Archive for June, 2008

Published by Elle Nash on 16 Jun 2008

A Review of www.fitnessmodelprogram.com

I know a typically talk about bodybuilding, but this is for all the females out there that really don’t have that goal. I’m talking about the females that have a goal of having the fitness model like body. The new www.fitnessmodelprogram.com is here to offer a solution.

You ever see those celebrities that just seem to get this great body extremely fast for a movie role. You ever wonder how? Well, they pay for a high priced trainer. I’m not talking about the ones that you find at your local gym. I’m talking about the ones that get to ride in private jets, just to come out and see celebrities. These are the people that have all the proper knowledge for achieving the fitness model body.

The Fitness Model Program encompasses all this information into a step by step guide. This doesn’t mean it is easy. Often thinking about what we need to do overwhelms us. This tells you what to do. The steps can seem rough, but if you follow them, you’ll achieve it.

Published by Elle Nash on 13 Jun 2008

Female Bodybuilding Nutrition Tips

I wanted to share a little about female bodybuilding nutrition. This is fundamentally the most important place to focus your energy. If you’re not eating the proper foods at the proper times than you’re not going to put on muscle. Bodybuilding is hard enough for women; therefore we need to focus more on our diets.

Tip 1: Don’t eat food that is high in carbohydrates and dietary fat. Stay away from this combination of food. High carbs and high fat are a big NO! These include things like French fries from McDonalds or some sweet and sugary dessert.

Tip 2: Before bed, eat high fat and protein food. Well, if you’re not aware, dietary fat is a very slow process for digesting. When you’re going to bed, you’ll probably sleep 8hrs, so you need the protein to last all night. The high fat and protein mix will allow your digestion to slow enough to keep your muscles to have enough nutrition to last the entire night.

Tip 3: Increasingly eating protein more often will leave your body with a constant flow of protein to repair muscles. Typically after a 2-4hr period, protein has completely left the system; therefore eating protein every 2-3hrs will leave your body with enough protein to repair muscle tissue consistently all day long.

These are probably the most important female bodybuilding nutrition tips. Applying just these three will greatly increase your success as a bodybuilder. Remember, that you do need to workout at the gym, but these will make your results from the gym go through the roof.

Published by Elle Nash on 12 Jun 2008

Female Muscle Growth Tips

Optimizing female muscle growth is a very rigorous task, due to a female body producing very little testosterone. With that said, there are techniques that must be followed to ensure success. If all the techniques are followed, growth will increase ten fold.

Tip 1: Set goals and benchmarks for success. Goals are a very important part of the process for female muscle growth. They give a psychological compass or direction. We’re always looking at where we want to go. The benchmarks along the way keep us in check to ensure we’re meeting targets. If your goal is to put on 8lbs of muscle in the next 4 weeks, you’ll need to meet 2lbs a week. These benchmarks are important, because if you come up short, you’ll know you’ll have to step it up next week.Tip 2: Increasingly eating protein more often will leave your body with a constant flow of protein to repair muscles. Typically after a 2-4hr period, protein has completely left the system; therefore eating protein every 2-3hrs will leave your body with enough protein to repair muscle tissue consistently all day long.

When it comes to sleep, you’ll typically not be able to keep your body with enough protein for a full 8hrs. Some people get up 4hrs into their sleep and have some protein. I do not recommend this because I feel sleep is much more important at this point. What you can do though is eat fatty protein before bed. Fat slows down the digestive system and will cause the protein in your body to last longer throughout the night. If you need an example of such a food, cottage cheese is the best. It’s fatty and high in protein.

As well, when you meet a benchmark it gives you a huge psychological boost. You start to feel powerful and in charge of your destiny. It gives you added confidence to keep moving forward.

These two tips are very important for female muscle growth. It is imperative to apply these to your life now, so you can take advantage of the benefits now.

Published by Elle Nash on 11 Jun 2008

A Female Weight Lifting Guide

I wanted to share a guide for female weight lifting with everyone. It is somewhat intimidating for a woman to hit the weight room with all the other men. I hope I can help you take the edge off.

Bench Press: This is the exercise that has people laying flat on a bench pushing a barbell up and down. This works the chest and triceps.

Squats: You will often see people standing with a barbell on their shoulders while they squat down. This exercise works the quads, hamstrings and glutes.

