Author: Sean Lau

Everyone knows too much sugar in your diet leads to weight gain, but too much glucose and fructose in particular also leads to potentially dangerous consequences for your liver, arteries and heart. Liver cells are the only ones in the body that can break down fructose, which they use to create fat. Too much causes a buildup in your liver called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which now affects almost 30% of adult Americans. When left too long, the condition can lead to cirrhosis and the degeneration of liver function, as well as cardiovascular disease. JUST 20 MINUTESExercise is, to many…

Bodybuilding and muscular development is a product of two types of muscular hypertropy. First is sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which result in bulking up of muscles and the other is myofibrillar hypertrophy which makes muscles stronger.When you lift weights, your muscles will get some micro-tears which cause you to feel some soreness immediately after workout and usually two days after that. Naturally, as you spend more days in the gym the soreness will become less and less pronounced. For the muscles to become more resilient, the principle of progressive overload is employed. At the gym, this is when you’re asked to progressively…

Do you spend a lot of time in the gym training, but can’t quite seem to find the right training routine to help you gain mass? The problem might not be your effort. Rather, it might involve exercise selection. You should be completing 3 to 5 movements of the compound variety, if you wish to make gains. Keep all sets in the 8 to 12 repetition range, and rest 90 to 150 seconds between sets. Here is a sample mass building routine. Chest Focus on feeling the movements in the inner chest to minimize the influence of the shoulders and…

To learn about carbohydrates and if they are bad or good for you, one must look at the complete scenario when it comes to what you eat that makes you gain weight or what to eat that makes you build body muscle and mass. Far too many people will just jump onto the bandwagon of no carbohydrates and acting like they are poison and then wonder why they are having a difficult time gaining muscle or weight loss and gain. With all the resources out there today such as body trainers, weight trainers and lifters, and fitness instructors, following the…

Looking to take your training to the next level? Here are some tips for removing that fear you may have in the gym that is holding you back! Use A SpotterAny time you want to train to your absolute utmost potential, you are going to be training with weight that is extremely heavy and can become tough to control during the final phases of each lift. This is why the use of a spotter is imperative if you want to train with more intensity than ever. When in doubt, two spotters is always better than one. You can position a…

The practice of cycling training intensity involves “down time” when no effort is made to produce new gains in muscular size and strength. There is some detraining because, by cutting back, you get a little weaker than your previous best, before pushing again to go into new (for you) poundage territory. Taken to its extreme, i.e., if you cut back too much and for too long, cycling is a disaster. Do not abuse cycling. A 6-month “perfectly” organized stretch that brings you to a peak for just two new-ground workouts is a perversion of cycling. You need to train very…

When planning your training routines, allow for more weeks and longer cycles rather than fewer weeks and shorter cycles. When building back to your previous best weights, in readiness for the journey into new poundage territory, take an extra week, or two, or three. Build the springboard necessary for the big push into new poundage territory. When adding poundage to the bar, use smaller rather than larger increments. When you have made your last perfect rep and know there is only a partial rep left in you, keep it in and wait the extra workout or two until you can…

The triceps muscle is particularly troublesome for women, but a lot of men also need to tone the back parts of their upper arms. You use your triceps for pushing and pulling, so having strength there will not only make you look fit but also help prevent injury. Triceps pushups. Grab a chair and sit on the edge with your hands holding onto the front of the seat, palms to the back. Stretch your legs out straight and position yourself so your back is almost touching the front of the chair. Bend your arms to slowly lower your body till…

When eaten in quarters or slices in salads or on sandwiches, tomatoes add a nice taste, a cool texture, and a fair amount of crunch. These tactile sensations are vitally important to a long-term eating strategy. When eaten raw, tomatoes deliver ample amounts of fiber and vitamin C and a fair amount of vitamin A. The yellow fluid that surrounds tomato seeds is also a “mystery protectant” for your heart. The only real mystery is that hardly anyone knows about it! Surprisingly, the not-so-lowly tomato’s strongest claim to a magic food status is that they are even more healthy when…

In opposition to what we normally see with all of the other pituitary hormones, the hypothalamus predominantly suppresses prolactin release from the pituitary gland. In other words, there is usually a hypothalamic Stop that order set against the lactotroph, and prolactin is released only when the order is released. A note of interest is that If the pituitary stalk is severed, prolactin release increases, while secretion of all the other pituitary hormones decreases dramatically due to loss of hypothalamic releasing hormones. But this is an unlikely scenario for most athletes and should obviously be avoided nonetheless. Prolactin Molecule The neurotransmitter…