Bodybuilding
The Way To Physical
The Body Sculpting Bible For Chest And Arms and The Body Sculpting Bible For Buns And Legs.
Goal Setting, for Body Building!
How important are your goals for you? For me, they are my life!
Bacopa monnieri as a bodybuider enhancer
In Asia, the Bacopa monnieri plant is known for its body and mind enhancing capacities. The bodybuilding community can benefit from this ancient knowledge.
Body Building Techniques and Tips
If you master techniques and tips in any skill, you will achieve greater results. It is true in bodybuilding also. You can attain better form. A better form will lead to performing harder exercises rather than easier ones.
How Bodybuilding Routines Work?
Bodybuilding routines work differently for each individual. They can vary to an extent that spans quite a few routines or many. You should know that the best routines are those that provide the required results in the shortest possible period of time.
A Vast Treasure Of Bodybuilding and Strength Training Secrets Are Waiting To Be Explored
Bodybuilding knowledge is ever changing as people with experience discover new ways to break through new levels of physical achievement. Read on to learn more.
6 Secrets to Mass Building Workouts and Tips on How to Gain Mass
Discover 6 secrets to mass building workouts, helpful tips on how to gain mass including answers to frequently asked questions. Try them out to see the results you get.
How to Gain the Bodybuilding Workout Routines Effectively
The following article includes relevant information that may root you to re-evaluate what you notion implicit. The most important thing is to learn with an open mind and be willing to modify your perceptive if necessary.
Bodybuilding routine for building mass
Developing your own bodybuilding routine for building mass can be complicated. There are many factors to consider. What works for one individual, may not work the same way for another. With this being said, there are general principles that work have for the majority of bodybuilders.
A Brief View Of Some Famous Fitness Models
In the society of today, most people seem to put the greatest emphasis on the outward physical appearance. This is why fitness models are revered figures in popular culture. But they can also be good role models
Getting Started - Bodybuilding Tips For Beginners
Here are some bodybuilding tips for beginners. Read about amateur body building workout.
Sport Drinks And Energy Drinks For Bodybuilding
Sport Drinks are becoming more popular everyday, but do you know when and how you should be drinking them
Weight Belts For Bodybuilding: An Ongoing Controversy
Wearing weight belts for bodybuilding is controversial, and advocates for either side are passionate in their beliefs. This article cuts through the fluff and outlines the pros and cons of weight belts for bodybuilding and weightlifting routines.
When Was Bodybuilding Invented And Who Made It Famous?
Who actually came up with the concept of bodybuilding? Did the Governor of California really make the sport famous?
Don't Be a Wimp! You're Ready For An Intermediate Bodybuilding Routine
Stop being a wimp! It's time to move on to an intermediate bodybuilding routine...
Bodybuilding And Steroids - Shortcut To a Perfect Body or Shortcut To The Grave?
Bodybuilding is an activity with great health benefits as well as a competitive sport. Its is the overly competitive spirit of some individuals that leads them to take risky shortcuts. Read on to learn more.
Reason # 2 Why Strength Does NOT Mean Size To Gain Muscle Weight
The second article in the series as to why strength does not mean size to gain muscle weight. This is another reason why every bodybuilding workout routine to gain size is completely wrong.
No Muscle Weight Gain - Genetics Isn't The Problem
People wanting to know how to gain weight have been scammed for many decades now by the bodybuilding and supplement industry. This article begins to reveal one of the biggest training myths.
Governor Schwarzenegger Issues Challenge to All California Schools’ Students
Long before Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, physical fitness was at the forefront of his career. He won a succession of bodybuilding titles from 1964 to 1970.
It's not about my Biceps after all
As a fat kid I would dream of having a physique like a Super Hero (as most boys do). I figured that if I was built like Superman then chicks would dig me, guys would be in awe of me, I'd be incredibly popular, life would be great and of course, I would have no problems. One day I woke up and the fat kid had been replaced by a large, muscular, lean..... insecure, dysfunctional, obsessed adult.
How To Get Your Significant Other Motivated
I'm really looking to get back in shape and am starting a new eating and workout plan and want to get my wife motivated to do the same. She does not seem very excited about it. Does anyone have suggestions on what I should say or do to help get her motivated and see that she needs to make some life changes?
For Burning Fat, This Works Like Crazy
Weight Training and Cardio: Do You Really Need to Do Both for Ultimate Fat Loss?
When Should You Increase The Weight?
What intervals should you be able to lift heavier? Is it every week, every two weeks? Also, does one simply increase their weights in five pound increments weekly, monthly?
6 Weight Gain Tips Without Getting Fat
After you read this short article, you will have leaned some quick tips to start gaining healthy weight. Here's 6 simple ways on how to gain weight without getting fat.
Is It Better to Skip a Meal Than to Eat Unhealthy Food?
Imagine your in a situation (work, plane, train, automobile) where you just didn't prepare any healthy foods. Maybe you are in a situation where the only choice to eat something is junk food. Should you eat junk foods to keep your metabolism up or would it be more beneficial to not eat at all?
How Much Sleep Do I Need?
I want to know the extent of how detrimental to my goals not getting enough sleep can be. Am I making a big deal out of it?
3 Ways to Avoid Overtraining
If you don't take some time off to let your body rest and recover, you'll end up quitting the gym entirely or actually making backward progress. I'd like to explain the concept of less is more but first, let's take a look at some of the other common signs of overtraining.
The Biggest Mistake Women Make...
Why women who ONLY do cardio will never achieve the results their weight training and cardio using counter-parts will. This is a BOLD statement that's sure to aggravate a few people but I'm not going to make that without giving you the full story.
