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Weight Gain,Think Big to Get Big
October 20th, 2008Everyone knows that weight gain is difficult. Gaining weight means doing things in a big way. You have to eat big, to lift big, to get big. Repeat as needed to completely comprehend it.
A lot of people think weightlifting is the key to gaining weight, and I won’t argue, it is an extremely important part. But, there is another thing that is just as important when it comes to how to gain weight, and that is your diet.
Tally up all the calories that you take in on a normal day. Count your normal caloric consumption without changing a thing. This step is vitally important, so try for the greatest possible accuracy.
The day after you tallied up all your calories, eat 500 calories more than you usually do. So, lets pretend that the day you counted calories you counted 2000. For the rest of the week, you would now eat 2500 calories a day. The best way to meet your caloric requirements without exceeding them is to carefully split your caloric intake into 5 or 6 small meals a day. Forget the 3 square meals myth, and of course, don’t just “graze” all day. A mindful 5 or 6 mini-meals will meet your needs and keep you satisfied. Eat one meal every 2 and a half to 3 hours. Make sure that the added calories in your diet are from healthy foods.
The key to obtaining muscle mass is protein. It is impossible to gain muscle without sufficient protein because weight training requires the use of amino acids, which are derived from protein. You should daily eat about 2.2g of protein per kilogram of your weight. Eat foods that are high in protein. Ideally, you should receive your protein from foods and not supplements.
Some folks have the idea that beer will help them put on some weight. But this is untrue, it accumulates in your abdominal region, making it fatty.
And, of course, get in the gym and lift! This is another important step to how to gain weight, so make sure you are doing it correctly. Some thin people think that exercise is not good for them. This is not true, it keeps the metabolism high. Remember that eating alone is not sufficient. You don’t want to gain fat but lean mass, so exercise is important.
By increasing your muscle with resistance training, you will also up your metabolism. One must learn the difference between weigh gainin and weight loss exercises.
If you desperately want to change your physical appearance to look leaner and more muscular, know that by the combined force of these factors alone you will reach your desired self.
Your Own Gym, In Your Own Home
July 29th, 2008Is it possible to build a strong, muscular body working out in my own house? Or joining a gym is the only way to achieve it. That’s the question a lot of foks do and i got and answer for that. Of course you can do it and it doesn’t matters if it’s your house or a gym where you are training.
You may have a lot of reasons to not want to go to a gym. It doesn’t matters. Whatever your reason, there are still a lot of options if you want to workout and have huge muscles. And, as i told you, your home may be the best gym for you.
There are guys who like a lot doing the workout in their own house. They have their gym just down (or up) the stairs waiting for them. And they don’t spend their time trying to go there and back.
If you analize it, there are a lot of benefits of being in your house instead of the gym. You hear the music you want, you can train shirtless if you felt like it, you don’t have to smell the sweat of the guy next to you. You worry about nothing but you and your workout.
And, at the end of the workout, you don’t have to get into your car to go back to your place to rest.
The only real disadvantage is that your exercise selection will decrease because you won’t have access to certain pieces of machinery such as a leg press or calf machine. You can purchase certain machines if you have the money to spend and plan on training at home over the long term, but for the majority of people this simply won’t be possible.
The good news is that planning out a proper bodybuilding routine does not require the use of any fancy equipment, and all of the machine exercises that you would regularly perform can be swapped for freeweight substitutions.
There are some basic equipment that you must have at your home gym, like: An adjustable barbell with freeweight plates, adjustable dumbbells, a bench with incline adjustments, a chin-up bar and a squat rack.
If you can’t afford a squat rack then you’ll have to be creative. Don’t ever squat without a safe place to drop the bar! Most full squat racks will also provide a chin-up bar on top, so you can kill 2 birds with one stone if you decide to purchase one.
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