for
extended periods of time. However, recent research published in the
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (January 2012) comes
to the conclusion that one size does not fit all. And not only
that, individuals may find a need to vary the volume at different
times in the year.

How To Vary Your Workout Volume

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I'm sure you have heard the old saying, "You can workout harder or
you can workout longer, but you can't do both at the same time".

An example of this is jogging vs sprinting, if you jog which is a
Paced, lower intensity form of running, then you can run for a longer
time. But if you sprint, witch is a more all out, high intensity form
of running, you will not be able to run long before you get
exhausted.

Volume vs Intensity Workout

Genetics play a big part in having great obliques. With the right
nutrition though, you can accomplish a lot. Getting your fat below
10% will make a big difference, so really watch what you eat. Less
salt intake is critical, as your body will release water weight and
you'll see your obliques a lot better. The right supplements such
as vitamin C, vitamin B-6 and fat burners can also help in your
quest for definition.

How to Get Ripped Obliques


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You see it all the time, some guy who takes Arnold's "cheat" principle
a bit to far in the gym doing his barbell curls. I often wonder if
these people understand that the reason one can continue the
exercise, almost beyond failure, is because other muscle groups are
doing the work. A barbell curl is for your biceps, not for your delts
and lower back. Although the magazines are flooded with information '
on form, there are still quite a few interested in catering to their
egos. I haven't quite discovered if they are seeking the attention of
others, or being emotionally directed, since reaching failure is
often enough to trigger the growth stimulus. I am not going to touch
upon how much potential there is for injury when using improper form.

Bodybuilding Safety Tips For The Gym

No matter what your goal is: muscle mass, strength, speed, etc. the
most important factor in your training program is...

Making Progress

Progressive overload is what makes your muscle grow bigger, stronger
and faster. And it is the core of any successful training program.

The following are the three basic ways to make gym progress:

How To Make Progress In The Gym

There are many factors that can be manipulated in resistance training
such as, volume, frequency, and the time that a muscle is under
tension. However, the most important factor is the intensity of the
exercise. Intensity was defined by Arthur Jones as "possible
momentary muscular effort exerted". It doesn't matter if you have
discovered the most powerful steroid or have the best equipment,
if you do not train with a sufficient level of intensity to cause
an adaptation, you will not adapt.

Intensity and Bodybuilding

There is quite a controversy going on about rep cadences. Some
superslow advocates recommend rep speed of 20 seconds or more for
each rep, compared to others who claim that explosive training is the
variable that is responsible for adaptation. Who is right? What is
the best rep speed?

Slow Reps or Fast Reps

Most bodybuilders avoid running like the plague. Running, some gurus
point out, is a waste of time for serious bodybuilders. And if
anyone does run, it is only done for a few weeks before a contest.

You can see why lifters are wary of running - long distance runners
are quite thin. That is, you don’t see too many buff marathon
runners. However, it is also true that the idea of not mixing
running with weight training needs to be re-examined. Running, it
turns out, can be beneficial for the bodybuilder and weight lifter,
and there are a few good reasons why some running should be included
in a training program.

Running for Bodybuilders

So you have been working out for a while, seeing great results and
loving the difference you see and feel in your body. But what
happens if, for some reason — injury, holidays, burnout, or
something else — you have to stop for a while.

What Happens When You Stop Working Out?

Larger muscles will produce more force, since they are stronger
muscles (strength is the ability to exert force). The point of
resistance training is to exert force. Increase your muscles size,
and it will produce more force. However, that is not the only way to
increase your muscles ability to exert force. You can improve your
neuromuscular system. Which is why some people believe that strength
and size are not related. Often you'll come across someone who claims
that they train to build larger muscles, that they are not concerned
with strength because they are not interested in powerlifting.
However, they are not understanding "weight training". How can a
person who believes that there is no relationship between size and
strength, proceed with their training?

Muscle Mass vs Muscle Strength


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Do you workout too long or too often?

Are you working too hard in the gym?

Yes, you do have to work hard to build muscle and strength, but if
you are overtraining then you effort will be wasted and your reward
will be stagnation.

"But how can I tell if I overtraining", you might ask, "is there
an overtraining test?".

Overtraining Test: Are You Overtraining?

There are two things that will keep your muscles from growing bigger
and stronger, they are:

1) Overtraining

2) Undertraining

The key is finding a workout plan that stimulates each muscle group
often enough so they don't atrophy before your next workout, but you
also need to make sure you don't work them so often that they can't
recover.

Muscle Recovery Workout Plan

There's an ongoing debate among exercise physiologists regarding the
superiority of one exercise over another. Of course, there are so
many variables that it's impossible to say with any certainty if
the pulldown beats out the horizontal row. More often than not, it's
the effort one puts into an exercise which will determine its
efficacy. Almost any exercise for a particular bodypart will yield
results if performed with enough intensity. However, when examining
the anabolic effects of an exercise - that's a different story.

The Best Bodybuilding Exercise