Posts Tagged Work Outs
How do I gain muscle mass without getting a gym membership?
Posted by Peter in Best Way To Gain Muscle on October 10, 2009
I am very skinny, it is usually recommended that I only do squats and deadlifts. How can I gain muscle mass without the use of any weights, or are weights essential to gaining mass?
There is no way without resistance with weights. Dead lifts and squats make you soar indeed; from experience. I had a gym teacher in college that recommended it and we were all hating him for a week. Just use small weights and start out with 2 sets of 12. work your way up to say 5 sets of 12 with maybe adding a set a week. Once your up to 5 sets, try moving slower with your work outs, by then you’ll start getting a high from having your muscles worked. Always stretch before each workout and work the upper one day, do some say swimming (cardiovascular) the next; then work your lower body the next day. Eating protien like eggs, meat, and fish make the workout seem easier. I have a bowflex. Good Luck.
How To Burn More Belly Fat During Exercise!
Posted by Peter in Best Way To Gain Muscle on September 22, 2009
Much research has been done into the seemingly impossible task of “spot reduction” of body fat.
You know…like how to burn fat directly off of your belly WITHOUT taking away from the butt you’re so proud of.
While experts have claimed that there’s no way to “spot reduce” where you’re able to take of the fat, recent studies are showing that it may in fact be possible.
For example, scientists have studied exactly WHERE fat is burned from in order to fuel certain activities.
It seems that there may be a unique connection where the fat cells in the location of the muscles being exercised may actually provide the bulk of the long term fuel for your training.
This is NOT definitive yet, but it holds promise.
It also supports my theory (and again, this is ONLY my theory!) that your MIND-MUSCLE CONNECTION plays a STRONG role in how much, and WHERE you can burn fat.
In this article, I reveal a unique tip that I use to increase the “mind-muscle” connection to (again, in theory) burn more belly fat from your training by implementing a crazy “cardio fat blaster”…
1. For this exercise session, you’ll do a quick, low effort warmup of about 5 minutes on a treadmill, bike, or other exercise equipment.
2. Next, do a set of WEIGHTED CRUNCHES until failure. Just one single set.
3. Now, go and do a 10 minute LOW INTENSITY cardio activity that uses primarily either an upper body or lower body movement (e.g. – Rowing machine/jumping rope primarily works upper body while jogging, bike, works lower)
4. When 10 minutes are up, do one set of HANGING LEG RAISES (with your legs straight) to failure and then go on to your 2nd 10-minute bout of low intensity cardio using the opposite area of your body as your last set.
(i.e. – if you jumped rope in your last cardio round, switch to an exercise like jogging on the treadmill this time.)
5. When done, do a single set to failure of HANGING ROTATIONAL KNEE RAISES…then on to your 3rd round of cardio using the opposite half of your body.
And so it goes on, switching back and forth between an abs exercise and low intensity cardio.
For your follow up abs exercises, I suggest (in order)…
=> Hanging Knee Raises
=> Either crunches or V-ups
As you can see, we slowly decrease the intensity of the abs exercise choices with each set as you get closer to the end of your workout.
But in essence, by training your abs throughout your cardio session, you send a “message” to your body WHERE you want all that fat-burning cardio to do most of it’s work.
You may think I’m crazy, but give it a try and see if it doesn’t make a difference in where your measurements start reflecting results!
Lose Weight And Build Muscle
Posted by Peter in Best Way To Gain Muscle on September 10, 2009
Most people who work out want to lose weight and build muscle, but they are mostly spending way too much time in the gym or out exercising and doing things they don’t want to do. What these people don’t know is that all this time and energy is totally unnecessary, and that you can get better results for less work and less time. While many large corporations want you to spend lots of money in fancy gyms, or buying expensive equipment, or hiring personal trainers and nutritionists, or taking powders and supplements that either dangerously unhealthy or useless placebos, there are better ways to achieve your goals of more muscle and less fat, while spending very little time or money to attain your dreams.
If you work on a muscle-building plan that focuses on burning fat while building lean muscle in a short period of time, you will find that this is far more effective than spending many hours in gyms while still not getting desirable results. Short sets of muscle-building work-outs will help you burn fat and gain muscle quickly. This is more healthy than taking those supplements or taking the pills that are advertized all over the Internet and on TV. Those things simply don’t work, and are expensive. You’ll have much better results following a low impact plan to increase your lean muscle while watching the pounds of fat melt off your body. This is the scientifically best way to achieve your goals as quickly as possible.