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Proper Ways To Exercise On Home Gyms
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Proper Ways To Exercise On Home Gyms
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When using home gyms you will often be working by yourself at home and may or may not be working out properly. While home gyms are great ways to exercise and get into shape, they wont be very effective if you dont know how to use them properly. You could also end up hurting yourself on one.
There are proper ways to exercise on home gyms. Before actually using a piece of equipment you may want to do some stretches. Some easy stretches are the hamstring stretch, touching y...
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When using home gyms you will often be working by yourself at home and may or may not be working out properly. While home gyms are great ways to exercise and get into shape, they wont be very effective if you dont know how to use them properly. You could also end up hurting yourself on one.
There are proper ways to exercise on home gyms. Before actually using a piece of equipment you may want to do some stretches. Some easy stretches are the hamstring stretch, touching your toes and bending from side to side. A good measure of how long to hold a stretch is to count to fifteen. You should also exhale as you move into your stretch and inhale as you release. Be sure to do a few sets of each.
When using a piece of equipment with weights on it you can easily do damage to yourself by spraining or tearing a muscle or simply crunching a finger thats inadvertently placed. Be sure to pay attention to where your body parts are at all times when using a piece of home gyms equipment. Also start off on the light set when using weights. If you think you can lift thirty pounds try starting with fifteen pounds and work your way up from there. This will reduce your risk of injury and sprains.
Also you should pay attention to make sure your body is in the proper position to make most effective use of the piece of equipment you are on. If working with your arms on a weight or tension machine keep your back straight and align your head and neck with your torso.
There is lots of advice about using home gym equipment online at home gyms reviews and its freely available for people to access.
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BONUS : Protein Is Not The Best Food To Build Muscle
Copyright 2006 Jonathan Perez
In my previous article, Why You Dont Need Protein To Gain Muscle, I wrote about 1 of the 3 incorrect beliefs that everyone has of protein, thinking that you must eat massive amounts to gain weight and build muscle mass.
I spoke about why it is NOT true that protein is what makes up most of the muscle weight on your body.
Today, I'm going to write a little about the 2nd myth: that eating high amounts of fats or carbs (as opposed to eating high protein) is going to make you look like a little ball of lard (fat).
Let me make one point really clear, if your goal is to gain muscle weight and build muscle mass, eating low amounts of fats or carbs IS NOT the way to go!
There are many that are under the impression that you can gain muscle WITHOUT gaining fat by eating a high protein, low to moderate fat or low to moderate carb diet.
Well, I'm here to tell you that it couldn't be further from the truth.
Back in the 70's and 80's everyone was on the "low fat" kick.
People thought that you had to avoid fats at all costs, even if you were trying to gain muscle weight.
That's when all of these "low" or "no fat" products hit the markets, capitalizing on the latest fad.
Then, all of a sudden, out of no where, with the re-publication of the Atkins Diet book, in the 90's, and even now, everyone completely made a turn-around and began to make carbs ENEMY #1.
Now, it was all fine and dandy to eat fats and high protein, "ohhhh, but stay away from those carbs". Man, are we gullible!
What's down-right funny is the fact that whether people were following a low fat diet or low carb diet, everyone still wasn't looking any better.
People still weren't reaching their muscle building / weight gaining goals!
Well, to get right to the point of this matter (since I could write about this for pages and pages), regardless of how you divide your calories, high fat, low fat, high protein, low protein, high carb, low carb, etc., you are NOT going to gain one ounce of muscle weight if you dont eat enough overall calories period!!!!!
You can stuff protein gram after protein gram down your throat, but if you don't give your body enough calories, you aren't going to gain weight.
Vice-versa, you can go on the lowest carb or fat diet around, but if you are still eating MORE calories than what your body uses per day, you aren't going to burn fat.
Your body responds to CALORIES.
