By Pete Owen on Wednesday, June 20, 2012Posted in: Diet and Nutrition
What are hard gainers? They are individuals with a slim body type who find it hard to gain weight and muscle mass. There are so many hard gainers out there who have given up their pursuit of building a muscular, bulky body because they believe it is impossible for them. This, however, is not true. [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Sunday, May 13, 2012Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
After doing just a little research a new trainee will see that most people promote the principle of ‘training to failure’. Failure is the time at which the nervous system simply can’t take anymore at a given weight and crashes, causing your muscle contraction to come to an end. Training to failure would seem to [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Friday, April 6, 2012Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
Along with dumbbell curls, barbell curls are the most common method of building the biceps with free weights. In fact, many people prefer barbell curls which are more effective for performing cheat curls when loaded with heavier weight. As anyone who has curled will testify, barbell curls with a straight bar can feel a little [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Thursday, February 16, 2012Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
While squats are undoubtedly the greatest exercise for building lower body strength, particularly the quads, it’s fair to say that squats aren’t a well-loved exercise for many people. Some people do have a legitimate beef: For people with long legs and a short upper body, squatting can be awkward. The immense forward lean to retain [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Saturday, January 14, 2012Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
Nothing completes the powerful look like big traps. If you want to improve your upper trap development and have tried shrugs and haven’t gotten the results you’d like then don’t abandon shrugs just yet because I have something for you that’ll help supercharge the effectiveness of shrugs, so the exercise starts to pay dividends for [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Thursday, August 18, 2011Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
It’s incredible to think that even today some people still scoff at the idea of changing exercises regularly in order to continue building muscle. “Why would you need to, do the muscles have little brains which know what you did over the last few weeks?” they ask sarcastically. Others say it’s merely psychological – that [...] Read more »
Some people try and build serious muscle mass with very few carbohydrates; some try it with very few fats. I’m yet to come across anyone who tried building serious muscle mass without hardly any protein. Protein is the only nutrient which provides nitrogen, and it’s the only nutrient capable of building muscle. Read more »
By Pete Owen on Sunday, June 12, 2011Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
When we first embark on a muscle building regime, everything comes so easy. We gain a lot of strength and muscle size quickly and it seems as if we have developed a touch which would make even Midas jealous. Then, before we know it, it all seems to grind to a halt: Our beginner gains [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Saturday, May 28, 2011Posted in: Muscle Building Workouts
The task of selecting the best muscle building exercises is simply summed up by many as ‘choose the exercises which allow you to lift the heaviest weights’. This may make sense, and it is true in part, but there’s a massive piece of the puzzle missing here which will be explained in this article to [...] Read more »
By Pete Owen on Tuesday, January 25, 2011Posted in: Fitness News
Jack Lalanne, the “Godfather of Fitness” has passed away on January 23, 2011 at his home in Morro Bay, California. It was reported that he died from Pneumonia symptoms.
I was not born during the time when his shows “The Jack LaLanne Show” was popular back in the 60’s & 70’s. But I’ve heard a lot [...] Read more »