Dieting down is the best way to showcase your bodybuilding progress over the last year. You shed the fat, and the only thing remaining is a new 3-dimensional version of yourself, diced and ready to topple your challengers in any competitive arena. However, many competitors quickly discover that while it’s easy to be round, happy and strong, dieting down presents a new set of challenges to their immune system – thanks to stringent dieting and tough cardio – that often cause them to catch a flu bug or cold. Here are some ideas you can employ to help maintain good health as you put your body through dieting misery.
Category Archives: Recovery
Apr5
2012
2012
Feb5
2012
2012
You work late a few times a week. Maybe you work as a waitress or play in a band on the weekends. Maybe your standard job has some non-standard hours. Whatever the job may be, you find yourself in a situation where you end up spending one or more days each week trying to regain lost sleep in an effort to get your body back to normal. You often find your meals and workouts suffer as a result. Let’s look at a few techniques for solving this problem and maintaining fat loss and muscle gain while the clock is going topsy turvy!
Feb4
2012
2012
Many a survivalist has proclaimed for years that the sky was always falling, the world is always ending. Instead of just letting it happen and hoping the end is quick, they prepare for a world after Armageddon. They stock up on foods, keep plenty of clean water on hand, and always keep close an item called a “bug out bag”.
Jan31
2012
2012
Life throws plenty of curveballs in our direction. All we can do is choke up on that bat and hit them out of the park when they arrive, right? Let’s look at ways that we can use the many benefits of exercise and proper diet for dealing with the roadblocks that will inevitable be in the road before us.
Jan27
2012
2012
You might look like a superhero on the outside, with all the muscles and veins and symmetry and good posture. But on the inside, even a big bodybuilder such as yourself is human. You have the same heart, brain, and other organs which can fail due to age and the rigors of your lifestyle. In fact, as a bodybuilder, you might actually face some additional stressors that go beyond what the casual walker or sedentary person might face. Therefore you should take additional measures to ensure you preserve your health to the best of your abilities.
Jan27
2012
2012
Times are tough these days. The economy isn’t great, and any recovery we are seeing is going to be slow and uphill. If you work in the personal training or supplement industry, then you are no doubt already aware of the fact that the money in this arena sure isn’t flowing like it used to! If you are a bodybuilding consumer, you can actually use these tough times to your advantage and purchase the items and services you need at reduced rates, as it is a buyer’s market!
Jan22
2012
2012
Consistency is key when it comes to making gains from your efforts in the gym. You have to show up, day in and day out. You have to eat a consistent diet, day in and day out. You can’t just make a good effort 4 or 5 days a week, and then take the weekend off. You have to remain consistent if you want to get stronger, leaner and look better.
However, there are going to be times when consistency needs to step aside. There will be times when you need to take off the gym. Let’s look at a few of these times when you should skip your workout!
Jan19
2012
2012
There are three legs on the ‘stool’ of muscle building & fat loss. You have to train with weights and cardiovascular exercise. You have to eat properly, consuming plenty of protein & carbs for recovery & energy. And finally, you have to rest & recovery. The muscle gains you make arrive while you are at rest, not while you are training.
You might be asking yourself – What I can do on a daily basis to speed up the recovery process? How can I help my muscles recover from the rigors of tough workouts, while I am still awake? Let’s check out a few techniques you can employ.
Jan14
2012
2012
If you ever spend time talking to people in the gym, at work, or on message boards, you will often hear them bragging about the level of intensity with which they train. Sometimes you would think you were actually chatting with a bunch of world-class Olympians, bragging about breaking their comfort level, pushing their bodies to new and insane levels. Every time they talk, they just broke some new personal best, and they did it with an obscure drop-set secret lifting philosophy that you just wouldn’t understand, right?
Jan8
2012
2012
A huge factor in the processes of building muscle and shedding body fat – the goal of recovery from workouts – is the relieving of stress. Believe it or not, stress can be good or bad. The kind of stress you see in the workplace pushes you to come up with new ideas and innovations. After all, necessity is the mother of all invention, right? The kind of stress you see in relationships helps you to determine the type of person you really want to spend your time with. And finally, the stress you see in the gym is the kind of stress that leads to the building of new muscle. Without the long and tough workouts in which you’re stressing your muscle groups, your muscles would never grow. Read that again – your muscles grow as a direct result of the stressful workouts you conduct at the gym.