Archive for January, 2009

Make Your Fitness Goals Work

When you are developing a fitness program, there has been a motivation for you to do this.  You want to lose weight. get stronger, fit those jeans again, or one of a million other motivations.  Your fitness goals are the targets you attach to these activities so you know you are actually accomplishing what you [...]

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Get Muscles Without Weights- Lower Body

You may have your own reasons for not wanting to use weights to get muscles but for whatever reason, you need to do something different. The best and most effective way to get muscles is by using weights but it isn’t the only way to go about it.
If you decide that you want to [...]

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I’m Going To Grow My Muscles Because I Don’t Have a Bum.

Growing butt muscles (glutes) is important.
All my life people have been telling me I don’t have a bum.  Is having no bum the same as having some sort of deformity?
 I’ve always been of the opinion that me having no bum was a good thing. That is, until I got a gut and I STILL [...]

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Build Muscle Quick! If You Load Up On These 3 Things You Can!

Anyone who wants to build muscle quick needs to know it’s not just what you do inside the gym that will get you there but what you do outside of it.  What you are doing in the weight room is incredibly important but unless you are in training for a competition, it only takes up [...]

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A Smoothie For Growing My Muscles Blew Up My Blender

Having five or six small, good quality meals a day is hard.  Everyone else in my house is a carnivore.  Apart from peas, onion, avocado, lettuce and broccholi, I’m on my own.
To grow my muscles, I’ve been eating fruit, steak, chicken, fish and vegies.  
Keeping a supply of fresh fruit and vegetables [...]

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Do You Want to Burn Fat or Grow Muscle? Part 2

As we looked at yesterday, it is possible to burn fat and gain muscle but doing both at the same time to the degree that you might want, may be difficult. You still have to decide which is more important to you, to burn fat or to gain muscle. If you have [...]

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Do You Want to Burn Fat or Grow Muscle? Part 1

Do You Want to Burn Fat or Grow Muscle? If your answer is, "I want to do both!", then you are not alone. For most people the goal is to both burn fat and grow muscle. But what I am really asking is, what is more important to you? Is it more important to [...]

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Growing My Muscles Has Made Them Sore

Two days ago, to try to get my thigh muscles (quadriceps) to start growing, I did lots of squats, without a weight.  It’s probably the first time I have done squats in years.  Walking up and down stairs has been the only workout my thigh muscles have had.
( This is not me in [...]

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Can I Build Muscle while Losing Weight?

Is it possible to build muscle and lose weight?  The answer is yes…..and no.
It depends on what kind of weight you are wanting to lose.  If you are going to be gaining muscle, you are going to be gaining weight.  There is no reason that you shouldn’t be able to burn off fat and [...]

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Boost Muscle Growth with Turbulence Training

I’ve gone back and read a lot of my Turbulence Training PDFs.  I thought I could just get in there and do my own thing with regard to working out.
Most of the time lately, I’ve been concentrating on walking on the treadmill and using weights to build my biceps.  Believe it or not, I [...]

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