Showing posts with label strength training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strength training. Show all posts

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Strength training


Strength training is popular among people looking to increase muscle mass and body building activities. Strength training uses weights, weight lifting or resistance bands to build muscle and enhance strength. This is fun exercise if you go with your friends and exercise at the gym together. Regular exercise is a powerful stimulus for body adaptation to performance improvement. If a person uses the same training load each time for longer period, no substantial change will occur with the level of physical fitness because there was no additional adaptation as such as increase of training load implemented during the training.

You might not be aware of it but the need for constant increase in training load or exercise intensity is needed for positive adaptation. This will result to better progressive resistance training. If one uses the same exercise and the same training for longer period, there will be a noted decrease in performance improvement. The science and practice of strength training is designed for serious workout maniacs who can understand, remember, and put information to actual practice.

In the general law of biology, people who employ the same training program of the same training load over an extended period of time will decrease performance improvement instead of gain. The response of any biological object to a constant stimulus will result to a significant decrease over time (Zatsiorsky & Kraemer, 2006). This means that you need to consult a fitness expert for your physical fitness program. We can not do anything with reality that is biological. We certainly need more information and techniques on how to make our efforts work out to the maximum.

References

Zatsiorsky, V. & Kraemer, W. J. (2006). Science and practice of strength training. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Secrets to a lean body


The truth about abs is knowing body part isolation and how to best work it out in strength training. Discover how to manipulate training variables and to give your body a muscle building fat blasting workout. All you need is consistency and program variability for maximum desirable body curves results. Find powerful strategies and training programs that are more exciting and result producing. Enjoy life to the fullest. Increase your energy, build your strength, sculpt your body and strive to achieve your unique individualized peak fitness benefits. With workout, fitness or strength training, you are able to live longer, happier life while reducing risk from cancer and other degenerative diseases.


Start thinking responsibility to your health. Rich supplement companies do not give much help either. They are no quick fix solution. Technology has allowed us to perform as little movement as we need to on a daily basis. If weight training does not interest you then maybe swimming, rock climbing, mountain biking or other competitive sports would on a regular basis. The solution to getting leaner body and flatter abs is easy. Physical activity and smart whole food decisions should never be compromised with heavily processed, refined filled with chemicals and other modified natural state food supplies. Get out and move your bodies on a regular basis. Reduce body fat and bring out eye-catching muscle tone and fabulous abs.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Strength training for core muscles

Strength training always refer to a workout program that can help you build muscles and lose fat. Yup, this is like body sculpting through body-weight exercises to get the physique you want. Strength training is about long lasting habits for permanent change as long as you are ready to do what it takes. Of course you consult a fitness doctor first to determine if the program is appropriate for you.

In one book that I read, it says that weight lifters burns additional calories days after the workout. The increased metabolic effect of aerobics last only for 30 to 60 minutes. Weight training effects last as long as 48 hours. Strength training burns calories long after you leave the gym to maybe until your next workout while aerobics exercise burns only at the time of workout. The extra muscle you build through strength training makes your body burn calories even at rest to keep that new muscle alive.

Weight lifting causes your muscle tissues to break down and rebuild at a higher rate than normal. Muscles break and rebuild. Strength training helps accelerate the process. Know then that short but hard workout had the same effect as longer workout. The more muscle you have, the easier for you to lose fat. Part of the exercise program must focus on particular movement or development of a specific region to help you burn fat and reshape your body. When it comes to long term weight management, gym strength training is preferred.

When you plan to start weight training disembark low fat diets. Low fat diet suppresses the manufacture of testosterone. This is the hormone that contributes to the growth of muscle and burning of fat. Low testosterone level makes your body stores fat more. Eat more protein too which is the most powerful nutrient for building muscle and increasing metabolism. Protein builds calorie-consuming muscle. To have great looking abs, you need to develop abdominal muscles through strength training. Start doing total body training three times a week to have a tighter stronger midsection.

Whole body strength training program can put muscle on your chest, back, shoulders and legs. This gives you a younger stronger body look while helping you burn calories 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Typically you increase muscular strength through consistent and progressive training with weights. Shift emphasis from one region to another on each set of alternate exercise. Still you need to perform aerobic training for your cardio exercises. You also need to include flexibility training to preserve and improve the range of motion in your joints and muscles. This will help you reduce injury while training. This also helps prepare your muscles for a more rigorous activity.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Abs core exercises

Every man and woman dreams of perfect body curve. Well it can be achieved but you need to be committed and extra dedicated with your time management and lifestyle to achieve your goal. It does not have to be exercises alone but it covers everything from diet, nutrition, lifestyle and your physical activity. And the best exercise starts with your abs for core strengthening and good back support. Build your midsection in combination with the rest of your body and look good with a straight aligned spine. It is not possible to stand tall and well… sort of stand above the crowd without a strong midsection or abs.

One blog writer who had been doing abdominal exercises for five years can attests that abs exercises do build strong abs and fully flexible body. He got low back chronic problems and he had been perfectly managing the pain since he started doing abs exercises. So let’s get on to it and obtain whichever fits our situation best: the back pain relief or the body curves. Whatever it is, abs exercises are bound to deliver both results: real time pain exercise management and perfect body curves.

Let’s talk about strength training. Strength training differs from body building and weightlifting. Strength training is done by the use of resistance to obtain muscular contraction. The most common method is using gravity or elastic forces or resistance bands like theraband to oppose muscle contraction. You increased muscular strength, improve flexibility, increase lean body mass, reduce body fat and improve functional ability with strength training. Strength training should be done in moderate intensity if you are suffering from low back pain. The idea is to develop and maintain fat free weight. That’s what my doctors been telling me before when pain is level is already 9. Exercise … exercise…. And maintain desirable weight!

Learn the proper technique to perform your training program from your coach or trainer. This could be a great way to improve strength, endurance and muscle tone but still there is a need to perform cardio exercises to work out your heart and lungs. A combination of cardio exercise and strength training will help you reduce body fat, increase lean muscles and burn calories more efficiently. Workouts should be balanced with proper dose of strength training. Muscle mass diminishes as you grow older and if you don’t do anything to replace it, fat increases and accumulates in bulges all over. To keep you trim and fit, you need to preserve and enhance your muscle mass at any age.