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High carbohydrate foods are the ruin of many dieters, but it is important to know that without a supply of sugars from carbohydrates, our body relies on it’s own sources of protein and fat to meet its energy requirements. And yes, we want our body to burn fat, that’s the point, but we do not want our body to burn the protein from our muscles.

Go for the complex carbs. Not all carbohydrates are alike. The foe of our waist line is not carbohydrates themselves, but certain kinds of carbohydrates and the way they break down in our system. We can best distinguish carbohydrates in terms of simple and complex carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates are what we find in sugary and processed foods, complex carbohydrates are found in whole foods like fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes.

Eat low glycemic foods. In addition to carbohydrates, another very important factor to keep in mind is the glycemic index of foods. The glycemic index is a quantitative rating system that tells us how quickly the sugars in a food break down into glucose in our body. Glucose enters our bloodstream, stimulates our blood sugar level and then triggers insulin in order to keep blood sugar from getting too high. Insulin, as well as lowering blood sugar, tells our body to store fat. So if there is any villain here, it is not carbohydrates, but high insulin levels.

Eat nourishing fats every day. Carbs are not the only factor to consider. We don’t want to ignore the other primary food groups, proteins and fat. Contrary to conventional belief, fat restriction does not inevitably stimulate weight loss. We need good fats in our diet or we will begin to crave fatty foods. Nutritious fats also help our bodies metabolize our food more efficiently and thereby actually enhances fat burn, ironic as that might seem. What are the nutritious fats? A group of fats called essential fatty acids, the omega-3 and omega-6 oils. You can find them in nuts (walnuts are a good source), seeds (especially flax), salmon, avocado, and olive oil.

Eat your protein: not too much, not too little. Finally, we turn to protein. We also need protein every day, but not too much. Protein is essential in weight loss because it keeps our blood glucose levels stable, thus keeping insulin levels ideal. Good food sources of protein are legumes, chicken (not fried!), fish (not fried!), and lean beef.

Bottom line is that a healthy diet of low carbs, low glycemic foods, healthy fats and lean protein will help you shed the pounds and keep you well nourished in the process. Keep in mind too that the health of your body is a contributor. Toxic waste accumulates in our fat. If you do a detox to cleanse your body of toxins, you will help shrink the size of your fat cells!

Becoming a Proficient Player
First and foremost, know all the relevant details about basketball, be it the history of the game or the current league matches. This will help you develop a passion for the game and eventually inspire you to become a proficient player. Get started by playing with the local teams and you can look for a good coach who will help you master the finer points of the game. Who doesn’t want to be the star of the basketball games they play? College basketball is a term used to refer to the American basketball governance structure which was established by NCAA. Knowing the theoretical factors may be quite dry but will help you gain the knowledge of the game at your fingertips. You can win the hearts of the audiences hands down with your style and proficiency.
Your Uniform Does Matter
Being classy and cool while playing is what each player will wish to achieve. Though it is important that you have a good control over your game, dressing appropriately also counts; so get the best of the basketball uniforms to keep the eyes glued on you. If you are clueless about getting started then Gordon International will be the right option available among the online stores.

Been traveling a lot lately. Here are the sites I found most useful lately! And wanted to share these good websites with you. I hope these are good finds for you as they were for me.

Camping Tents

We went up to the mountains to camp a while ago. The back country is unrelenting and we wanted to hike several miles into the wild. The web makes it so much faster and easier to find the right camping tents for a camping trip. We weren’t too rushed but we still wanted our tent shipped to our house on time. When the package arrived, we found that the correct tent was in the box - hooray again! Luckily there was an expedited shipping special. I had the best time camping with everyone. It was a worthwhile experience. I want to do it again soon!

Locked Up the House

On my ‘to do’ list before leaving for the trip: get a home security system. We’re a young family and are starting to accumulate some valuable things. Theft does crazy things to your head I think. You feel so violated. It took a day or two to decide on a solid home security company that would install a security system. The installation was super duper fast. It is awesome, I felt so good on the camping trip because I knew our home was secure.

eFusjon Healthy Drinks

Camping is a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of energy. We decided to take some of our efusjon energy drinks along with us and let me tell you, they kept us sane! Efusjon came to the rescue really fast. haha - I had to drink two or three on the first day with a big hike, rock climbing and more. Check out the ‘a’ team at efusjon. You will not regret it. You won’t regret joining the efusjon opportunity if you do. Check it out today.

See you later dinosaur. Let me know if this helped!

