Category Archives: Fitness

19/09/2012 · 11:56 PM

3 Ways How To Gain Energy After You Leave Work

workoutLike the 50 million other people on the planet who love to exercise after they get off work, don’t struggle like they do when you hit the gym ready for a good time. Use the tips in this post to help boost your energy and get yourself ready for a good workout after you leave the office.

Eat A Very late Lunch At Work

Eating a late lunch at around 4:00 pm can help give you energy so that you can head straight to the gym for a good workout. This is how you really can maximize efficiency and skip going home for a meal and then to the gym afterwards. Always think ahead and make smarter choices

Drink Plenty Of Water At Work

Essentially, you should avoid any drinks like coffee or carbonated drinks with sugar during the day. These can often not make you feel that great and destroy your energy level. Stick to water, the more water you drink the better you will feel and more hydrated you will be for a good workout.

Take A Power Nap For 20-30 Minutes 

Sometimes we are so busy during the day that we rarely take time to rest our eyes and mind. Take one or two breaks during the day to rest somewhere quiet, close your eyes and relax. A short nap can work wonders for helping you get back on your feet and ready for a workout after you get off of work.

These simple times might just help you get an even better workout than ever, or at least give you enough energy for the drive home! If you have any comments or suggestions for going home after work then please feel free to leave them below.

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03/08/2012 · 7:00 PM

How To Eat For More Muscles

Are you struggling to get lean muscle that show? Well like most people who actively participate in Fitness classes or a gym, that is usually the reason why…so I am here to help you discover how to eat for more lean muscles that show.

First things first, ask yourself how many servings of vegetables are you getting per day? If the awnser is on average below at least 5 or 6, this is a big reason why your not seing more lean muscles. When you feed your body with these nutrients and vitamins it feeds your muscles with healty materials to keep strong while the vegetables clean your system and your body of fat. Now try getting as many servings per day as you can, think of it like how many times it is recommended to get a drink of water, which is at least 8 per day.

Next step is to properly keep your body and your muscle hydrated with water. This will keep your muscle working properly, while the new water you drink will flush toxins and fat from your body to make them show. So always remember to keep your hydration up. Try a large water bottle which you can basically get for a few dollars from the grocery store.

The third step is protien and amino acids, foods such as fish, lean beef and chicken are very important to keep you metabolism up and keep those muscles fed. One step further, taking a scoop of casien protien before bed will also feed you muscles while they sleep to avoid break down during the night which may be visible in the morning. Its very important to hydrate and eat as soon as you wake up to keep them fed.

Think of your muscles as a constant nagging puppy, take me for a walk and feed me, feed me, feed me! They are one and the same, now execise them a few times a day, always fill up thier bowl and give them lots of puppy chow and pupperoni sticks( Or Turkey Pepperoni), your choice of course.

Did you find this post valueable? Leave your comments if you think this post is right on the money about how to eat for more muscles and tell us what you think!

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16/07/2012 · 11:41 PM

6 Things That Boost Post-Workout Recovery

workout recoveryIt’s tough getting your body to recover fast enough after a good workout, but there is hope. If you suffer from sore muscles, feel tired or completely exhausted, then you should try a few of these methods to help boost your post-workout recovery naturally so you can get up and on your feet again.

If your body never rests, then you won’t be able to come back and workout harder the next time. Here are five things that boost post-workout recovery which you can do that are all-natural and won’t cost you much. So enjoy and get back on the horse for your fitness goals and success!

1.Take Potassium

Potassium is a key ingredient to muscle recovery and faster; it’s also been known as one of the top 10 minerals for bodybuilders.  The electrolytes in potassium helps with muscle contraction and speeds up their recovery process, by which your body will keep hydrates forcing more liquids into your muscles for recovery.

2. Drinking H20

Water is needed to work as a filtration system for your muscles, since muscles are mostly made up of water. If you notice that when you are dehydrated your muscles tend to look smaller and weaker, it’s often because they are not hydrated. However, water acts as a flush system to remove toxins from muscle and replacing them with new ones. Just like getting an oil change done to your car!

3. Eating Right

Protein supplies your muscles with vital nutrients, which of course, help to build muscle. However, it’s very common for people to forget this for after their workouts. Try to remember to eat a full meal with at least 20-30 grams of lean protein from meat or supplement after your workouts to help speed up recovery.

4. Stretching

Stretching often helps to speed up the muscle recovery process by relieving tension, removing toxins and waste from your muscles. This is extremely important after your workouts, because this is the time when your muscles are packed with free radicals.

5. Natural Sugars

Spiking your insulin levels will feed your muscles with energy to recover, but too much can turn them into fat. Trying eating a few handfuls of fruits after every single workout, and you will start to notice some improvements.

