Strength Training: How Long Does It Take to See Results?
You’ve just started strength training, and you’re eager to see those first ripples of muscle. How long does it really take to start seeing gains?
September 5, 2011
Tag: muscles
How Does Aging Affect Muscle Strength and Mass?
This article describes how aging affects muscle strength and muscle mass, what the consequences are and how to prevent it.
September 5, 2011
Muscle Building: How Do You Know if You’re Working Hard Enough?
You’ve been lifting weights for a week or two, but it’s too early to see muscle building change when you look in the mirror. So how do you know if you’re working hard enough?
August 21, 2011
Exercising in the Heat: How Long Does It Take for Your Body to Adapt?
Exercising in the heat puts additional stress on your body and makes a workout more unpleasant. Fortunately, your body adapts to this stress, and you become more heat tolerant.
July 24, 2011
Functional Fitness Combined with Traditional Weight Exercises
Total Body Tri-Sets incorporates a lot of functional fitness along with more traditional exercises throughout the program. In this picture Cathe is seen doing a One Arm Row on a Stability Ball with her one hand on the ball while her other hand holds the dumbbell and the opposite leg extends straight out. By using this
July 14, 2011
Branched-Chain Amino Acids: Can They Help You Get Fit Faster?
There’s growing interest in using branched-chained amino acids to boost athletic performance and stimulate muscle growth.What are branched-chain amino acids and can they help you get fitter faster?
July 6, 2011
Happy with my weight and size for the first time in my life! by Sherri
I have struggled with my weight all of my adult life. After my first child, I have 2, I was really over weight. In May of 1995 my husband confessed to me that while he was out to sea, he was in the Navy, he had cheated on me for the first 6 years of
July 6, 2011
Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness or DOMS: What Causes It and Can It Be Prevented?
If you’ve just started working out or worked out harder than usual, you may experience a few days of soreness after your workout callled DOMS.
May 30, 2011
Does Muscle Turn to Fat?
There’s little doubt that physiques undergo a noticeable decline when a person goes from gym rat to couch potato. But, do muscles turn to fat?
May 1, 2011
I Built A Better Body Through Cathe! by blacKandi
Back on July 12, 2008 I decided that I wanted to lose 50lbs so I started dieting after 12 years of being overweight. By October 2008 I had lost a total of 31lbs and started getting worried because the skin on my body had started to droop. I wasn’t happy with how I looked naked
April 11, 2011
How I got from there to here and where I’m going next… by morningstar
When I was 7 years old, my father died, destroying my whole world. From that moment on, I started to gain weight. When I was fifteen, I developed an eating disorder (bulimia) to try to deal with my weight gain and succeeded in exacerbating the problem enormously. For the next twenty years, my weight went
May 21, 2010
Getting Fit after baby #2 – by Kasey
2 years ago I had a wonderful and beautiful baby (baby #2). I also had some extra weight that just had to go! At 162 lbs I was about 24 lbs heavier than I was before I had gotten pregnant. I was 38 lbs heavier than I was when I graduated high school. None of
February 8, 2010