Weight loss is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and Los Angeles is a particularly important place for weight loss diets and weight loss camps. In Los Angeles, the capital of the television and movie industries, it is not only important for actors and actresses to maintain their weight and look fit and trim to get the best jobs, but it is also important for many residents to match the “fit and trim” LA stereotype. Los Angeles even has a diet named after it - The LA Weight Loss diet.

In addition to the LA Weight Loss diet, you can find every popular or fad diet under the sun in Los Angeles. Costs for a weight loss diet can range from free to hundreds of dollars a month. However, many studies about weight loss diets reach the same conclusion - the vast majority of people using them either don’t lose enough weight, quit the program, or gain the weight back when they go off the diet.

One solution to this dilemma may be weight loss camps, which were traditionally designed for overweight children and teenagers. However, weight loss camps for adults are an emerging trend. For example, Wellspring Camps has a location in Wellspring, California, located about four hours north of Los Angeles, which offers a weight loss program for children and young adults up to age 24. Other camps welcome adults and sometimes entire families. While at a weight loss camp the camper’s daily schedule is managed by the camp staff. The camp also controls the food their customers eat and their level of exercise. The idea is to instill healthy eating habits and teach the campers how to exercise properly to lose weight and maintain the loss. Weight loss camps also include lessons on how to cook low calorie and low fat meals, and they also provide other counseling services.

Home gym equipment has gotten better and better through the years. Now, I do not mean any of those informercial home gyms. I’m confident you have seen them promoted latenite at 2 in the morning.To my knowledge, almost all of those home gyms are drivel.

I’m not saying that those early morning commercial home gyms don’twork. I’m saying that if you look closely, and you’ll observe those home gyms are contrived around 1 unique exercise. There was a time when a television home gym was trying to create a home gym lots of unique exercises as possible into one home gym. But it seems the hot tendency is to make unique home gym equipment centered around one specific physical exercise or body part.

The body part that seems most in vogue is the of abdominal region. It appears to me that the architects just go to a commercial gymnasium, see what is there, and pattern a piece of home gym equipment that mimes what you would notice at a commercial gym. The problem is that when you’re working out at home, you don’t have all the other pieces of equipment available to you as you would at the commercial gym.

Hence, what are you going to do, just one physical exercise over and over and over? If you recognise anything about working out, you know that doing the duplicate physical exercise over and over has a point of diminishing returns. Your body merely accommodates to the workout. You need assortment. That is the reason if you’re planning to buy a piece of home gym equipment, you need to buy an physical exercise machine that is an all in one work out machine. That means buying from a serious manufacture. The identical producers that develop commercial quality gyms. Fortuitously, it is painless to do over the Internet. They will deliver it to your house, none hassle no more mess.

Deadlifts are a very potential muscle-building exercise, that will rejuvenate your entire physical condition, to a whole new level — if executed astutely.

Here are some facts, on how Deadlifts can dramatically improve your physical power, to singularly maximized levels:

• Deadlifts Will Quadruple your Natural Testosterone & Growth Hormone Levels each time your subject yourself into this exercise (performed once / or twice a month.)

• Deadlifts Will Increase your Metabolism at Incredibly Fast Rates and Transform Fat into Pure Energy.

• Deadlifts Will help your urination, detoxification, and “gas-liberation” (don’t Cackle - it’s a fact)…

• Deadlifts Will Enhance your Sexual Performance & Desire, if performed Methodically.

• Deadlifts Can Improve your Lung’s Functionality and Heart’s Efficiency, Dramatically.

• Deadlifts Will Boost your Immune System to recovering fast from various Illnesses.

• Deadlifts Will make you speedy, powerful, leaner, reactive, energetic…

I lust the feeling of small in duration, highly intensive Deadlifts which successfully force my body, to excrete a constant flow of testosterone, that awakens a voracious beast inside me…

After a ‘Deadlift Workout’ I can feel my sexuality rise so sky-high… my muscles so engorged, that my poise is automatically triggered and empowered to the absolute maximum.

About The Author

George Papazoglou is the Author & Creator of the http://www.Mega-Mass.com and www.Bodybuildingtips.net Bodybuilding Coaching Web Sites.

Are you stuck in a rut, doing the same number of repetitions in a set, and the same number of sets, session after session?

I’ve found a way to break the monotony, reduce overall fatigue, and still get my full workouts in.

I count differently.

For example, let’s say I need to do 100 repetitions. Typically, this could involve 10 sets of 10 reps. So, I would count: one, two and so forth, up to 10, and then stop.

I’d rest, perhaps working another muscle group, and do the same sequence with it.

By adding reps per set, I can cut down on my sets, right?

Let’s say I decide to do five sets of 20 reps. Typically, I’d count from one to twenty, and then rest.

