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26 May 2013

Deflate Your Belly Without The Use Of Gym Equipment

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Eating healthily is not only the key to lose those love handles. You also have to work out to burn those belly fats with core exercises including cardio exercises.

There are several ways to do crunching and you will be surprised that not all crunches require you to be in the gym or to use complex fitness machine to do the work. Simple floor exercises and twisting can also do the trick.


Here are some perfect moves to help deflate that pooch belly without the use of equipment.

PLANKS

This exercise is a type of isometric ab workout. Isometric kind of exercise generate tension in the muscle without involving too much movement.

BICYCLE EXERCISE

This type of floor exercise helps tone not only the core muscles of your mid section but also your legs and glutes.

VERTICAL LEG CRUNCH

It is an effective exercise for the rectus abdominis and the obliques. It is like the regular crunch but on this kind, the legs are raised.

TWIST

This exercises engages the oblique muscles. This is fairly simple and you can up the ante by holding a broomstick on your neck and twist your torso.

REGULAR CRUNCH

This is a basic exercise for the abdominal muscles. Just lie on the floor in a supine position, contract your ab muscles while lifting your upper body with your hands behind your neck.





20 March 2010

Building Up Some Mass

A friend has recently joined the gym and paid a very costly amount for membership because he wants to build up some mass. Simply put, he wants to bulk up because he finds his thin frame quite awkward considering his tall stature.

One of his gym buddies recommended that he checks out cytosport muscle milk review and compare the benefits of taking muscle building products. He still needs to learn the rudiments of body building and weight lifting. He is interested and is considering to purchase these products to aid him on his mass increase.

14 January 2010

Massive Muscles!

I see plenty of big jars of powdered protein at home. I am not into body building but I think someone is trying to bulk up. I did not know what its use at first until I did some research.

Protein aids in building up muscles when you are working out due to the amino acids present. Amino acids are known as the protein building blocks. So those powdered protein drinks I found at home is used for cell mass. I wanted to try one out of curiosity. I have yet to figure out how to prepare them though. Shake? Ice cold?

11 November 2008

Lean, Mean Protein

We all know that protein help build those lean muscles which in turn help boost our metabolism. Right? As we eat food rich in protein, our body takes time to digest them, thus making us full and satisfied for a longer period of time.

Here are great sources of lean, mean protein: fat-free and skinless chicken breast fillet, egg whites, peanut butter, almonds and cottage-cheese.

Don't hoard them like they are your best friends. Remember, everything should be taken in moderation. Ideal would be at least 10 to 35 percent of your daily calorie intake should come from these lean, mean protein food group.
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