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Good Muscle Soreness vs. Bad Muscle Soreness

2010-02-03T07:21:09Z

Many of you who have embarked on a bodybuilding program recently have emailed me about your�muscle soreness and whether that is normal or not.

Muscle soreness is a normal part of the recovery process that begins once you finish your bodybuilding workouts. �Muscle soreness is more pronounced at the beginning of your bodybuilding journey since your muscles are not used at all to lifting weights. �That is the reason why it is of utmost importance that you use the right beginning bodybuilding routine. �By doing so,�you avoid getting injured or excessively sore.

There are various types of soreness that you need to be aware of. �The key thing is to be able to distinguish between good muscle soreness, which is the one that indicates you had a good workout, and injury type soreness. �For learning how to differentiate between soreness types, please take a look at my�Types of Muscle Soreness article, where not only will you learn about the different types of muscle soreness, but also how to minimize them.

Good Muscle Soreness vs. Bad Muscle Soreness originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 07:21:09.

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Are Food Seasonings Sabotaging Your Fitness Goals?

2010-01-25T01:02:52Z

With so much emphasis being placed on what foods to eat and exercises to perform, a topic that does not get discussed very often is the one of food seasonings. At one time or the other, we have all indulged in some type of food that has been loaded with seasoning to make it taste great! The question now remains, are these seasonings good or bad for you?

In Are Food Seasonings Sabotaging Your Fitness Goals?,�fitness expert Anthony Alayon discusses this topic and eliminates the confusion behind it.

Are Food Seasonings Sabotaging Your Fitness Goals? originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 01:02:52.

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Get New Growth On Your Triceps With Triceps Pushdowns

2010-01-15T07:33:54Z

The triceps pushdowns are an excellent bodybuilding exercise to work the triceps. With different cable attachments you can focus on different parts of the triceps.

For example, an overhand grip on a straight bar attachment will stimulate all three heads of the triceps equally.� Using a rope attachment however will emphasize the outer head of the triceps.� Finally, a reverse grip on a straight bar or a single handle will emphasize the inner long head of the triceps.

One thing that I love about this exercise is the constant tension that the cables place on the triceps. Performed properly, this exercise will help you to stimulate new growth on the triceps.

In order to know what the proper execution of this exercise is, please take a look at my Triceps Pushdowns Exercise Description.� For a good triceps routine that makes use of this exercise, you can check out Lee Labrada's Bodybuilding Triceps Routine.

Get New Growth On Your Triceps With Triceps Pushdowns originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Friday, January 15th, 2010 at 07:33:54.

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Make This Your Year: Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

2010-01-08T09:19:49Z

Most people drop their New Year Resolution to get in shape within 4 weeks. However, this does not need to be your case.

The secret to keeping your New Year Resolutions has everything to do with having the right mind set and using proper goal setting techniques. With the wrong mind set and without goal setting techniques it is very easy to drop your bodybuilding plan and go back to old habits.

However, when you combine the right mind set with the correct goal setting techniques the sky is the limit! Here are some resources that I'd like you to take a look at in order to ensure that this year you reach your bodybuilding goals!

Make This Your Year: Keep Your New Year's Resolutions originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 09:19:49.

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Achieve a New You in the New Year!

2009-12-31T01:17:16Z

First of all I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and thank all of you for all of the feedback provided on the site.� Remember that this site is for you and any feedback provided can only make it better!

Because we are closing on 2009 and starting the New Year I want to share with you several valuable resources that will help you to get started on the right�track when you implement this year's bodybuilding program:

Combining The Best Bodybuilding Routines For Achieving Your Bodybuilding Goals:� With the New Year upon us, it is time to start revamping our bodybuilding training routines in order to add variety to our training programs. To help you with this, I've listed some of the best routines I used last year and how you can combine them to accomplish your bodybuilding goals in this new year.

Accomplish Your Bodybuilding Goals - Bodybuilding Guide:� To help you achieve your bodybuilding endeavors, I decided to put together this resource guide that will point you to all of the information that you will need to accomplish your goals, whether these may be losing a few pounds of fat with moderate amounts of muscle gain, bulking up, or even bodybuilding competition. You will find bodybuilding training routines, diet plans and supplements' advice.

Bodybuilding for Weight Loss: New section with articles from fitness and weight loss expert Anthony Alayon geared for those of you who simply want to use bodybuilding principles to lose some weight.

Lee Labrada's Ten Fast Fat Burning Bodybuilding Tips:� In this bodybuilding article, IFBB Pro and Hall of Fame Inductee Lee Labrada shares his 10 most important fast fat burning bodybuilding tips.

