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		<title>The Easy Way To Lose Belly Fat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Knox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belly fat, which is also referred to as stomach fat, abdominal fat, pot belly, and such like is the sort of fat that is found deeper in the body compared to subcutaneous fat, which is located just beneath the skin. Belly fat is particularly perilous since it collects round the organs in the stomach. Health practitioners are sounding the alarm increasingly as more and more Americans are being diagnosed every day with extreme levels of cholesterol, diabetes, heart illnesses, and so on every one of them linked to belly fat. So, here are some recommendations on how to lose belly fat :]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/abs.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1131" title="abs" src="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/abs-150x150.jpg" alt="abs 150x150 The Easy Way To Lose Belly Fat" width="150" height="150" /></a>Belly fat, which is also called stomach fat, abdominal fat, pot belly, and such like is the sort of fat that&#8217;s found deeper in the body compared to subcutaneous fat, which is located just under the skin.</h3>
<p>Belly fat is especially threatening since it collects around the organs in the abdomen. Health practitioners are sounding the alarm increasingly as more and more Americans are being diagnosed each day with high levels of cholesterol, diabetes, heart sicknesses, and so on every one of them linked to belly fat. So, here are some tips about how to lose belly fat :</p>
<p>Lose Belly Fat By Eating Foods That Burn Fat : Foods that are protein rich and low in carbohydrates, sugar, and saturated fats are the best for losing belly fat. Eggs, fish, lean meats, complex carbs like vegetables, whole grains, and a range of natural fruits which aren&#8217;t sweetened or canned are the way to go.</p>
<p>Avoid easy, refined carbohydrates that contain white sugar or processed flour. Include healthy fats such as fish fats, nuts and seeds, olive oil, and so on. Necessary fatty acids are necessary for process of burning body fat, particularly belly fat.</p>
<p>Lose Belly Fat By Drinking The Right Fluids : In order to lose belly fat, you need to drink plenty of water, particularly when you workout or sweat. Your body needs water to function at its optimum best. When you are dehydrated, the organs in the body work harder to keep the water reserve of the body. The liver, which provides help in burning fat in order to produce energy, is one of the significant organs that suffers the most. When the liver&#8217;s function is hampered, then the method of burning fat will not be as good as it should be. Avoid drinking canned fruit juices, chocolate drinks, and soft rinks, since their sugar content is extremely high.</p>
<p>Lose belly fat by lifting weights : Working out with weights brings about the abdominal muscles to work harder and thereby become tighter. Chest presses, lat pull downs, dumbbell rows, free weight squats, and such like will force your intestinal muscles to work, since to perform these exercises properly, the core muscles have to be stabilized.</p>
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		<title>How Personal Trainers Can Make It Happen For Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Morries</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team is what makes or breaks an organization, and an active and productive team can keep the organization on a growth path. Hence teams must have members who are highly motivated and have strong coordination among themselves. Gym and fitness regimes incorporated in team building events in close supervision of a personal trainer can help immensely in this respect.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/personal-trainer.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1127" title="personal trainer" src="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/personal-trainer-150x150.jpg" alt="personal trainer 150x150 How Personal Trainers Can Make It Happen For Your Business" width="150" height="150" /></a>A company can prosper only with good team performance, and if team members are healthy and productive, then the team performs well and the business succeeds.</h3>
<p>Hence teams must have people who are highly enthused and have strong coordination among themselves. Gym and fitness regimes incorporated in team building events in close guidance of a personal trainer can help greatly in this regard.</p>
<p>A team building session conducted by any business strives to achieve team unity, develop employees&#8217; confidence, and above all act as a break from the daily monotony of work. These events form an integral part of the HR strategy, as organizations don&#8217;t want to incur losses in business by having a below par team. Team building events help in settling problematic issues like feelings of insecurity among employees and clashes with seniors.</p>
