Many questions have been coming over the hotline asking me about my favorite exercises for the upper body and lower body for building muscle. Since selecting exercises for each muscle group is quite an extensive list, I picked my top 10 (for most categories), based on the below criteria. How I Chose The Exercises From My Resistance Training Workout Routine. I had to pick compound exercises and isolation exercises with the equipment in …
You’re again motivated to improve your healthy lifestyle and become your best self. It’s time for consistent physical activity and exercise, a better diet, and kicking those nasty eating habits away. Sound familiar? Did you say all these same things before only to make it a couple of weeks and be right back to the status quo? This could be for a number of …
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When deciding to finally take steps toward your healthier self, we often make it much harder than it needs to be. Don’t get me wrong, improving muscular strength, overall muscle mass, aerobic exercise, or any other fitness level can be difficult. Let’s face it, if it were easy, everyone would be fit. however, it’s not …
The Keys To Staying Motivated At Home Motivation at home is certainly different for everyone. Some individuals have more motivation at home and others prefer or need a personal trainer or commercial gym for improved motivation and healthy lifestyle adherence. If you told me I had to go to a commercial gym tomorrow to work out, I would actually have less motivation than I do today. I have …
How Beneficial Is Walking And Can It Replace Cardio? You work hard in your strength training, and you want to keep all your muscle gains, but you’re still looking for ways to shed off some body fat to get your beach body in full swing. When you think about extra calorie burn, you likely start to have nightmares of a time-consuming, long-distance cardio workout. At least this …
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I have done a great number of things throughout my fitness ambitions career and during one of my “let’s see how much I can do” peaks, I was running, hard, for 3-4 days, and lifting weights 5 days a week. This obviously took some dedication and careful planning to ensure I did not lose muscle mass nor did I gain any …
We all want to optimize our time in the gym and make our workout routines as productive as possible. As you move from a beginner to an intermediate or an elite strength training individual, using some advanced techniques not only helps you get there but can also provide a new stimulus for further muscle growth. You have likely been performing a workout for some …
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Should You Follow That Celebrity Training Program In Magazines? You see it all the time in magazines and articles showing the workouts your favorite actors & actresses follow. They get in amazing shape for the roles they play to portray our favorite superheroes. They look fantastic and have the bodies many would idol. If they …
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Pyramid weight training, like other advanced techniques, can help you progress with your strength training workouts. They can help you move past a plateau or provide some new variety to your programming. If you are tired of performing traditional sets and looking for something fun, new, and to further progress muscle strength and mass, pyramids …
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Exercise Order There are a number of ways to look at and dissect exercise order. According to most resistance training guidelines and recommendations, putting multi-joint exercises early in your workouts is optimal for performing them later. This is based on the idea that multi-joint performance will be impaired when smaller muscles are fatigued during single-joint exercises. When looking at this from …
