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Workout Inspiration Part Three

By vinay - Last updated: Thursday, December 3, 2009

Your endurance too will have improved meaning you feel out of breath less often, and your energy too meaning you can get more done in a day (you’ll be more energetic during the day but more tired during the night). As if that wasn’t enough of an upgrade, exercise has even been shown to help [...]

Workout Inspiration Part Two

By vinay - Last updated: Wednesday, December 2, 2009

With new and improved confidence and a new firm and flat stomach you will of course stand a far better chance of attracting the opposite sex, and of getting a raise or a promotion (unfortunately many of our decisions are unconscious and based on appearances etc – it’s how we’re wired). By looking stronger you [...]

Workout Inspiration Part One

By vinay - Last updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Working out or getting exercise is the most crucial method to lose fat and expose a ripped mid section. Some would claim that it’s actually diet that’s more important, but a good diet won’t do much against a stubborn metabolism, it won’t train the muscles around the stomach (and the presence of muscles in itself [...]

Why Train Your Abs

By vinay - Last updated: Monday, November 30, 2009

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

By vinay - Last updated: Sunday, November 29, 2009

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

By vinay - Last updated: Saturday, November 28, 2009

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

By vinay - Last updated: Friday, November 27, 2009

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

By vinay - Last updated: Thursday, November 26, 2009

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

By vinay - Last updated: Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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

By vinay - Last updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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 [...]