What is Your Bodybuilding Body Type?
Bodybuilding workouts depend first on whether your body type is that of an ectomorph, endomorph, or mesomorph. Despite one’s body type, there are common techniques to follow when bodybuilding.
Super Growth Body Building Techniques
The key to any weight training or bodybuilding program is to have a set of goals of what you want to accomplish and when you want to accomplish your goal. The next important thing in your arsenal is your diet. If you want to look fantastic, you can't be eating all that fast food stuff. Here you will learn the tips and techniques of the pro’s to really accelerate your growth.
7 Simple Steps To Beginning Bodybuilding (Part 2 of 2)
The 7 simple steps to beginning bodybuilding are the absolute essentials to make sure that everything you do is aimed at reaching your goals. These powerful yet simple steps are the fundamentals to any good fitness program. These 7 steps are used by countless professionals, trainers and people who just want to get fit to make sure that with each workout and meal, they are moving one step closer to their goals. Don't miss out. 2 part article.
7 Simple Steps To Beginning Bodybuilding (Part 1 of 2)
The 7 simple steps to beginning bodybuilding are the absolute essentials to make sure that everything you do is aimed at reaching your goals. These powerful yet simple steps are the fundamentals to any good fitness program. These 7 steps are used by countless professionals, trainers and people who just want to get fit to make sure that with each workout and meal, they are moving one step closer to their goals. Don't miss out. 2 part article.
How I Only Spend 4 Hours A Week At The Gym
I try to squeeze in as many exercises as possible by supersetting them. The idea is to do the same amount of work in less time at a high intensity in order to boost metabolism. How long I can use this supersetting system. Is it possible to overtrain even with 2 sessions a week? Will my body eventually adapt also to this system and should I break the routine for a month or so?
Should You Workout If You Are Sick?
I was wondering if workouts (cardio, weightlifting or both) should be halted during a common cold or if you should "sweat it out" as some say. Common sense tells me that the body should fully recover before engaging in an intense workout, but is a light day or a less intense cardio day okay?
Should I Be Sore After Weight Training?
I don't feel sore, should I step up the weight? The problem is that the next day I usually do not feel sore. In fact, I don't feel weak a few hours after my workout. Does this mean my workout is not intense enough? A friend of mine heard that if you don't feel sore the next day you should increase the weight. I'm not sure what to do because I feel like I'm working hard already.
Top 6 Sources of Fitness Myths
Nearly everybody who's started out with the dream to get into shape, build muscle or lose fat, has fallen prey to some type of fitness myth. Many times, those myths come from sources and publications that we trust. Maybe it's false advertising that leads somebody to start a myth or the quest to get rich. Or maybe it's just simple ignorance.
How the Protein Diet Works?
Protein is an essential nutrient necessary for maintaining good health. In its basic form protein consists of amino acid chains.
How To Get Rid Of Flabby Arms
Hats off to a very brave women who stepped up and finally wanted to get rid of the flabby arms and the sooner the better. Luckily for her, this problem is quite common and the solution is quite simple and two-fold. Working to get rid of flabby arms comes with overall fitness but there's some specific exercises you can to in addition to reducing body fat that will bring those arms into super shape once again.
All About Protein
Protein is an essential part of diet and not just for bodybuilders.
How to Develop a Wide Back and Shoulders
This is an outline of an advanced weight training routine for the lats and deltoids.
How to Combine Supplements for the Best Results
This article describes how to take a common sense approach to sports and bodybuilding supplementation.
Managing your Cholesterol
How to properly lower your cholesterol. The primary cause of high cholesterol comes from the unhealthy foods you eat.
Build Huge Biceps on the Preacher Curl Bench
This article contains a complete biceps workout using the preacher curl bench.
Supplement Spotlight: Hydroxycut Hardcore
Ten years of research has gone into the development of Hydroxycut Hardcore. This product has been scientifically proven to decrease bodyfat by 8 percent, and increase norinephrine by 40 percent. Hydroxycut Hardcore was formulated by a leading medical doctor for one simple reason, to burn the most amount of fat, in the shortest amount of time, as safely as possible.
Three Phases of a Rep
Determining the amount of reps and sets a person performs will vary on the individual and factors such as age, height, weight, goals, etc. For most of us, determining how many reps we do per workout depends on whether we are looking to bulk or cut up.
Milk: Is it for You?
Milk has recently been known for its ability of doing the body good, but does it actually live up to the hype by doing a body good? Everyone has their own opinions about drinking milk, and they either love it or hate it. You are going to learn what milk is, the benefits of milk, and the negatives of this controversial drink. There is no right or wrong answer to whether you should consume it. You must make that decision for yourself.
What Body Type Are You?
To be the best bodybuilder that you can be, it is vital that you understand the different body types to determine which workout and dieting routine you want to follow.
Supplement Spotlight: BSN NO-Xplode
NO-Xplode is the only pre-workout supplement that produces noticeable results in strength, energy, performance, and training intensity. Within minutes of taking it, you will notice it working in your body,
Cardio Impact: Effects of Popular Cardio Methods
Cardiovascular activity is difficult to enjoy and it is even tougher when you do the same exercises every day. This article is going to give you an insight of the most popular methods of cardio available...
Diet Program Review: Atkins
The Atkins diet is a popular diet that emphasizes a high fat, high protein, and low carbohydrate approach. The diet promises that you will not be hungry, you will lose weight, and have better health and...
