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Weight Loss with NLP

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

By Karen Hastings | On February 11, 2007 | In Weight Loss-Weight loss diet
NLP can be useful for people struggling to lose weight. In fact, wanting to lose weight is a fairly common reason for why people seek NLP, Herts. Whilst NLP is by no means a magic diet pill, it can be very useful […]

Myths of Bodybuilding that fooled most people

Monday, February 26th, 2007

By Sean Nalewanyj | On February 8, 2007 | In Build-Muscle |
•If you stop working out, your muscles will turn to fat
Muscle and fat are two different things and they cannot from one to another because they are completely two different […]

Abdominal Muscle Exercises

Monday, January 29th, 2007

As a personal trainer, I get asked this question at least once a day, “Which the best exercises to get firm, flat and toned abdominals?” It’s not an easy question to address, since there are hundreds of abdominal exercises.
Let’s face it. Our eyes gravitate towards a flat and well toned abdominal region. We all want […]

Benefits of a Jump Rope Workout

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Jump roping dates back to early human history, when the Egyptians used to use vines for jumping over. Jumping is a natural human movement-children naturally love to jump. Adults may feel more inhibited, choosing not to jump simply for the fun of it.Add a rope, however, and you suddenly have a purpose and valid excuse […]

Christian And Overweight? That’s Not God’s Plan!

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Copyright © 2006 Frank Smoot
By Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD,
Fact #1: More than 80% of Americans are Christians.
Fact #2: Some 74% of Americans are now overweight, and almost 25% are clinically obese. In fact, obesity is now the Number One U.S. health problem.
Fact #3: A shocking 96% of all weight loss efforts end in […]

Alcohol And Exercise

Monday, September 18th, 2006

This Exercise Article is Brought To You By: Mohamed RabeaOn Friday afternoon after you leave work, you probably think about going out and having a few drinks with friends to relax and wind down. Even though you may think you deserve to go out and have a few drinks, there are some things that […]

Guide to Beginning Bodybuilding

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

This Exercise Article is Brought To You By: naveen kumar
Stick to Basic Compound Movements
The core of your routine should be made up of exercises that involve the use of a large mass of muscle and the movement of several joints. Those exercises stimulate a lot of muscle and cause your body to release anabolic […]

Old School vs Alternative Training Methods PT 1

Friday, August 25th, 2006

If you’re an old school bodybuilder and have been working out in dungeon-like gyms for decades, you know that workout catacombs are a dying breed. Today, high-tech health clubs have replaced the cellblock style/hardcore workout facility, and offer everything from computer body analysis to precision based dietary programs and all of the toys to get […]

How to Get Rid of Love Handles

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Copyright 2006 Karen Sessions
Love handles are a growing problem (pardon the pun) for many men and women these days. Love handles is basically a nice way to describe the fat that accumulates on each side of waist. Media Deception about Love Handles Many people are unaware or misinformed on how to successfully […]

How To Blast Past Your Fitness Barriers! - Part 3

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
GHF’s Success Coach
http://www.coachfranksmoot.com/

Welcome to Part Three of this 6-part series. Today we’ll continue to explore the insider secrets of how to deal with the inevitable roadblocks, bumps, and barriers on the road to lifelong fitness success.
Last time we looked at Roadblocks 4-6 and how to blast them out of your […]

How To Blast Past Your Fitness Barriers! - Part 2

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
GHF’s Success Coach
http://www.coachfranksmoot.com/
Yes, as much as we’d like the road to fitness to be straight, smooth, and uninterrupted, it’s a fact of like that you’re going to bump into a few obstacles along the way. Last time we looked at Roadblocks 1-3 and how to blast them out of your […]

20 Roadblocks To Fitness Success, And How To Blast Them Out of Your Way - Part One

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
GHF’s Success Coach
http://www.coachfranksmoot.com/
 Sure, you’d love to get fit, stay fit, and have it all be a piece of cake.  But in real life, the cake often seems a lot more appealing than the fitness. 
The truth is, when you set out to go from not-so-fit to “Wow, I love my body […]

Weight Training Super Sets

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS - Burn The Fat!
Weight Training Super Sets - Wouldn’t it be great if there were a safe and natural way to build more muscle in a shorter period of time? In this day and age of exercise gimmicks and quick fix solutions, most intelligent people would be skeptical if they […]

