I’ve been working out a ton lately but I’m running out of time before school starts. I have a little bit of a difference but I want more mainly upper body. What are some good Body building supplements to try/get? No steroids or hgh.
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I posted this Q there but no one is answering so I thought I’d post this where there’s more ppl.
Try eating high calcium supplements, also Carbohydrate
What’s a good way to get Bodybuilding supplements online without paying?
Is there a way to get samples online?
Is there any sites that stick out that sponsor people to reach there fitness and bodybuilding goals?
I THINK bodybuilding.com has a lot of samples if you look in their store. I see people on the message board saying they got a lot of free samples
I look look something like this at the moment
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/skinny%20guy.jpg
I am 5 feet 9, weigh 165 lb
My goal is to look like this
http://www.jsp.org/2003/04/23/anf.jpg
what does it take to build a body like that?
Your a funny ass. Christ in heaven, if you look like that first dude you’d better start by eating a sandwich. Sylvester Stallone has a great book called Sly Moves. I thoroughly enjoy it. And I have another book called 50 Ways to Gain Muscle Fast by Dave Tuttle. Don’t get obsessive. Just strive for some definition. Cathe Freidrich on Fit TV is a ballbuster. Those women are sstrong as oxes and have been an inspiration. Lay low on Cardio if your starting out a garter snake. Healthfood stores have all kind of gainers. I use a great whey isolate protein powder from Bodybuilding.com. It’s sweetened with Stevia and gives me what I need. Love yourself as you are…and strive for improvement out of self-love. Not loathing.
I’m 23…. am I late to start? I did not to any workouts till now… Will my muscles cooperate for bodybuilding? Will there be any side effects if i start Bodybuilding at this age?
around 18 when the hormone the growth is pretty well established
I haven’t exercised in years plus i’m overweight and type 2 diabetic. I want to turn myself around and Bodybuilding really looks like it fills my needs. I am now nearly 45 and I must do something! I need to lose weight but I also want muscle.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!! Six years ago when I was 46 years old, I lost 86lbs and gained muscle. I had a personal trainer for 11 months and he showed me how to use the machines and also kicked my ass. Best thing I ever did, worth every penny. I highly recommend it. I still go to the gym and use the machines and do cardio. Don’t feel 52 at all!! Good Luck………
Establishing an exercise routine is something most Americans know they need to do. However, many are unable to follow through on the routines they plan. Part of the reason for this is that people often plan activities that don’t suit their personalities, physical condition, circumstances and location. Carefully analyzing these things before you begin a fitness routine can contribute to your ability to stick with it over the long run.
Ask yourself whether you have a lot of self-discipline, or whether you require some outside motivation to stay on task. If you’re self-disciplined, running, walking or swimming laps may be a sufficient and rewarding routine. However, if you’re a very social person, inviting a companion to join you as you exercise may be beneficial. If you’re the type of person who is stimulated by learning new things, aerobics, pilates or yoga classes may be more suitable. However, do not count on money as a motivating factor. Many people have expensive gym memberships that they never use, a waste of money and of health benefits.
Your physical condition is also important in determining what fitness routine will be appropriate for you. For example, people with asthma or environmental allergies may have trouble exercising outdoors where pollens and pollution can trigger attacks. These people might get better results from indoor swimming, where the air is filtered and the humidity can help open sinuses and lungs. Similarly, people with arthritis or joint injuries need to find low-impact exercise that will not aggravate those conditions.
Finally, take a hard look at your circumstances. Is your schedule regular enough to allow you to take a regular exercise class? If you work irregular hours or changeable shifts, an individual exercise program might be better for you. On the other hand, if you are retired or stay home with a child, a regular exercise class may give you just the incentive you need to get out of the house.
Your location will also dictate the duration, time and components of your fitness routine. If you live in a moderate climate with little variation in temperature and precipitation, you can count on being able to pursue the same routine year-round. However, if you live in a climate where it gets excessively hot during the summer or cold during the winter, you will need to establish a mix of outdoor and indoor activities in order to stay active year-round.
Kadence Buchanan
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/what-is-your-fitness-personality-60460.html
If you are looking to burn fat and build muscle strength, then you need a combination of cardio exercises and weight training to make it happen. For people that are limited in free time, this may seam overwhelming to accomplish on a regular basis. However, here are some exercise tips to help you save time.
Take up walking or jogging. These exercises save you time because you need the least amount of equipment to get started. All you need is a pair of running shoes and warm clothes.
While jogging is optimal for fat loss, walking is the perfect exercise to start with. It gets your blood flowing and helps you burn fat. Walking is a great starter exercise because it is low impact and likely to extend or injure yourself. However, walking should not be the “end all” for your exercise regimen. You need to be working your way up to running.
