How do muscles get bigger is important to anyone lifting weights or playing sports. Getting bigger muscles is the top priority of anyone working out with weights. Lets look at how your muscles get bigger and then you can figure out what it will take for you to increase your muscle gains. If you have ever wondered how to grow bigger muscles, then I hope this will answer your questions. Muscle Hypertrophy - The Growing of Muscle Cells Muscle hypertrophy is when your muscles cells get thicker. … [Read more...] about How Do Muscles Get Bigger?
Weight Training
Gaining Muscle part three
In the first two parts of this gaining muscle series I talked about the things that you can do in the gym to jump start muscle growth, everything from types of sets and reps to the amount of time per workout. Now it is time to look at the factors outside the gym that can help you in gaining muscle. Fist of all most people that are serious about lifting will tell you that the gym is at most half of the factor important for gaining muscle, the rest is rest and diet so I will deal with them … [Read more...] about Gaining Muscle part three
Weight Training Split Schedule Part 2
In this second lifting article I want to start by hoping that you are not feeling to sore from your first workout, you will make short term gains regardless but you will want to have interest in doing weights over the long term. Today I want to go over the benefits of strength training as well as go over the Tuesday/Friday workouts. There are many great benefits to doing training. The first benefit is that extra muscle mass will burn more calories allow you either to eat more food or lose … [Read more...] about Weight Training Split Schedule Part 2
Weight Training Split Schedule Part 1
Strength training will probably be the hardest thing to get started now that you have cardio under your belt. The tough thing about training for everyone is that they do not realize how hard they are pushing themselves in the beginning and end up being sore for four or five days afterwards. For the first few workouts just go through the motions and do not push yourself to hard so that your muscles can recover from these initial workouts. Weight lifting bodyparts The body can be split into … [Read more...] about Weight Training Split Schedule Part 1
Dexter Jackson 2008 Mr Olympia
I used to do a lot of really heavy lifting, nothing like a pro bodybuilder, but have always been impressed by the Mr Olympia. Last weekend the Mr Olympia took place and Dexter Jackson won the Sandow (Mr Olympia trophy) and the title as Mr Olympia 2008. Dexter has been a very high level bodybuilder for many years first placing 9th in the 1999 Mr Olympia so it has taken him until his 10th Olympia to win one. There are many many bodybuilding contest but the Mr Olympia has overshadowed all of … [Read more...] about Dexter Jackson 2008 Mr Olympia
High Rep Sets
On Thursday I decided to change things up and change my reps for my workout. It was a killer workout. The workout took 35 minutes. And I am still sore today. The workout I did was a high rep workout where I did the same exercises as usual, mostly, and instead of sticking to 6-12 reps per set I actually pushed my reps to 50-60 per set for only a couple of sets per exercise. This is a High Rep Workout 1 set of 60 reps of incline bench press followed by 12 reps of incline flyes 1 set … [Read more...] about High Rep Sets
Muscle Gaining part two
In the first article in this series I dealt with the way that we can do our individual sets to increase our muscle gains in the gym. Now I would like to deal with the other issues in the gym that will make a difference in gaining muscle. The big things that we can do to gain muscle are more or less sets, time between sets and compound versus isolated exercises. Number of sets per exercise This is a source of confusion for most people as I find that all bodybuilding magazines would have you … [Read more...] about Muscle Gaining part two
Muscle Gaining Part One
Gaining muscle can be difficult once you have hit a plateau, this is a state where no matter what you seem to be doing you are not getting any stronger and therefore you are not gaining any muscle. This is something that really sucks and I will try to address this is three different posts. First I will deal with your sets themselves, secondly deal with your workouts and thirdly deal with the stuff going on outside the gym. So what can you do to gain muscle and break through the plateau? … [Read more...] about Muscle Gaining Part One
Push your body to get fitter
To make an improvement in body mechanics or physiology, you must give the push your body for a reason to improve. The only way this is possible is to put a demand of effort on the muscle groups that causes them to adjust the body to good mechanics and to strengthen the physiology. It is readily apparent that use of the muscles of the body can be arranged to improve the general posture of the body through strengthening those muscles which hold organs and joints in good position. It is not … [Read more...] about Push your body to get fitter
Bodybuilding is not necessarily fitness
I have been working out off and on since I was 15 years old and one of the problems with the whole bodybuilding industry is that it is based on vanity a lot more then it is based on fitness. I still remember when I was 20 and smoking and going into a bar and a fellow lifter told me that bodybuilders don't smoke they just drink. Well going out boozing is not a picture of fitness to me anymore but the bodybuilding industry is built on vanity just as it has been for many many years. I found the … [Read more...] about Bodybuilding is not necessarily fitness
