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What the fitness industry doesn’t tell you

26 Friday Sep 2014

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Nowadays because of the internet the fitness industry is forever growing and along with the growth of the industry comes a lot of new trainers/online stars. All you have to do is go on youtube and look for a specific workout or exercise and your flooded with countless videos of topless guys with vain’s popping out of their muscles trying to tell you what to do.

I personally have learned a lot from these kinds of people and made some real progress using certain techniques that a lot of the pro athletes use. However, you need to make sure you take advice and learn from these videos with an open mind. A lot of these guys market themselves very well and make you believe everything they are saying. What the internet does not tell you is that a huge number of these so called fitness/health experts are actually taking performance enhancing drugs (steroids) to look and be in the kind of shape that they are. Im not saying that everyone is taking them because i know guys that are in great shape and are natural, But please don’t be stupid enough to believe that if you copy someones workout and diet plan that is taking steroids that you will end up looking like them, it just doesn’t work like that.

That being said, i have nothing against people that use them. You can gain a huge amount of size and strength taking different types of steroids and everyone is entitled to do what they want. But just make sure when your seeking online advice and new inspiration you keep this post in mind. This is a topic i just wanted to cover because i know a lot of people are easily mislead, don’t be one!

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Bigger shoulders

21 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by in begginner workout, Bodybuiding, Fitness, fitness model, Muscle

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What a lot of people don’t realise when it comes to building well shaped muscle is that you need to hit the muscle from every angle. Your deltoids are a muscle that have 3 main heads or sections.Which are the anterior (front) middle and the posterior (rear). So to form well rounded shoulders you will need to be doing exercises that don’t just work the anterior head but the middle and posterior also. Here is a great workout that will do just this.

21s – superset front raise with side raise and rear delt raise

7 reps front,7reps side raise,7reps rear delt raise x3
Military press (barbell)

10reps x 3 sets
Side raise (dumbbell)

10reps x 3 sets
Front raise (barbell)

10reps x 3 sets
Upright row (EZcurlbar)

10reps x 3 sets

Rear delt raise (dumbell)

10reps x 3 sets

Shrugs (dumbbell)

10 reps x 4 sets

Over training

20 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Over training is a subject that i think many people disregard and don’t even think about as they are to busy trying to improve their fitness or pack on as much muscle as possible. This is great, however the majority of people don’t actually realise that overtraining can massively effect your fitness goals or muscle gains or even result in injury. To improve on any aspect of fitness you need to overload your body to some extent for a fair amount of time, however you still need to have rest days to let your body completely recuperate and adjust to the physical demands A Typical week for me i probably train anywhere between 4-6 times but i always make sure i have one or two rest days where stock up on all the nutrients i need to prepare me for the up coming workouts.Overtraining will eventually result in your gains slowing down or stopping all together! Make sure you rest. i get it its hard for some people as if your like myself and you love training you feel lazy or agitated when your not in the gym but for your own sake be sure to have some chill time.

Some of you are probably not sure what the signs of over training are so here are a few common symptoms:

Constant muscle soreness

Trouble sleeping

Feeling weak and tired 

Weak immune system 

Lack of motivation

If you have any of these signs or your now thinking that your overtraining just have a few days of or if your a heavy weight lifter why not try and swap the weight sessions for a few light cardio sessions instead?

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