Understanding Your Heart Rate
Your heart is a muscle that is located on the left side of your chest and is about the size of your fist. It sends blood thoughout your body, providing it with the proper nutrients and oxygen that it needs. The heart is also made up of four different blood filled areas which are called chambers.
Methods of Hair Removal
Many people remove hair from their bodies for sexual, cultural, aesthetic reasons. A bodybuilder preparing for a contest also knows the importance of hair removal, but does he know the common methods used in doing so? This article is going to discuss the three different methods used in removing hair from your body, which will give you the knowledge needed to look your best on stage.
Diet Program Review: Slim Fast
Slim Fast is the most common diet shake available on the market today. Its plan allows for a shake at breakfast, lunch, and then a normal dinner. It also allows two pieces of fruit and a Slim Fast bar as a snack. According to nutrition experts, the Slim Fast plan does have healthy aspects. It is an easy plan to follow and promotes healthy exercise and drinking plenty of water throughout the day.
Are You a Bodybuilder or a Powerlifter?
For any person making the switch from bodybuilder to powerlifter, or are new to the whole fitness thing and want to learn the differences between the two sports, then this article is for you. Bodybuilding and powerlifting may sound the same, but they are actually the complete opposite. You are going to learn why they are the opposite and the differences between the two sports in training, dieting, and supplementation.
When the Other One Gets Everything
inspirational story about me. I am not the type of person who sits around complaining when things don’t go my way but sometimes the truth needs to be told.
Shoulder Development for Rookies
How to exercise your shoulders properly. In some people’s opinion, the shoulders are the easiest muscle group to train due to its ease of training...
HIIT Your Cardio Hard
A look into the popular exercise method known as HIIT.
Getting Ready for the Contest
How to get ready for a bodybuilding contest.
Bodybuilding with Diabetes
About diabetes and how to exercise when you have it.
Make Your Cardio Fun
Tips in helping to make your cardio fun. Being bored is not fun and it’s even worse when you know that you have another thirty minutes left on the...
It All Starts in the Mind
Fight through the pain. It doesn’t matter if it’s for weight loss, cancer, or death. You can do it!
Calf Development for Rookies
Proper calf development - If you ask any bodybuilder what they feel the most neglected muscle group is, they would probably answer the calves ...
Cure Your Joint Pain
How to cure your aching joints - As we get older, our joints become more susceptible to illness and certain precautions need to be in place to counter the dangers known as ...
Supplement Spotlight: S.A.N. Tight
All about the fat loss supplement S.A.N. Tight
The Obstinate Educator
Town of crops we call this pad full of wonderful activities. Beautiful people roam in their tight suits loving the game of poga. Your poga is faster and more productive, does it go crazy as it travels on the ground, like a pair of testicles swaying back and forth. You have the pleasures needed to accomplish what you really want, but do you really want it ?
All About Fat Loss Gels
All about fat loss gels and how they are useful in bodybuilding.
Getting Ripped Quickly: What you Need to Know
Why it's important to be patient while dieting...
Improve your Football Fitness
Many people like to call football a game of inches. However, I believe that in order to turn these inches into touchdowns, many aspects are necessary in order for this to take place. This article is an in-depth guide to improving your abilities as a football player. You are going to learn how to increase your speed, acceleration, agility, balance, and the most important, strength.
Go Have a Cheat Meal
The powerful of the cheat meal. How it is beneficial to boosting your metabolism.
Stay Away From Aspartame
What aspartame is and why you should stay away from it.
Causes and Cures for Acne
What causes acne and how to cure it.
Bicep Development for Rookies
What the biceps are and how to properly exercise them.
Fiber for Rookies
Introduction to fiber and its uses in bodybuilding.
Interview with "The Next Big Thing" Ryan Vallieres
Bodybuilder on the Rise Profile: Ryan Vallieres.
From Sand-kicking Defence to Joyless Freak Show
Screen Break: In the 1950s and 1960s, bodybuilding was a way to defend yourself from sand-kicking bullies. Now, the ghastly narcissistic business is an end in itself, says Martin Kelner.
Are You Overtraining?
All about overtraining. Many people start bodybuilding because they want to either gain muscle or lose fat, and feel the need to exercise six hours a day to ...
Three Common Types of Body Fat Testing
The three most common types of body fat testing.
Importance of Self-Confidence
Why having high self-confidence is important…
Believe In Yourself to Accomplish Your Goals
Why believing in oneself is important to accomplishing your bodybuilding goals.
Glutamine for Rookies
What Glutamine is and how it benefits bodybuilders.
Ab Development for Rookies
Everyone wants great abs but very few people know how to properly make them stand out. No matter what the commercials say, you simply cannot do thousands of reps on their ...
Cutting for Rookies
All about weight loss. Weight loss is a goal millions of people have but very few people have the knowledge needed to successfully lose...
Interview with "Stars of Tomorrow Champion" Andy Keiller
Read about this amateur bodybuilder and how he is successful.
Traps Development for Rookies
Introduction to the traps muscle...
Bulking for Rookies
If you're interested in building muscle, read this.
Hamstrings Development for Rookies
Just like any part of the legs, the hamstrings muscle is an often neglected muscle group...
Finding Inspiration
According to dictionary.com, the word inspire means to affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence...
Pre-Workout Nutrition for Rookies
What to eat before your workout and whether or not you should eat before cardio exercise.
Quadriceps Development for Rookies
Let`s face it, a body with chicken legs looks awful and is the cornerstone of all bodybuilding jokes. There is nothing worse than going to the gym and seeing a bodybuilder with a huge upper body and legs that look as if they`ve never been trained before.
