Archive for November, 2009
Why Train Your Abs
Your abs, or abdominal muscles, are the muscles comprising the sheet of muscle that covers your abdomen and is split into the six segments. When an individual has low bodyfat and strong abdominal muscles, these segments then become visible giving them the highly sought after ‘six pack’ appearance.
This look is highly sought after for a [...]
Why Fad Diets Don’t Work Part Two
As though that wasn’t enough, starving your body will put it into a ‘famine mode’ as it will believe there is a food shortage (why else wouldn’t you be feeding it?). This will then cause it to store food as fat far more readily meaning the minute you resume your ordinary diet your weight will [...]
Why Fad Diets Don’t Work Part One
To have visible abs you simply need to have 7% or lower body fat. This is then involves exercise to burn fat, and a good diet that will help the body to keep that fat off. As losing weight and toning abs is such a popular objective, this has lead to the creation of a [...]
The Secret to a Good Mid-Section
Ripped abs are a great achievement, but on their own they can look fairly unimpressive as they’ll be isolated – a six pack floating in a sea of flab or flesh and bones. At the same time training just the stomach can put a strain on the body if the other muscles aren’t trained to [...]
The Science of Working Out Part Two
Once the ATP and creatine has run out however the body will have to look elsewhere for energy and the next port of call is glycogen stored in the muscles. This glycogen is then split into glucose and then again to yield four ATP molecules. This system is known as the glycogen lactic acid system [...]
The Science of Working Out Part One
When you work out or train you are working with your biology to encourage your body to adapt and grow. For this reason a good understanding of that biology can help to make the whole process much easier, and the most successful bodybuilders and fitness trainers will be the ones who understand how their body [...]
The Basics of Getting Good Abs
Getting good abs is a fairly straightforward business that nevertheless stumps a lot of people. In many ways it is less easy to train the abs than the other muscles, simply because those muscles control appendages, whereas your abs are in the centre of your body. What can you lift with the centre of your [...]
Supplements for Building Good Abs Part Two
Guarana Continued: As Guarana is a stimulant this gives it two properties useful for getting ripped and toned abs. The first of these is that it speeds up the body’s metabolism – its ability to burn fat for energy – which makes Guarana an effective fat burner on its own (that’s nevertheless safer than most). [...]
Supplements for Building Good Abs Part One
Supplements are a fairly controversial topic, and many who don’t understand how they work find themselves alarmed that their family or friends would consider ‘putting such things into [their] system’. This is a fairly knee jerk reaction however that fails to look at the facts, and many supplements are no different to a lot of [...]
Sit Up Variations
The sit up is one of the most basic and recognised of all exercises and is the go-to method for building strong abs. Overtime however our bodies can adapt to an exercise to such a point where it becomes almost pointless to continue to use the same movement. This is why bodybuilders use a process [...]