The ideal frequency, number of sets and number of repetitions will depend on your fitness goals. The best strategy will vary based on whether you are seeking to put on muscle fast or to tone and streamline your body, build endurance and lose weight. Frequency Research indicates that training approximately three times a week, or […]
Setting Goals for Strength Training
After aerobic exercise, strength training is the most important aspect of physical fitness. By maintaining and increasing muscular strength and endurance, adults can expend more energy and accomplish more tasks at any age with less fatigue. All adults of both genders can benefit from strength training but women and older adults especially do. The proper […]
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Strength Training for Kids
Opponents said pre-pubescent children with flexible, growing bones shouldn’t strength train because of the risk of injury, both short- and long-term. Concerns included damaging soft tissue, like ligaments and tendons, stressing “green” bones and accidents due to lack of maturity. Times Have Changed But, as youth sports become both more structured and more competitive, parents […]
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Strength for Those That Never Weight Trained
Here’s what you need to know. In the beginning stages of learning a weight training routine, it’s necessary to take 3-4 weeks to learn proper technique while keeping the weights light. Think of this process as setting the stage for smart progressive strength gains, muscle tone, and muscle density. Skipping these two factors of proper […]
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Supersets Can Recharge Your Workout
Anyone who has worked out for any period of time, knows that soon or later, you are going to hit the dreaded plateau, that point where you can longer lift heavier weights no matter how much time has gone by. When that happens, it is time to recharge your workout by incorporating supersets. What are […]
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Do Low-Weight, High-Rep Workouts Build Muscle?
In the 1970s, health gyms, spas and clubs began to thrive. Personal Training became available to the general public. Who were the first Personal Trainers? Guys in gyms that other men wanted to look like. The male clients ended up doing the same bodybuilding workouts as their trainers, whether or not it was best for […]
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Developing a Powerful Back
The back is a myriad of different muscles including the lattisimus dorsi, the rear deltoids and scapula, spinal erectors, trapezius, rhomboids, and a complex array of other muscles. The effectiveness of any exercise is consistency, intensity, duration, proper range of motion and most importantly your body type’s specific needs. Try these two low back spinal […]
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Strength Training Exercises To Grow Arm Size
When Conan the Barbarian was released in 1982, every man and boy wanted muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger. He had thick legs, a flat stomach, a barrel chest and massive arms. The look of massive arms comes from large triceps. When the camera zoomed in on Arnold’s arms in the movie, his triceps had the coveted […]
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5×5 Training For Size and Strength
5×5 training has been in around in various forms for the best part of a century. It allows for trainees to progress in both size and strength at the same time. It can also be adapted to cater for those of all levels of training experience from the weight-training novice all the way up to […]
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Training the Glutes for Balanced Development
The gluteus maximus is a badly misunderstood creature. Most women go out of their way to avoid doing anything to work their butt to prevent it growing and most men ignore it because they tend to get caught up up in admiring the mirror muscles and anything beyond biceps and pectorals gets little consideration. This […]
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Peptides In Bodybuilding
Peptides are referred to a family of substances whose molecules are built from the remnants of α-amino acids, connected in a chain by peptide bonds. Speaking of the peptides, it is necessary to represent natural or synthetic compounds consisting of hundreds and thousands of monomeric units – amino acids. This class of drugs is very […]
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Romanian Deadlift Variants for Hamstring Flexibility and Strength
According to weightlifting lore, the Romanian deadlift was named when American powerlifters spotted Nicu Vlad, a champion Romanian weightlifter, performing the exercise prior to winning an Olympic medal. The movement deals primarily with hip extension, and is one of the best known and most effective exercises for the hamstrings and glutes, increasing strength and flexibility. […]
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5x5 Training For Size and Strength
5×5 training has been in around in various forms for the best part of a century. It allows for trainees to progress in both size and strength at the same time. It can also be adapted to cater for those of all levels of training experience from the weight-training novice all the way up to […]
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Insulin After Steroids Cycle
It is not a secret that insulin for sale is popular and relevant in the world of bodybuilding, so its use is due to a real effect by increasing athlete’s muscle mass. The drug is used in the form of a regular cycle and can be placed either as separate injections or combined with steroids […]
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Prohormones
Because steroids are illegal in the United States, people in the bodybuilding world are always looking for ways to get similar results without the legalities involved. That is how the popularity of prohormones was born. They are considered dietary supplements. After they started gaining popularity, however, the purchase of prohormones has become illegal in the […]