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So, you have been running every other day on the treadmill, lifting weights, and eating right, only to find out that you still gained weight.  Don’t panic, you have probably just gained healthy weight in the form of lean muscle.  Bad weight is excess fat, while good healthy weight is lean muscle.  Muscle weighs more than fat, so while you may have lost an inch around your middle, you may have still gained a pound.

The more lean muscle you have, the faster you burn fat, and the better you do in the long run.  With more muscle mass you increase the amount of calories you burn while doing everyday activities.  Your toned arms may weigh the same or a little more than flabby fatty arms, but they look so much better in a sleeveless shirt.  Keep running on that treadmill and lifting those weights, and before you know it you will have less overall body fat and more healthy muscle.  Not all weight gain is bad, if you are gaining muscle mass then you are on the right track!

Most would automatically answer that question with a “yes”.  However, they are just following one of the biggest misconceptions and myths in the muscle building, weight gaining industry.  You’ll want to read our new article, especially if you’re a hardgainer desperately looking at gaining muscle mass naturally.

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An important consideration to ensure success in an ab workout is choosing appropriate clothing.  The quickest way to put you in a discouraging frame of mind, is to allow yourself to be uncomfortable during your workout.  Discomfort all but guarantees you will not enjoy your workout and you will have difficulty focusing on the ab workout.  Worst of all, if you are wearing uncomfortable clothing, it could impede your movements, or force you to compensate, possibly causing injury.

There are a number of options nowadays when choosing workout wear.  While there will be an option on the market that is appropriate to everyone, the number of choices be overwhelming.  There are a few factors to consider in order to narrow it down.  First, ask yourself if you are currently happy with the look of your body.  If your answer is “absolutely!” than you may want to consider tight-fitting clothing for your ab workout.  If you answered “not just yet,” to the above question, consider which of the following will motivate you more.  If seeing every bump and jiggle of your tummy will encourage you to work out harder, then find clothes that reveal your ab area.  But if being faced with all of the work still left to be done, than loose fitting clothes are the choice for you.

Bodybuilding exercises have become a necessity now due to the changing lifestyle in the connected world that we work in. Increased working hours, changing work patterns and stress at work can have adverse effects on our body. Bodybuilding exercises do not always require complex equipments for you to train on. There are a number of equipments that we can use to carry out bodybuilding exercises at home at and the gym. Some common examples include the treadmill, ropes, dumbbells, barbells etc.

A regular visit to the gym during weekends is the ideal regimen that you can follow for bodybuilding. In a gym, you will be introduced to modern techniques of bodybuilding exercises by health and fitness instructors. The instructors will design a specific exercise chart for you keeping in mind the structure of your body. The benefits of following a fitness and bodybuilding exercise plan created by experts are many. The first benefit is that the exercises are graded according to the present condition of your body so that there is no risk of injury to you while performing the strenuous bodybuilding routines.

Are you sick and tired of begging your child to get off the couch and get some exercise? Take comfort, because you are not alone. You must set the example first and hope your child will follow. Be assertive and take away your child’s video games and anything else that keeps them stuck in the house.

You should look into taking some healthy exercise classes with your child. Kickboxing and karate classes are a great workout. Moms and daughters may enjoy a dance class or another type of exercise class such as yoga. Other great options that a lot of communities offer for groups of people are volleyball, swimming, and tennis matches. Use your imagination and do not forget to ask your child what they would enjoy.

Use this time with your child as a time to get to know them better. You may be surprised how comfortable your child is talking to you when you are both participating alongside each other. Not only are these affordable ways to get out of the house, they are extremely important to your child’s health and your relationship with your child.

Many people working out at gyms are doing so for the purpose of losing weight, maintaining their figure, or other means of exercise that don’t involve the building of muscle. However, recent medical research and some other studies conducted are beginning to show that the one portion of the gym many people avoid - the free weights - can be a great way to improve your health and exercise regimen’s effectiveness through just a small amount of muscle building.

Many studies focus on how well an exercise regimen works with and without a short session of working on using the free weights, paying attention to both calories burned and the amount of fat being lost on the body through the exercise routine. The results in most of the studies were overwhelming - for a person who typically works without free weight exercise, adding a short five to fifteen minute workout with them in place of another machine resulted in more calories being burned in a typical workout and more fat being burned. This can also be seen in those who only use lighter amounts of weight, maintaining a low impact workout. If you’re looking for a way to boost your exercise regimen, consider adding some free weight time into your routine.