Post-Workout Nutrition for Rookies
So how many people tell you that you cannot have sugar when dieting? Don`t you wish to believe they are wrong? Well guess what, they are. Many people feel that because they are dieting that they cannot have sugary foods, but there is one time of the day when your body actually needs these foods. This time is post-workout.
Triceps Development for Rookies
Many bodybuilders think that by doing hundreds of bicep curls that they will build great arms...
Amino Acids for Rookies
Amino acids are found in many of the foods you eat. Knowing how they are beneficial to your body will make you want to get up and hit the nearest supplement store as soon as ...
Basic Chest Development
This article is for those uneducated people who would like to learn the basics of the chest and incorporate that learnt knowledge into their own workout program.
The Things Us Bodybuilders Do
Us bodybuilders live a crazy lifestyle. Some call us crazy, narcistic, and even hermits, but I call it dedication. We even do things that we don’t realize we’re doing but when someone mentions it, we get a little humor out of it.
5 Action Ideas To Get Big Fast
Are you sick and tired of picking up that latest body building magazine off the shelve, opening it to the latest program on the current bodybuilding star and discovering that he is using a six day split program that has ...
Can you Drink Alcohol and Still Maintain a Good Body?
Can you drink alcohol if you are into fitness? The answer may surprise you.
How To Use Rest To Gain More Muscle
Are you frustrated with not gaining any weight while you keep putting in the hard yards in the gym day after day week after ...
Creatine for Rookies
Intro to creatine. If you are thinking about trying creatine, read this.
Are you Bulking or Cutting
Bulking and cutting are two terms used frequently in the fitness world. Find out what they mean.
Bodybuilding while Traveling
Traveling tips so you can keep a good body while away from home.
The Truth About Bodybuilding Myths
You might disagree, but hear me out on this; the vast majority of myths about weight gain are mostly passed down from "gym talk" and so-called experts who know nothing about the body's workings.
Instant Strength Training Strategies That Anyone Can Use
Ever wondered how over the years there has been a surge of different strength training techniques that have come onto the market and then just faded away. Are you sick and tired of getting nowhere in the gym?
6 Simple Steps To Catapult Your Muscle Gains
What if I were to tell you that throughout the years there has been a growth of strength training techniques that have no scientific proof to back them …
Staying Hydrated
The importance of staying hydrated.
Cardio for Rookies
What cardiovascular exercise is and why it is important.
Power of Supersetting
Training method known as supersetting. Learn why it’s important.
Motivation for Rookies
Importance of being motivated to accomplish fitness goals.
Finding What Works Best for You
How to develop ways of finding what works for you in bodybuilding.
Supplements for Rookies
If you are thinking about buying fitness supplements, this article is for you.
Protein for Rookies
Protein 101. If you’re new into fitness or would just like to learn about protein, this is a must read.
So You’ve Decided to Let Yourself Go
Now that you’re getting older, its time to get fat right? WRONG!
Simple Carbs For Rookies
The dark side of carbohydrates. You should avoid simple carbs except for post workout.
Avoiding Negative People
Why negative people are a cancer to your bodybuilding goals
No Time For Your Bodybuilding Routine?
Time Is a major factor in your bodybuilding routine. It can cause you to focus your thought elsewhere, instead of your bodybuilding routine. So how do you create enough time to fit in your bodybuilding routine?
Power of Being Patient
Power of being patient in achieving your bodybuilding goals.
Whole Grain Cereals
If you’ve been to the grocery store lately you probably have noticed the new trend going on with breakfast cereals. Many of your favorite cereals have switched to whole grain wheat as the main ingredient....
Bodybuilding While Working Full Time
Many of us don’t have the luxury of being able to focus all of our attention on bodybuilding. Unless you’re getting paid by a sponsor or making some serious cash doing bodybuilding shows....
Bodybuilding Replaces Bad Behavior
How many of your know people who only seem to be good at one thing in life? That thing trouble. Why do so many people act like they have no conscience whatsoever and always seem to be living on the wrong side of everything?
Joining the Military? (You Better Think Twice)
For some reason many bodybuilders join the military. Is it for the money, the patriotism for their country, or is it just a job that keeps you in shape? These are just a few of the reasons but the real question is why would you want to do such a thing? The military is NOT a place to be wandering around in. You have to have a motive to be there or you’re going to regret ever signing up.
No Equipment, No Problem
Most of us have the problem of choosing what type of equipment to use in the gym, while others ponder ways to even be able to train in the first place
Bodybuilding In Jail
We all make mistakes and sometimes those mistakes lead us into jail. While you’re sitting in your cell complaining about how stupid you were to be there....
Wealth vs. Health
Some of us bodybuilders come from backgrounds where money doesn’t allow us to accomplish our fitness goals as fast as we’d like. Without money you can’t afford good gym equipment, the right foods, and even supplements.
Pro Bodybuilding: Under Construction
Professional bodybuilding is one of the less popular sports in the world. Almost everyone knows players like Lebron James and Barry Bonds, but if you asked someone who Ronnie Coleman is.....
Bodybuilding, Work, and Life...Finding Balance
Life can be rough and sometimes you need to be able to organize your thoughts to make everything better. You can become focused on one thing and forget about the other priorities in your life.
Importance of Change
Many bodybuilders get bored with their routines and need to change some things around. Two of the most common mistakes we make is training the same way everyday or eating the same foods over and over again.
Planning An Effective Bodybuilding Routine For Your Lifestyle
How to plan an effective Bodybuilding routine including nutrition and training tips.