<p>Workers, who are bound to their desks for a greater part of the day, always feel delighted to leave their chairs and do some physical movements. This is where the requirement for personal training is realized at team building sessions. Personal trainers can educate employees about what fitness routines are good for them, and also give dietary suggestions on nutritional food, the intake of which can result in better health and fitness. Zeal to stay fit that starts at the workplace can be stretched to the gym by the staff, as such events make them serious and committed about health issues.</p>
<p>Employees suffer from typing on computers throughout the day, which often results in stress related physical ailments. Obesity too has emerged as a major issue now. A personal training event teaches employees about physical problems and steps to be taken for handling them, besides giving them a much-awaited release from the cycle of work.</p>
<p>A personal training event involving a gym session can be tailored to address health requirements of staff, and can revitalize them and spur them on to enhance their lives and levels of productivity. The employees feel their value being acknowledged and their health taken care of, and this forges a strong bond between them and the company.</p>
<p>A personal trainer roped in to organize such an event must be a specialist in injuries that are computer related. To ensure success of such sessions, it is also critical that the trainer is aware of the personalities and mental state of the participants. Moreover, suggestions that they can use in their everyday lives must be given by the personal trainer.</p>
<p>Cohesion among members and high inspiration levels are the two requisites that build a successful team, and employers always strive to achieve these. Thus, money spent on team building events with particular emphasis on personal training and gym sessions is always a good idea, as it is able to achieve these objectives, and improves the health of the staff at the same time.</p>
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		<title>Fitness and Diet to Better Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ourhealthierliving</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fitness and diet has become the center of much attention these days. In fact, most people are very conscious about losing weight and therefore understand that fitness training and diet is essential to losing weight. In addition to that, people are now having a greater desire to chisel their physiques to achieve that muscle magazine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fitness-and-dietlg.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-795" title="Fitness and Diet To Better Health" src="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fitness-and-dietlg.jpg" alt="Fitness and Diet To Better Health" width="180" height="130" /></a>Fitness and diet has become the center of much attention these days. In fact, most people are very conscious about losing weight and therefore understand that fitness training and diet is essential to losing weight. In addition to that, people are now having a greater desire to chisel their physiques to achieve that muscle magazine look. As a result, fitness gyms, health farms, and various types of wellness centers have sprung up all over the country to cater to the needs of the fitness buffs and aficionados.</p>
<p>With the advent of late night and early morning television infomercials, exercise equipment, weight loss products, and other muscle building supplements are heavily marketed to consumers to add to their fitness training and diet routines to gain good health and massive weight loss. But exercise is not the only way to build your rock solid sculpture. It also entails a greater amount of responsibility on the foods that one chooses to eat.</p>
<p>Did you know that losing weight is essentially an exercise within itself? Dieting for fitness also provides the essential nutrients you need to lose weight. Fitness training and diet should never be taken for granted. With the ongoing popularity of incorporating fitness with diet, many different views, methods, programs and dieting strategies have been formulated by many professionals to show the importance of overall health.</p>
<p>Fitness training alone is not all about losing fat. One must also consider his/her diet in order to keep that fat away. As much as our physical bodies are all different, research shows that substantial weight loss and overall good health can only be achieved by optimizing a fitness workout and diet plan which best suits the individuals body structure, food preferences, lifestyles, medical profile and safety signals.</p>
