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Can Weightlifting Improve Your Overall Health?

Author: Gerry Marshall Subscribe to users feed

Published: 25/06/2008

Would you like to add a few healthy years to your life? Or maybe regain some of that miss-spent youthful vigor? Try weightlifting for a lift in your overall health. Weightlifting has many proven health benefits and is something you can do at any age. There really is no age limit to lifting...

Strength And Weight Training For Beginners

Author: Michael Crockett Subscribe to users feed

Published: 20/06/2008

The rules of weight training are the same as the rules of strength training, and involves changing the number of repetitions, sets, tempo, exercise type and how much weight is lifted to cause increases in strength, endurance, size or shape. The specific combinations of reps, sets, exercises...

Creatine and Protein Supplements Help Build Muscle Fast

Author: Mike Carter Subscribe to users feed

Published: 19/06/2008

Why creatine supplements and protein shakes? For those who are weight training, bodybuilding, and trying to gain muscle mass, there are thousands of bodybuilding supplements that promise to help you build muscle fast, but which supplements really work? In reality, there are no quick and easy...

Toning Your Muscles Electrically

Author: Amy Nutt Subscribe to users feed

Published: 18/06/2008

In a world where we know body image is less about other people's perception and more about your perception, electronic muscle stimulators can have a positive effect to supplement a good diet and regular physical activity. Using tiny electric pulses, an electronic muscle stimulator (EMS) tones and...

What and How to Eat to Build Muscle

Author: Abi Shaan Subscribe to users feed

Published: 18/06/2008

There are several people working their butts off in the gym every day trying to build muscle, but most of them have no idea what they should actually EAT to build muscle. In fact, most of them eat very little compared to those even trying to LOSE weight! So if you are one of these folks, you...

Post Cycle Therapy Primer

Author: Steven Walters Subscribe to users feed

Published: 14/06/2008

Post cycle therapy (PCT) is a must for maximum benefits from any prohormone or steroid cycle! Anabolic steroids are the synthetic derivatives of the naturally occurring male anabolic hormone testosterone. Testosterone is a hormone that is responsible for the secondary sex characteristics you see...

Reshaping Your Body And Burning Fat By Strength Training: Part 2

Author: Nina Redza Subscribe to users feed

Published: 11/06/2008

Strength training does not only build muscles and strength. It also helps lose fat by increasing the body's resting metabolic rate (RMR). Many people don't understand this. Aerobic or cardio training is still the main activity for increasing the metabolism and losing fat. However, the standard 30...

Reshaping Your Body And Burning Fat By Strength Training: Part 1

Author: Nina Redza Subscribe to users feed

Published: 11/06/2008

As a woman, I have never hesitated to walk into a free weight room, pick up a set of 25lbs dumbbell, stand there right in the middle of the badly lit floor and just start lifting. Never mind the stares I get all around me (95% are usually men). My focus is to get my muscles pumped, walk out of...

The Connection Of Stress And Weight Loss

Author: anthony thedford Subscribe to users feed

Published: 11/06/2008

Stress and weight loss have been deeply connected with each other. There have been studies which suggest that stress and weight are interconnected. Studies suggest that when people tend to accumulate stress, two things may happen, either you lose weight or you gain weight. The bad news though...

The Connection Of Stress And Weight Loss

Author: anthony thedford Subscribe to users feed

Published: 11/06/2008

Stress and weight loss have been deeply connected with each other. There have been studies which suggest that stress and weight are interconnected. Studies suggest that when people tend to accumulate stress, two things may happen, either you lose weight or you gain weight. The bad news though...