Parade of Builders' Bums Exposes Cracks at Sky
Martin Kelner explores commentators' camp at the British bodybuilding Grand Prix and is turned off by the front lat spread.
In Asia, the Bacopa monnieri plant is known for its body and mind enhancing capacities. The bodybuilding community can benefit from this ancient knowledge.
Body Building Techniques and Tips
If you master techniques and tips in any skill, you will achieve greater results. It is true in bodybuilding also. You can attain better form. A better form will lead to performing harder exercises rather than easier ones.
How Bodybuilding Routines Work?
Bodybuilding routines work differently for each individual. They can vary to an extent that spans quite a few routines or many. You should know that the best routines are those that provide the required results in the shortest possible period of time.
A Vast Treasure Of Bodybuilding and Strength Training Secrets Are Waiting To Be Explored
Bodybuilding knowledge is ever changing as people with experience discover new ways to break through new levels of physical achievement. Read on to learn more.
6 Secrets to Mass Building Workouts and Tips on How to Gain Mass
Discover 6 secrets to mass building workouts, helpful tips on how to gain mass including answers to frequently asked questions. Try them out to see the results you get.
How to Gain the Bodybuilding Workout Routines Effectively
The following article includes relevant information that may root you to re-evaluate what you notion implicit. The most important thing is to learn with an open mind and be willing to modify your perceptive if necessary.
Bodybuilding routine for building mass
Developing your own bodybuilding routine for building mass can be complicated. There are many factors to consider. What works for one individual, may not work the same way for another. With this being said, there are general principles that work have for the majority of bodybuilders.
A Brief View Of Some Famous Fitness Models
In the society of today, most people seem to put the greatest emphasis on the outward physical appearance. This is why fitness models are revered figures in popular culture. But they can also be good role models
Getting Started - Bodybuilding Tips For Beginners
Here are some bodybuilding tips for beginners. Read about amateur body building workout.
Sport Drinks And Energy Drinks For Bodybuilding
Sport Drinks are becoming more popular everyday, but do you know when and how you should be drinking them
Weight Belts For Bodybuilding: An Ongoing Controversy
Wearing weight belts for bodybuilding is controversial, and advocates for either side are passionate in their beliefs. This article cuts through the fluff and outlines the pros and cons of weight belts for bodybuilding and weightlifting routines.
When Was Bodybuilding Invented And Who Made It Famous?
Who actually came up with the concept of bodybuilding? Did the Governor of California really make the sport famous?
Don't Be a Wimp! You're Ready For An Intermediate Bodybuilding Routine
Stop being a wimp! It's time to move on to an intermediate bodybuilding routine...
Bodybuilding And Steroids - Shortcut To a Perfect Body or Shortcut To The Grave?
Bodybuilding is an activity with great health benefits as well as a competitive sport. Its is the overly competitive spirit of some individuals that leads them to take risky shortcuts. Read on to learn more.
Reason # 2 Why Strength Does NOT Mean Size To Gain Muscle Weight
The second article in the series as to why strength does not mean size to gain muscle weight. This is another reason why every bodybuilding workout routine to gain size is completely wrong.
No Muscle Weight Gain - Genetics Isn't The Problem
People wanting to know how to gain weight have been scammed for many decades now by the bodybuilding and supplement industry. This article begins to reveal one of the biggest training myths.
Governor Schwarzenegger Issues Challenge to All California Schools’ Students
Long before Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, physical fitness was at the forefront of his career. He won a succession of bodybuilding titles from 1964 to 1970.
It's not about my Biceps after all
As a fat kid I would dream of having a physique like a Super Hero (as most boys do). I figured that if I was built like Superman then chicks would dig me, guys would be in awe of me, I'd be incredibly popular, life would be great and of course, I would have no problems. One day I woke up and the fat kid had been replaced by a large, muscular, lean..... insecure, dysfunctional, obsessed adult.
How To Get Your Significant Other Motivated
I'm really looking to get back in shape and am starting a new eating and workout plan and want to get my wife motivated to do the same. She does not seem very excited about it. Does anyone have suggestions on what I should say or do to help get her motivated and see that she needs to make some life changes?
For Burning Fat, This Works Like Crazy
Weight Training and Cardio: Do You Really Need to Do Both for Ultimate Fat Loss?
When Should You Increase The Weight?
What intervals should you be able to lift heavier? Is it every week, every two weeks? Also, does one simply increase their weights in five pound increments weekly, monthly?
6 Weight Gain Tips Without Getting Fat
After you read this short article, you will have leaned some quick tips to start gaining healthy weight. Here's 6 simple ways on how to gain weight without getting fat.
Is It Better to Skip a Meal Than to Eat Unhealthy Food?
Imagine your in a situation (work, plane, train, automobile) where you just didn't prepare any healthy foods. Maybe you are in a situation where the only choice to eat something is junk food. Should you eat junk foods to keep your metabolism up or would it be more beneficial to not eat at all?
How Much Sleep Do I Need?
I want to know the extent of how detrimental to my goals not getting enough sleep can be. Am I making a big deal out of it?
3 Ways to Avoid Overtraining
If you don't take some time off to let your body rest and recover, you'll end up quitting the gym entirely or actually making backward progress. I'd like to explain the concept of less is more but first, let's take a look at some of the other common signs of overtraining.
The Biggest Mistake Women Make...
Why women who ONLY do cardio will never achieve the results their weight training and cardio using counter-parts will. This is a BOLD statement that's sure to aggravate a few people but I'm not going to make that without giving you the full story.
What is Your Bodybuilding Body Type?