But the way I break the monotony and avoid fatigue is by counting this way, up to ten:
One-one; Two-two; Three-three; and so forth, up to ten.

Still, I’m doing twenty reps but I’m tricking my subconscious into thinking it’s ten per set, and not double that.

If you’re using really light weights or doing ab crunches, you can even do this with thirty reps per set, by counting: One-one-one; Two-two, two, and so on, up to ten.

Try it!

It will add variety and help you to reach your goals.

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone®, You Can Sell Anything By Telephone! and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He holds the rank of Shodan, 1st Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.

Five times a week, two hours each visit. You’ve been more faithful to your gym schedule than you’ve ever been to any girlfriend you’ve had. And for a while it paid off: those muscles started rippling and the girls started paying attention.

But then, like a bad dream you wake up from, your muscles suddenly wasn’t growing like what it used to do. Your muscles stop responding to your heavy workout no matter how intensely you’ve been training. So you said to yourself, now I will train harder. So now you put in three hours a session and but even as you upped your gym dosage, horrors of horrors, your muscles are actually shrinking.

Ahhhhh, the Gym Plateau. It afflicts all of us and few of us ever gotten out of it. In fact, most people don’t even know that they have hit the dreaded plateau and thought that their muscles can only grow so much due to inherent genetic factors. Not to worry though, if you read the following fitness tips, and follow these tips to the latter, I can assure you that your muscles will start growing again and grow bigger they will.

Here are your free fitness tips.

Fitness Tip #1
Take A Break

This tip is easy to comply for most of us but very difficult for some gym rats. Simply take a break from your workout. Do not step into the gym or do any workout for 2 weeks. Its time to let your body recover from the punishments you are dishing out to your muscles. Some bodybuilders may find this difficult to do because working out is addictive. You produce endorphin when you workout and endorphin is also known as happy hormone. The same hormone you produce when having sex.

Professional bodybuilders take a break after every 4-5 months of hard training and when they are back in the gym, they shock their well rested but complacent muscles back into massive muscle gain.

Fitness Tip #2
Are you training too often?

If your exercises are intense enough, you need only to train each muscle group once or twice a week. Your training schedule shouldn’t repeat muscle groups in the same week. Every time you train, you do your muscles damage. Muscles need time to repair and it does so in the after your training when you are resting. This means that if you lift weights on consecutive days, there isn’t sufficient time for the body to recover. Try to have one day rest between each weight lifting day.

If your routine requires intensive weight training, remember not to prolong your gym time longer than an hour. This is because your cortisol, a muscle eating hormone level will be elevated and thus will be counter productive to your efforts. It eats your muscles.

Most of all, you must sleep! Eight hours or even better, go for ten hours. Muscles do not grow in the gym; they grow when you sleep. When you sleep, you are secreting growth hormones for many bodily functions and one of those functions is to build muscles. That is why they called it beauty sleep!

Fitness Tip #3
Are you using the correct weight lifting techniques?

If your technique or form is incorrect, not only is your training retarded, you are also inviting injury. Don’t laugh. But when you exercise you must think and focus, instead of mindlessly repeating the motions, do take note of how you perform each exercise and rep. Do so with deliberation and at the beginning and end of every lift, pause and squeeze the muscles you are exercising. Mind and muscle must connect! Never never use momentum of the swing to lift the weights and let gravity pull the weight down. That is why you must lift slowly and lower slowly feeling the tension in your muscles and resisting the load all the time.

In order for muscles to want to grow, you have to stress them to the maximum, and then further. Do enough repetitions until you feel you cannot go any further using good form. You must then either increase the weight or the number of repetitions at the next session. This is called progressive overload, and progressive overload is what forces your muscles to grow. As a general guide, if you can lift more than 12 reps the weight is probably too light and it is too heavy if your muscles fail you in less than 5 reps. You may wish to consult your physical fitness trainer on the correct form and technique for each exercise.

Fitness Tip #4
Are you using free weights?

Most machines do not involve as much of the synergistic muscles (supporting muscles) as free weights do. And, therefore, do not build as much muscle mass. Synergistic muscles are the smaller muscles that aid the main muscles in balance and strength in each lift. Machines has its uses, but for beginners and for smashing plateaus, use free weights.

Fitness Tip#5
Workout with compound exercises

Compound exercises are exercises that involve 2 or more joint movements and thereby employing bigger muscles and more synergistic muscles . Bench presses, dead lifts, squats, and barbell curls amongst others are fantastic compound exercises . For example, when you squat , all the muscles in your lower body get a workout and that alone is about 60 percent of your overall musculature . Squat also works your back and abs too. Using more muscles at one go means that you get a better overall workout. To add icing to the cake, because of the massive utilization of your muscles , you will pant, huff and sweat more. That means your routine also has a cardio effect and you will burn calories even hours after you stepped out of the gym .

