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Easy Tips to lose a couple of pounds each week

by admin on 05. Jan, 2010 in Weight Loss Work Out Plans

Effective weight reduction doesn’t always have to be healthy. That – no doubt – sounds weird, but those who know reading between the lines shall agree; so would the people who have already suffered by following such crash courses. This is primarily because currently the world lacks patience; anything that doesn’t provide results overnight is considered backdated. Thus come the concepts of liposuction and magical apparatuses and while they show massive results initially, things go back to the square one even before a user completes enjoying his or her new lease of life.

However, the problem lies elsewhere. Such measures, though get rid of excess flab from the top, they do not set right the inner mechanisms responsible for the excess fat formation. That is to say the metabolic rate, which is only possible over a certain span – ideally, 4 to 8 weeks.

If you are tickling your fancies even after all these, then also follow a few guidelines that shall allow you to benefit fully from such extreme measures.

  1. Liposuction doesn’t mean that you shall get rid of an entire fat reserve from under your skin within the next 24 hours; a better approach is to lose a pound of it every week. This shall also keep your skin from sagging and spread tightly over your body. Besides, it shall be a shock to your overall system; taking out the fat in parts shall provide the necessary buffer.
  1. Regarding the crash diets, they often curb the carbs and fats completely while putting in higher doses of proteins. Proteins, though increase lean body mass, are nevertheless large groups of nitrogenous organic compounds (polymers of amino acids) that despite being essential constituents of living cells take their tolls on the kidneys. Besides, all these years, your body used the free carb in your diet to obtain the required energy; a cut down at once shall get it more confused, resulting in fatigue and slowing down of the metabolism even more. Therefore, mix between your normal and your crash diet; start from a 90-10 ratio and over a period of 8 weeks, turn that to a 10-90 one with the peak (i.e. 50-50) achieved on the 4th week. You shall lose a pound or two of excess body weight without turning into a weakling.

Add to the above points a moderate exercise regime with more reps per set and with lighter weights or do it freehand; while it shall tone your muscles, it shall also help you to boost your metabolism for better fat burning.

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Natural Muscle Development by Cutting Out Supplements

by admin on 18. Dec, 2009 in Bodybuilding

Why is there a roaring supplements market? Simply because people are unaware of the natural processes that help develop the muscles significantly. Pumping in a whole lot of supplements doesn’t necessarily guarantee muscle gain, but these processes do the same in a better and safer way. And yes, they are cheaper, too. That’s vital, for you are to lighten yourself, not your wallet. So onwards to the procedures; let’s start with the resistance trainings.

Muscles grow appreciably only if you exercise them. That way, swimming is good, but weight training is even better. Exercising methodically by subjecting several muscle groups of the body to medium-to-heavy weights – better put – the weights they are not habituated to under normal conditions. The technical term to this is overloading.

How fast your muscles respond to overloading depends on three factors:

i. The amount of weight being lifted.

ii. The number of times they are lifted or repetitions (reps).

iii. The number of times the reps are repeated or sets.

The key to this is building a pyramidal structure: Less weights to start with and more number of reps and moving gradually towards less reps and more weights. And once every fortnight, with heavier weights directly, to shock the body for a greater response.

Secondly, it’s about feeding the body right. Supplements are nothing but the food values concentrated; if you eat the right foods in right proportions, things become a breeze. Proteins, yes – but also carbohydrates; while proteins supply the amino acids for building the muscle tissue, thereby healing it, carbs provide the energy. Though a much complicated process involving ATP (adenosine triphosphate; a nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue; the major source of energy for cellular reactions) and CP (creatin phosphate; an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates, both in the free form and as phospho-creatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction), but we’ll leave it there. The bottom line is: No protein, no muscles. One advice though: stay away from complex carbohydrates like sodas, syrups and white breads. But if you chuck carbs out completely, in no time your body shall start breaking the muscle fibers to obtain the required energy. So beware and towards a successful muscle building.

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Does Drinking Affect Your Muscle Growth?

by admin on 17. Oct, 2009 in Dieting

A lot of people ask, “is there any way that drinking has any affect on growing muscles?” Sorry to tell you, but yes it does. It has been proven to have a bad impact on your muscle gaining results. Not many people know, but alcohol is more harmful that some people tend to think. You must understand how alcohol has affected your progress. If you truly want to get that physique you are looking for, you must look at the main ways that alcohol has slowed down your muscle gains.

1) Protein synthesis

You are probably wondering, what is protein synthesis? It is a process when your amino acids join together and end up forming a complete protein. When drinking alcohol, it slows down this process quite a bit. Actually by up to 20%, and the problem is, your muscles need this protein!

2) Testosterone levels decrease and estrogen increases.

Testosterone is by far one of the most important muscle building hormones that are in your body. What actually helps determine how much muscle someone can gain is the amount of free flowing testosterone that is in one’s body. One of the limiting factors that determine how much muscle a person can gain is their level of free-flowing testosterone.

You always need to have some fun in life. Drinking with friends and relatives is always fun, just watch how much you drink. A few drinks a weekend won’t be a problem at all. It is when you go out a few nights and week and have 6 or more drinks that can cause some serious negative results in your muscle gaining results.

If you do actually party sometimes, make sure you always keep yourself hydrated. Drink a lot of water. One of the best ways to do this is drink a glass of water for each drink you have.

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