Bodybuilding workouts depend first on whether your body type is that of an ectomorph, endomorph, or mesomorph. Despite one’s body type, there are common techniques to follow when bodybuilding.
Super Growth Body Building Techniques
The key to any weight training or bodybuilding program is to have a set of goals of what you want to accomplish and when you want to accomplish your goal. The next important thing in your arsenal is your diet. If you want to look fantastic, you can't be eating all that fast food stuff. Here you will learn the tips and techniques of the pro’s to really accelerate your growth.
7 Simple Steps To Beginning Bodybuilding (Part 2 of 2)
The 7 simple steps to beginning bodybuilding are the absolute essentials to make sure that everything you do is aimed at reaching your goals. These powerful yet simple steps are the fundamentals to any good fitness program. These 7 steps are used by countless professionals, trainers and people who just want to get fit to make sure that with each workout and meal, they are moving one step closer to their goals. Don't miss out. 2 part article.
7 Simple Steps To Beginning Bodybuilding (Part 1 of 2)
The 7 simple steps to beginning bodybuilding are the absolute essentials to make sure that everything you do is aimed at reaching your goals. These powerful yet simple steps are the fundamentals to any good fitness program. These 7 steps are used by countless professionals, trainers and people who just want to get fit to make sure that with each workout and meal, they are moving one step closer to their goals. Don't miss out. 2 part article.
How I Only Spend 4 Hours A Week At The Gym
I try to squeeze in as many exercises as possible by supersetting them. The idea is to do the same amount of work in less time at a high intensity in order to boost metabolism. How long I can use this supersetting system. Is it possible to overtrain even with 2 sessions a week? Will my body eventually adapt also to this system and should I break the routine for a month or so?
Should You Workout If You Are Sick?
I was wondering if workouts (cardio, weightlifting or both) should be halted during a common cold or if you should "sweat it out" as some say. Common sense tells me that the body should fully recover before engaging in an intense workout, but is a light day or a less intense cardio day okay?
Should I Be Sore After Weight Training?
I don't feel sore, should I step up the weight? The problem is that the next day I usually do not feel sore. In fact, I don't feel weak a few hours after my workout. Does this mean my workout is not intense enough? A friend of mine heard that if you don't feel sore the next day you should increase the weight. I'm not sure what to do because I feel like I'm working hard already.
Top 6 Sources of Fitness Myths
Nearly everybody who's started out with the dream to get into shape, build muscle or lose fat, has fallen prey to some type of fitness myth. Many times, those myths come from sources and publications that we trust. Maybe it's false advertising that leads somebody to start a myth or the quest to get rich. Or maybe it's just simple ignorance.
How the Protein Diet Works?
Protein is an essential nutrient necessary for maintaining good health. In its basic form protein consists of amino acid chains.
How To Get Rid Of Flabby Arms
Hats off to a very brave women who stepped up and finally wanted to get rid of the flabby arms and the sooner the better. Luckily for her, this problem is quite common and the solution is quite simple and two-fold. Working to get rid of flabby arms comes with overall fitness but there's some specific exercises you can to in addition to reducing body fat that will bring those arms into super shape once again.
All About Protein
Protein is an essential part of diet and not just for bodybuilders.
How to Develop a Wide Back and Shoulders
This is an outline of an advanced weight training routine for the lats and deltoids.
How to Combine Supplements for the Best Results
This article describes how to take a common sense approach to sports and bodybuilding supplementation.
Managing your Cholesterol
How to properly lower your cholesterol. The primary cause of high cholesterol comes from the unhealthy foods you eat.
Build Huge Biceps on the Preacher Curl Bench
This article contains a complete biceps workout using the preacher curl bench.
Supplement Spotlight: Hydroxycut Hardcore
Ten years of research has gone into the development of Hydroxycut Hardcore. This product has been scientifically proven to decrease bodyfat by 8 percent, and increase norinephrine by 40 percent. Hydroxycut Hardcore was formulated by a leading medical doctor for one simple reason, to burn the most amount of fat, in the shortest amount of time, as safely as possible.
Three Phases of a Rep
Determining the amount of reps and sets a person performs will vary on the individual and factors such as age, height, weight, goals, etc. For most of us, determining how many reps we do per workout depends on whether we are looking to bulk or cut up.
Milk: Is it for You?
Milk has recently been known for its ability of doing the body good, but does it actually live up to the hype by doing a body good? Everyone has their own opinions about drinking milk, and they either love it or hate it. You are going to learn what milk is, the benefits of milk, and the negatives of this controversial drink. There is no right or wrong answer to whether you should consume it. You must make that decision for yourself.
What Body Type Are You?
To be the best bodybuilder that you can be, it is vital that you understand the different body types to determine which workout and dieting routine you want to follow.
Supplement Spotlight: BSN NO-Xplode
NO-Xplode is the only pre-workout supplement that produces noticeable results in strength, energy, performance, and training intensity. Within minutes of taking it, you will notice it working in your body,
Cardio Impact: Effects of Popular Cardio Methods
Cardiovascular activity is difficult to enjoy and it is even tougher when you do the same exercises every day. This article is going to give you an insight of the most popular methods of cardio available...
Diet Program Review: Atkins
The Atkins diet is a popular diet that emphasizes a high fat, high protein, and low carbohydrate approach. The diet promises that you will not be hungry, you will lose weight, and have better health and...
Understanding Your Heart Rate
Your heart is a muscle that is located on the left side of your chest and is about the size of your fist. It sends blood thoughout your body, providing it with the proper nutrients and oxygen that it needs. The heart is also made up of four different blood filled areas which are called chambers.
