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Bodybuilding & weight training guide
Many successful bodybuilders started off working out at home even those who went on to successfully win championship bodybuilding competitions. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune when you are starting out, you don’t necessarily have to buy the most expensive equipment or the best and many times you can start out with bargains from eBay or your local free ads paper.
There are advantages to starting out working out at home, for a start you won’t be surrounded by muscle bound hunks that could make you nervous, so you will be able to slowly gain the confidence in your own time without feeling under any pressure.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
A lot of bodybuilders choose to go into the sport while in their teenage years; this could be for several reasons such as getting picked on in school because they are too skinny or they are keen on sports already and want to improve on their shape and body build. We as people are all different shapes and sizes but there are basically 3 different categories of body shape which we all fall under.
Determining which body shape category you fall under is the first hurdle to cross before committing yourself to bodybuilding. The three main types of body shape are ectomorph, endomorph and mesomorph.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
We all know the key to sticking to and maintaining a successful healthy diet is to eat food which is not only good for us but is also quick to make and tastes good too. Diet for a body builder is no different, to build muscle mass successfully a good healthy protein rich diet is essential, food which is high in calories, carbohydrates and some fat is what should be on the menu.
A sensible diet aimed at building muscle should consist of around 30% protein, 55% carbohydrates and 20% fat of course this is only a very rough guide; everyone is different so to find your optimal nutritional requirements you will have to experiment a little. Once you have figured out the correct nutritional requirements for you then the next step is devising a menu, in order to build muscle you should aim to eat about 6 meals a day.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
The person with the ectomorph body shape will have a struggle with putting on weight and keeping that weight at the desired level, this is always going to be the main concern of the ectomorph body builder. A well balanced diet and the proper nutritional requirements are essential for the bodybuilder’s success but more so when you have this body type.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
We all know the importance protein plays in bodybuilding and of course one of the biggest sources of protein is red meat, so how does the vegetarian bodybuilder work out? There have been many successful vegetarian bodybuilders including Al Beckles, Andreas Cahling and Bill Pearl who went on to win the Mr Universe title in 1971 with arms measuring 21″ and a weight of 242lb, standing at 5` 10″ he achieved this title while on a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet combined with plenty of hard work and without the use of steroids.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
How exactly is natural bodybuilding defined, is it exercising simply without the use of illegal drugs such as steroids or does natural bodybuilding mean the exclusion of all drugs including supplements. Let’s focus for a moment on what matters and that of course is achieving a fantastic well toned muscular body, but does it really make a difference how you get the results?
To some people in the body building business it doesn’t, as we know from hearing of them being disqualified from tournaments when caught, it clearly doesn’t matter to them how they achieved the results.
These people are much like the little wooden puppet in Pinocchio; no not for the long nose when lying, unless you count them lying to themselves and their fellow bodybuilders, but clearly they need a conscience, not to mention scruples.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
How important can water be to the bodybuilder, its just water right? Water is greatly beneficial to the bodybuilder or anyone for that matter doing any rigorous form of exercise. Water is something which is so often overlooked yet it is a crucial nutrient in or body and its benefits to our body are numerous. Drinking and getting enough water into our body while bodybuilding cannot be stressed enough, you need it to maintain health, stamina and fuel for building muscle.
Bodybuilding & weight training guide
In order to build muscle we must consume more calories than we burn, this is all well and good for enlarging our bodies where we need it but the extra calories also build fat, fat is something we don’t want so how do we overcome this. Traditional calorie controlled diets work in one sense but they rely on starving the body by limiting the amount of calories that are taken in, when building muscle mass this of course is the opposite.
Also most of the body fat lost by this method is from lean muscle tissue and bone density, the body builder wants to enlarge their body not shrink it. Here are some pointers for those wishing to lose body fat but not muscle.