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Best muscle building supplements

by admin on 27. Jan, 2010 in Biceps Work Out, Bodybuilding, Six Pack Abs, Work Out Plans

If you are reading this article don’t expect to see just a bunch of advertising campaigns put together. I’m not going to name no product here. All I want is to explain you how you can see for yourself if a supplement is right or not for your needs. You can then judge for yourself each and every product which you encounter.

First of all we have to deal with the first question which comes to mind – are supplements OK? And the answer is most sincere – yes, but only in the right amounts and under the right conditions.

So what makes a supplement work for you? Well, I can firstly assume that you want to build up your muscle. Even if it’s just about the abdominals or we’re talking full body building, you surely want to gain muscle in a visible manner. And, of course, you want to aid the process in any way that you can. Just lifting those weights won’t do enough. Taking supplements is a must if you want to actually see something and not just feel it in your own strength.

But, as with all products and all foods and all drugs, there are right ways and wrong ways of taking supplements. It is very important to study the effects, the side-effects and the components of everything you take.

First of all let’s see what makes a muscle building supplement good when it comes to effects. One thing you want is to increase your muscle mass and not just pump fat in. This means that one of the most important effects is to have a proportionate increase in strength as your muscle increases in volume.

Many people over-look the side-effects aspect. Make sure you check the tested side-effects of the supplement you are taking. Do you really want to risk having any of possible adversities? Read carefully, assess and think about risks, don’t just consider that this will never happen to you. The best muscle building supplements are usually the ones which are most natural and coincidentally or not these are the ones with the least serious side effects. Build up your muscles, but take care not to build up health issues along. After all what you are trying to do is to improve your health not to degrade it.

Finally we should discuss the components of the supplements. Which are the ingredients a supplement should have and which are the ones you should avoid? There is no general rule for this, but what you should do is follow the common sense. The more synthetic the supplement the worse it is for your organism.

Use supplements but use them rationally, under the right proportion and in the correct conditions.

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Reasons why you are not gaining muscles

by admin on 25. Jan, 2010 in Biceps Work Out, Bodybuilding, Six Pack Abs

You’ve probably been working out for a while now, but still can’t see no results. You might have wanted to give up or change your strategy, maybe even try a completely new technique. Well, you shouldn’t think of it that way. Most routines are perfectly working and you could have results. All you need to do is take care about some small but very important details.

One things you might have neglected until now is your diet. It’s not enough to work out, you also need to eat adequately. You need matter for your future muscles and that primary matter are proteins. You need to have a protein rich diet while bodybuilding or you will have no place to start. No wonder you have no muscles, no matter how hard you try if you have no materials for building them!   Which is the food richest in proteins? Meat. So eat lots of meat, vary the type of meat you eat and try to stick with grass-fed animals. Grass-fed means healthy when it comes to internal molecular structure of your food.

Presuming that your diet suits your workouts, let’s move on to the next reason for which you’re not gaining muscles. It’s not enough to lift weights. You must always try to push yourself, to surpass your limits to set new standards for yourself. Muscles grow in those tiny moments when you’re giving out everything you’ve got. When you’ve just started your session it all seems easy and you can lift with ease. That are not the moments which truly matter. It all happens when you struggle. So stop avoiding struggling! Don’t give up when you feel you’ve had it. When you’re continuing even if you feel like giving up, that’s when you gain muscles.

A final reason for which you might not gain muscles is the way you are actually performing all the exercises. It’s not that important to do a lot, but to do it right. Doing 10 correct push ups can help you 1000 more times than doing 100 of them the wrong way. It’s important to stimulate the exact spots which require pressure and attention. By performing everything correctly you are being productive and efficient. It’s just like with any other thing in life. Don’t go for the quantity but for the quality! Try to do it the bets way you can, not the faster and not the more.

These were three generic reasons for which you might not be able to gain muscles. If you suspect that any of these might contribute to your failure simply step up and correct the mistakes. Then you’ll be able to experience the results with much more ease and in a more visible way

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Things to know before starting bodybuilding

by admin on 22. Jan, 2010 in Bodybuilding

Whether you want to get that 6 pack abs or simply want to build your entire body there are some important things you need to know before starting it.

