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Posted by Guest on October 14, 2009
I just received a book from Men’s Health, “Muscle Logic – Escalating Density Training,” describing an all new way to weight train. However, there are several other books from Men’s Health, such as the MH Hard Body Plan, or MH New High Intensity Training. . . anyone tried all of these? Which one is the best?
Posted by NoChubbyHubby on October 5, 2009
Men do not get it. They stay clear of the fresh foods that can help them live longer. More so than women. And despite the fact that many studies show eating a diet loaded with fruits and vegetables can protect you from all manner of cancers. Not to mention they are good overall protectors of your health.
So the most easy of mens health tips to apply is to simply eat more vegetables. Eat more fruits.
Especially since it all counts. Whether you drink 100% juice, eat fresh, or whatever. It’s all good and all good for you. Dried, frozen, juiced or fresh.
To that end here are some proven mens health tips that can help you eat healthier.
For one when it comes to fruit and vegetables the key is eating a variety of colors. That’s because each fruit or veggie presents it’s own mix of minerals, vitamins and disease fighting compounds – phytochemicals?
Carrying extra pounds? As they are low in calories and fat and high in fiber, fruits and vegetables help you watch your weight. Plus being mostly water they give you that full feeling that helps you eat less.
While there is no specific fruits or veggies to eat that trims your cancer risk to zero, studies have proven that eating a variety of fruits and vegetables daily reduces your overall risk.
Another easy way to eat more fruit daily is to begin your day by blending up a smoothie. Tropical fruits like pineapple or kiwi add vitamins, go with anything, and give you an easy way to work in a couple more varieties and colors into your diet. Plus they can jump start your morning in a flavorful way.
Least I forget in this list of mens health tips, we are talking roughly nine servings a day. Sadly is only 4% of men manage to do that. 4%! Yet here’s how you can be among them.
You could drink a V8.
Snack on raisins or celery sticks with a dab of peanut butter.
Vegetable soup.
Stick extra leafy lettuce on your sandwich.
While watching TV eat a grapefruit or a handful of baby carrots.
There’s always apple sauce.
Frozen grapes are great too. Whole or cut in half. Those or frozen berries can pop in your mouth instead of potato chips. But like salty chips you can’t eat just one.
Those on a budget can make sure to buy what is in season. Or find a local farmer’s market. Or buy frozen on sale. Anything frozen is just as loaded with nutrients.
So see? It’s easy to give your body the tools to fight chronic disease.
Bottom line roughly half of what you eat should be something grown on a plant. Half! If you pick up nothing else from this list of mens health tips and eating – pick up that. You should eat more servings of fruits and vegetables starting today.
Posted by NoChubbyHubby on September 8, 2009
Sure, it’s hard to make time for exercise. But here’s why you should: U.K. researchers found that workers were 15 percent more productive on days when they made time to exercise compared to days they skipped their workouts.
Now consider what these numbers mean to you: On days when you exercise, you can—theoretically, at least—accomplish in an 8-hour day what would normally take you 9 hours and 12 minutes. Or work longer and get even more done, leaving you less stressed and feeling happier about your job—another perk that workers reported on the days they exercised. The lesson here: Make time for exercise.
Here are four ways to make your daily workout easier—and more effective—than ever.
Posted by Guest on August 20, 2009
Men’s Health Workouts puts the power of the world’s largest men’s magazine in your hand, featuring exclusive workouts from the world’s top strength coaches, athletes, and fitness experts. The app comes with 18 workouts, plus you automatically receive a free new workout every week.Click here for details
Posted by Guest on June 23, 2009
The Abs Diet for Women: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Belly and Firm Up Your Body for Life (Paperback)
The Abs Diet (for men): The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (Paperback)
Ever feel like you need to post a “lost” sign for your abs? Or send out a search and rescue team for the body you used to have in college? If that sounds like you, and you’re ready to kiss your beer belly goodbye and rediscover your lean, toned torso, the all-new Abs Diet Online is the answer. It’s the fastest, simplest, most effective way for you to eliminate belly bulge – and get into your best shape ever.