Fitness Tip#6
Are you working out your legs?

Your body is programmed to grow proportionately with only slight variations. If you do not train your legs, your upper body mass will stop growing before it becomes large. Surely, you’ve heard of chicken legs! Just because leg training can be brutal, it doesn’t give you reason to hide your legs in your pants. To get that super hero X-frame, pepper your routine with squats . A word of caution though: compound exercises such as dead lifts, squats, and bench presses must be done in excellent form and a spotter is highly recommended. This is where your physical fitness trainer will come in handy as your spotter. If not, injuries are bound to happen and that may put you permanently out of the gym.

Fitness Tip#7
What are you eating?

Muscle building requires protein - the more, the better. Meat, especially red meats and fish, are the best source. It is in your food that your body will draw nutrients from, for strength and necessary fats for joint and organ protection.

To have massive muscle gain and help in muscle preservation , you need about 2-3 grams of good protein per kilogram of your body weight . If you want to get serious about muscles , you may need to supplement them with protein shakes . Eating a meal and having a protein shake immediately after your workout also maximizes the window for rapid absorption of nutrients. This is important as you need to feed the muscles now that you have damaged them. You should also 6 small meals a day so your muscles are constantly fed throughout the day. This will help rev up your metabolism to burn fat too. This will tremendously help you in your build muscle lose weight program. Remember to take your protein shake half an hour before you workout too.

Fitness Tip#8
How about Carbs?

Glycogen is the main energy source for any muscle-building exercise. The body stores whatever carbohydrates you eat as glycogen and muscles use it to give you energy during your workout. After an intense workout, do consume carbohydrates immediately to replace the used glycogen. You can even indulge in high glycemic carbs such as ice creams and white bread as these will turn into insulin and shuttles nutrients such as protein to your muscle cells quickly.

Fitness Tip #9
And Fats?

Yes, your body do need do need fats . But try to avoid saturated fats such as animal fats or worse, trans fats which are artificial fats found in pastries, confectionaries and preserved food. Consume healthy unsaturated fats such as olive oil, canola oil, fish oils, flax seed oil.

Fitness Tip#10
Water Water is essential.

Water is essential. It is the most underrated macronutrient. You need at least eight glasses of water every day but when you exercise , you lose even more water because of the sweating. So drink before, during and after your workout. Weigh yourself before and after the workout, and compensate for the loss by drinking at least 16 ounces of fluid for every pound or half a kg lost.

Fitness Tip#11
Creatine

While meats are the best source for creatine, which is a nutrient that helps speed up muscle gain and power you up during workouts, those who do not get enough from their regular diet must be supplemented. Creatine puts volume into your muscle cells and gives you that muscle pump thus your muscles feels tighter, look bigger and overall illusion of superb muscularity . It also helps to prevent muscle breakdown.

Fitness Tip#12
Glutamine

When supplemented, it may help bodybuilders reduce the amount of muscle wasting away or used up as energy. It also helps in muscle recovery.

Fitness Tip #13
Do you change your routine?

The human body is fantastic at adaptation. So whatever routine you are on, your body will get used to it. So do change your routine every 6-8 weeks. For example, instead of working out your chest muscles at the start of your workout, work your back muscles instead. You can reverse your whole routine or change the variations of your exercises or add new ones and take away some old ones. By changing your routines, you not only shock your muscles to new growth, it will also prevent boredom by doing the same thing all the time.

Chris Chew is an American Muscle and Fitness Institute Singapore based personal trainer. He trains models, pageant winners, actors and other celebrities to look great in their glamorous professions.Presently, he is running a local fitness school at www.sgfitnessonline.com and written an ebook “Burn Fat Build Muscles Fast” at www.sgfitness.com

Have you ever said to yourself; “I wonder how I can train to be a bodybuilder?” It is a gigantic question that begs to be answered. All those huge guys with shirtsleeves bulging and covered with hot ladies. The honeys love a big dude full of confidence and power.

Most of the ways how to train to be a bodybuilder that you have learned in your local gym are not true and the methods are not working. Day after day and hour after hour your efforts are coming up short and you are not filling your shirt out as well as you hope to.

Imagine a new day when you walk into the party and everything except the music stops and everyone turns to look and stare at you. All talking and partying has stopped like a bike slamming into a brick wall. Everyones jaws are dropped and their eyes are locked on you. All the boys are thinking, “Man, I wish I was built like that dude.” All the ladies are thinking, “Oh snap. I gotta hook up with that hot beast!” All this is possible and more if you only know how.

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