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Build-Muscle Index

1. Exercise The Right Way - Dumbbell Lunges By Richard Mitchell
   Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from the perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing the basic exercises that constitute the core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail the processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using the correct techniques before moving on to…



2. Get Rid of Cellulite, Once and For All! By Ailsa Forshaw
   Get Fit At Home With Ailsa : Get Rid of CelluliteHad it up to here with Cellulite? Want to get rid of it forever, and make your body all lovely and sleek? Yeah, me too, so I when one of my old 'Gym Boys' showed me this Exercise years ago, I started doing it al the time, and changed it up a bit to make it work more effectively for me. This is a great Exercise for Women, but I know for a fact that 'manly men' do it, too! ha,ha! (Oh, and in case you are thinking something 'innaccurate' about the …



3. Weight Training Terminology For Beginners By Bill Herren
   Weight training is one of the best ways to shape up and lose weight. The benefits of weight training are too numerous to mention here. The purpose of this article is to help you understand the terminology of weight training so that you can better understand your trainer or salesperson. Perhaps you have thought about joining a gym. Perhaps you have called and inquired about cost, operating hours, whether or not someone would be available to help you or any other number of things. Perhaps you h…



4. Barbell Exercises That Suit Beginners By Richard Mitchell
   The aim for beginners to weight training must be to lay the foundations for the intensive workouts that their bodies will eventually be subjected to. Obviously successful bodybuilding involves bringing together disparate elements such as nutrition and rest but choosing the right exercises is crucial. In this article we'll outline the barbell exercises that will enable new bodybuilders to develop the general strength and body conditioning needed. Initially beginners should aim to complete two …



5. What Causes Muscle Growth? By Richard Mitchell
   In order for muscles to grow, three things are required: 1. Stimulus - exercise is needed to make the muscles work, use energy and cause microscopic damage to the fibers. 2. Nutrition - after intense exercise the muscles need to replenish their stores of fuel. 3. Rest - it is during the rest or recovery phase that the muscles repair the microscopic damage and grow. Muscle size increases due to hypertrophic adaptation and an increase in the cross section area of individual muscle fibers. In…



6. 15 Quick Body Toning Tips By Tony Newton
   Tip 1 - Tummy Toner - In addition to your toning workout, eat smaller portions. Your stomach is only about as large as your fist. So no need to stuff yourself with a large plate full of food.Tip 2 - Try a Trainer - Get advice or help from a trainer from time to time. Some online trainers are pretty affordable like around $2 week at eDiets.com. Or search your favorite online engine for free fitness forums and chat away.Tip 3 - Posture Practice - Practice improving your posture daily, no matter…



7. Increase Your Training Intensity - Forced Repetitions By Richard Mitchell
   You can only build muscle tissue if you can generate progressively stronger muscular contractions, so this calls for an emphasis on finding ways to increase exercise intensity. This should not be confused with exercise duration as maximum training intensity will actually shorten the time needed to achieve maximal muscular growth. In an earlier article I outlined the ways in which you can intensify your training. Here we'll focus on the role that forced repetitions have to play in intensifying…



8. Sneak a Little Intensity into Your Workout By Tony Hale
   You know you’re on autopilot during your workouts when, halfway through you’re set on the pec dec, you realize you’re sitting on someone’s lap. It’s time to shake things up a bit. Every gym has a variety of people who come in and do the same routine time after time. The same movements, weight, reps, they even do the exercises in the same order, every workout. Three years later, their body still looks the same. If you don’t know the guy I’m talking about, you’re that guy.My suggestion is …



9. Shoulder Exercises For Beginning Bodybuilders By Richard Mitchell
   The main shoulder muscles that concern bodybuilders are the deltoids and although they work closely with the arms and chest muscles, it is possible to isolate the delts in a training session. Unlike other body parts though, the shoulder is not designed for heavy lifting in all directions so beginners need to take care and use lighter weights than usual for shoulder-isolating exercises. The deltoid covers the shoulder and consists of three distinct segments: 1. The anterior or front deltoid a…



10. Burning Fat By Melissa Allen
    The more muscle a person has, the greater their metabolism is, which equates to the faster they burn calories. However, resistance training to build muscle is only one part of the equation. The other parts are cardiovascular conditioning and healthy eating. A lot of men that I have encountered feel that weight training is the only thing they need to do in order to get in shape, but wonder why they can never achieve the definition that comes as a result of adding cardio conditioning and healthy…



11. Bodybuilding on a Budget - It Doesn't Have to Put Your Wallet in a Wheelchair By Marc David
    As you probably remember the last time you looked at a proposed grocery list or visited the nearest supplement store, you realized you needed to take out an equity loan first in order to get your month’s supply of food and supplements.Believe me…I’ve had my fair share of large bills especially when I’m trying to bulk up and gain weight.Am I right about this so far?Don’t’ worry… there are some really overlooked and rather inexpensive methods to get all the food you need without breaking the ban…



12. Exercise The Right Way - The Leg Press By Richard Mitchell
    Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from the perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing the basic exercises that constitute the core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail the processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using the correct techniques before moving on to…



13. Exercise The Right Way - The Back Squat By Richard Mitchell
    Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from the perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing the basic exercises that constitute the core of most bodybuilders' training regimes. It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail the processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using the correct techniques before moving on …



14. Build Thick and Wide Back Muscle to Compliment Powerful Chest Muscle By Chris Chew
    Want Your Back Thick And Wide To Complement Your Powerful Chest Muscles?I believe that most of you who are reading this article are already working out in gyms and have already build awesome muscles especially on your chest and arms. However, I do note one discrepancy is that whenever I visit the gyms, for some reasons or another, people seem concentrate on building massive chest muscles but neglect their back muscles. Perhaps it is the out of mind out of site syndrome. You can't see your back…



