Staying focused during weight training routines can be one of the toughest things to do – especially if you’re not conditioned to working out at all. Read this article for an insight into how to keep on going when the going gets tough! Trust me, it will really help you!
Throughout my 18 years in the fitness industry as a trainer, nutrition consultant and motivational coach, I have noticed that some people who start a nutrition and exercise program give up very easily after hitting the first obstacle they encounter. If they feel the slightest bit of discouragement or frustration, they will abandon even their biggest goals and dreams…
You can use visualization to plant goals into your subconscious mind. You simply close your eyes, use your imagination and mentally create pictures and run movies of your desired results. For example, in your mind’s eye, you can see the “body of your dreams”. If repeated consistently with emotion, mental images are accepted by your subconscious as commands and this helps with changing habits, behavior and performance.
“What should I do to get abs?” is still one of the most frequently asked questions I receive out of the 7,000+ emails that come into my office every week. Although the question is often phrased differently, my answer is always the same:
Here’s another issue we usually get a lot of conflicting advice about: Post Workout Nutrition. Sure, a lot of research had already established that we really lose a lot of essential nutrients during exercise, and the sooner we replace them after workout the better. But is it really imperative for our post workout meal to be in liquid form? Or is this just another one of those hypes that protein supplement companies are using to get us to buy their products all the time? And what about this talk about having to wait a specific amount of time after your workout before you take your post workout meal?
Tom Venuto, author of Burn The Fat Feed the Muscle, provides some helpful answers.
As “gimmicky” as eating from every color in the rainbow may sound at first, there is some very legitimate and scientific evidence that this is a great idea. Each various food color is indicative of the phytonutrients and other healthful nutritional compounds found within these foods. According to the textbook Sports & Exercise Nutrition by Katch, Katch & McArdle), over 4000 phytochemicals have been identified, and 150 of them have been studied in detail.
Now we all know how ladies find bulging arms in men attractive, so it’s no wonder a lot of us guys are obsessed with biceps curls. The question of how to build big biceps is always a classic bodybuilding topic, especially for hardgainers like us.
Like most bodybuilding topics, the issue of building big biceps is ridden with myths. So here Vince DelMonte addresses the common myths when it comes to achieving big forearms, and leaves you with a comprehensive list of bicep workouts and exercises you can start doing right away.
© Muscle 4 Hardgainers 2009. 34 Whitburn Rd. Cleadon, Tyne and Wear, SR6 7QS United Kingdom
Afrikaans
RSS Updates