<p>A good fitness and diet plan can help you shed off those excess pounds and gain better health. Health organizations are very clear about implementing exercise and a good diet regimen in your daily life to minimize many health problems and lowering the risks of most cancers. Also, the proper amount of rest your body needs each night is extremely important as well. During this time of dormancy, the body restores and rejuvenates itself. One more thing; Try not to eat any heavy foods past early evening as the body needs several hours to digest the intake of consumption. If you do have a craving, eat something small like a small piece of fruit or drink water to take away your craving.</p>
<p>Fitness and diet should be incorporated in all our daily activities and should not be made into a burden on an individual. Remember, that the way to a healthier lifestyle means to put in place some form of exercise as well as a good diet program to accomplish your goal towards looking good, feeling good, and achieving better health.</p>
<p>-Admin-</p>
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		<title>10 Things You Should Know About Stretching</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before beginning any fitness training routine, one of the very first things you must give importance to before working out or starting your fitness routine is to preform some stretching exercises to prevent accidents or to enhance your workout during the training.  There are also a number of precautionary measures and tips to serve as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Stretching-lg1.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-774" title="Stretching-lg1" src="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Stretching-lg1-150x130.jpg" alt="Stretching lg1 150x130 10 Things You Should Know About Stretching" width="150" height="130" /></a>Before beginning any fitness training routine, one of the very first things you must give importance to before working out or starting your fitness routine is to preform some stretching exercises to prevent accidents or to enhance your workout during the training.  There are also a number of precautionary measures and tips to serve as guidelines when doing fitness exercises.  Here are the 10 most important I think you should utilize:</p>
<p>1.  To increase your flexibility and to avoid injuries, stretch before and after workout.  Almost everyone knows that stretching before workout prevents injuries during the exercises, but only few people know that stretching after workout, when muscles are still warm, can increase flexibility.</p>
<p>2.  Hold your stretching position for more than 60 seconds to increase flexibility.  While holding your position for 20 seconds is enough for warm ups, holding each position for at least 60 seconds will develop the body&#8217;s flexibility.</p>
<p>3.  Do not go into a stretching position then immediately return to the relaxed position, and do it repeatedly.  This is more appropriately termed as bouncing while in a position.  When stretching, hold that position for several seconds, and then slowly relax.  You may do this exercise repeatedly this way.  Bouncing or forcing yourself into a position during stretching can strain or damage some joints or muscles.</p>
<p>4.  Work slowly in increments instead of immediately proceeding to doing the hardest exercise or position.</p>
<p>5.  Make sure that you have stretched or warmed up all muscle groups.  For some people, even if they have strong bodies, they tend to neglect the neck when working out or stretching.  Stretching the neck muscles can be as simple as placing the palm of one&#8217;s hand against the front of the head and pushing it.  Then, do the same to the sides and the back of the head.</p>
<p>6.  Stretch regularly to continually increase your range of movements and your level of flexibility and strength.</p>
<p>7.  Workout considering only your capabilities and not of others.  Do not force yourself to do exercises that you are not yet capable of just because there are people who can do it.  Increase your limits slowly.  Listen to your body.  There are days when your body may be too tired and you may have to consider reducing your range of motion.</p>
<p>8.  Learn to rest.  Rest in between sets and stations to make sure that your body has enough time to recover its energy.  Also, it is advisable that you don&#8217;t work the same muscle groups consecutively for two days.  The muscles grow during the period when you rest and not when you are working out.</p>
<p>9.  Do aerobic exercises to strengthen your heart.  Aerobic exercises are those physical activities that fuel oxygen for the heart .  This includes cardiovascular exercises such as skipping rope, running or swimming.</p>
<p>10.  Music may help you when you want to train for longer periods or to increase your intensity.  You can use mp3 players, your ipod,