Dave Draper Bodybuilding Straight Talk: Benefit from the sage bodybuilding advice of Dave Draper, a bodybuilding legend, author and fitness expert with over four decades of practical experience. He holds the prestigious bodybuilding titles of Mr. America, Mr. World and Mr. Universe, in addition to being part of the Bodybuilding Hall of Fame.

Healthy Bodybuilding Recipes: High Protein Recipes, Low-Sodium Recipes, Low Carb Recipes, and No Sugar Recipes that can easily be incorporated in your bodybuilding diet.

New Body Part Exercise and Bodybuilding Training Routine Database: Check out the new body part exercise and bodybuilding �training routine database full of exercise descriptions and body part specific training routines.

Please comment and let me know what you think of all these resources.

I wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Achieve a New You in the New Year! originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 01:17:16.

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Fat Loss E-Book Review of Anthony Alayon's Fat Extinction Program

2009-12-20T03:10:48Z

In this e-book review I take a look at the Fat Extinction Program, created by contributing author Anthony Alayon, �and I explain why I feel that this is one of the most complete, effective, and affordable fat loss systems in the market today.

Fat Loss E-Book Review of Anthony Alayon's Fat Extinction Program originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 at 03:10:48.

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Break the Rules and Challenge Yourself with this Bodybuilding Workout

2009-12-13T15:00:34Z

Sometimes, the best bodybuilding workout is the one that breaks all the rules. As someone who has been practicing the bodybuilding lifestyle now for 20 years, I have learned that it is ok to break the bodybuilding training rules from time to time, and that doing so, will result in a shock to the body that will deliver more bodybuilding gains.

With that in mind, please take a look at my latest Challenging Bodybuilding Workout which is guaranteed to test your levels of strength and endurance should you try to give it a test drive!

Break the Rules and Challenge Yourself with this Bodybuilding Workout originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Sunday, December 13th, 2009 at 15:00:34.

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Bodybuilding Throughout the Holidays

2009-12-03T05:59:02Z

As nice as the Holidays are, sometimes this can be one of the most challenging times to practice bodybuilding due to all of the activities that come with this season.� Parties, shopping and deadlines can all wreck havoc into the bodybuilding program.� However, as always, the key to bodybuilding success during this season is planning your schedule properly and using your determination to stick to it.� With that said, here are some Tips to Staying Fit Over the Holidays.

Bodybuilding Throughout the Holidays originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 05:59:02.

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The Difference Between Weight Loss and Fat Loss

2009-11-23T10:00:20Z

While losing weight and losing fat may appear to be the exact same things, in reality this is not the case.� If you apply the wrong bodybuilding diet, at the very least half of your weight loss will come from muscle tissue and bone mass!� Thus, it is of utmost importance that when a bodybuilding diet is implemented, that it be done using sound bodybuilding nutrition principles.�

With that being said, please take a look at my latest bodybuilding diet advice article where I discuss the difference between weight loss and fat loss and I also discuss how to maximize fat loss while retaining, or even increasing, muscle tissue.

The Difference Between Weight Loss and Fat Loss originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 10:00:20.

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Is There A Bodybuilding Training Routine To Get Big and Strong at the Same Time?

2009-11-16T07:07:11Z

Gaining muscle size and gaining strength are two different adaptations.��Gaining muscle size�requires the muscle fiber to increase its diameter through the accumulation of protein and other energy substrates such as glycogen (stored carbohydrates) and even some fats (intramuscular fats).� This is called muscle hypertrophy and in order to train for it one must use repetition ranges of around 6-15 reps, generally speaking, and keep the rest periods to a minimum in between sets (between 60-90 seconds).� When training in this manner, some strength gain is experienced but not nearly as much as if one trained just for strength.

Gaining maximal muscle strength however is a totally different type of adaptation.� Basically the brain has to become better at activating as many muscle fibers possible in order to move a weight from point A to point B.� This is called a neural adaptation because it happens at the nervous system level.� The more muscle size one has, the more strength potential an athlete possesses.�� In order to train for maximal strength, one has to train with nearly maximal weights; mostly hovering in the 2-6 repetition range, and also, one has to rest 3-4 minutes in between sets�of the same exercise.� In this case, muscle hypertrophy will be minimal but strength gains will be maximized.

It would seem that one cannot achieve maximum muscle size and maximal strength gains at the same time, but if one uses clever periodization training techniques, you can have the best of both worlds.� As a matter of fact, top experts like Charles Poliquin propose that it is imperative for the bodybuilder to�include maximal strength�training in the bodybuilding program as after enough muscle size is achieved, one needs to train that new size for strength as well in order to ensure continued growth.

So with that said, here is my Periodized Bodybuilding Training Routine for Achieving Maximum Muscle Size and Strength at the Same Time.

Is There A Bodybuilding Training Routine To Get Big and Strong at the Same Time? originally appeared on About.com Bodybuilding on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 07:07:11.

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