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We will discuss some common mistakes in bodybuilding concerning diet. We will discuss what to do about these mistakes.

Not giving one diet enough time – Don’t expect to change your diet and then make great gains in a matter of a week. It can take 3 weeks for your body to get used to your new diet. Think of your diet as helping your bodybuilding workouts, not a means to an end in itself. Meaning, if you have a perfect diet, that alone won’t do it. The laws of muscle building still apply. You will have to lift weight and recover before your muscles will grow. And this takes time. So don’t keep changing your diet because you are not getting quick results.

Not counting calories – This applies most to those competing in bodybuilding. If this is your full time job or you just want to be the best you can be when competing, then you must track everything. This includes tracking your food intake. Carbs, fats and proteins. You might not be meeting your bodybuilding goals because you are not eating the right amount of carbs, fat or protein.

Relying on supplements too much – Supplements are just that. They supplement your diet and it is your diet and training with rest, which will give you your success for packing on muscle.

Inconsistent eating – You need to be consistent in how often and how much you eat. Stick to your plan and don’t alter it. Missing meals is going to hurt your goal of muscle growth. You made the plan for a reason, now stick with it.

Judging success by your Scale – If you are trying to trim down your fat, don’t just rely on the scale. Scales are deceiving as you can lose muscle and think you are on the right track or gain muscle mass and think you did not lose fat.

When starting out in your muscle building workouts, you will want to find a good routine fit for you. So what will work best for you? Lets look at ways you can tell if a routine will work and work for you.

First, you want to make sure that whatever routine you might follow, it has gotten results for those that have subscribed to its teachings.

You need a routine that is progressive in its training advice. Meaning, you want to keep progressively overloading your muscles with heavier weight as you get stronger.

Recovering between workouts is something that is very important and should not be pushed aside. Your body needs to recover so it can be ready to lift heavy for the next workout. The routine you are looking at should mention rest as a necessary factor of gaining muscle. Your muscles actually grow when they are resting.

Is the routine right for you specifically? Maybe because of health reasons a routine that is considered high intensity might be too much for you to handle. If you are someone that does not want to go to the max in your training, then high intensity training might not be for you.

Although high intensity training is the fastest way for muscle mass building, you might not be willing to take your mind to the limit and go to failure at each workout. It might be too much stress for you. The good thing though, is that you can go to the gym less often with high intensity training.

There are routines that call for more volume in their training program. These routines have you lifting lighter weights for more sets and reps. Now someone else might find this taxing on them as they have to concentrate for longer periods of time in their training. So find what works best for you, not only physically but mentally.

Eating appropriately is the most vital part of your bodybuilding meal plan.

In my eyes, it is tougher to eat appropriately, than it is to go to the gym and work a 2 hour weight training session. Most people have experienced that. I was advised to eat appropriately. I took the advice and acted on it. My size and muscle mass increased markedly.
Most people think that feeding themselves with massive protein food and less of other food will help them build mass. If that’s what you do, you could have some serious malnutrition problems arise, as you wont be getting all that you need to function. There’s no point trying to build muscle mass and in the process getting weak physically.
What you really want is to have the right proportion of protein in your diet, especially when your body is ready for it. My muscle mass diet starts as soon as I get up. Breakfast every morning is scientifically proved to be the best to fire up your digestive system and muscles; it also gets your body prepared for the entire protein intake during the rest of the day.
It is good, if you can include lots of complex carbohydrates and fibers in your breakfast. Whole grain bread and porridge is an ideal breakfast. Vitamins and fibers are healthy for your digestive system and it also prepares you for more protein intake, your body will react on it after a few hours.
Beef and chicken are not food that can be easily digested early in the day. Proteins that are not easily digested should be taken later in the day.
At about 10 in the morning, you should be ready for another protein intake. At this time, it is recommended that you eat broccoli, cottage cheese and brown rice. If you have a sweet tooth, low fat and sugar yogurt with banana and some whole meal bread is a good alternative to include in your bodybuilding diet plan
The next hour for food is around mid day or lunch time. Eat food that contains fiber and protein, tuna or chicken salad with whole meal bread will be good. Alternatively, you may eat low fat quality sausages or chicken breast meat.
At about 3 in the afternoon, you may want to have some cottage cheese, if you haven’t had it as yet. Having some vegetables which are high in iron will  keep your energy levels up and your mind active. Silver beet or steamed spinach or potatoes can be included as well, as part of a balanced bodybuilding diet.
If you plan to start training at around 7 in the evening, you are advised to drink some protein shake 30 minutes before you start training. If you have a really heavy shake before the training, you may experience cramps, so keep it light, 250ml of milk mixed with 2 scoops of whey protein will be ideal.
After training, you should have a decent protein shake e.g. 400ml of milk mixed with 3 or 4 scoops of whey, some eggs and banana. It is vital to the bodybuilding diet to drink your post-training shake. At about 9pm, have your tea. Tea should contain 300gms of protein which is equivalent to a chicken breast meat or beef or fish around . Have tea with some brown rice, fresh vegetables and beans, and wash it down with lots of water or fresh fruit juice.
Sticking to muscle building foods like this, will help you net awesome muscle gain results, fast.