The Abs Diet Online – expertly designed by Men’s Health editor-in-chief, David Zinczenko – makes it fast, totally focused and absolutely effortless for you to lose your gut and turn belly flab into awesome abs. How? By feeding your body—not starving it!
You’ll learn about the 12 amazing powerfoods your body craves… that strip away fat like magic! Plus, in just 30 minutes, three times a week, you’ll reveal the strong, sculpted core and powerhouse body that you’ve always wanted—in no time flat. In just 2 weeks, you could lose up to 12 pounds of fat—from your belly first!
The Abs Diet Online can help you obtain a flat stomach and great body in as little as 6 weeks—and teach you how to stay lean and healthy for the rest of your life! Before you know it, you’ll have radically ripped abs, and the lean-body physique you’ve always dreamed of.
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Posted by Guest on June 18, 2009
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Weight lifting can actually prove to be a very effective method for losing weight, provided you go about it in the right manner.
Weight lifting can actually prove to be a very effective method for losing weight, provided you go about it in the right manner. Here is the information you need to know about why you should choose weight lifting to help with fat loss, and how to design a program to get the results you desire.
Weight Lifting for Fat Loss
Increased Metabolic Rate
The first reason weight lifting is a good option for fat loss is because it boosts metabolic rate both over the short term as well as over the long term. In the hours after an intense weight-lifting session you will experience an increase in metabolic rate. What’s more, weight lifting will help you maintain your total amount of lean muscle mass, creating a permanent increase in metabolism.
Cardio training will only cause a short rise in metabolic rate for an hour or two after the session, taking away from the overall calorie-burning benefits compared with resistance training.
Often, overdoing cardio will actually decrease your total lean body mass, so you could see a reduction in metabolism over time working against your fat loss efforts.
Altered Body Composition
The second reason to choose weight lifting for fat loss purposes is because, while cardio may make you lose weight, weight lifting will help you lose body fat, altering your body composition.
Many individuals who just hop on the treadmill to lose the pounds don’t end up looking much different — even if they do successfully lose 10 to 20 pounds. This is because they still have the same proportion of muscle mass to body fat; they are just “smaller.”
Weight training will help change the way you look completely, giving the impression that you’ve replaced fat with muscle and are actually working at improving your body and changing your body composition.
Design a Fat-Loss Training Program
While you aren’t going to be doing a completely different type of weight-lifting workout compared to if you were attempting to build muscle, there are some important alterations that do need to be made when you are weight lifting for fat loss.
Decrease Total Volume
Because you’ re no longer taking in as many calories, it’s important that you reduce the total volume of your program. Generally, you can reduce the total volume by ½ to 2/3s and not experience any decrease in strength.
This is important to do because if you attempt to maintain the same volume while taking in fewer carbohydrates, you are not going to recover from workout to workout as you used to, and will quickly see your performance levels drop.
Maintain Weight Intensity
It’s essential that you keep the same intensity on the bar by not reducing your total weight lifted. A big error many people make is to decrease the weight while bumping up the reps, thinking this will create a greater caloric burn.
While it is true that high-rep training does tend to burn more calories while you are actually doing it, it will not maintain your lean body mass as well, thus your overall metabolic rate will slow. Additionally, if you maintain the weight on the bar throughout the diet period, it’s going to be easier to pick up where you left off after your muscle-building cycle, should you choose to pursue another one.
Utilize Circuit-Style Lifting for Cardio
The last thing you may want to consider is utilizing circuit-style weight lifting to replace any cardio you are currently doing. This style of workout will be completely different than traditional weight-training programs, but can provide a much greater boost to your metabolism than plain cardio.
If you are going to do some circuit training using lighter weight, be sure you are still incorporating enough rest between that and your heavier weight-lifting sessions. Since you are still loading the muscles with weight, it’s critical you don’t perform too many sessions back to back, otherwise CNS or muscular overtraining will become an issue.