Since walking is such a low impact exercise you may not be exerting yourself as you need to. So, make sure you set goals and build up to jogging or running. You’ll have less injury and you’ll build your endurance with this approach. You will be surprised what you’ll be able to do in a few weeks.
Also, you don’t have to spend a long time with cardio. What you have to remember is: the faster you move, the more intense the session is. So 20 minutes of combining walking and running will benefit you greatly and be effective.
The next step is to add a strength training routine. The best way to have an effective routine that saves you time is to have a home gym equipped with a bench and dumbbells.
Dumbbells are a great way to increase muscle tone because they allow you to perform many exercises that tax your muscles at many different angles. Dumbbells are effective for both men and women because you can have many different weight variations.
Exercising at home saves you time because you can workout at your convenience. You will need to schedule your workouts at a time that’s best for you and commit to it. You can get a good work out with dumbbells within 20 minutes to a half an hour.
The best approach is to build up to a fast paced workout with minimal rest. This way you are provided a challenge. However be careful not to exceed your capabilities so you minimize soreness and chance of injury.
John Purfield
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/weight-loss-workout-routines-tips-to-help-combine-cardio-and-strength-training-92774.html
One of my all-time favorite clients was a professional baseball player I’ll call Dan, who was making the transition from athletics to civilian life. Dan was an impressive specimen in every way: smart, funny, energetic, and incredibly fit. At the time he consulted me, I was doing a lot of my usual traveling and public speaking. Between my erratic scheduling, sleep loss, lack of access to healthy food, and adrenal burnout, I’d gained several pounds and fallen off all the various wagons of healthy eating and exercise habits. I kept meaning to cut back on the flan and get back to regular exercise, but I never seemed to find the time or energy. Then one day, when we were talking about his baseball career, Dan tossed out an offhand comment that would change my muscle tone forever.
“Ninety percent of being in shape,” he said, “is getting to the gym.”
For me it was, as Oprah might say, a lightbulb moment. Right then and there, I decided that I would re-establish a pattern of going to the gym — not doing anything at the gym, just getting there. So the next day, I dropped off my kids at school and drove directly to the gym, where I parked my car, listened to a song on my favorite radio station, started the car again, and went home. The next day I did the same thing . . . and the next . . . and the next.
By the 4th day, my new daymap pattern came very easily — my brain and body expected to drive to the gym after taking the kids to school. Then I knew I could safely up the ante — a little. For the next 4 days, after arriving at the gym, I went in and pedaled a stationary bike for approximately 3 minutes, just long enough to listen to another favorite song on my MP3 player. My next 4-day win consisted of increasing my pedaling sessions to 7 minutes (two songs). When that felt habitual, I added one round of circuit training with light weight to my cycling routine (I bought a few new tunes from the Internet as a reward).
After the third 4-day win, something rather dramatic happened. I’d been increasing my workout by tiny increments, but suddenly, my body took over and decided it loved the gym. I no longer needed a reward for showing up and exercising; in fact, I felt edgy and disappointed if I didn’t get a chance to lift weights (please remember, I’d previously chosen this form of exercise because I find it inherently enjoyable). Despite the chaos of my schedule, my sometimes-crippling autoimmune disease, and my utter athletic ineptitude, I’m now something of a gym rat.
Whatever your preferred exercise, you can increase your own activity to healthy levels by using a similar 4-day win strategy. As your very first action on your 4-day win exercise program, I’d like you to modify your daymap so that you show up in an appropriate place to exercise, at approximately the same time, for 4 consecutive days. What exercise you choose to do is less important than your arrival at the designated location.
Reprinted from: The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace by Martha Beck, PhD. Copyright © 2007 Martha Beck. (January 2007;$25.95US/$33.95CAN; 9781594866074) Permission granted by Rodale, Inc., Emmaus, PA 18098. Available wherever books are sold or directly from the publisher by calling at (800) 848-4735.
Martha Beck, Phd
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It has become too common a refrain: There isn’t enough time. This is the excuse put forth by so many couples that I speak to in workshops and in my office. Wives and husbands are pleading that they are so overwhelmed with the demands of work and children that they simply can’t create any space to share intimate moments with their partner. The result is often an increasing sense of disconnection that gets expressed as problems with communication, disagreements over finances, parenting conflicts, or insufficient sex. But the latter are typically symptoms, not causes.
By improving the sense of connection, feelings of trust and mutual respect typically increase. Once those cornerstones are in place, it’s remarkable how much easier it becomes to resolve conflicts of any nature. In Wallerstein and Blakeslee’s wonderful book, “The Good Marriage” (1995), they note “For everyone [in their research group], happiness in a marriage meant feeling respected and cherished.” Gets right to the heart of the matter (pun intended)!