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<p>or lightweight am radio receivers for this.  Just make sure that you have your headset with you so you don&#8217;t disturb people who don&#8217;t listen to music while exercising.</p>
<p>Apart from preventing injuries and increasing one&#8217;s limit, it is also said that stretching is good for a tired body and also for a stressed mind and spirit.</p>
<p>-Admin-</p>
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		<title>New Research: Is Body Fat Really Contagious?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admin&#8217;s Note:  Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. It&#8217;s like a dream come true. &#8220;Gaining body fat is the result  of a virus.&#8221; Wouldn&#8217;t that be great news? Well&#8230; Let me tell you about the AD-36 Adenovirus. Adenoviruses are the same nasty bugs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong> <a href="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/bodyfat-sm.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-783" title="bodyfat sm" src="http://ourhealthierliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/bodyfat-sm.jpg" alt="bodyfat sm" width="100" height="75" /></a>Admin&#8217;s Note:  Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you.<br />
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<p>It&#8217;s like a dream come true.</p>
<p>&#8220;Gaining body fat is the result  of a virus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t that be great news?</p>
<p>Well&#8230;</p>
<p>Let me tell you about the AD-36 Adenovirus. Adenoviruses are the same nasty bugs that cause the common cold. We all have these viruses in various forms in our body all the time.</p>
<p>That last bit is a critical distinction.</p>
<p>Remember that.</p>
<p>The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana has been doing some really ground-breaking research on AD-36. AD-36 affects stem cells&#8230; more specifically fat cells, both pre-formed and post-formed.</p>
<p>This means AD-36 can make MORE fat cells if contracted as an infant and make your fat cells larger if contracted as an adult.</p>
<p>Or so the theory goes.</p>
<p>To quote the study:</p>
<p>&#8220;Earlier researchers have concluded that Ad-36 may be contributors to obesity by super-charging fat cells to grow and store more fat. Until now, though, those researchers thought the viruses targeted pre-fat cells (called pre-adipocytes), causing them to convert in higher numbers to fat cells and causing those fat cells to be larger. Those studies were in mice. Pasaricas work determines the virus targets stem cells in humans.&#8221;</p>
<p>The result?</p>
<p>&#8220;In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people. Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wow. Sounds like we have a winner here. A virus that you can catch that literally makes you gain body fat!  In fact, all we need is&#8230;a vaccine!</p>
<p>Right?</p>
<p>Wrong!</p>
<p>First of all, notice that 11% of LEAN people have AD-36. And at any given time, just like a cold or a flu virus, you could contract AD-36. If your body has &#8216;never&#8217; been exposed to it, you may require about 3 months to build up antibodies to ward it off.</p>
<p>Now, you can gain a lot of weight in 3 months&#8230; but come on. You cannot become obese in three months unless you are really, REALLY working at it.</p>
<p>Plus, like most viruses, you build up immunity to AD-36. Researchers do not know how long the immunity lasts, but some theorize it could last years&#8230; some even decades.</p>
<p>And let&#8217;s not forget those 11% who are lean and have the virus.</p>
<p>Why did they not all of a sudden get &#8220;sick&#8221; with bodyfat?</p>
<p>Because they are not EATING or LIVING in a way that allows them to gain bodyfat no matter what nasty freakin&#8217; viruses may be floating about, that&#8217;s why.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right folks:  It is always going to come down to the food we put in our body and the way we move.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another hypothesis presented by Sherry Strong, food philosopher and nutritionist:  &#8220;This could very well be the result of nature creating a mutation to encourage us to eat more due to the fact our consumption of natural, whole and organic foods is so low.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brilliant observation&#8230; and one that makes complete sense.</p>
<p>But even if a &#8220;virus&#8221; is responsible for 20% of our weight gain, what about the other 80%?</p>
<p>We do not need a vaccine other than good food and a common sense workout plan.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> <a href="http://7minutestobuildingmuscle.com">7 Minutes To Building Muscle</a></span> &#8220;vaccine&#8221; for body fat and here&#8217;s why I love this workout:</p>
