Category: Bodybuilding

In this first part of my Top Ten Healthy Foods Article and my review of Testoprime that you can find here https://www.laweekly.com/testoprime-review/, I talk about what many of us perceive as healthy food for fat loss. Let’s get started.

Not Top Ten Healthy Foods #1 – Cereal

Dry box cereals will not help with fat loss. Cereal is processed food and is loaded with refined carbohydrates. With the combination of high carbohydrates, low fiber, and protein, your insulin levels will be elevated and less satisfying as far as hunger is concerned.

Of course, if you are substituting cereal for a breakfast option like a fast food place, you will see a change for the positive in your health. However, if you take that one step further and substitute the cereal with high fiber fruit and high protein like a protein drink, you will see positive changes not only in your health but also in your waistline.

If you just can not seem to get away from cereal in the morning, stick to a more natural option like oatmeal. Oatmeal has more natural ingredients and a higher fiber-to carbohydrate ratio. This will make you feel fuller, longer.

Not Top Ten Healthy Foods #2 – Artificial Sweeteners

Artificial sweeteners are horrible for fat loss. They are not natural and completely foreign to our bodies. They will increase your hunger and if you are hungry all the time, it will be very hard to stick to your diet.

Not Top Ten Healthy Foods #3 – Sports Drinks

Besides the artificial sweeteners that are mentioned above, sports drinks contain a host of horrible ingredients that will tamper with your fat loss success. Some of these ingredients include…

• High fructose corn syrup, linked to diabetes
• Yellow dye number 10
• Brominated vegetable oil, interferes with the metabolism of iodine
• Oil of wood rosin.

Not Top Ten Healthy Foods #4 – Coffee

• Coffee does a number of things that might hurt your fat loss goals such as…
• coffee is an inflammatory food
• coffee depletes minerals from your body
• coffee raises blood pressure and cholesterol in some individuals.

Not Top Ten Healthy Foods #5 – Granola

I’m not sure why granola is considered a healthy food. It is loaded with sugar and fat. It is obviously not a great choice when you want to keep your waistline small. Granola and cereal are very similar. Today’s granola contains high fructose corn syrup. This ingredient is also found in soda which can lead to a fatty liver and diabetes.

Building your MMA Workout Program from the ground up:

This is one of those questions that I am asked a lot so I thought that I would write a little about it.

Here are the 5 Steps in building that I use in my workout for the different sport(s) that I do which is mostly MMA. These are what I tell people to do:

1) Break down the different components of your sport.

•  What kinds of movements are required?
•  What kinds of strengths and conditioning are required?
• What techniques do I perform constantly?
• Which muscles do I use (even the little ones)?
• What movements do I use (am I slow and calculated or explosive)?
• Does your sport require you to hold a piece of equipment? What equipment do I use?

2) Search for Drills and exercises that pertain to the questions above and do them. Learn from people who know!!!!!!

Answer these questions and then do research.

This is the information that Coach Ray and I have researched and used in our programs and our student’s/customer’s programs as FitterFast.com.

It is important to learn from people who know because that is how injuries happen.

For example: when I first learned Olympic Lifting I was living in Kamloops BC. I then moved back to Vernon BC to train where I continued this style of lifting. I used to do it once a week on Fridays so that I would have the weekend to recover. I then went there on Saturday and some guy who had seen me do it the day before was doing power cleans without instruction or asking questions. This guy A) put on too much weight and B) nearly killed himself with poor technique and in between each set was holding his back because he had strained it. I stopped him and told him to not continue and to start out with more basic techniques until he properly learned how to do them. I save him a lot of pain but he was still hurting a week later from his poor performance because he assumed that what he was doing was right without asking the people who know.

I have also seen this with people who don’t know teaching their bad techniques to others who think that they are doing it right. Actually, it is heavily practiced in MMA. Oh, by the way, I realize that there is a difference between not knowing and having different techniques. Those who actually know their techniques will always be able to answer the question “Why do you do that?” Those who can’t always answer the question properly don’t truly know.

3) Cross Train

Just because you are building those muscles that pertain directly to your sport or your MMA style doesn’t mean that you should neglect your other muscles. Those muscles and strengths that you don’t use in your sport still act as supporting muscles and strengths. YOU STILL NEED THEM so train them. Even if you train these only 10-15% of the time it will still benefit you in the future.

For example: I came across this problem with my conditioning. I was in incredible shape and then I started working my core. Apparently, this was my weak point because once my core became stronger my cardio and speed went through the roof (relative to my past conditioning). I wasn’t doing much different but once those muscles were able to support the beating I gave them, suddenly it made my life a lot easier. Out of no where, I could spar harder and faster and for longer.

4) Take rest days (sort of)

Your body takes a big pounding when you are training for sports especially MMA. You need to give it a day to relax and recover. Otherwise, those nagging pains won’t have time to heal and you will be stuck with them for a very long time.

Overtraining is one of the biggest reasons people A) get injured and B) stay injured.

Now, when I say take a rest day it does NOT means sit on the couch all day and do nothing. You still need to get out there and get active. You still need to keep those muscles moving and stretching. What can you do to both get your rest and stay active? Go for a walk or light jog is a big one. This is great especially if you have a family or significant other. It allows that time for you to get out and be active while spending time with them. Trust me, they will appreciate it especially if you have ignored them all week to train.