15. For Maximum Fat Loss and Muscle Gain, Focus on Both Consistency and Variability in Your Workouts By Mike Geary
    In one of my recent articles, I spoke about the fact that you must alter your training variables that make up your workouts if you want to continuously get good results, whether it is losing weight, building muscle, or toning up.While changing your training variables is an integral part of the success of your training program, your workouts shouldn’t be drastically different every single time. If you are all over the place on each workout and never try to repeat and improve on specific exercis…



16. How to Tone Up Your Cellulite Areas By Joey Atlas
    You buy them and they don’t get the job done. Anti cellulite pills, lotions, gadgets, rubber tights and other silly money wasters that sell you hope and nothing else. The truth is, your best weapons in your battle against unwelcome cellulite are a smart nutritional routine and a consistent, properly structured workout program.I’ll assume you have a pretty good handle on the nutritional component.As for the properly structured workout program, which you may indeed have, I’ve put together a butt…



17. Boost Your Anabolic Hormone Levels - Naturally! By David Petersen
    Anabolic steroid use appears to be on the rise. With the great increase in modern recombinant DNA technology, steroids such as growth hormone, growth factors and testosterone-based analogs have become increasingly more available and affordable. Despite their renewed popularity however, anabolic steroids are illegal and have negative effects on health, reproductive status and even personality. In response, this article aims to provide some basic information on anabolic steroids and how to boo…



18. Mastering The Power Of Expectation: What You Deeply Expect, You Will BECOME! By Pete Siegel
    A profound law of bodybuilding, and of life, is “What is expected, tends to be realized.”Take a moment here and think about what you expect from your workouts. For example, what do you usually expect when you go to the gym regarding:• Your performance level?• Your commitment/passion level?• Your intensity level?• Your set/rep completion drive?• The results your overall workout will provide you in terms of size progression?• Strength progression?• Definition progression?I, of course, can go …



19. Personal Trainers with Real People, Real Situations By Deborah Caruana
    TO DO OR NOT TO DO? … ABSTWO WEEKS PRIOR TO WRITING ARTICLE:Jeanne is a client I have worked with for a number of years, and through a couple of births with very quick recoveries. She is naturally tall and thin with wide hips and very flat abs. She has that perfect body for wearing couture as you can see from her Vogue magazine write up in October of 2003. She is the type that doesn’t want muscle showing at all, just long sleek ‘feminine’ lines. We have stepped up her workouts of late because …



20. Protein or Carbohydrates? By Jeffrey Bedeaux
    This has got to be the biggest controversy in modern bodybuilding. Bodybuilders will say you've got to consume loads of protein to pack on quality muscle mass and increase strength. Nutrition experts say that you must eat a high carbohydrate diet, particularly complex carbs, to improve strength and size, and say that a high protein is of no benefit.Who is right? You could say both are right. Only a few studies have been carried out looking into high protein intake and improvements in stre…



21. The Skinny on Muscle Imbalances - Restoring Order As A Means Of Eliminating Back Pain By Steve Preston
    There are many causes of back pain. Injury, illness, herniated disks and poor posture are just a few.Muscle imbalances are one of the lesser side effects of improper use, posture, strain and injury, and are commonly the cause of the aches and pains associated with back pain. Unfortunately, most doctors don't diagnose muscle imbalances until it is too late.Muscle Imbalances DefinedSo what exactly is a muscle imbalance? A muscle imbalance is exactly as it sounds, an 'imbalance' or inequality tha…



22. 3 Amazing Ways to Shape Up Your Muscles in Less Than 7 days! By Venkata Ramana
    Imagine you need to look great to get all the attention at the biggest party of the year. The cloak has already started ticking and you have got 7 days to fix yourself for the D-Day. If you can take out 15 to 30 minutes in the next few days, you can be ready for action.Step 1:Exercise: Start with skipping and jogging and chin-ups by hanging from a rod for warming up.Two steps of crunches or sit-ups for strengthening and toning your abdominal muscles.Then go for Flat bench press and dumbbell fl…



23. Celebrity Personal Trainers By Scott White
    Personal Trainer to the Stars!!Celebrity Personal Trainers!!Who are these amazing personal trainers that train the stars, professional athletes, celebrities, rock musicians, and the rest of the rich and famous?Well, being a personal trainer and a perfectionist, I did some research to find out who they are and how one becomes a personal trainer to the stars. The research I uncovered about these so-called celebrity personal trainers that charge fees of $300+ per hour for their expertise indicat…



24. Overcoming Fears And Unproductive Thinking By Mike Vainshtein
    You might sometimes wonder whether your dedication and sacrifice will pay off as your intended goals. There isn’t a person on earth who wants to invest their time, effort, and money into something that eventually will result in a disappointment.It’s vital to become aware of the extent to which you follow this trend of thinking. Often times you may not have had sufficient exposure and development of your goals for positive results to be born. Thus a lack of experience has equated into a lack of…



25. The Two Biggest Myths About Abdominal Training By Anthony Stai
    If you have ever read a fitness magazine...If you have ever watched TV ads about latest machines that will "magically" reveal your abs...If you have ever gone to a gym and seen tens of people lying on the floor doing crunches....Then beware - because chances are you are a victim of the two biggest abdominal training hoaxes!Myth # 1Just doing some midsection exercises can reduce your "love handles".Fact:You cannot reduce fat from a certain targeted area of your body just by using exercise alone…






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