<p>1. It&#8217;s fast. 7-14 minutes 3-5 days per week. Anyone on earth can do this.</p>
<p>2. The Basic Upgrade (you will see it) still comes with a copy of my book &#8220;The Every Other Day Diet.&#8221; Put the two together and you have an absolute winner of a plan that&#8217;s practical and enjoyable.</p>
<p>3. Plus, anyone who owns &#8220;Every Other Day Diet&#8221; gets my upcoming &#8220;Radical Fat Loss Blueprint&#8221; book free.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s 3 good reasons to go here and check out <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.7minutestobuildingmuscle.com">7 Minutes To Building Muscle</a></span>&#8230; the &#8220;vaccine&#8221; for bodyfat!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one more:</p>
<p>You know better.</p>
<p>You know that there&#8217;s never going to be a magic pill for health, vitality, energy and looking your best.</p>
<p>We can keep hoping&#8230; or you can take action and get what you want now.</p>
<p>To me, that makes more sense than AD-36 &#8220;Super-Retro Fat-burning Vaccine&#8221; to hit the marketplace in 2021.</p>
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		<title>Gain More Muscle By Training Less Often</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Health Dude</dc:creator>
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<p>The more work you put into something, the better results you will achieve. This has always been a widely accepted truth that applies to many areas of life. The harder you study, the better grades you will achieve. The more time you spend fine-tuning your athletic skills, the better athlete you will become. The longer you spend learning to play an instrument, the better musician you will become. Therefore, it only makes sense that the more time you spend in the gym, the stronger and more muscular your physique will become, correct? Contrary to what you might think, the answer to this question is a gigantic, definite, absolute no! It is in this area of bodybuilding that conventional wisdom goes straight out the window, down the street and around the corner.</p>
<p>I know what you might be asking yourself…</p>
<p>“What? Spending less time in the gym will actually make me bigger and stronger?”</p>
<p>Yes! It really will, and when we examine the muscle-growth process from its most basic roots, it becomes quite clear why this is the case.</p>
<p>Every single process that occurs within the human body is centered around keeping you alive and healthy. Through thousands of years of evolution the human body has become quite a fine-tuned organism that can adapt well to the specific conditions that are placed upon it. We become uncomfortable when we are hungry or thirsty, we acquire a suntan when high amounts of UV rays are present, we build calluses to protect our skin, etc. So what happens when we break down muscle tissue in the gym? If you answered something to the effect of &#8220;the muscles get bigger and stronger&#8221;, then congratulations! You are absolutely correct. By battling against resistance beyond the muscle&#8217;s present capacity we have posed a threat to the musculature. The body recognizes this as potentially harmful and as a natural adaptive response the muscles will hypertrophy (increase in size) to protect the body against this threat. As we consistently increase the resistance from week to week the body will continue to adapt and grow.</p>
<p>Sound simple? Ultimately it is, but the most important thing to realize in relation to all of this is that the muscles can only grow bigger and stronger if they are provided with sufficient recovery time. Without the proper recovery time, the muscle growth process simply cannot take place.</p>
<p>Your goal in the gym should be to train with the minimum amount of volume needed to yield an adaptive response. Once you have pushed your muscles beyond their present capacity and have triggered your thousand-year-old evolutionary alarm system, you have done your job. Any further stress to the body will simply increase your recovery time, weaken the immune system and send your body into catabolic overdrive.</p>
<p>Most people train way too often and with far more sets than they really need to. High intensity weight training is much more stressful to the body than most people think. The majority of people structure their workout programs in a manner that actually hinders their gains and prevents them from making the progress that they deserve. Here are 3 basic guidelines that you should follow if you want to achieve maximum gains:</p>
<p>1) Train no more than 3 days per week.<br />
2) Do not let your workouts last for longer then 1 hour.<br />
3) Perform 5-8 sets for large muscle groups (chest, back, thighs) and 2-4 sets for smaller muscle groups (shoulders, biceps, triceps, calves, abs).</p>
