First and foremost you are not going to lose weight if you are eating more calories than what you burn with the planned fat loss activity – weights, weights plus cardio, or cardio alone. That said, to most effectively lose weight you must do both – weight lifting and cardio exercise. Here is why: If [...]
I was just reading an article about the damages in the muscle during an eccentric muscle contraction compared to concentric contraction. I’ve known for a long time that eccentric contractions cause a lot greater micro damages in the working muscle. I also knew why that happens – because during the eccentric (negative) phase of the [...]
One of my members asked about Russian Lunges the other day. He said he’s been doing forward and reverse (backward) lunges, but he didn’t know what Russian lunges are and how to do them. So, I thought I’d post here quiclkly a short description if you happen to wonder the same thing (I’d much rather [...]
I remember about 7 – 8 years ago I used to train in the evening and there was nothing that could make me change my habit. That’s what I thought… I don’t remember exactly but it must have been an evening job that made me re-train myself and start training early in the morning. I [...]
Knowing your body fat percentage helps you in a lot of aspects. Most importantly that’s how you find out to which group you belong – lean, average, overweight or obese. It helps you craft a more precise daily calorie intake, so that for example if you fall in the category of average people, but you [...]
I can’t believe how often people try to find answers to this question and how there is no info on how long it takes for someone, who trains to see results. I will do my best to give you some answers, but first we have to make an important distinction – Are you trying to [...]