Whenever you are beginning working out for any sport you will need to approach everything as a beginner because that is what you are.We have seen many amateur bodybuilders starting out in a wrong way. If you just now started lifting weights you can not expect your body to become huge all of a sudden. Every single individual needs to go through a bodybuilding beginner workout in order to gain the best possible results. To keep it simple, you need to train your entire body through what is called a full body routine. We recommend that you try out this very good 12 weeks full body Bodybuilding Beginner Workout. After the 12 weeks pass you can really start working out more. All you will require is training 2 days every single week. This should not be hard, right? Most amateurs will not do this but if you follow this program you will notice that you are growing faster than other people that started bodybuilding at the same time you did. Read more »
Phil Heath (full name Phillip Jerrod Heath) was born in 1979 in Seattle. You should already know the fact that his nickname is “The Gift” but what you might not know is the fact that his first experience with sports was not bodybuilding. He was a basketball player and was included in the University of Denver’s team. He eventually made the switch to professional bodybuilding in 2002. Phil Heath quickly gained a lot of popularity and this culminated with him winning in 2005 the NPC USA Championship. This is exactly where he got the right to compete in the professional competitions. Phil Heath quickly started to climb the ladder in bodybuilding.
The first pro events were won in 2006 and then he even started gaining more success. In 2007 we saw him being placed in the 7th place at the Arnold Classic. That was when controversy appeared. According to a lot of people he was supposed to be 3rd but you can not contest the judges. In any case, this basically earned him the qualification to the grandest stage in bodybuilding. Unfortunately Read more »
Unfortunately one of the biggest problems with bodybuilding appears when we workout too much. A lot of amateur bodybuilders tend to believe that they have to push it as much as possible in order to reach the best results. The problem is that this can easily lead to overtraining. Since ending up with such a problem is best to be avoided, we need to think about the signs of overtraining that we can see. By knowing them we can properly understand when we either need to take a break or simply workout at a lower physical level. If we workout a muscle too much it will not grow and it can affect us negatively. Here are the signs of overtraining that you must be on the lookout for: Read more »
This is definitely one question that a personal fitness and bodybuilding trainer hears very often. As we grow we learn that that working harder will bring in more results. Unfortunately this is not at all true in bodybuilding. If we do too many series and do not give the muscle enough time to recover we will be faced with a stop in performance. Our muscles might even become smaller if this continues. Unfortunately it is very difficult to know when we reach such a point in our workout because different factors will influence it. In any case, there are some signs that are linked with overworking your muscles. This includes loss of appetite, force loss, blood pressure being too high, body temperature rising unnaturally, loss of willing to workout or sleeping disorders. Read more »
The vertical leg crunch exercise is one that is sometimes overlooked by a lot of bodybuilders, both professional and amateur. You should take a look at it because it is quite effective especially for your obliques and rectus abdominis. Here is what you will need to do:
- Lie with the face up on the floor and start lifting the legs up while keeping your knees crossed.
- Contract the abs muscles and lift your shoulder blades. The chest should try and reach the feet.
- Keep the legs fixed and then after reaching the top position lower the legs but only after doing the crunches.
You should do around 2 to 4 sets, each with 10 to 20 repetitions. This should be enough and will work pretty well on your 6 pack abs. A demo video of vertical leg crunches can be seen after the jump. Read more »