Food, regardless of what type, is digested in the stomach, gets converted into a form of ENERGY, gets sent to the bloodstream, gets transferred to the different tissues and organs, where it is then used how your body best sees fit.
It isn't the fact that you are eating carbs or eating fats that make people overweight, it's the fact that they are eating too many calories, either per day or per sitting!!!!!
If you want to gain weight, you cannot go on a low fat or carb diet.
I repeat, you CANNOT. Your body needs those calories. It is impossible to get enough calories from just protein to build muscle.
Also, it is carbs that gets converted into glucose, which is the ONLY thing that your muscles can use to provide energy to a muscle when it is working out, and is the only substance in the body that pushes water and other nutrients into a muscle, which adds to the volume, size, and weight of a muscle .NOT protein!
It is fats that your body uses to line the muscle cells and creates the hormones that help build muscle mass, like testosterone not protein! In my next article I'll write about the 3rd protein myth that's being spread.
Copyright 2006 Jonathan Perez
In my previous article, Why You Dont Need Protein To Gain Muscle, I wrote about 1 of the 3 incorrect beliefs that everyone has of protein, thinking that you must eat massive amounts to gain weight and build muscle mass.
I spoke about why it is NOT true that protein is what makes up most of the muscle weight on your body.
Today, I'm going to write a little about the 2nd myth: that eating high amounts of fats or carbs (as opposed to eating high protein) is going to make you look like a little ball of lard (fat).
Let me make one point really clear, if your goal is to gain muscle weight and build muscle mass, eating low amounts of fats or carbs IS NOT the way to go!
There are many that are under the impression that you can gain muscle WITHOUT gaining fat by eating a high protein, low to moderate fat or low to moderate carb diet.
Well, I'm here to tell you that it couldn't be further from the truth.
Back in the 70's and 80's everyone was on the "low fat" kick.
People thought that you had to avoid fats at all costs, even if you were trying to gain muscle weight.
That's when all of these "low" or "no fat" products hit the markets, capitalizing on the latest fad.
Then, all of a sudden, out of no where, with the re-publication of the Atkins Diet book, in the 90's, and even now, everyone completely made a turn-around and began to make carbs ENEMY #1.
Now, it was all fine and dandy to eat fats and high protein, "ohhhh, but stay away from those carbs". Man, are we gullible!
What's down-right funny is the fact that whether people were following a low fat diet or low carb diet, everyone still wasn't looking any better.
People still weren't reaching their muscle building / weight gaining goals!
Well, to get right to the point of this matter (since I could write about this for pages and pages), regardless of how you divide your calories, high fat, low fat, high protein, low protein, high carb, low carb, etc., you are NOT going to gain one ounce of muscle weight if you dont eat enough overall calories period!!!!!
You can stuff protein gram after protein gram down your throat, but if you don't give your body enough calories, you aren't going to gain weight.
Vice-versa, you can go on the lowest carb or fat diet around, but if you are still eating MORE calories than what your body uses per day, you aren't going to burn fat.
Your body responds to CALORIES.
Food, regardless of what type, is digested in the stomach, gets converted into a form of ENERGY, gets sent to the bloodstream, gets transferred to the different tissues and organs, where it is then used how your body best sees fit.
It isn't the fact that you are eating carbs or eating fats that make people overweight, it's the fact that they are eating too many calories, either per day or per sitting!!!!!
If you want to gain weight, you cannot go on a low fat or carb diet.
I repeat, you CANNOT. Your body needs those calories. It is impossible to get enough calories from just protein to build muscle.
Also, it is carbs that gets converted into glucose, which is the ONLY thing that your muscles can use to provide energy to a muscle when it is working out, and is the only substance in the body that pushes water and other nutrients into a muscle, which adds to the volume, size, and weight of a muscle .NOT protein!
It is fats that your body uses to line the muscle cells and creates the hormones that help build muscle mass, like testosterone not protein! In my next article I'll write about the 3rd protein myth that's being spread.
