Tag Archives: Muscle

Muscles – at first mention, don’t really seem like something women want. The word is generally more associated with images of incredibly buffed-up, glistening male bodybuilders or actors like the young Arnold Schwarzenegger in the early Terminator movies. Muscle building for women is either frowned upon by females, with chagrin at the concept of being deemed “muscular.” Shooting Down Misconceptions Contrary to popular false impressions, muscle building for women can actually define the body, making it more feminine: the shoulders become more symmetrical, the legs and arms get shapely, the butt and best of all it tigthens the stomach. If you’re a woman and you want to build or sculpt your body, you really don’t have to worry about suddenly looking like those females who look close to becoming stand-ins for male wrestlers. Women have significantly lower testosterone levels compared to men – 200-1200 ng/dl (men) and 15-70 ng/dl (women).…

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Obviously, as Bodybuilders we should always be striving to provide our bodies with a constant supply of healthy, nutrient dense food when looking to build muscle. Unfortunately with today’s fast paced lifestyles and longer working days, we are sometimes forced to grab what we can. When your trying to build muscle eating something is always better than nothing. In this article I will be revealing the healthiest fast food choices and what to eat if you are ‘caught short’ and in need of a Protein fix. Fast Food Choices For Stranded Bodybuilders Portion Control Because Fast Food is Calorie dense but notoriously high in fat the most important thing to do is to watch your portion size. By consuming a small portion and following the following tips you will be able to supply your body with the best nutritional choice available to you. This will ‘tide you over’ until you…

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If you search around the internet and read through lots of fitness magazines, you will find out that the male fitness industry is full of all kinds of personalities who believe in different things, for example for some an aesthetic physique may be a Frank Zane or Surge Nubret type physique which is more of a classic overly muscular bodybuilder type physique whereas others favour the fitness model type of physique like Greg Plitt or David Kimmerle. Everyone has their own take on what is aesthetic and we all work out towards our own personal goals. Now I will tell you which kind of physique is more favourable in terms of real world situations. Think about the fitness magazines and body-building magazines, magazines with huge monstrous guys are generally not for your average Joes and that look is not something most people would work towards looking like. The magazines with…

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Niacin Flushing for a Better Health One of the greatest benefits of niacin flushing is that it stimulates growth hormone that will put some muscle on your physique. First of all what does niacin flushing exactly entail? When you take in an overdose of niacin, your veins will widen a little and blood flow is greatly enhanced. This process is called niacin flushing, because you basically flush the system of toxic waste cluttered in the capillaries, where circulation is normally weak. In this article I will explain what niacin flushing does for building muscle, how you can achieve these benefits yourself too and how to avoid side effects. Niacin Flushing: How it Works When you take in the overdose of niacin, production of growth hormone will be stimulated. The best time to take in niacin is just prior to sleeping. Moreover, niacin flushing can also make you more vascular, and…

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You may not be aware that maltodextrin is the main component in almost all weight-gain products. It has a significant effect on the enzymatic process which allows individuals to perform better during exercise as well as bulk up on much needed muscle mass. This natural ingredient is highly useful especially for athletes and bodybuilders without the risk of side effects. Maltodextrin is a complex carbohydrate that greatly helps individuals perform better and last longer to cope with the demands of heavily strenuous activities. Despite being a carbohydrate, it functions more by rapidly degrading the enzymatic process. Maltodextrin supplements are usually added to beverages in order to quickly replenish carbohydrate stores that may have been depleted during exercise. Maltodextrin provides 4 kilocalories per gram just like any other carbohydrate. The ingredient is a very convenient energy source that facilitates rapid delivery and absorption of important nutrients by muscle tissues. Muscle glycogen…

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Have you ever been confused about the advice you’ve been given for building muscle? Are you sick of hearing multiple answers for what you know is a simple question? Well, now you can put all of the bro science behind you and get ready to uncover the 7 biggest muscle building myths you thought were true. Myth #1: You can gain a pound of muscle in a week This is definitely not the case. At the maximum, you could achieve a gain of about one pound every two weeks. That will also depend on your diet even more than your exercise habits. Myth #2: Supplements will maximize muscle growth I’m sorry to inform you that supplements will not boost your muscle growth like proper diet, and training techniques. Those companies spend millions of dollars trying to make you believe that. It’s not your fault. Myth #3: You can build muscle…

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Bodybuilding supplements with niacin are often used to lower cholesterol, thanks to its ability to suppress the disintegration of fats, preventing fatty acids from entering the blood. However, niacin is also found to stimulate the human growth hormone, or GH. The growth hormone is important for everyone, but most especially for athletes and bodybuilders as it boosts cell generation in muscles, bones and vital organs, allowing muscles to grow, as well as rehabilitates injured tissues. Our pituitary glands produce GH but this declines as we get older, which is why we should take natural bodybuilding supplements, niacin included. Niacin is also known as Vitamin B3, which like its siblings Thiamine or Vitamin B1 and Riboflavin or Vitamin B2, is able to aid in the metabolism of carbohydrates. Niacin’s most basic function is to release energy, and derivatives of niacin have been found to detoxify xenochemicals, produces steroid hormones especially in…

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Bodybuilding Without Steroids, Milo Style! Here’s what it means: if you’re a drug-free weight lifter with average, or worse, lousy genetics like me, then building muscle boils down to this… If You Are Not Lifting More Weight Today Than You Did 12-Months Ago, Or Even Four Weeks Ago… Then You Are NOT Building Muscle! You can bench press or shoulder press a Kettle Bell with 40 lbs in each hand until you turn blue in the face… but the person who benches presses 275 lbs or barbell shoulder presses 125 lbs will always have a bigger chest and more muscular shoulders than you, why? because they are lifting heavier weights! Here’s the basics of bodybuilding without steroids, Milo style, for building lean muscle… Free Weights. Machines balance the weight for you which leaves your stabilizing muscles weak. Free weights force you to balance the weight yourself which strengthens your stabilizer…

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Have you ever wondered why bodybuilders are also extremists? Can we simply say that their extremism helps them with their body building? Or maybe it's that bodybuilding inevitably compels them to become extremists? Whichever is true, we can not deny the fact that the bodybuilders go for the extreme. During the period in which they are gaining weight or bulking up, bodybuilders take in higher amounts of calories than the usual for them to become bigger. These people usually do this in an out of control or do as they please manner. They do not care either the food they eat is healthy or not as long as they take in large amounts of food. This is certainly a face of the bodybuilder being an extremist. What the body does is that it immediately stores all the extra calories as fat and considers these fat deposits as 'gold reserves.' The…

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