First issue that many people overlook is that you will actually gain weight fast and not  lose while bodybuilding. If your plan is to exchange your diet for a bodybuilding session, you are not on the right track. The first step you need to take is to lose the extra pounds, get rid of the fat and then you can start working on your muscles. You won’t be able to do both in the same time. This is because weight lifting doesn’t help you burn calories that much. Rather, their purpose is to increase your strength and build up your muscles. The fat burning process is almost inexistent in this time. So if you are overweight now and start bodybuilding you can expect to grow muscles over that fat layer.

A second issue, which is tightly related to the first one, deals with abdominal muscles. There is a common myth circulating all over the Internet which states that by working out your abdomen you will lose the fat stored there. Entirely false! The workout energy expenditure burns almost no calories. So once again, before bodybuilding take in consideration fat loss!

One thing you should know before starting bodybuilding is that you will have to eat lots of meat! So if you are a vegetarian take your mind off it. You will never gain the strength of a meat eater while bodybuilding. Yes, you can grow large pumped up muscles if you take protein shakes and all sorts of drugs. But that muscles will have no strength. They will look nice but you won’t be actually fit. So think about well about the meat issue before starting your bodybuilding program.

An important element of a successful bodybuilding attempt is motivation. You need to start motivated, keep yourself motivated on the way and end motivated. The bets is if you can find a friend to get on the same boat with you. Find a close body who also wants to build up his or her body and do it together. Having someone next to you going through the same difficulties, having to cross the same obstacles is hugely motivating.

A final thing you should know before starting is that you should never try to hard. Trying to lift too much weight will only get you burned and you won’t be able to do anything else afterwards. So keep it between the limits, inside the schedule and don’t become greedy. But as you go further, as you get more muscles, then you can increase the limit.

Now that you know the most important things you need to just go for it, start bodybuilding!

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Protein: The secret of successful muscle building

by admin on 18. Dec, 2009 in Bodybuilding

No doubt proteins are the secret formula behind those massive muscle chunks, but like anything else, too much of it is bad, especially for the kidneys. Hence, as a rule of thumb, you must guard your kidneys against the harmful nitrogenous compounds before you go whole hog on the lean ham and mutton. Now, we move on to the basics of protein: The Amino Acids and their contribution towards building the muscle mass.

Amino acids, the twenty-two standard types, either synthesize proteins or are oxidized to urea and CO2, whereas the glucogenic amino acids are converted into glucose, through a process called gluconeogenesis. Muscles are nothing but proteins.

That makes evident a couple of things:

1. The amino acids present within or supplied into the body helps forming the muscle mass as an ingredient to it.

2. The glucose thus formed supplies the extra energy to the muscles for prolonged and more intense workouts that help to make them grow.

Among the twenty-two, there are eight termed as essential amino acids; these are the ones the human body is incapable of synthesizing to maintain normal growth and are obtained from an external source. There are semi-essential amino acids as well (cysteine, taurine, tyrosine, histidine and arginine; the metabolic pathways for synthesizing these are not found fully developed in children), but as per individual body constituency and requirement, it is tough to determine requirements on a general level. However, a bit on the classifications of amino acids:

The essential ones are: Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Valine, Serine, Tyrosine, Arginine and Histidine, whereas Alanine, Asparagine, Aspartic Acid, Cysteine, Glutamic Acid, Glutamine, Glycine and Proline are the non-essential ones. However, now that we know about the basic building blocks of protein, let’s see how they aid in the muscle formation part.

Growth of muscle tissues depends on several factors and exercises, hormonal levels (somatotropin, insulin, testosterone and thyroid) and nutrients including proteins are just a few. All these, when enter the receptive muscles with the blood, boosts recovery and growth. But it’s also a truth that a high protein diet shall not guarantee significant levels of amino acids in the bloodstream till a couple of hours later; hard training sessions often reduce blood circulation to the gastrointestinal tract, making the nutrients deposit as bodily wastes. Now, do you understand why you are advised not to eat anything within two hours of the ending of your training session?

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