Anybody who has been bodybuilding for a while knows the importance that joints have in ones ability to keep training hard. If joints are not operating at their peak, the ability to lift heavy weights and perform certain bodybuilding exercises becomes limited. For instance, for an exercise like the bench press you need healthy shoulders, elbows and wrists. If any of these becomes badly damaged, then there goes your ability to bench press and the quality of your upper body workouts suffers as well. 

Why Do Joint Injuries Occur?

Cottage Cheese is a great high protein snack that is often overlooked for its protein content. Just one half cup serving of low-fat 2% cottage cheese has 16 grams protein. Those who closely monitor their carb intake may be pleased to know that a serving of cottage cheese yields only 4-5 grams of carbs.

Question: What Exercise Burns More Body Fat: Bodybuilding Training with Weights or Cardio?

Is cardiovascular exercise really the best exercise to burn fat? Lately I have been hearing that is not the case. If so, what is the best exercise for fat burning?

What Is The Best Time to Workout?The question of what is the best time to workout is a very common question that unfortunately gets answered in a different way, depending of who you ask. In this article I want to give you some specific guidelines so that you can determine what is the best time to workout for you.

In a nutshell:

Who says you need to spend countless of hours doing thousands of sit-ups in order to get rock hard abs? Remember that abs are built in the kitchen…in other words, you need to follow a proper fat loss bodybuilding nutrition plan coupled with weight training exercise and some cardiovascular exercise  in order to lose the body fat. Then, by performing some abdominal training, you will build up those abs. Once you burn the body fat that covers them you will be able to display that extremely coveted wall of abs.

How Long Do You Need to Train The Abs For?

During the hot summer months it is of utmost importance that we stay hydrated.  While bodybuilders emphasize eating proteins in order to grow muscle, one often overlooked nutrient is water.  Incidentally, water is the most anabolic nutrient you can have since muscles are mostly composed of water!  Thus, if you are dehydrated all the time you will short circuit all of the muscle building and fat burning processes.  On top of that, your muscles will not be able to have the full look that you want and your workouts will suffer greatly.

How much water do you need?

The first plateau breaking method that I introduced in this site was my favorite 10 sets of 10 reps bodybuilding training method. However, like all routines, if used for too long the body adapts and then bodybuilding progress comes to a screeching halt. Today, I want to discuss another popular method for breaking plateaus called the 5 Sets of 5 Reps Method. This method has also been used in bodybuilding circles for years for the purposes of breaking through plateaus and accumulating new lean muscle mass. The inventor of this method, according to what I have read from various sources, was no other than former Mr. Universe Reg Park who was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bodybuilding idol and inspiration. Reg used this method quite successfully back in the fifties and sixties.

In this natural bodybuilding video blog I talk about what is creatine and how it works.

There are a couple of biceps training mistakes that prevent many bodybuilders from achieving the arms muscle growth that they deserve.

These mistakes are:

Biceps Training Mistake #1: Too Much Weight.

Biceps Training Tip: Check the ego by the door and use a weight that allows you to use perfect form and to fully contract the muscles as you lift the weights in order to maximize biceps stimulation.

How long do your summer bodybuilding workouts need to be in order to get in shape for summer? Unless you are a competitive bodybuilder who needs to perform several sessions of 45 minutes of exercise a day (some sessions of cardio and some of weights) to achieve the results needed for a competition  physique, the most you will need to be in the gym for your summer bodybuilding workouts is 3 weight training sessions of 60 minutes alternated with 3 cardiovascular training sessions of 20-40 minutes.

Why Not 2 Hours At The Gym?