Bent Over Rows: This is when you’ll see someone bent over, usually at a 45-degree angle holding a barbell and pulling it up to their chest. This works the back and biceps.

Deadlifts: This is when there is a barbell on the ground; someone squats down, grabs the bar and stands up straight. This uses the back and hamstring.

Barbell Curls: This is taking a barbell with both hands and curling it up in the air. This exercise works the biceps.

Skull Crushers: This is taking a barbell, holding it above your head, than slowly lowering it behind your head and back to the straight up position. This works the triceps.

Calves Press: There are a few machines for this, but they all work the same. Basically you have weight on your knees or shoulders and you try to stand on your toes. This will work your calves.

These are all the basic female weight lifting routines that should be done. These will allow you to work all the major muscle groups, except the abs, which most people know how to do in the first place.

Published by Elle Nash on 10 Jun 2008

Weight Lifting Routines for Women

I’m going to share with you some weight lifting routines for women. Having a great routine can be the difference between ordinary results and extraordinary results. IF you take advantage of all you can with a weight lifting routine, you will do great.

You should start with the benches right in front of the dumbbells. This is pretty standard for all gyms out there. Incline the bench to about 30 degrees and grab yourself a set of dumbbells. Allow the dumbbells to sit on each knee while you sit, up straight, on the bench. When you’re ready to go, lean back and kick each knee up, one at a time. This makes it easier to get into position. Now you’re going to do an inclined bench press with dumbbells. This is the first part of the weight lifting routines for women.

When you finish with your three sets of that, you’re going to remove the incline from the bench and make it flat. You’re going to do what is called a bent over row, with dumbbells. If you’re unfamiliar with the form on this, I’ll walk you through it. Place your right knee on the end of the bench, bend forward and support your body with your right arm. Your back should be parallel to the bench now. You’ll want to hold this position and with your free arm, pull a dumbbell up and down.

The last weight lifting routines for women will not involve a bench. You’re going to grab a set of dumbbells and hold them at your side in each hand. You’re going to squat down as low as you can go, and than back up. This will give your glutes a good workout, so do it right.

These are my favorite weight lifting routines for women. Apply them on a daily basis for the best results. And remember to make it as intense as possible.

Published by Elle Nash on 09 Jun 2008

A Review of www.7minutemuscle.com

I wanted to do a review of the product from www.7minutemuscle.com. The claim is simple, that you can put on significant amounts of muscle with only a 7 minute workout. I was surprised. I’ll admit, I didn’t think this was possible, until I started to weigh the science behind it.

The first thing you need to understand is that the amount of time you spend working out really doesn’t play a role in how much muscle you build. It is in fact the intensity of HARD you workout. It is INTENSITY that really SHOCKS MUSCLES into growing. I’ve always applied this philosophy, but could only get myself down to workouts around 20minutes.

I decided to give the 7minutemuscle.com challenge a try. I was going to do their 7 minute workouts and see how much muscle I could really put on. Just so you know, this program is designed for both men and women, so this message is for everyone.

After a month of testing this my muscle growth was around the same as my typical range. This means I can get the same amount of muscle FOR LESS WORK. This may only be a 7 minute workout, but it is INTENSE! And with anything that is intense, it FORCES your body to adapt fast. That means muscle growth.

Click here to give www.7minutemuscle.com a try.

Published by Elle Nash on 06 Jun 2008

The Only Bodybuilding Supplements You Should Use

I wanted to share a little on bodybuilding supplements and the ones I use. I think people really get carried away with these and try to get the next new thing out there. I try to keep everything simple. There are no products out there that make this easy. There are no quick fixes.

The first product I use is whey protein. This is just a type of protein found in milk. It serves as a fast digesting and absorbing protein. Nothing more. This means it should be used after a workout and in the morning if you want. I don’t use it in the morning myself, it really is your choice. This product is NOT A MEAL REPLACEMENT. Whey is a fast digesting product, this means that the benefits of this protein don’t last too long. Roughly 45 minutes in the body. Typically protein would last for 3-4hrs, but this will only last 45 minutes, so be aware.