5) Fix Problems when they come up and don’t make them worse.

I know that it is hard especially after training so hard to get to where you are but if you are injured then take the necessary days off and allow your body to heal.

The following Healthy Weight Loss Tips may help if you have reached a plateau in trying to lose weight, even if you are training hard in the gym. Your weight loss plateau may be caused by certain foods you are consuming which can turn off your bodies ability to burn fat. The deletion of these foods from your diet are only if you are on a strict diet and still find yourself not gaining grounds on your fat loss goals.

Healthy Weight Loss Tips For

The first type of food I will talk about that could hinder your goals of burning fat are grains. Grains such as bread can keep the fat stored on the body when consumed. If you are trying to lose those last few inches on your body, then try to exclude bread from your diet. Oats can also have the same effect on your body as bread does.

Some people have a mild allergic reaction to grains and some allergic reaction to certain foods are so mild they may not be aware of it.

Healthy Weight Loss Tips For Dairy

The second food you should try to steer away from is dairy. Some people are also mildly allergic to dairy to the point that the body doesn’t react in an extreme manner. You may not realize this allergy exist because there is no physical reaction, but it can effect how the body reacts to burning stored fat.

Dairy from cow sources are also a concern for dieters. The cows themselves are injected with hormones and antibiotics that slow down the fat burning process in the body. Instead of cow dairy, try products from goat sources that are more pure, such as goat milk and goat cheese.

Healthy Weight Loss Tips And Artificial Sweeteners

The third and one of the more dangerous food sources for keeping fat on is artificial sweeteners. Stay away from these at all cost.

I believe this is one of the most important healthy weight loss tips because artificial sweeteners will have the same effect to your body as the natural sugars. It will spike up your insulin when consumed enough.

Diet soft drinks are a big problem when trying to lose body fat. Sure it says 0 calories but the artificial sweeteners that they put in these drinks are worse then if you just drank the regular soft drinks. The aspartame that is in the diet soft drinks are more harmful for your body then regular sugar and will be harder for you to lose body fat when working out. A good idea when trying to lose body fat is to cut out all sodas from your diet.

Healthy Weight Loss Tips And Caffeine

The fourth is caffeine. You may have heard the name caffeine thrown around a lot when you hear people talk about fat burning pills. Fat burning pills and caffeine pills only get your heart rate up and is very dangerous when consumed in the long term usage.

Caffeine is also found in coffee and other drinks that will only have your body gain short and extremely high level of energy. This high level of energy that caffeine produces is hard on the body internal systems. What happens is, the body gets into a really hyper state for a short time period. After that short period of time, the body will shut down and crash because it can not handle that type of high intensity.

Healthy Weight Loss Tips And Other Foods

There are other foods that you can play around with to see if you can get your body fat percentage to go down. Try to eliminate different types of foods from your diet and see if it works for you.

Not everyone reacts the same. Some people will see tremendous results from losing one type of food from their diet and others will see no results at all. If you don’t see any results in a few weeks by excluding your chosen foods, examine what you are consuming and see what you can exclude from your diet that could be the cause of your plateau.

Sometimes it may not even be an exclusion of certain foods but an increase in others. You may find yourself in a starvation mode because you are not consuming enough calories throughout the day and don’t even realize it.

Also, it may be the percentage of your fats, carbohydrates and proteins that are not in the right ratio for maximum fat loss. So, play around with the different ratio and see what happens.

Before you click here and there for any fancy diets and ruin your inherent metabolism, it is way better to inculcate these best tips to regulate your diet to a balanced meal plan. You can also start working out and including some supplements which might energise your body and boost the results quickly.

Implementing these healthy weight loss tips and gaining muscle mass is basically experimenting with your body and how certain foods will react to either the growth of your muscles or loss of body fat.

The biceps are a very difficult body-part to isolate because the forearms and back can easily enter into the movement during bicep exercises.For this reason, light weights should be used for beginners performing bicep exercises in order to concentrate on proper technique. However, as you gain more experience and a strong mind-muscle connection with the biceps, you may opt to handle heavier weights during your bicep workouts.

From the https://bonymuscle.com site, the preparation of the right routine is possible for the people. The performance of the exercise and workouts is possible as per the needs and expectations. The building of the muscles and biceps is possible for the individuals. 

During bicep curls, it is important to place your elbows on your sides and keep them there during each rep. Also your upper arms should not move at all and your wrists must not bend down during bicep curls. And after each repetition, only lower the weight 75% down.

In regard to isolating specific parts of the the bicep, incline curls isolate the lower portion of the bicep which resides closest to the forearms, and hammer curls isolate the outer part of the bicep at the sides.

Mass Movements 1) Cheat Curls- The king of mass exercises for biceps 2) Barbell Curls- Standard compound exercise for biceps 3) Standing Dumbbell Curls- Alternate version of curls 4) Seated Dumbbell Curls- To use less of the back

Isolation Exercises 1) Dumbbell Alternate Bicep Curls- Isolate each arm 2) Incline Dumbbell Curls- Isolate the lower part of the bicep 3) Preacher Curls- Great isolation exercise to put tension on muscle 4) Cable Curls- For great burn and pump in biceps 5) Concentration Curls- Great for pump and bicep peaks