Getting six pack abs is perhaps the ultimate dream of every man. This is mainly because women consider great abs as the ultimate symbol of sexiness in a man and having six pack abs also highlights the fact that you are a healthy individual
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How To Lose Belly Fat
If you are carrying a few extra pounds whether in the form of a beer gut, potbelly, love handles, or belly fat, you’re certainly not alone. In recent years, the number of people who are overweight has dramatically increased worldwide. And, this can all be blamed on the advancing technologies that have forced people to…
How To Lose Weight Safely?
The problem with quick weight loss guides on the internet is that there are just too many. If you are a newbie who is looking to lose weight safely and naturally, finding the right guide for your body type can become a challenge. You may not even be looking for advanced techniques; just basic steps …
If My Last Day of CrossFit Were Tomorrow…
Nope…I wouldn’t take part in anything like CrossFit endurance training. If tomorrow were my last day on this earth, I wouldn’t want to end my life with one of the regular intense CrossFit workouts. A third situation includes few factors that can make intensity prescriptions obscure as well. Like when you stumble into specific exercises for which 1RMs don’t exist at all. Maybe you run into exercises for which 1RMs are not possible or not advisable. Also, there can be such a routines, for which 1RMs have not been tested yet.
Priority Principle
In the next couple of articles, we’re going to cover some of the training principles and methods, used by advanced athletes, that either compete, or just try to take their already established, solid base of muscle to the next level. Priority principle Usually, when you start talking about working out with someone, who has years…
Cardio for Beginners
Take the first step of increasing your cardio endurance and stamina, by understanding the key benefits of aerobical training. Learn how to structure your cardio workouts.
Full Range of Motion
Full Range of Motion (ROM) The only beginners’ method for completing the workload and ideas, implied in the principles we talked about above, is the full range of motion. This way of training, where the tension extends along the full range of motion of the exercise and tenses all the sectors of the worked muscle,…
Stalling on Progress, De-adaptation
De-Adaptation Before analyzing the basic principle called de-adaptation, we have to clear out the term ‘Adaptation’ It can be defined as – A process, in which the organism gets used to the irritants from the inner and outer environment. In sports, we observe two types of adaptation: Positive adaptation Negative adaptation When beginners start to …
Muscle Isolation
This is a basic principle, that revolutionized the bodybuilding training methods. Muscles can work as synergists, antagonists, stabilizers or separately. During the basic (compound exercises) the muscle groups work together, without being able to differentiate the participation of the separate synergists. Something more to it, during the progressively increasing fatigue the individual unconsciously transfers the…
How Many Repetitions Should You Do In a Set?
Systemizing the number of sets and reps in each exercise. Getting down to the most optimal number of sets for one exercise is a problem for most trainees. The modern training methods point the number of sets per exercise towards 3-4 sets. If we do a single set in an exercise, that would be more …