The next thing on the bodybuilding supplements list is creatine. This is a pretty simple product. It allows our body cells to absorb more water. This increased amount of water gives us more stamina and endurance. If you’re curious, this is natural. If you eat a lot of red meat, you would be getting a good sum of creatine. There is a lot of debate on when you should take this supplement. Some people say before the workout, some say after. Here is the facts, anytime, as long as it is consistent. It takes time to digest creatine and it takes time for the benefits to come out. It doesn’t matter when you take it as long as you take it like clock work.

Last, but not least on the bodybuilding supplements list is a good multi-vitamin. If you haven’t already figured this out. Bodybuilding is an act of destruction, than rebuilding. This requires a lot of nutrients, which include the ones that come from vitamins. It can be difficult at times to get the necessary vitamins from your diet, so take a multi-vitamin.

These were my bodybuilding supplements that I use on a regular basis. You shouldn’t really need more than that.

Published by Elle Nash on 05 Jun 2008

Female Bodybuilding Diet Tips

I’m going to share with you some of my female bodybuilding diet tips. These diet tips should help you at better achieving your female bodybuilding goals.

The first tip I’ll share with you will help maximize your muscle growth while you sleep. A lot of trainers will tell you that you should get up halfway through your sleep and have a protein shake, but I think that is detrimental. You can get protein nutrition throughout the night by eating a combination of protein and fat before bed. Fat slows down the digestive process allowing you to have protein in your system longer.

My next tip is to help you get over astigmatism about eating fat. Fat is god for you and plays a vital role in your body. “Low fat diets” are not healthy. It’s a marketing technique to make you associate “dietary fat” with the “fat” on your body. They’re completely unrelated. Not eating fat over a long enough period will cause your hair to fall out, your skin to get bad, etc. Dietary fat has a place in your diet.

My last tip is that you need to start eating small meals more often. After every 2-3hrs. There is a few reasons for this. The most obvious is that you need a constant flow of nutrients into the body to repair muscle tissue. There is  no way to escape this. You need to be  eating every few hours to achieve this. Also, this type of eating will boost your metabolism.

These are my female bodybuilding diet tips and they should serve you well as you train. If you’d like to get expert advice on this topic, you should check out Iron Dolls Female Bodybuilding Book.

Published by Elle Nash on 04 Jun 2008

Female Bodybuilding Routines

I’m going to share with you one of my female bodybuilding routines. I hope to help educate you a bit on what is required to have a proper routine and do it successfully. Female bodybuilding routines need to work every single muscle in the body to stimulate as much physical muscle growth as possible.

Workout 1: Back, Biceps and Traps

  • Bent Over Rows
  • Lat Pull Downs
  • Bicep Curls
  • Shrugs

Workout 2: Chest, Triceps and Shoulders

  • Bench Press
  • Flies
  • Skull Crushers
  • Pull ups

Workout 3: Legs, Calves and Abs

  • Deadlifts
  • Squats
  • Calve Press
  • Weighted Crunches

This is a great female bodybuilding routine and you should give it a try. It is meant to be applied over a week. It’s the typical three day split. You’ll notice that it works the entire body over that time.

Published by Elle Nash on 03 Jun 2008

Women’s Bodybuilding Workout Program

I’m going to share with you my women’s bodybuilding workout program that I have used for myself. This can really help you put on more muscle and improve overall muscle growth. This is designed to maximize bulking, this is not for toning up.

You first want to start off with a barbell bench press. This is pretty straight forward and should already be in women’s bodybuilding workout program. It works the chest, triceps and shoulders. I recommend you always do a warm up set, so you don’t end up injuring yourself. This also gets the blood flowing into the areas being worked which will help you push more weight.

Deadlifts offer a unique experience to a women’s bodybuilding workout program. Most women don’t even do it but it has an amazing benefit. This is probably the most compound exercise you’ll have a chance of doing. It works all parts of your legs and it also works a huge portion of your back. This is the type of exercise that stimulates more muscle growth than anything else you’re going to have the chance to do.

Bent over rows are a great exercise for your upper back and rear delts. This can be done with both a barbell and dumbbell. I recommend the barbell, since it offers a much better exercise. When you do this exercise make sure you grip the bar so your palms are facing up. Most people tend to do this with their palms facing down. Keep your elbows tucked in and you should have a great workout.

This is a great women’s bodybuilding workout program that you can use and improve on. Remember to use all these exercises in your workout. They will help you increase your chances of success.

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