Methods of Hair Removal
Many people remove hair from their bodies for sexual, cultural, aesthetic reasons. A bodybuilder preparing for a contest also knows the importance of hair removal, but does he know the common methods used in doing so? This article is going to discuss the three different methods used in removing hair from your body, which will give you the knowledge needed to look your best on stage.
Diet Program Review: Slim Fast
Slim Fast is the most common diet shake available on the market today. Its plan allows for a shake at breakfast, lunch, and then a normal dinner. It also allows two pieces of fruit and a Slim Fast bar as a snack. According to nutrition experts, the Slim Fast plan does have healthy aspects. It is an easy plan to follow and promotes healthy exercise and drinking plenty of water throughout the day.
Are You a Bodybuilder or a Powerlifter?
For any person making the switch from bodybuilder to powerlifter, or are new to the whole fitness thing and want to learn the differences between the two sports, then this article is for you. Bodybuilding and powerlifting may sound the same, but they are actually the complete opposite. You are going to learn why they are the opposite and the differences between the two sports in training, dieting, and supplementation.
When the Other One Gets Everything
inspirational story about me. I am not the type of person who sits around complaining when things don’t go my way but sometimes the truth needs to be told.
Shoulder Development for Rookies
How to exercise your shoulders properly. In some people’s opinion, the shoulders are the easiest muscle group to train due to its ease of training...
HIIT Your Cardio Hard
A look into the popular exercise method known as HIIT.
Getting Ready for the Contest
How to get ready for a bodybuilding contest.
Bodybuilding with Diabetes
About diabetes and how to exercise when you have it.
Make Your Cardio Fun
Tips in helping to make your cardio fun. Being bored is not fun and it’s even worse when you know that you have another thirty minutes left on the...
It All Starts in the Mind
Fight through the pain. It doesn’t matter if it’s for weight loss, cancer, or death. You can do it!
Calf Development for Rookies
Proper calf development - If you ask any bodybuilder what they feel the most neglected muscle group is, they would probably answer the calves ...
Cure Your Joint Pain
How to cure your aching joints - As we get older, our joints become more susceptible to illness and certain precautions need to be in place to counter the dangers known as ...
Supplement Spotlight: S.A.N. Tight
All about the fat loss supplement S.A.N. Tight
The Obstinate Educator
Town of crops we call this pad full of wonderful activities. Beautiful people roam in their tight suits loving the game of poga. Your poga is faster and more productive, does it go crazy as it travels on the ground, like a pair of testicles swaying back and forth. You have the pleasures needed to accomplish what you really want, but do you really want it ?
All About Fat Loss Gels
All about fat loss gels and how they are useful in bodybuilding.
Getting Ripped Quickly: What you Need to Know
Why it's important to be patient while dieting...
Improve your Football Fitness
Many people like to call football a game of inches. However, I believe that in order to turn these inches into touchdowns, many aspects are necessary in order for this to take place. This article is an in-depth guide to improving your abilities as a football player. You are going to learn how to increase your speed, acceleration, agility, balance, and the most important, strength.
Go Have a Cheat Meal
The powerful of the cheat meal. How it is beneficial to boosting your metabolism.
Stay Away From Aspartame
What aspartame is and why you should stay away from it.
Causes and Cures for Acne
What causes acne and how to cure it.
Bicep Development for Rookies
What the biceps are and how to properly exercise them.
Fiber for Rookies
Introduction to fiber and its uses in bodybuilding.
Interview with "The Next Big Thing" Ryan Vallieres
Bodybuilder on the Rise Profile: Ryan Vallieres.
From Sand-kicking Defence to Joyless Freak Show
Screen Break: In the 1950s and 1960s, bodybuilding was a way to defend yourself from sand-kicking bullies. Now, the ghastly narcissistic business is an end in itself, says Martin Kelner.
Are You Overtraining?
All about overtraining. Many people start bodybuilding because they want to either gain muscle or lose fat, and feel the need to exercise six hours a day to ...
Three Common Types of Body Fat Testing
The three most common types of body fat testing.
Importance of Self-Confidence
Why having high self-confidence is important…
Believe In Yourself to Accomplish Your Goals
Why believing in oneself is important to accomplishing your bodybuilding goals.
Glutamine for Rookies
What Glutamine is and how it benefits bodybuilders.
Ab Development for Rookies
Everyone wants great abs but very few people know how to properly make them stand out. No matter what the commercials say, you simply cannot do thousands of reps on their ...
Cutting for Rookies
All about weight loss. Weight loss is a goal millions of people have but very few people have the knowledge needed to successfully lose...
Interview with "Stars of Tomorrow Champion" Andy Keiller
Read about this amateur bodybuilder and how he is successful.
Traps Development for Rookies
Introduction to the traps muscle...
Bulking for Rookies
If you're interested in building muscle, read this.
Hamstrings Development for Rookies
Just like any part of the legs, the hamstrings muscle is an often neglected muscle group...
Finding Inspiration
According to dictionary.com, the word inspire means to affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence...
Pre-Workout Nutrition for Rookies
What to eat before your workout and whether or not you should eat before cardio exercise.
Quadriceps Development for Rookies
Let`s face it, a body with chicken legs looks awful and is the cornerstone of all bodybuilding jokes. There is nothing worse than going to the gym and seeing a bodybuilder with a huge upper body and legs that look as if they`ve never been trained before.
