Obviously there is no specific ‘one size fits all’ approach to bodybuilding. We all have different body types and metabolisms as well as aspirations and determination. Nevertheless, some basic advice has been proven applicable to nearly everyone.
Base your bodybuilding program on heavy compound exercises such as bench presses, squats, dead-lifts and leg [...]

There are multiple factors, as well as opinions, to consider when determining how much rest your muscles require between workouts. In brief the main factors can be divided into three groups:
What you can’t control, such as genetics and age.
Factors related to your workouts such as past experience, how intense your workouts are, [...]

Eat five times a day at 2-3 hour intervals. This keeps you saturated with the amino acids and glycogen from protein and carbohydrate sources that you need to push abnormal muscle growth. This also prevents muscle loss due to a bodily starvation reaction to heavy workouts.
Focus on compound movements such as squats and [...]

Here’s a New Year’s list of 14 strategies to help increase a fat loss fitness regime. The more of them you use the more successful you’ll be.
Eat more protein 30% of your total daily calories should come from protein. Protein protects muscles from breakdown when calories are low and liberates stored energy.
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Many women are turned off from training as they have the wrong impression that lifting weights is something men want to do to build big muscles.  How your body adapts to working with weights is determined by your genetics.

For women there are numerous benefits for doing resistance training and I promise you won’t end up [...]

Most people are happy to lose weight from any part of their body, as long as the overall outcome is fat reduction.  However if you are a bodybuilder you will be more concerned with the composition and shape of your body and more likely to want to target certain areas that hold on to fat.

Have [...]

We’re all guilty of it: rushing headlong into our strength training routine without the requisite stretching and then rushing through our warm down. How conscious are you of your flexibility? Can you still touch your toes? Do you still want to be able to do this as you get older?  Yoga could be the [...]

Insulin is a hormone that regulates glucose metabolism in the body, when the pancreas detects a rise in glucose it pumps out a corresponding level of insulin to manage it.

Glucose is the form sugar takes in our bloodstream. It is a form of chemical fuel that our brain and body needs to continually work well, [...]

1. Build your strength: It doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to lose weight or get fit or tone up – you need strong muscles.  The best way is to use progressive resistance with significant weights until a decent base level of strength is reached.
2. Focus on your weakness: Become aware of your body and what parts are [...]

Heavier- increasing the weight will make the exercise harder but don’t neglect your form, you only want to go as heavy as you can keep the form correct for.
Standing exercises- if your used to doing a seated shoulder press for example try a standing shoulder press it will be much harder as you need to [...]