Circuit-training cardio workouts will work better for those who are utilizing a two-day, full-body workout program rather than something where they are only lifting heavy three to four days a week.
Lift Away the Pounds
Choosing to abandon your weight-lifting program when it’s time to cut fat is one of the biggest mistakes you can make, so be sure you don’t commit this progress-damaging error.
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Summer’s coming and you want bigger biceps. Or, you’ve been lifting weights for months and your biceps aren’t getting any bigger.
Either way, you’re looking for pointers on how to bulk up. Marc Santa Maria, regional group fitness director – New York for Crunch, is here to help with five ways to boost your biceps.
Click here for 10 foods that help build muscle fast.
1. Challenge Your Muscles. Whether you’re using weight machines, free weights, or resistance bands, always use positive and negative resistance in your exercises.
“You should do it in a way so that you’re not just working the muscle on the way up, but also on the way down,” Santa Maria said. “Just taking that control with the weight will make the move more efficient.”
2. Load Up. Lifting lighter weights can be good for toning, but heavier weights are needed to build a bigger bicep.
“You want to load up and do some heavier weights, even if you can’t do as many reps,” Santa Maria said. “You have to be working the muscles to the point of exhaustion.”
3. Change It Up. “Don’t do the same weights and the same sets every week so that you just maintain,” he said. “If you want to bulk up, you must increase the weight load you’re carrying, but you also want to vary your sets.”
Santa Maria said you can do this by switching each set, doing heavy weights for one set and lighter weights for the next, then repeat. He said you can also vary weekly, lifting only heavy weights for one week and then only light weights for the next.
“The body is so great at adapting you want to change it up,” he said.
4. Practice Good Form. “If you need help stabilizing, machines give you a stable surface to do that on,” Santa Maria said. “Free weights are cool, and you can pick the weight up and watch yourself in the mirror. It sounds cheesy, but it can be inspiring and help you work harder.”
Free weights also allow for more maneuvering — allowing you to twist and turn the lift to isolate the muscles you really want to work, he said.
5. Rest the Muscle. As important as it is to push your muscles, resting them is equally important. Take time off as needed, especially if you’re feeling especially sore.
“You want to let the muscle rest and repair itself,” Santa Maria added. “Give it time to heal.”
Posted by Guest on June 17, 2009
These super-stacked patties will pack on the pounds
McDonald’s has a bad reputation—and it’s not exactly fair. A simple McDonald’s cheeseburger contains a modest 300 calories. It’s not made with the highest-quality beef or bread, and the measly leaf of lettuce on top is all crunch, no substance, but pair it with a side salad and you’ve got a reasonable burger lunch. That’s more than you can say about the cheeseburgers at almost any other burger joint, fast-food or sit-down. See, cheeseburgers are problematic to begin with—the cheese alone usually adds at least 150 calories to the meal, and that’s before you factor in potentially oversized beef patties and gobs of gooey, fatty condiments. Case in point: A “Little” Cheeseburger from Five Guys contains more calories than two regular cheeseburgers from McDonalds.
Check out our list of the absolute worst burgers in America—and read the expanded, updated list in the new book, Eat This, Not That! The Best (and Worst!) Foods in America
Posted by Guest on June 16, 2009
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 You can keep your $10,000 machines. The perfect exercise is still free: the pushup. The classic move that set gym class standards still fires up your back, shoulders, biceps, and abs. And with a few new variations, it can be the only exercise you need.
Try these 7 pushes to improve sports performance, posture, stability, and upper-body power. Carve a v-shaped torso with this bench variation from Men’s Health Power Training mastermind Robert Dos Remedios. Want a real challenge? Try this bicep-building 3-D workout, designed to add inches to your arms with an array of pushes. If you’re trying to lose inches, mix in some push variations from No-Gym Classic, the original and best at-home fat loss program. |
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