In trying to help couples reverse this downward spiral, I start by reminding them that if they constantly put their marriage at the end of their “To Do” lists, assuming that there will always be another day to attend to their spouses’ needs, one day they will be shocked to discover that there are no more days. One of them will be saying “I don’t love you anymore and I want out.” This means that couples must truly make their marriage a priority, not simply in words or feelings, but in deeds. In today’s world of PDA’s, Blackberry’s, and other forms of keeping schedules, this means actually scheduling time for the marriage rather than expecting time shared will just happen.
My second key point, for couples who have children, is that the most important gift they can give their children is a healthy marriage. When marriages are working well, families function better. Children will not only find that their lives run more smoothly because their parents are in sync but research shows they will have fewer medical problems, presumably because there is less chronic stress in the home. An added benefit is that a good marriage models for children what they need to learn for the day when they are married.
Since a healthy marriage is such an important gift for your children, parents need to feel comfortable with the idea of taking some of the excess time currently devoted to parenting and investing it in the marriage. (“Excess time” is the fallout from parents trying too hard to create “perfect children” when children really need only “good enough” parenting, an issue covered in many of my previous articles.)
With these key points in mind, let us look at some strategies to create a more intimate and rewarding marriage:
Try to follow this prescription: a) schedule 15-20 minutes of uninterrupted conversation each day; b) schedule at least one long conversation (1-1 ½ hrs.) each week; c) schedule at least one overnight just for yourselves every 60 days; d) schedule at least two weekends just for yourselves each year.
This may take some creativity. It also takes a mutual commitment. But the payoff is enormous. To make the daily/weekly conversations happen requires some joint planning time. Get out your calendars, look at the week ahead and figure out when you can make time for each other. Don’t limit yourselves to evenings (usually the worst times for parents to try and talk without interruption or, worse, just when you are starting to crash). Depending upon ages of children and job demands, some couples are able to arrange breakfast alone for daily conversations or a lunch as a chance for a long conversation. Phone conversations or emails can fill some of the daily conversation needs. Taking a short evening walk or a long weekend one is good for your physical health as well as the health of your marriage. Putting a treadmill and a stationary bike side-by-side in your basement can also provide a chance to talk while getting some much needed workout time (and reduce conflicts about someone spending too much time at the gym).
Conversations should involve sharing information about work and family and other commitments or interests so you are able to nourish the sense of being best friends. Men need to talk about their jobs, an issue for some men who believe that increases rather than decreases their stress. Save the longer conversations for bigger issues. But don’t let things build up. Being emotionally honest in a routine way is important. If a spouse says or does something that hurts your feelings, let him/her know. It doesn’t mean it has to be rehashed in detail. It doesn’t mean you have to get into an argument about what “really happened.” (There is no “truth” to be discovered; just respect the other person’s subjective experience of what happened instead of trying to defend yourself.)
Arranging an overnight or a weekend alone is a chance to rediscover the fun you once had when it was just the two of you. While it can be a challenge to arrange this if you don’t have family nearby to take the children, friends will often be willing to take turns watching each other’s children so others get that same chance to get away. If parents are not nearby (or a sibling), when you go to visit, work it out to have some alone time. Relatives usually love the chance to spend some time with your children without you around!
In addition to the prescribed couple time, there are two other critical daily rituals for couples that need to be honored and nurtured. Re-entry is one of the most important times of the day. As the family gets re-united at the end of school and work commitments, spouses need to genuinely look forward to seeing each other at the end of another demanding day. The opportunity to hug each other and let go of some of the stress built up is a very special, intimate event that is sorely missed by those who are now divorced. Learn to appreciate this moment while you have the chance. It reaffirms that there are two of you joined together to cope with life’s challenges. It also should be a time to get yourselves in sync for the rest of the day. Review what the evening’s schedule is, what obligations each may have, what help may be needed from each other, and when there might be time to come together when the dust settles.
The other critical time is bedtime. No, not the children’s, the couples’! Probably about half of all parents go to bed at different times, contributing to a pattern of disconnection at the end of the day, undermining the sense of intimacy and adding to a sense of being alone in the marriage. Parents never let their children go to bed without some form of connection and reassurance that all is well. We read to our children, sit on their beds, lie next to them, hug them, and talk about the good things to look forward to tomorrow. While the extent and form of this change as our children get older, close families retain some part of this evening ritual even with teens.
So why doesn’t our beloved spouse deserve at least the same consideration? If one partner goes to bed earlier than the other, arrange for a signal that you are in bed and the other should come up for a similar intimate goodnight. Hugging, snuggling, and briefly putting to rest any left over tensions with “I’m sorry. Let’s have a better day tomorrow.” It is a reaffirmation of the caring and respect you have for each other. It allows each to go to sleep with a sense of being together, even if it is at different times.
