Posted by admin | Posted in Men's Health | Posted on 05-02-2010
If you are over 40 and you want to get involved in weight training, it is by NO means too late! You can actually turn your life around for the better, be in great shape, feel great and restore lost energy that you didn’t even know you had. Exercising is the best thing you can do for your body and it is extremely beneficial. Weight training for men over 40 is the best route to take, because it helps work on every muscle in the body and not just one, like with sit ups or crunches where you are focusing on your abdomen mostly.
Some important things to know related to weight training for men over 40, are that it’s vital to stay hydrated. You can have serious complications resulting from dehydration. All you have to do is drink water and then drink some more water. Do anything you can do avoid dehydration! Coffee, soda, tea, iced tea and most drinks are all diuretics which DEHYDRATE you! You think you’re quenching your thirst when really you are making yourself more and more dehydrated from all the salt and other ingredients. You must drink the recommended eight full glasses of water per day and perhaps even a little more especially on days that you work out.
Diet is also one of the MOST important thing in weight training for men over 40 years old. Proteins, complex carbs, essential fats, lean meats, vegetables…these are all vital parts in gaining muscle mass and actually achieving satisfactory results. If you can get up off the couch and shut off the TV, you’ll find that weight training isn’t so bad after all. You build new brain cells when you exercise as well as get great feelings from the flow of endorphins in your body.
Weight training for men over 40 years old can only be beneficial. Why wait until it IS too late to make a difference or get into great shape?
Posted by admin | Posted in Men's Health | Posted on 11-09-2009
Yes, it’s true. These two standard ab exercises, crunches and situps, can actually be murder on your low back.
Why? Because they involve spinal flexion (rounding your lower back to allow you to bend forward at the waist). But according to research, that’s the exact mechanism that causes a herniated disc in your lower back. After all, most people “throw their back out” bending over to pick something off the ground.
So it makes sense to limit the amount of traditional sit-ups and crunches in your program. Plus, you can’t spot reduce the fat from one area, so you are better off spending that exercise time on a better total body exercise or intervals. If you want to flatten your abs, you need to lose body fat.
So to improve your abs, use the following techniques:
1) Take half the time you were spending on abs, and do intervals with that time instead.
2) Spend the rest of your ab training time doing endurance ab exercises, such as planks, side planks, mountain climbers, and variations of these exercises.
3) Keep your abs braced in all exercises so that you work your abs in every movement that you do.
For advanced bodybuilding, there will come a time that you will need to do traditional crunching motions. But it is best, for results (i.e. growing your abs) to do these with resistance. Cable crunches are good, and you can get results with a relatively small amount of spinal flexion.
But really, when it comes to having great abs, losing body fat is the most important aspect for most people. And if you are a desk jockey, its more important for you to have abdominal endurance than to risk your back with classic ab exercises.
Posted by admin | Posted in Weight Loss | Posted on 25-06-2009
A “new wave” of belly fat weight loss techniques 4 idiots has arrived. Will you be 1 of the few idiots who has the courage to try out these simple techniques that lead to massive weight loss in a matter of weeks? I guess we’ll find out after you read the rest of this.
Before I continue, understand this. Belly fat weight loss has very little to do with sit ups, crunches, and jogging. Don’t waste your time with those… they help, but they’re very inefficient from a time-results point of view.
Belly Fat Weight Loss 4 Idiots
1. Hindu Squats
These are nothing more than fast-paced bodyweight squats. What you do is squat up and down as fast as you can while maintaining a relatively straight back. During each repetition, be sure to swipe your finger tips to the ground so you know you squatted down far enough.
These are great for burning off belly fat because they cause a huge oxygen deficit inside of you. Your body kinda panics and scrambles for any energy it can get. It’s best option is to pillage your belly fat for that energy.
Ideally, go for 100 repetitions in less than 5 minutes. If you can’t do that, do the best you can in 5 minutes or just add an extra minute to get the full 100 repetitions.
2. Incline Walks
This works best on a treadmill that you can incline to 10 or 15 degress. I’ll be the first to say that walking on a flat surface pretty much sucks for weight loss, but walking on an incline is a whole new creature. Try it once and you’ll be a believer. Try it, chicken! Prove me wrong. Just walk on an incline for 15-20 minutes a day. Watch as your stomach fat just peels off.
Belly fat weight loss 4 idiots is as simple as that… nothing more, nothing less.