6. Cooling Down

Jump into a cold room, and ice bucket or every the lake! Sorry, if you don’t have any of those, you can simply have a cool shown for a few minutes. This helps cool muscles down and break down the lactic acids built up in your muscles after any weight-training exercises, this is especially important to help them heal.

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30/06/2012 · 4:56 PM

4 Signs You Might Want To Change Gyms

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There comes a point in everyone’s life where they need to take a look at the people around them and the environment they are in, then make tough choices. Could you need a change in your life? Your gym might actually be the wrong place for you to work out if you are noticing your workout’s and success are faltering.

Take action now and look around at your surroundings and make that judgement call, your fitness and health are number one! Here are 4 Signs You Might Want To Change Gyms, and get to a better place that is just the right fit for you.

4 Signs You Might Want To Change Gyms

1. Messy Weight Rooms

If you fall and trip on weights that were left lying around all the time you might be working out at a gym full of slobs.  If you aren’t working out in a place that is kept together where the people respect the equipment and take care of it, you really should try to find a better one. Why should you have to sort through other’s messes?

2. Staff Are Lazy & Not Fit

Are you motivated by the people around you? Would you be motivated working out around and with people who are fat and lazy? Your results will take a huge detour if you are in an environment where people don’t inspire you to work out harder. If people are lazy, out of shape and don’t seem to break a sweat why would you want to train there?

3. More Than %50 of People Talk and Don’t Workout

Is a large amount of chatting and socializing a common trend at your gym? You might want to think about a gym that gets people to workout and talk less to each other, or has a place for it instead of in the weight rooms and training areas. If you want real results, it’s about hard work!

4. People Have Poor Etiquette

Do people leave stuff in lockers, messy up the counters, break the hot tub, damage the machines? Are people stealing your weights and sitting on machines destroying your workouts? If you have a gym full of people with poor etiquette, try and find a classier gym and keep that in mind when you join a new one. This may be hard to find, but worth the effort finding.

Do you have any comments you would like to add or things you dislike about your gym? Feel free to leave some below.

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28/06/2012 · 10:20 PM

5 Easy Ways To Speed Up Metabolism

metabolism, weight loss, nutritionWant some great tips on how to kick-start that fat burning system in your body? It’s all about the fat-burning activities you do during the day that will decide whether you will be a lean person or a person who struggles with their weight and gets stuck in this nightmare! Don’t let this be you.

These 5 Easy Ways To Speed Up Your Metabolism are so simple anyone can do them at any time. Just try to think of these things as new additions to your daily lifestyle that will not only produce results, but they will make you feel better about yourself than you every have before! Guaranteed.

1. Eat Raw Veggies

The more raw vegetables you eat the more your body will burn fat and remove waste bi-products. This will help your body remove unwanted fats and help your body keep a healthier metabolism. So eat as many raw vegetables as you can, and you will seem some significant results.

2. Drink Only Water

Water is a good way to boost your metabolism and help you lose weight. Especially if you want to lose weight around your stomach area, you will have great success if you avoid all other liquids. Drinking water not only helps with metabolism; your entire life will change if you stick to only drinking water everyday like better sleep and brain function.

3. Drink Green Tea

Green Tea is a really well-known way to increase metabolism, if you drink at least one cup per day, you will notice some great results. Green Tea also has caffeine, so it is important to regular how much you drink every day. Try drinking Green Tea in mornings and the afternoon, avoiding evenings, which could affect quality of sleep.

4. Go For Fast Walks or Jogs Every 2 Hours

If you do a speed walk or job every few hours, this will help speed up your metabolism keeping your body burning fat all day long. The more rigorous you walk or run the better and longer-lasting fat burn effects. Try a jog or intense walk for at least 5-10 minutes every few hours and almost double your body’s fat-burning mechanics.

5. Eat More Frequently

Eating smaller meals and more often is another easy way to kick-start your metabolism. Every time you eat a meal; this kicks your metabolism in gear and will keep your belly flat and your body lean. This is tricky to follow, but try to eat something healthy every three hours, and you will do just fine!

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11/06/2012 · 11:14 PM

5 Easy Ways To Get A Better Workout

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So you’re finding your workouts suck? Don’t you worry; this happens to the best of us and even professional fitness models who live at the gym. Yes they can have days where their workouts just suck, and often they don’t know how to fix the problem either. That’s why I am here to help!

What we will go through in this post is 5 easy ways that you can get a better workout without stressing over it. Having a bad workout isn’t the end of the world, but what you want to do is stop immediately if they are getting common and do something to fix that.