When going to bed at the same time, it is equally important to do more than just say goodnight. The old adage about never going to bed angry is truly valuable. A few moments of bodies warmly snuggled together releases a lot of tension and, again, reaffirms “coupleness”. One of the common complaints I hear about snuggling at any time during the evening, especially in bed, is from wives who say their husbands always interpret this as a signal to try and have sex. Usually this complaint comes from a couple whose sex life is unsatisfying. The role of sex in a marriage will be covered in a future article. But for now let it suffice that couples must talk about this and allow for affection that is not a signal for having sex.
Much of the connecting discussed so far has involved talking (and some physical affection). For some, especially men, connection is not always verbal. For these husbands, the male emphasis on intimacy as being side-by-side as opposed to face-to-face, needs to be honored and nurtured. Again, this may require men to be creative and think of ways to communicate their caring. I think of one husband who used to leave for work before his wife awoke. He would make coffee for her, including setting out the cup, and he would write a short note each morning that he leaned against the cup. The content was often just something practical about the upcoming day’s events, but it always ended with a “love you.” His wife was able to appreciate this special intimate act from a husband who was particularly verbally challenged.
The side-by-side intimacy should focus on doing activities together. I’ve already mentioned walking or other exercising but doing something fun together should really be at the top of the list. Often couples have forgotten how to have fun together. Life has become all about work and tasks and becomes much too serious. Yet when couples reflect on what led them into marriage, high on the list is nearly always a shared memory of having fun together. Sometimes it is a matter of thinking about what you used to and making it a priority to get it back into the schedule. Other times, couples will talk about how their interests have changed and they don’t have that much in common any more. This requires some creativity, along with being committed to wanting to have fun again. Couples have ended up trying new activities together ranging from kayaking to cooking classes and rediscovering that there is a huge assortment of experiences out there to be tasted and shared.
One of the frequent barriers is that parents of younger children often feel they don’t spend enough time together as a family and Saturday nights typically become renting a video and sharing popcorn with the kids. While there is certainly value in this, it should not become the rule at the expense of the marriage. Remember what I said about the most important gift you can give to your children. So taking some time from the kids and investing it in the marriage is still doing something for the children.
I would like to end this article with a quote from the other book I urge couples to read, Judith Viorst’s “Grown-Up Marriage” (2003). “But if we imagine that marriage is where we can let it hang out day after day while continuing to excite and delight in each other, we are mistaken. If we imagine that marriage is where we can bitch, burp, snicker and snipe day after day without paying a price, we are wrong. We’re indulging in a fantasy of unearned, effortless love, the love an infant seeks from a perfect mommy. We are indulging in a fantasy that has little to do with love in a grown-up marriage.
Kalman Heller
http://www.articlesbase.com/automotive-articles/improving-marital-intimacy-63673.html
There are some stability ball exercises that are designed to take care of your core, or abdominal muscles.
1. Begin your abdominals-strengthening stability ball exercises by placing the ball beneath your lower torso and hips, and while keeping your knees slightly bent or fully straight. Put your hands behind your head or your back, then slowly roll down the ball as you would on a slide. Make sure that your body is straight as you do this, and that you pull in the muscles of your abdominals as you slide down the ball.
2. It can be difficult to balance on a stability ball, so increase your endurance and sense of balance by placing the ball under your abdominals and hips. Place your hands on the floor, keep your legs straightened, then lift your feet off the floor. Keep your body upon the ball, and straight, for about twenty to thirty counts. You will find that your body is most stable if you pull your abdominal muscles in.
3. Continue this part of the stability ball exercises by raising one of your arms out to your side. Make sure that you do not roll off the ball or place your feet back on the floor. Do this for the other arm. This exercise is designed to firm your arms and legs, as well as to contract and stretch your hard-to-reach abdominal muscles. It is in fact difficult to carry out, so do it slowly, and stop it if you begin to feel sharp pain in your arm muscles.
4. Continue this set of stability ball exercises by placing the ball in front of you, then laying your hands upon it, so that your arms are parallel to each other. Imagine that a string is being threaded through your belly button, and someone is pulling it backward into your spinal column. This will force you to tighten your abdominal muscles. As you tighten these muscles, roll forward slowly and roll the ball along with you. Roll the ball as far away from you as possible without bending your back or straining your back muscles.
5. To return to your original position, pull your elbows toward the surface of the ball, then squeeze your abdominal muscles inward. If you have back problems, you can substitute this exercise for a simple abdominal contraction. Lie down on your back, then place your knees, shins, and feet on the ball. Put your hands behind your head, then contract your abdominal muscles. Do not bend your back, and breathe steadily.
Stability ball exercises are ineffective without the proper diet, or without exercises accessories, such as dumbbells, resistance cords, or an exercise mat.
If you are interested in carrying out stability ball exercises, seek the advice of your nutritionist, or a local gym instructor. If wrongly carried out, stability ball exercises can be dangerous and can lead to injuries.
Albert Lee
http://www.articlesbase.com/equipment-articles/stability-ball-exercises-to-strengthen-your-abdominals-130745.html