Build muscle with a high protein diet

If you are trying to build muscle then follow the bodybuilders’ example and augment your exercise program with a high protein diet. High protein diets emphasize calories from protein over carbohydrates and fat. The rationale behind high protein diets is that carbohydrates cause swings in blood sugar that can encourage your body to create body [...]

The most common mistake made during the lat pull-down exercise

The lat pull-down exercise is golden when it comes to training your lats (scientifically known as the Latissimus Dorsi muscles.) It is a great exercise for strengthening your back and improving your posture. But this is only true if the exercise is performed correctly. I go to the gym regularly and I have seen numerous [...]

Improve your speed

Need a speed boost? Doing uphill and downhill sprinting in the same workout increases your flatland speed. Researchers at the University of Athens put athletes through a 6-week training program over slopping and flat ground-they ran uphill, downhill, over flat ground, or an uphill-downhill combination.
The combo runners increased their sprint speed by 3.5 percent; others [...]

No time to hit the gym? Think again.

Have time for Monday Night Football, The Daily Show, or Lost? Tally up the number of hours you spend in front of the tube each week and you will probably find more than a measly hour and a half for the gym. Saying you have no time is bogus “because it assumes that everything else [...]

Sprint your way to bigger muscles

Squeeze in a quicky to build more muscle. Researchers at A.T. Still University, in Arizona, found that running wind sprints between weight workouts can boost your lifting performance. “Both forms of exercise train the same energy system,” says study author Matthew Rhea, Ph.D. So sprinting conditions your muscles and cardiovascular system in a manner similar [...]

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