Your body is a very complex machine, and sometimes a few tweaks are important to get it working the way you want it too. Now lets, grease up those body gears and gets into some really simple and easy to implement ways to make your workouts more fun and enjoyable! Trust me, this equals success!

1. Get Yourself In A Happy Mood

Your mood has a lot to do with how successful your workout goes, and if you are in a bad or stressful mood you will notice the negative effects instantly. When your body is stressed, this causes cortisol to release in the body and will hinder muscle growth and recovery. Chemicals in your body

2. Rest For A Day or Two

Rest is so important for your body to recover muscle, heal that then grow. Without enough rest and time off your workouts can easily be suffering, and you won’t realize how fatigued you really are. If you feel like you are working out to hard or too much, it may be a time to take some time off to rest and come back stronger. This will Make your next workout, just amazing and you’ll feel full energized!

3. Eat Natural Fats

Natural fats are really good for your body to become stronger and able to burn fat while building muscle. If your body feels like it won’t grow or is just not responding to your workouts, try adding things like Avocados, Nuts and Seeds to the mix and your results should improve significantly.

4. Get Competitive

If you see someone lifting heavier than you, use that as a mental push to break through your plateau barrier in your training. Train to look like someone or to be better than someone is a great motivational thing to do while you are working out. Even having a bike race or push-up competition every now and then can help improve your workouts instantly, it breaks through boredom and routine!

5. Spill A Few Jokes With A Workout Partner

If your find your workout is really not very fun, then I think it’s fine to socialize and crack a few jokes with friends. If you take your mind off your workout momentarily, even for a few minutes, you can help to distract yourself from a crappy workout. Give it a try, just remember to get back to work!

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27/05/2012 · 4:42 PM

How To Get A Six Pack: What Is The Afterburn Effect?

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So you work hard in the gym and are still trying to get that nice flat stomach or ripped abs to show off to everyone, and it’s now working! Yikes, all that hard work and still nothing. So how can you get that nice flat stomach, and what are you doing wrong?

Workout out hard on your six pack isn’t the problem, but doing a lot of sit-ups and crunches is not the way to get a good stomach. It may work for some people who already have a nice lean body, but for people who need to lose a little weight in that area, these exercises are not going to work.

What you need to do is follow these three simple steps:

Step One: Loose The Fat

Your six pack is not showing simple because there is a layer of fat covering them. If you do not remove this fat, then you will never see them, or only see them right after you have worked the muscles. To lose the fat you need to follow a process to make your belly burn fat everyday and every workout.

Do this by eating better, sleeping properly, drinking more water and following the simple NO Sugar rule. Sugar is what you need to avoid if you want to get leaner, eating only fruits after and before your workouts to spike insulin levels. At all other times avoid carbohydrates except some whole grains when you feel intense cravings. (1 Cup of Whole Grains)

Step Two: Work Them

Do faster exercises for your six-pack and make sure that you take shorter rests and add more weight to everyone. The better you work them, the more fat you can burn. Doing cardio exercises in bursts frequently also helps to burn fat, while doing jumping exercises furthermore gets your body burning more fat.

Step Three: Ensure An Afterburn Effect:

If you want to lose that fat around your stomach, you are going to need to introduce more effective workouts that stimulate fat burn. Rest less, move quicker and do more reps during your workouts, and you will increase your success in getting leaner. If you find yourself sitting around the gym being lazy, then you are doing it wrong.

What is the AfterBurn Effect?

When you get an intense workout, your body will burn more calories afterwards. This is what you want if you are going to get a leaner body and see those fantastic six pack muscles. Most fat burning goes on after the gym, which most people do not realize. So the faster the workout and the shorter, the more your body will work to getting that six pack you always have wanted!

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22/05/2012 · 10:39 PM

Is It A Bad Idea To Workout Everyday?

workout everydayThis question has been brought to my attention by many people lately, so I wanted to write a blog post around this topic. So is it a bad idea to work out everyday, or it there the possibility that working out every day is actually terrible for you?

The answer is no, but weight training exercises every day could stop muscle production and growth. Evidently, you can do cardio exercises like swimming and aerobic workouts every day, which is actually recommended by health professionals.

If you enjoy exercising often, then maybe you should do more exercises that will stimulate your cardio. Many people who work out frequently use weights, but you aren’t supposed to work out that much using weight for fear of over-training muscles and causing them to break down.

Muscles need to rest often after you tear them to grow, and need to use the calories you eat to do that. Without proper rest, you risk breaking down the muscles further and also the possibility of injury. Rest periods should be 72 hours per muscle group.

This means that you should try to probably just weight-train the same muscle group once per week so they can get enough rest time. Muscles only grow when they rest, so what are you looking for? Do you want to lose strength, or are you trying to get weaker?

