Bodybuilding: Fitness and Health to the Extreme
A lot of people think in order to build muscle you have to abandon life outside of the gym by devoting hours upon hours like a monk. Maybe the only way to chisel the body into hot form and physique is to give blood, sweat and tears every hour of every day of every year.
However, these sacrifices are not necessary, even though hard work is. Going through extreme fitness does require someone to be somewhat of a slave to the iron bar. Full body workouts can help you progress this easily and it will also fit into your schedule, whatever the schedule may be. This is extremely convenient for someone who is looking for progress and to achieve extreme fitness but has a hard time sticking to a single workout regimen.
When you are going for genuine full body workout, athletes are able to achieve this with the goal in mind that they want maximum muscle contraction. By using heavy weights, this goal is attainable and also gives plenty of time for full muscle recovery, which in turn, helps the muscle grow faster and allows you to train harder. This also prevents burnout, which eventually, will happen when you are excessively training.
This is the ins and outs of a full body workout. This will, as I mentioned before, be a huge time saver. The biggest benefit to doing a full body workout is that you will spend less time in the gym and go less frequently. I would suggest a full body workout two to three times per week.
The second advantage to doing a full body workout is that you are working all of your major muscle groups all at once instead of two or more hours of exercise per muscle group, you can spend one hour a day in the gym. With full body workouts it is about the quality not the quantity, not even the amount of time per workout.
You will also notice and major difference that the full body workout gives to the cardio system. You will need to give yourself plenty of time for two to four sets of each major muscle area in the one hour session. The more you can exercise everything in the one hour session, the faster your heart muscle and circulatory system is going to be worked out as well.
The following are some things you do not have to worry about with your full body workout.
Typically, body builders tend to wait until the end of their workout to jam the cardio in. Not only is this completely unnecessary, it is also a waste of time since cramming this into the last five minutes or so, is really not beneficial, at least, not as beneficial as continuing the cardio throughout the entire workout.
You shouldn’t do too many sets of one thing, however heavy lifting is strongly advised. Some body builders believe that some light training to conserve energy for the body parts that will come later in a routine. The bottom line here is, if you are not consistently training heavy throughout your entire routine, you are not doing yourself any favors and you will not gain optimal progression.
Doing one exercise per muscle group is extremely key. This is easier to follow and very important. If you do basic exercises that are intense will save you time from having to do multiple exercises for one muscle group.
Resistance training is also very effective when trying to keep your natural hormones in check, which is also very important to muscle building. You will boost your testosterone and also increases the catabolic cortisol which helps in the loss of fat. Essentially, you are getting the best of both worlds.
Dane Fletcher
http://www.articlesbase.com/bodybuilding-articles/bodybuilding-fitness-and-health-to-the-extreme-740737.html
March 12th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Male dignity issue: Ridicule of testicles?
I’ve been reading Yahoo answers for a while, particulary threads pertaining to men’s health and male genitalia and abuse issues.
The insensitivity of many female opinions regarding the privacy and dignity of a man’s or boy’s body has been curious in the least.
One of the more dense claims I get is that men’s testicles are placed externally so that women could abuse them in times of need. This is really the equivalent of saying that women, as a whole, are weaker and more fragile than men because they (women) were intended to be men’s inferiors. So it is a rather offensive view to hold.
Another thing to deal with is the macho posturing about girls or women allegedly being able to "easily" take down a man or whatever the wording, based on the simple fact of the testicles’ vulnerability.
Though it is not incorrect to believe that a woman can severely hurt a man under certain conditions, it is somewhat wishful to think that a woman can ‘easily’ overwhelm a man in real combat. This argument is optimistically derived from the existence of a few inches of sensitive tissue on a man’s body, while ignoring the rest of the male body which is superior in dealing with as well as in dishing out damage.
Apparently most women are very much aware of this fact in their refusal to put themselves in harm’s way, in their choise of male security as well as in carrying weaponry. However, women and girls can engage in macho posturing (boosted by Hollywood movies and tv) over ‘inferior’ male bodies if they wish for surely no normal man will challenge them to ‘roll’ as that would be a contradiction of very basic,unwritten gender rules which hardly need further elaboration.
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Another thing I would argue is that there is no social calling for females to engage in this above mentioned posturing as women are not judged according to the physical standards that men are. In other words, there is no urgent need for women to be sticking it to the men (slight pun) who, as a general rule, are leaving women alone and not putting women down for women’s natural, physical configuration. A man who would boast about taking on male gorillas comforted by the fact that male gorillas possess testicles would be considered loony at least (the analogy is somewhat extreme in that gorillas are in a world of their own and it is doubtful if any man could truly hurt the average gorilla but the principle is the same) and so it is hurtful when a boy takes up bodybuilding for the rest of his youth and is consequently ridiculed by a 100 pound girl over having ‘weaknesses’. Since men’s attractiveness in the eyes of women is at least partially based on dominance and power, one can imagine why it feels offensive and demoralizing to be ridiculed in such a way by a female. It could be conmpared to a case of a brawny man prancing around as a transvestite and claiming to be more aesthetic (by female standards) than an international beauty queen.
Another modern myth of our time posits that the testicles are an evolutionary ‘design flaw’. I think a lot of this stems from the fact that men lead more violent lives from childhood on, and probing around for chinks in the armor, so to speak, may seem sensible given this setting which is alien to most girls (who manage and survive their own world of more indirect abuse). After all, men are considered the sex of action (as opposed to the sex of gestation) and men face the pressure of living up to this imagery of a powerful killing machine (ordinary men often face being compared to world class female athletes and teased for moving less weight than an extraordinary women for example). The vulnerability (not strictly but our image of what constitutes good health and fitness in women would be considered skinnyfat and/or emaciated in a man) of women is celebrated as a beautiful and natural thing while perceived vulnerabilities of the male body are highlighted for ridicule as supposedly men would have to be fleshy steel all over to live up to a made up image of ‘true’ masculinity. BTW: the external location of the testicles has benefits such as easing the detection of cancer.
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An objection or a point that is sometimes raised is that men or boys laugh about private abuse so it must not be that bad or so. Well, laughter can be very much a defense mechanism to deal with hurtful knowledge, as a psychologist could reveal. As previously described, the ‘man’s world’ can be a violent with place with violent expectations and men have to deal with it somehow.
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And the fact that some boys or men may laugh about it does not mean girls and women should be following suit. In addressing the issue, males have an inherent understanding of the issue that a female can never have for obvious reasons. In a similar manner, girls may perhaps joke about a serious issue that concerns females such as rape, to each other but they would consider it offensive if a male chimed in acting like he has it figured out.
What do you guys thin
March 13th, 2010 at 4:26 am
it is a sexual crime that needs to be taken more seriously. Maybe when women start serving prison sentences will they wake up to this.
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