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When it comes to fat loss, their is a discussion going on between a lot of people as to what are the best exercises to lose weight and fatloss. Is it a intense cardio program that gets the heart pumping hard and the sweat running or is slow intense muscle building exercises that burn up that fat and help us all to the perfect bodies we crave for. This article is going to answer theses questions and at the same give some great fat burning exercise tips.

Fat reducing Aerobic Exercises, are theses the best exercises to get to our goals. Exercises like walking, running cycling, rebounding (mini trampoline). Aerobic exercises are great for burning the energy that you have in your body now and as such theses exercise routines are fantastic for loosing weight but it is much more effective combined with muscle building exercises.

So will just doing cardio exercises lose weight? Yes but it will take longer unless you combine it with muscle building techniques. When we build muscle we up our metabolism making it faster and as muscle when idle eats up more of your energy intake (calories) than fat then we lose a lot more fat loss and so what you have to do is burn the fat feed the muscle.

So now that we know what we have to do and combine both muscle building and aerobic exercises for a great fat burning routine we have to find the right plan. What I mean here is that when some women hear muscle building they think that they may have to bulk up and look like some bodybuilder but to get anywhere near that level would require serious exercise routines. It’s just a question of finding the right balance that suits our bodies

Did you know that you can carry out more than a standard ChinUp with your Chin Up Bar? The result is can get better use out of your ChinUp bar, exercising a greater number of muscle areas and giving you a far better overall toned an muscular physique.

ChinUp

Chin ups should be carried out by griping the Pull Up Bar with your grip facing inwards (this is called a supinated grip). You should lift yourself up to the point your chin is raised above the bar, prefrebly until you can touch the bar with your pecs. If you can’t do this at the beginning you can do negative chin ups where you use a chair to put yourself in the completed position and lower yourself down. You can do assisted chin ups; where a resistance band, box or assistant helps you with the final small push to the top.  Finally you could try kip chin ups; where a swinging motion of the lower body can be used to aid you in the exercise. Once you can do chin ups you can start adding ballast to make the exercise more difficult.

Muscles Used: Lats

Pull Ups

Pull ups should be conducted in an identical way as chin ups but with the palms facing away from you (pronated grip). By changing your hand position, and the movement this restricts you to a lower stress is placed on using the bicep muscle which will force the other muscles to be exercised more.

Targets: Latissimus dorsi

Hanging Leg Raises

Leg raises are conducted by dangling from the Pull Up bar and raising the lower body up in a straight line to make an L shape or 90 degree angle.

Muscles Used: Stomach

Incline Press Ups

We all know that a press up is an easier alternative to bench press, but when you don’t have access to get to a gym a push up is better than not completing your chest routine.

With some of the newer generation over the door Pull-Up bars such as the Medicarn Chin Up Bar these can be placed on the ground and the frame used for conducting incline push ups, instead of just doing normal press ups. By conducting the exercise on an incline a higher focus is placed on the upper chest muscles which will give a fuller and better look throughout the body instead of just focusing on the lower pec muscles.

Muscles Used: Pectoralis major muscle

Decline Push Ups

In an identical way as you have just used the bar to perform incline press ups you can also put your feet on it to conduct decline push ups; which will focus on the lower chest area instead of the upper.

Muscles: Chest

The meaning of healthy living means differently for each and every person.However, there are 2 primary things that many will agree on.You must eat organic foods that nourish your body, and you need to have consistent good exercises. These things sound simple but can be harder than most people think when they set off on a new plan for a better and healthy life. This is why it is sometimes smart to go ahead one step at a time until you have gotten where you want to be and are comfortable with your lifestyle habits and your health.

You can start with modifying your diet. You have to be careful here, as there is a lot of bad advice out there. If you are not exactly sure which way to turn, the first step is to talk with your doctor about changing your diet for a healthy living, and get proper recommendations from them. They can probably point you to the right and good nutritionist. These diet professional will advise you on the right type of food to eat, what for exercise and what you should avoid. A nutritionist should have an accredited college degree, so don’t be afraid to ask them about their training background and experiences.

If you are not sure of what to exercise to get a healthy living, you are forgiven. If you are not the type who moves around a lot or active, you can get some great benefits from just walking around the block or your office. After a while, you may want to add more challenges to your routine, and that is when hitting a gym can be a great idea. Personal trainer is a good choice to get help if you can afford it. Remember, not all personal trainers are good at what they are doing. If you find that person strange and do not like what they are doing for you, move on quickly.

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