Post-Workout Nutrition for Rookies
So how many people tell you that you cannot have sugar when dieting? Don`t you wish to believe they are wrong? Well guess what, they are. Many people feel that because they are dieting that they cannot have sugary foods, but there is one time of the day when your body actually needs these foods. This time is post-workout.
Triceps Development for Rookies
Many bodybuilders think that by doing hundreds of bicep curls that they will build great arms...
Amino Acids for Rookies
Amino acids are found in many of the foods you eat. Knowing how they are beneficial to your body will make you want to get up and hit the nearest supplement store as soon as ...
Basic Chest Development
This article is for those uneducated people who would like to learn the basics of the chest and incorporate that learnt knowledge into their own workout program.
The Things Us Bodybuilders Do
Us bodybuilders live a crazy lifestyle. Some call us crazy, narcistic, and even hermits, but I call it dedication. We even do things that we don’t realize we’re doing but when someone mentions it, we get a little humor out of it.
5 Action Ideas To Get Big Fast
Are you sick and tired of picking up that latest body building magazine off the shelve, opening it to the latest program on the current bodybuilding star and discovering that he is using a six day split program that has ...
Can you Drink Alcohol and Still Maintain a Good Body?
Can you drink alcohol if you are into fitness? The answer may surprise you.
How To Use Rest To Gain More Muscle
Are you frustrated with not gaining any weight while you keep putting in the hard yards in the gym day after day week after ...
Creatine for Rookies
Intro to creatine. If you are thinking about trying creatine, read this.
Are you Bulking or Cutting
Bulking and cutting are two terms used frequently in the fitness world. Find out what they mean.
Bodybuilding while Traveling
Traveling tips so you can keep a good body while away from home.
The Truth About Bodybuilding Myths
You might disagree, but hear me out on this; the vast majority of myths about weight gain are mostly passed down from "gym talk" and so-called experts who know nothing about the body's workings.
Instant Strength Training Strategies That Anyone Can Use
Ever wondered how over the years there has been a surge of different strength training techniques that have come onto the market and then just faded away. Are you sick and tired of getting nowhere in the gym?
6 Simple Steps To Catapult Your Muscle Gains
What if I were to tell you that throughout the years there has been a growth of strength training techniques that have no scientific proof to back them …
Staying Hydrated
The importance of staying hydrated.
Cardio for Rookies
What cardiovascular exercise is and why it is important.
Power of Supersetting
Training method known as supersetting. Learn why it’s important.
Motivation for Rookies
Importance of being motivated to accomplish fitness goals.
Finding What Works Best for You
How to develop ways of finding what works for you in bodybuilding.
Supplements for Rookies
If you are thinking about buying fitness supplements, this article is for you.
Protein for Rookies
Protein 101. If you’re new into fitness or would just like to learn about protein, this is a must read.
So You’ve Decided to Let Yourself Go
Now that you’re getting older, its time to get fat right? WRONG!
Simple Carbs For Rookies
The dark side of carbohydrates. You should avoid simple carbs except for post workout.
Avoiding Negative People
Why negative people are a cancer to your bodybuilding goals
No Time For Your Bodybuilding Routine?
Time Is a major factor in your bodybuilding routine. It can cause you to focus your thought elsewhere, instead of your bodybuilding routine. So how do you create enough time to fit in your bodybuilding routine?
Power of Being Patient
Power of being patient in achieving your bodybuilding goals.
Whole Grain Cereals
If you’ve been to the grocery store lately you probably have noticed the new trend going on with breakfast cereals. Many of your favorite cereals have switched to whole grain wheat as the main ingredient....
Bodybuilding While Working Full Time
Many of us don’t have the luxury of being able to focus all of our attention on bodybuilding. Unless you’re getting paid by a sponsor or making some serious cash doing bodybuilding shows....
Bodybuilding Replaces Bad Behavior
How many of your know people who only seem to be good at one thing in life? That thing trouble. Why do so many people act like they have no conscience whatsoever and always seem to be living on the wrong side of everything?
Joining the Military? (You Better Think Twice)
For some reason many bodybuilders join the military. Is it for the money, the patriotism for their country, or is it just a job that keeps you in shape? These are just a few of the reasons but the real question is why would you want to do such a thing? The military is NOT a place to be wandering around in. You have to have a motive to be there or you’re going to regret ever signing up.
No Equipment, No Problem
Most of us have the problem of choosing what type of equipment to use in the gym, while others ponder ways to even be able to train in the first place
Bodybuilding In Jail
We all make mistakes and sometimes those mistakes lead us into jail. While you’re sitting in your cell complaining about how stupid you were to be there....
Wealth vs. Health
Some of us bodybuilders come from backgrounds where money doesn’t allow us to accomplish our fitness goals as fast as we’d like. Without money you can’t afford good gym equipment, the right foods, and even supplements.
Pro Bodybuilding: Under Construction
Professional bodybuilding is one of the less popular sports in the world. Almost everyone knows players like Lebron James and Barry Bonds, but if you asked someone who Ronnie Coleman is.....
Bodybuilding, Work, and Life...Finding Balance
Life can be rough and sometimes you need to be able to organize your thoughts to make everything better. You can become focused on one thing and forget about the other priorities in your life.
Importance of Change
Many bodybuilders get bored with their routines and need to change some things around. Two of the most common mistakes we make is training the same way everyday or eating the same foods over and over again.
Planning An Effective Bodybuilding Routine For Your Lifestyle
How to plan an effective Bodybuilding routine including nutrition and training tips.
Parade of Builders' Bums Exposes Cracks at Sky
Martin Kelner explores commentators' camp at the British bodybuilding Grand Prix and is turned off by the front lat spread.