Muscular-Fitness

The Big Book of Bodybuilding is finally here. Over the last few months, together with my friend of 20 years, the 7 foot tall, ex professional wrestler Conan Stevens, I have been steadily working away writing a comprehensive and complete guide to fast muscle gain, accelerated fat loss, achieving your ideal body using the power of your mind along with everything you need to know to achieve success in relation to the topic of bodybuilding in a book titled The Big Book of Bodybuilding.

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If you are out of shape or just out of practice and your aim is to get fit fast why not try a combination of weight training and cardio to get your body in shape. By training with weights twice per week you allow your muscles to start toning up but by doing cardio 3 or 4 times per week as well you will get your body moving, pump up your heart rate and this is the best way to get fit fast while enjoying a variety of exercises and training routines so you don’t get bored.

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Over the years many of my personal training clients have asked me is locking out the muscle good or bad for the muscle or for the joint. Well the answer to that question is locking out the muscle is both good and bad. However there is a safe and unsafe way to lock out the muscle to enhance the pump and minimize the stress on the working joint.

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The most important thing you need to know in terms of what to eat to get lean and muscular is a diet low in sugar. Actually I don’t like the word diet, I prefer to use the term eating plan. A diet sounds like something nobody wants to do, you can read more about it in the following article Why Diets Don’t Work. To start up a new plan of what to eat to get lean and muscular you need to first of all know that you can stick to it without cheating. I have figured out a great way over the last 20 years as a bodybuilder how to stop cheating on your diet.

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Over the years I have been involved in bodybuilding and working as a personal trainer I have come across a number of handy fitness tips that could help anyone from a recreational jogger to an Olympic weight lifter. It doesn’t matter what your level of fitness is since these fitness tips relate to the human body in general and can be beneficial to anyone looking to simply maintain their fitness or improve their level of fitness.

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There certainly is no doubt about the importance of fiber in your diet since without it you may end up with serious health problems. Fiber is important in a number of ways from decreasing the risk of heart disease to avoiding constipation. Without an adequate amount of fiber in your diet your body simply cannot function properly and eventually you could end up with any number of debilitating physical ailments.

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For bodybuilding and fitness enthusiasts there are a number of high protein low fat foods that should ideally be a part of your regular diet. High protein low fat foods provide the best sources of branch chain amino acids which are the building blocks for muscle growth and muscle repair. Without adequate high quality protein your body simply will not grow after stimulation through your gym workouts or from any other form of exercise. By sticking to low fat food you benefit in so many ways from a health perspective from minimizing your chance of heart disease to avoiding posture and back problems due to carrying excess bodyfat.

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If your goal is to lose fat fast you need to concentrate on just two things, eating right and getting enough exercise. Unfortunately the media, women’s gossip magazines and so on make the idea of how to lose fat fast a much bigger deal than it really is. As long as you keep listening to the media and telling yourself that you can’t lose fat and you certainly can’t lose fat fast than that is what you will get. Start using some positive autosuggestion or positive affirmations instead of telling yourself you can’t lose fat and the moment those positive affirmations filter into your subconscious mind you might be surprised when you start to lose fat fast. 

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The main reason why fad diets don’t work is simply because fad diets are unhealthy and don’t supply you with enough of the nutritional requirements you need from numerous food sources. Some people can stick to a diet if it is the right type of diet for them if it still allows them to eat a good mixture of high quality protein from meat, chicken, fish or eggs, an adequate amount of complex carbohydrates like rice, pasta or cereals and a little bit of fat. You simply cannot live in a healthy way without at least a little bit of fat in your diet.

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