By Kieran on February 23, 2010
Strength training isn’t just for muscle men. It is the best way to help your body turn into a weight loss machine. That may not initially make much sense to you as muscle is very heavy (it is heavier than fat.) But each extra pound of muscle on your body will another 50 calories per [...]
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By Kieran on February 18, 2010
For years, we have been told to diet the excess fat from or bodies and throw in some fast walking to hasten the process. The trouble with this is that the low calorie restricted diet would throw the body into diet shock with the body holding onto the fat and using precious lean muscle tissue [...]
Posted in Strength Training | Tagged calorie restricted diet, exercise program, lean muscle tissue, Strength Training, weight loss goals
By Kieran on February 8, 2010
Don’t for a minute think that strength training is not for you. You may not be an athlete about to compete in a sport or competition, and you may have no desire to be a body builder. Perhaps you are older, a senior even. What then would you ever need strength training for?
If you [...]
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By Kieran on January 19, 2010
Once reserved for only competitive male athletes and bodybuilders, strength training should be an essential part of any woman’s fitness program. If woman strength trains she doesn’t have to torture herself with low calorie diets or spend hours on a treadmill trying to make noticeable changes in her physical appearance. With strength training, women can [...]
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By Kieran on January 3, 2010
So you’re overweight, “fat”–to be honest–and you want to start exercising. Before you take off like an overlarge airplane and start preparing for the Olympics trials, stop right there.
You may have it all figured out by now, after checking with your friends, the media and finally that fickle fiend known as the bathroom mirror, that [...]
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By Kieran on December 30, 2009
Most of us have been told that as we get older, we should just take it easy and that we should grow old gracefully. After all, we’ve worked hard our entire lives. We should be able to take it easy. Right? Wrong. In fact taking it easy could be the worst thing we can do [...]
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By Kieran on December 25, 2009
Strength training has several powerful benefits and it needs to be a part of any fitness program. Here are the top 5 benefits of strength training.
1. Reduces health risks. Strength training helps prevent cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, low back pain, and certain types of cancer. Even if you already suffer from one [...]
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By Kieran on December 15, 2009
Lets face it everybody knows that strength training builds muscle but did you know that it does more much more for you in the health stakes. Lets have a look at these strength training tips one by one and you will see what a difference this valuable tool will make to your general health:
Weights Improve [...]
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By Kieran on December 10, 2009
Author: Jason Ferruggia Bodybuilding Expert and Author of Muscle Gaining Secrets
1) Deadlift- Not many weight training exercises work as many muscle groups and build muscle as fast as the deadlift. The neck, traps, upper, middle, and lower back, glutes, hamstrings, quads, biceps, forearms, and abs are all utilized in the deadlift. No other exercise is [...]
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By Kieran on November 30, 2009
Strength training is required to help develop a “base” from which an athlete can build upon and become faster. Strength is required before power training and it helps to lay the foundation for overall body conditioning. I have found that strength is the single most dominant factor in predicting and also improving speed. It is [...]
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