Anabolic Steroids

What are steroids?
The answer to this question is a simple one: they are synthetic derivatives of the hormone testosterone, which is responsible for the development of male characteristics. The pituitary gland in the brain controls the production of testosterone in the male testes. Testosterone has both androgenic (masculinising) effects and anabolic (tissue-building) properties.

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Bodybuilding for beginners

Home Training

If you'd rather start you bodybuilding program at home, you'll want to purchase the right equipment to make real muscle-building workouts possible and to ensure that they're safe as well. Here are the basics for a good home gym:

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Nutrition Information

An adequate calorie intake is an essential part of building lean muscle mass, in combination with a muscle strengthening program, as a large number of calories are needed to fuel tough workouts and tissue building. While getting enough calories is important, it is essential that they are the right sort of calories. Let us take a look at these:

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Fat-Burning Food

Increase Your Metabolism With This Fat-Burning Food

There have been countless studies performed on the role of protein in the muscle growth process to try and determine exactly how much protein you should consume to build muscle mass. Recently, several studies have looked at the role that dietary protein plays in helping you lose fat, and more importantly, helping you keep it off!

One thing scientists have discovered is that eating lean protein foods is important for regulating body composition because it decreases your appetite.

In a 2003 study reported in the journal, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition And Metabolic Care (2003; 6(6): 635-638), protein was shown to be more satiating (made you feel fuller) than both carbohydrate and fat both in the short term and the long term.

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Cardio Training

Cardio Workout 1: Elliptical Trainer

Start off with a five-minute warm-up, then do two minutes at 7-8 on a perceived exertion scale (10 being hardest, 1 being really easy), which will probably be 70%-80% of your maximum heart rate.

(to determine your max heart rate, subtract your age from 220.To determine your range , multiply that number by the percentage you're aiming for - in this case, 0.70 or 0.80. That total provides the number of heartbeats per minute your cardio training should produce.)

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Start training again. Get back into shape.

Well, we are now one quarter of the way through the year and I bet there are at least a handful of you who, like me, are still promising yourselves that ‘Yes, any day now I am going to get back to the gym. Start training again. Get back into shape again. Lose that excess now-way-past-festive-season weight. Any day now.’

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Weight Loss

For years, the bodybuilding and fitness market has been flooded with a multitude of miracle fat loss products.Each and every one of them promise instant fat loss results, guaranteed.

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