<p>Take all sets to the point of muscular failure and focus on progressing in either weight or reps each week. If you truly train hard and are consistent, training more often or any longer than this will be counterproductive to your gains!</p>
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		<title>Want To Own A Muscular Greek God Body?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Health Dude</dc:creator>
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<p>If you are clueless at the gym and yet hungry for plain, good &#8216;ol professional advice to help you on the road to that sculpted physique of a Greek god, fret not! All you have to do is to have a solid commitment, use the knowledge gleaned from this article and you will attain the body you want pronto. But remember to warm up and cool down, as well as stretching before and after each session; Or even better, after each set for better muscle recovery and prevention of injuries.</p>
<p>Use Free Weights instead of Machines More Often</p>
<p>Machines will have its uses, but for a start, concentrate on free weights. That means work almost exclusively with barbells and dumb bells. Free weights recruit many stabilizing muscles for balance and control. That means you will work a lot more muscle parts other than the intended ones. That will give rise to little bumps, striations and definitions all over your body instead of one huge lump of muscle on your intended muscle. Because of the extra stimulant created, your muscles grow faster too. Why else do you think all professional body builders almost exclusively use free weights?</p>
<p>Compound Exercises Instead Of Isolation Exercises</p>
<p>Use as many compound exercises as possible to your workouts. Compound exercises are exercises that involve 2 or more joint movements. Because they utilize more joints, that means greater muscle mass are involved. Greater muscle mass means heavier weights. Heavier weights means greater muscle gain.</p>
<p>Some excellent compound exercises are the Squat, Deadlift, Chin ups, Dips, Bench press, Barbell Press, Lunges, Bent-Over Barbell Row&#8230;etc.</p>
<p>Train with Intensity</p>
<p>You must train intensively like a mad man for your muscle to grow. Try to do more reps or add more weight than the previous session or your muscles will think, &#8220;Ah&#8230; we&#8217;ve done that. Nothing new, so no need to grow bigger and stronger.&#8221;</p>
<p>Because of this, it is important that every time you train hard, you give your body time to recover as it has suffered strains and actually sustained many small scarring. Your muscles grow when you rest, especially when you sleep and not in the gym. So sleep at least 8 hours a day. Also, do not train everyday or work the same muscle group more than once or twice a week. If your training was vigorous enough, do no more than an hour per session.</p>
<p>Try not to do cardio work on the same day as your weight lifting work. In fact, during the muscle building phase, you should do less cardio work as aerobic exercises burn muscles. You can increase your cardio work when we come to the cutting phase, to lose fats and gain rippling definition.</p>
<p>Correct Technique And Form</p>
<p>Everywhere, everyday, you will see people using wrong form and technique when training with weights. This not only compromises your growth, it will also make you susceptible to injuries.</p>
<p>Wrong form occurs usually when people try to lift weights that are too heavy, whether out of vanity or ignorance. As a guide, always lift with strict focus on the muscle you intend to build for that particular exercise. Feel it contract and extend. Lift the weights deliberately and slowly. Never ever swing your weights up especially when doing bicep curls or the military press. Lower the weights slowly, taking about 3 seconds instead of letting gravity pull the weight down. You must fight gravity to stimulate the muscles, if not, half of your effort is going to waste. Another common mistake is when people arch their back when they are doing their bench presses. By arching your back, you are using your spine to press the weight up. Your back must be pressed against the bench at all times for the exercise to be effectively working on your chest! However you MUST arch your back when doing squats and deadlift.</p>
<p>With some exceptions, as a general rule, if you can lift a weight in good form for more than 10 reps, it is too light. Conversely, if you can&#8217;t lift it more than 5 times in good form, it is too heavy.</p>
<p>To Grow Fast and Huge, You Must Perform Lower Body Exercises!</p>
<p>This is what most people don&#8217;t realize. Your lower body makes up 60-70% of your musculature. If you don&#8217;t train them, not only will you look spider-legged, your entire body will not grow as quickly and as large. Don&#8217;t think that you can hide those skinny legs in your pants! Most people do not train their legs because squats, dead lifts and lunges can be very grueling exercises. But it is precisely because of such intensity that you will produce more growth hormones when you sleep and overall muscular development is stimulated.</p>
