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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.
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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.
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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. (more…)
For bodybuilding, having low body fat levels is essential if you want to display the muscles that you have worked so hard for. A big mistake however that many bodybuilders make is that when they want to get ripped, they focus too much on losing weight instead of just focusing on losing fat. (more…)
As a bodybuilder who wants to experience the most optimal bodybuilding results, the best thing you can do for yourself is to buy a cooler and a variety of containers to carry your food with you. Your bodybuilding results will be tied to your capacity to get frequent meals (once every 2-3 hours) throughout the day (refer to my articles on bodybuilding diets). For this reason, preparation is crucial to the success of your bodybuilding diet. If you are not prepared, you will fail!
Question: How Can I Lose Fat on the Chest and Increase the Bench Press?
How can I lose fat underneath my chest and increase my strength on the bench press at the same time?
Right now I am 18, I weigh about 130-lbs and can bench press a max of 130-lbs also. My bodybuilding goal is to build muscle, increase the max bench press and also get rid of the fat underneath the chest? Do I need to use decline bench maybe?
Sometimes life gets hectic and as a result owning a pair of adjustable dumbbells can help you to keep your bodybuilding workouts going in the comfort of your home.
With a safe pair of adjustable dumbbells, there is a variety of exercises that you can do in order to keep your bodybuilding workouts going.
For example, for chest you can do flyes on the floor and superset that with dumbbell presses. In order to target the upper chest you can do push-ups with your feet on a raised surface (like a chair).
For the back you can do a variety of dumbbell rows, using a pronated (palms down), supinated (palms up) and neutral grip. You can also perform some dumbbell deadlifts.
We all want to know what the secrets are to building massive muscle mass. While many of us are misled into thinking that the secret comes in the form of a secret bodybuilding training routine, magic protein powder or muscle gaining pill, the reality of the situation is that for building massive muscle mass you need to follow the ten simple bodybuilding training secrets that I’m about to disclose below:
1-The best bodybuilding workout routine is the one that your body is not used to. Your body gets used to any bodybuilding training routine that you subject it to. The more advanced you are, the quicker this adaptation happens. Thus, in order to achieve consistent results in terms of muscle building you need to vary your workouts. The best way to vary your workouts is to cycle the exercises used in the training routine and also to use an orderly and logical variation of sets, reps, and rest periods in between sets. By varying these variables in the correct manner, you can achieve consistent results in terms of muscle mass and strength.
Sometimes in order to shock muscles into growth you must do things that are unconventional. Always remember that the more advanced you are in bodybuilding the harder it is to convince those muscles to grow. Thus, you need to get creative with your bodybuilding training routines.
So if for example you have been doing 3 sets of incline bench press for 6 reps, 3 sets of dips for 10 reps and 3 sets of incline flyes for 12 reps, once your routine stops to make your chest muscles sore, change it to something more shocking like: 10 sets of 10 reps of incline dumbbell press followed by 2 sets of 15 of cable flyes. Alternatively you can do 5 sets of 5 reps of incline dumbbell press followed by 2 sets of cable flyes for 15 reps.