It’s very beneficial to rest often so that your body can heal and repair. However, if you practice a form of hiking, swimming or cardio activity for 30 minutes per day, this is good. It’s only bad to know when you are doing too much, and seeing signs of fatigue is when I urge you to rest.

But 30 minutes a day of a fun fitness activity will help keep you more alert, sleeping better and full of energy. So if you want to exercise this much, go for it! Just watch out how hard you are working out and let your body heal when it needs too. Have fun!

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19/05/2012 · 11:25 AM

5 Step Short-Cut To Getting The Six Pack You Deserve!

Hello Guys and Gals, are your looking to make a huge change in your life and get that sick pack that you have always wanted? Well now you can with this 5 step short-cut to getting the Six Pack you deserve!

Maybe people who are active and try getting a six pack, try and inevitably fail. And do you know why? It’s because they are missing a step in the equation to getting a better stomach. For example, you might have tried working out your abs often, and still they are not showing up after doing plenty of exercises like crunches and sit-ups.

So if you have read this far and really want to see some success with your body, then pay attention ya’ll! Even book mark this page, share it on Facebook and add it to your favorites.

Step 1 – Enough Exercise

So you think that you are working your six pack hard and often enough, but still nothing? Well try moves that work your six pack while you’re standing, doing pull-ups and often stretching. Add stretching frequently, and a little extra weight, and you should have no problem’s building carving those stomach muscles. Read this: How To Get A Sick Pack And Lose Weight With Weights!

Step 2 – Enough Sleep

That stubborn belly fat will actually stay present on your lower stomach if you’re not getting enough sleep every night. Get at least eight hours a night really good-quality rest so that your body can repair the abdominal muscles and burn off the fat covering them.

Step 3 – Enough Water

Seriously so important! Make sure that the only thing you drink is water, and avoid sugar except for your workouts. Make sure that you drink a large 12-ounce glass the first thing you wake, up which is a little trick to boost even more stomach fat burning.

Step 4 – Enough Protein

Lean protein is very important; everyone knows this. Are you getting enough of the right proteins, get on board with eggs, turkey and lots of fish. The leaner the protein the better, and switch over to egg whites but keep one yolk in the mix so you don’t barf when you eat your morning omelettes.

Step 5 – Enough Veggies

Extremely important for anyone who wants to have a nice six pack, eat as many veggies as you can. Eat all the colors of the rainbow, and especially try to eat the green leafy ones. The more antioxidants you get from veggies and even fruits the better your body will be at removing waste, and eventually burning off those stubborn fatty areas holding that six pack from seeing the light of day!

Well, I hope you enjoyed this post, and remember to keep focused and leave your comments!

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07/05/2012 · 10:45 PM

5 Ways To Stop Stress From Killing Your Workouts!

stress, workouts, tips for stress, recovery workoutAre you dealing with stress? Like the millions of people out there every day, learn how to cope with stress better especially when you want to maintain great fitness levels.

Stress can really kill your workouts, especially by dehydrating your body and increasing levels of free radicals and cortisol. These awful compounds quickly break down muscle, destroy the recovery after your workouts and never let your muscles repair for your next workout.

Learn how to combat these three awful compounds by adding a little knowledge to the mix. The more you know, the better you will be at protecting your body and stopping muscle breakdown and the demise of your fitness lifestyle.

1. First Put Things At A Distance

Keep distance from your friends, family, co-workers for at least a few weeks so you can focus on fixing your life. When you can focus on who you are and what you need to do, there won’t be anything holding you back, and you can think clearly.

2. Do Relaxation Techniques

Try relaxation techniques such as yoga, hot baths and drinking tea to calm you down, which also helps with metabolism. Stress can make your body stiff, less flexible and will start to add weight to your waist line very quickly. Use any of these methods often to help.

3. Eat Stress Fighting Foods

Eat dark chocolate, skim milk, oatmeal, salmon, walnuts, sunflower seeds, spinach and blueberries. These are great healthy foods that have stress fighting capabilities and will even give you large amounts of protein and nutrients to help with your fitness. Pack at least couple of these in your lunch box every day!

4. Focus On Better Sleeping Habits

Sleeping is the key to removing stress, if you are sleeping well you shouldn’t be so stressed out. Get sleeping aids, take melatonin, drink camomile tea and grab a comfy pillow! Get at least seven hours of deep sleep per night and your body will be better at getting rid of stress.

5. Workout Only When You Feel Rested

Never work out when you are exhausted and will not get a proper workout. If you get to the gym to late, stay at home and plan for a better work out the next day. Take a nice jog instead to tire yourself out for a good night sleep and amazing morning workout!

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