If you want to build muscle mass, your intense workout should include as little cardiovascular exercise as possible. For starters, no specific cardio ac tivity will build muscle mass at a better rate than weight lifting. You could run, or walk, or jump rope, but if your goal is building muscle mass, your energy would be better spent on an intense weight-lifting session. Cardiovascular workouts are catabolic, which means there is a metabolic breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones, often resulting in a release of energy and possibly eating away at muscle mass. While a cardio workout is certainly not going to be unhealthy, it is not the most efficient way in which to reach your goal.

If you are concerned about heart health, take heed. The workout you get from focusing on muscle building will provide an excellent workout for your cardiovascular system. And if you have adjusted your diet to be high in protein, you are eating heart healthy already, in addition to your workouts. Those including only20intense weight lifting and a high protein diet as part of their lifestyle will find that their energy levels are higher, and they recover faster from their workouts. So put concerns about heart health aside and focus on intense weight lifting if you are interested in building muscle mass.

Many people who go to the gym on a regular basis will often look to sidestep the stepper in their regimen for more in vogue equipment like the treadmill or the elliptical machine. While the stepper seems to get little love in the grand scheme of the typical gym these days, the workout that a stepper can provide offers a tried and true way to strengthen your lower body while offering a somewhat lower impact on your body than other pieces of equipment you might be using in the gym.

The modern stepper works to allow you the freedom to set steepness and resistance for a more customized workout than ever before. A stepping machine also has a smoother motion than many other machines, even if it seems slightly awkward to get on and use for the novice. If you take the time to learn the nuances of the machine’s motion and work though the inevitable looks you might get for using that machine, you can build a great lower body through the use of this simple but powerful piece of equipment.

Many people struggle when doing bodybuilding workouts to develop a routine that suits their energy level. Sometimes, you feel anxious to get to a certain element of your workout, want to focus on a particular area in your routine, or simply are tired and want to skip to the hardest parts to get those done while missing the intermediate steps between the highlights of your routine. For those who struggle with this problem, taking a bottom up approach can streamline your routine and give you a template to work from.

Many people in bodybuilding find that starting with lower body workouts, then moving to the core, and finally to the upper body and arms can be a great way to not only get the entire workout done in an orderly manner, but also build endurance over time. As the lower body becomes more fatigued, it takes more endurance to continue onwards to the other elements of your workout. Additionally, by working your upper body last, you develop the endurance to lift and change weights for your lower and mid body workouts, as well as transition to the upper body exercises and complete those last. As an added bonus, ending on the upper body tends to break the monotony of the workout, which increases your likelihood of sticking with the routine.

One of the most popular bodybuilders of all time, IFBB professional Lee Priest, in a recent Muscular Development interview, did something that other bodybuilders should follow suit on….which is to tell it how it is and stop trying to give the interviewer the answers they think they’re looking for.

In the interview Lee is asked how he was able to bring in striated glutes to the contest he won. His answer? “Again, I couldn’t tell you. I did the same amount of cardio and the diet was the same as it always was. Maybe puberty finally kicked in”.

Then, the interview, in trying to basically put words in his mouth, asks him if it were some new leg exercises that he was reported to have been implementing, such as single-leg squats on the Smith machine. What did Lee Priest say? “Who…knows? I thought spot reduction was a myth! All I know is that my legs have always been the last thing to come in, and that time they came in ahead of schedule”.

I want to commend Lee. If it were your average IFBB professional bodybuilder, they would have given some “politically correct” answer. Probably more than likely saying that the striated glutes were a result of some new supplement he started taking, or some crazy fad precontest diet. Or he would said how he concentrated more on doing heavy squats, or some garbage like that.

Thanks Lee for always telling like it is being honest. You are definitely won of the few that doesn’t insult the public’s intelligence or trying to pull the wool over their eyes.

And, as reminder of something we had posted in the past:

“J. Hood Wright is located in Washington Heights on Fort Washington Avenue between 173rd and 175th Streets. This session will be 11 classes because there will be no class on Friday, September 29, 2006. (I have a Fitness conference). Hurry! Spots are limited and you have nothing to lose but extra fat! Next session starts Monday, September 11, 2006.

Yours in health,
Katrina McKenna, BA, CSCS, CES
www.NewYorkFitnessCamps.com | www.MetamorFitness.com”