<p>EAT and EAT Correctly</p>
<p>Losing weight and building muscles cannot happen at the same time although there are methods to do so and will be too technical to describe here. To lose weight, you must have a caloric deficit. To build muscles, you must have more calories, period! So do not be afraid to eat. Have plenty of protein, moderate complex carbs and some good oil like Omega, olive, flaxseed, fish etc., especially immediately after a workout. That is when your body is most nutrient hungry and will absorb whatever you eat very quickly. The longer you delay eating after a workout, the less effective it will be. Even better, take quick absorption protein shakes and high glycemic carbs during this time. The carbs will induce insulin production almost immediately and shuttle the protein to your muscle cells very quickly.</p>
<p>Eat about 2 gm of protein for each kg of your bodyweight or 1 gm per pound of your body weight. Spread your meals evenly throughout the day about 3 hours apart. It is advisable that you have supplementation of Creatine, Protein, Multivitamins and L-Glutamine.</p>
<p>Yes, you will probably gain weight, but a lot of it will be muscle weight because muscles are heavier than fats. You may also gain some fats because of the extra calories consumed. Don&#8217;t worry, it is a happy problem because the more muscles you have, the easier the fats are to shed when you come to the cutting up phase to get those rippling definitions.</p>
<p>Easy isn&#8217;t it? Now that you know the facts, the rest is up to your determination.</p>
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		<title>Accelerate The Burning Of Fat Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best exercise to increase the burning of fat, while strengthening the thigh and rationalization. The first thing you need to do is reduce your intake of calories, swelling and remove excess water weight. Aerobics is ideal for burning fat and it is not necessary for your glass under the running or jumping.</p>
<p>Hiking is a form of aerobic exercise that improves circulation and helps to develop muscle tone.</p>
<p>A thirty minute walk will burn calories and is a <a href="http://www.acceleratefatlosses.com/Lose-Female-Belly-Fat-Review.html" target="_blank">healthy fat loss</a> exercise. Provided that before making any type of exercises to start slowly and only a few each day until your body in shape.</p>
<p>Leg lifts weight to a large extent to the reduction of the thigh. Back in a chair, set the weights to your ankles. Lift one leg and then another. It is not only tone your legs and thighs, but also to strengthen their abdominal muscles. If only a little at first and every day.</p>
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<p>The question of leg lifts on the thighs. Put your hand, lift your leg up and down slowly until it affects others. It&#8217;s really drawing the thighs and the muscles of the correct size. You can also use the weight of this exercise.</p>
<p>Cycling back helps tone and shape your thighs. Located in the back, hands under the thighs, elbows on the ground, remove the thighs and legs to pedal, as if you were invisible riding a bike on the head. This is a very good exercise for the thighs and burn calories at the same time. However, if you have a bike, you can lower the tone and thighs while burning calories faster.</p>
<p>Chair squats can do much for tired legs. Keep in the back of a chair, bending down slowly and return to a level of attraction of every muscle in your leg. Keep your back straight. If only a few of these May you be out of bed the next day. They are very effective, and was injured. Go slowly and you can see how you can have up to eight to ten minutes per session.</p>
<p>It depends on how they wish. And a healthy and balanced diet is the key to total fitness. Drink plenty of water, green tea and cranberry juice. Have you nuts, which are responsible for heart health omega-3-protein and muscle, and make sure that a lot of green vegetables to your diet.</p>
<p>Adequate food is a long way towards Slimming and toning muscles. Jesus was in good physical shape. As a carpenter without tools, his work was very tiring. Furthermore, traveled long distances in his ministry.</p>
<p>It is well documented that the Savior ate fish, whole grain bread, fruits, seeds, lentils, and drank wine. As for meat, probably not, he ate his share of the Passover lamb. But in the days and in the region, meat, except fish, probably only eat once every two weeks or less.</p>
<p>Therefore, circulation and nutrition together to shape and tone your entire body. His thigh is slimming and tighten, losing most of cellulite that plagues not eat or exercise properly.</p>
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