Maintain Form For Muscle

When training for bodybuilding, it is important not to compromise form, to ensure that you recruit the maximum amount of muscle fibre throughout a movement. Initially it may feel like you are using too light a weight, but it is better to gradually increase the poundage, without sacrificing form. Some exceptions do exist however, such as using ‘partial reps’ for training.

Even if you are not training for bodybuilding, form is everything. Reduces chance of injury, and  insures that you are using the correct muscle.

Eating Habits

Habits and cravings are the devil when it comes to dieting. Let's deal with habits first. It takes a good week or two to ease into dieting. "“Fast food is so easy and there'’s a McDonald'’s on every corner. The hardest thing is to develop the new habit of preparing your meals and taking them with you."” The first week is the most difficult, so prepare yourself for some challenges as you abandon your usual routine. For example, you might usually go out for a sub sandwich or burger at lunch. You"’ll now have to bring your food with you and resist the temptation of spicing up your meal with the Doritos in the vending machine or your usual can of Coke. It can be a real mental battle to stick to your food plan.

Unwanted Fat!

Here's what you should know...

• Targeting body fat and "spot reduction" are two different things. It's possible to get rid of  unwanted body fat through diet, exercise, and supplementation.

• Subcutaneous fat is more stubborn than visceral fat and intramuscular fat. For women, it's located around the butt, hips, and thighs. For men, it's the love handles.

• Dieting by eating less and exercising more can make stubborn fat more stubborn. There are two exercise and diet strategies that prevent this.

• Supplements such as green tea extract, forskolin, and yohimbine HCL can help with stubborn body fat, once you get your diet in order.

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding exercises should take a muscle through its longest possible range of motion, with some exceptions. You should take care to stretch out to full extension, and then come all the way back to a position of complete contraction. This is the only way to stimulate the entire muscle and every muscle fibre. Whether you are doing 8, 10, or 12 reps for example, it is assumed that you are completing each rep to its full range of motion.

Women's Weight Training Myth

Weight training makes you bulky and masculine.

Due to the fact that women do not, and cannot, naturally produce as much testosterone (one of the main hormones responsible for increasing muscle size) as males do, it is impossible for a woman to gain huge amounts of muscle mass by merely touching some weights. Unfortunately, the image that may come to your mind is that of professional female bodybuilders. Most of these women, unfortunately, use anabolic steroids (synthetic testosterone) along with other drugs in order to achieve that high degree of muscularity. In addition, most also have good genetics coupled with an unbelievable work ethic that enable them to gain muscle quickly when they spend hours in the gym lifting very heavy weights. Believe me when I say that they do not look like that by accident. Women who conduct weight training without the use of steroids get the firm and fit cellulite-free looking body that you see in most fitness/figure shows these days.