Creative Drop Sets - A dozen ways to use the best high intensity bodybuilding technique of all time

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS - Burn The Fat!
I started bodybuilding nearly twenty years ago, and during that time, I’ve had the opportunity to experiment with literally dozens, if not hundreds of high intensity training methods. These include supersets, giant sets, pre-exhaustion, negatives, partials, static holds, continuous tension, peak contraction, 5 sets of 5, 8 […]

Fitness - Anaerobic Training

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

By Gaby Munteanu [ 17/03/2006 ]Anaerobic fitness is the force component of fitness in general, which also contains at least two other essential components: aerobic fitness (the part of cardio-vascular resistance) and joint mobility. Speed and skill are native qualities and they are not very relevant for the health state – which is […]

MuscleTech Gakic: A new era in musclebuilding performance

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

By A W [ 24/11/2005 ]
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GAKIC, chemically known as glycine-l-arginine-alpha-ketoisocaproic acid, may be new to Bodybuilders, athletes, and sports enthusiasts, though it has been in development for 8 years already and many studies have been done on this supplement. It’s not like creatine, a stimulant or a generic pre-workout […]

Body Building Basics – Building a better body you can be proud of!

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

By Nishanth reddya
There are as many varied opinions on what “plan” one should follow to build muscle, as there are people who have those opinions. On one thing they do agree, however. You must have a regimen.

· You can begin by defining your objective.
· Why are you interested in body building? […]

What Do You Think About US Obesity Index?

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

BODY FAT MEASUREMENTS (U.S.)
Men 26% Women 36% —-> OBESE
Men 24% Women 34% —-> AVERAGE
Men 18% Women 20% —-> GOOD
Men 14% Women 16% —-> ATHLETIC
Men 10% Women 12% —-> EXCELLENT
Men 06% Women 10% —> BODYBUILDERS
Do you think the above is truly realistic? or Do you think that is is pure bunk? or Lastly, do you […]

Cardio Boxing for Super Fitness

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

The major benefits of cardio-boxing include:
· Increased Stamina
· Increased Strength
· Increased Speed
· Increased Coordination
Cardio-boxing also promotes a person’s well being by strengthening their self-discipline and combined with strength training it’s well and truly the total package for self-defence and fitness and usually consists of:
· Adjusted heart rate work
· Actual boxing techniques
The usual workout consists of […]

How To Build Muscles

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Building muscles is essential to enhance your overall performance in any outdoor activities. Therefore all those who aspire to build up their career as a sportsman or an athlete must undergo this physical training. But the muscle tone or formation is not homogenous with every individual. There are three important factors that influence the muscle […]

Aerobic Cross Training for Weight Loss

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Do you sometimes get bored with your aerobic exercise? Do You sometimes feel like you’re not getting the results you should from your aerobic exercise? If so, then aerobic cross-training is for you.
Aerobic cross-training refers to using two to three different types of aerobic exercise during an exercise session. For example, if you plan to […]

The Beginner and OverTraining…

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

As a beginner bodybuilder, you just may be doing much too much too soon. This can result in a feeling of overall tiredness and…

Star Arm Workouts (Part 2)

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

When performing the classic Vince Gironda 8 sets of 8 program, you select only ONE exercise per body part and you train half your body each session (approximately 5 exercises per workout) for a total of 40 sets. Perform 3-4 workouts per week, each muscle is trained no more than twice per week

Star Arm Workouts (Part 1)

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Next to “six pack abs,” the one muscle group that almost every man and woman wants the most st is arms. So, instead of boring you with a ton of arm training physiology and long words like capillarization and coracobrachialis (yawn), and instead of giving you a single arm routine (gets old too fast), I’m going to skip the science and theory and go straight to the good stuff!

Personal Trainers, Women and Steroids

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

By Steroid Encyclopaedia Team

With the increased popularity and acceptance of Anabolic Steroids in the United States and elsewhere, as personal trainers it is incumbent upon us to become more educated with respect to their proper usage in bodybuilding and conditioning.

My observation as a personal trainer is that they have become so widespread that to ignore […]