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• Are You Overtraining?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Many people start bodybuilding because they want to either gain muscle or lose fat, and feel the need to exercise six hours a day to achieve their fitness goals. Training for that long will not give you the results you are looking for, in fact, it will lead to overtraining. This article is going to [...]
  19 hours ago

• Six ‘Little-Known’ Muscle Building Tips; Part 2

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  4. Never Train More Than 2 Days Consecutively But the bodybuilding magazines say to split up my program into 5 separate days… Yes, I am more than familiar. I call these 5 day splits ‘drug programs.’ They treat your body simply as a ‘muscular system’ and neglect the other systems such [...]
  2 days ago

• 5 Tips for Building Muscle Now

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  If you’re frustrated with your muscle gain or fat loss goals, I sympathize with you completely, and understand exactly what you are going through. I worked out for years before finally figuring out the correct ways to build muscle and lose fat.I finally figured ou that the routines and body building tips touted by ...
  4 days ago

• Why Less Is More When Trying To Build Muscle

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  One of the biggest myths I deal with as a personal trainer is that many people still believe it takes hours in the gym to build muscle and get a lean, muscular physique.Not true.In fact, the best results I’ve seen, both with my own training as well as clients, come from spending no more than [...]
  5 days ago

• Body Blog: Gymin’ It Too Much?

  
  College Candy — Authority: 664
  Who would’ve thought that being a gym bunny could be bad for your health? Sure, it takes a lot of time to work out too much, and you probably don’t have any time, but it is possible that those daily workouts are a bit too much for your body. Overexerting yourself can be easier than you think. Most athletes, ...
  1 week ago

• Diminishing Returns in Your Workout

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 157
  At some point, even the things you love the most will not give you as much happiness as they did. This basic statement underlies the law of diminishing returns/utility and applies to your workout. Yes, there can be too much of a good thing – even if that thing is good for you like exercise is. image: sxc.hu ...
  1 week ago

• Arm Exercises For Beginning Bodybuilders

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Most people new to bodybuilding pay a lot of attention to building big arms, sometimes to the point of overtraining. Don’t forget, the arm muscles are brought into play during most exercises aimed at other body parts so care must be taken not to overdo things.Having said that, the arms are complex body parts in [...]
  1 week ago

• Shin Splint Q and A

  
  Bike Swim Run — Authority: 498
  Q&A Shin Splints. The shin splint is one of the most common injuries of the runner. It’s not a sudden injury like a muscle tear, but can happen over time as your running habits change. It can be quite painful, but if you handle your running right, there’s nothing to be afraid of, and it certainly isn’t a ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to Avoid Over-training to Maximize Muscle Growth

  
  Sex, Beauty and Happiness — Authority: 130
  by Vince DelMonteAlmost anyone that’s picked up a set of weights has or will experience symptoms of over-training at one point in there muscle building program. Over-training can lead to serious injury, chronic fatigue, and even muscle loss.Over-training is very common amongst athletes and particularly bodybuilders, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Negative Space

  
  Triathlon Training Blog — Authority: 121
  I am in a very negative space this week.   I’m going to just type whatever comes to mind right now – to get it off my chest.   I usually try to keep my blog posts upbeat and positive, so if you’ve come here looking for that, you might want to click your back button.  Go ahead, click it right now. I felt on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are You a Hero or a Warrior?

  
  Scott Sonnon, The Flow Coach — Authority: 103
  We’re not all pretty little butterflies with equally valid opinions about fitness. Some approaches are wrong. Whether veiled within humor or outright “bootcamp” hazing, encouraging pushing people well-beyond their physical limits represents everything that health-first fitness opposes. Here we have Greg ...
  4 weeks ago

• Training to Failure – Good or Bad for Hardgainers?

  
  GainingWeight.info — Authority: 113
  The concept of training to failure is based on high intensity training (HIT). First, let me explain what “training to failure” actually means. When you lift heavy weights to build muscle and do the maximum number of reps and sets possible by you, your muscles get tired and reaches a state of absolute failure, ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Know if You are Overtraining

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  As everyone knows, exercise is good for you. It helps to keep your weight down, helps to keep you toned up, and helps to make you feel good. So then, if getting a little exercise is good for you, then it must be better to get even more and if getting more indeed is better, [...]
  5 weeks ago

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