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How To Lose Stomach Fat

Oct 012012

Whether you’re looking to lose stomach fat to get a six pack, or just to get a flatter, more toned abs, there are many different ways meant to achieve this. Most of them are unpleasant, slow, expensive and ineffective, but some of them actually get results. Make sure you’re doing the right ones or you could be just wasting time, money and energy. Just about every diet and exercise product out there promises to help you lose stomach fat and get a ripped six pack, usually in an unrealistically short amount of time and only if you buy there essential program or supplement. But not all of them. The good ones, if followed correctly, do actually work. But they all share a few things in common to achieve that. To save you the time and money searching for them, here are the top 10 tips to help you lose stomach [...]

How Much Water Do I Need

Sep 182012

How much water you needs depends on your daily activity levels, but if you’re not drinking enough it could be having a major effect on how much strength and energy you have during your workouts. Water is probably the most important of all the nutrients as we can only survive without it for a few days at most. It makes up about 60% of your weight and every system in your body depends upon it. For example, blood is mostly water, it’s vital for temperature regulation, every chemical reaction needs water to take place, and it flushes toxins out of vital organs. Even mild dehydration, just a 3% loss of body fluids, can leave you feeling tired and drain your energy, especially during exercise. A dehydration level of 4% can result in a 20% – 30% decline in muscular work, which means if you normally squat 100kg you might only [...]

What Is GI And Why Is It Important

Sep 122012

If you think that all carbohydrates are the same and the only thing that’s important is how many calories are in them, you need to know about GI. Otherwise even your healthy, low-calorie meal could be making you fat! What Is GI GI, which stands for Glycemic Index, is the rate at which each carbohydrate is broken down and absorbed. Foods that have carbohydrates that break down and release glucose quickly have a high GI, while those that have break down slowly have a low GI. Each food can be assigned a figure between 1 and 100 based on this, with pure glucose being absorbed the quickest and therefore assigned a GI of 100. At the other end of the scale, chickpeas are a good source of carbohydrates and have a GI of just 10, so would therefore be much better to stop you feeling hungry for longer and to [...]

Weight Gainers – Everything You Need To Know

Aug 312012

Using a weight gain product doesn’t mean that you’re going to wake up the next day with huge muscles, but they can have their place if you know the difference between the good and the bad ones, what to look for, and when to take them. While getting a six pack involves reducing your calories and therefore your body fat, building a substantial amount of new muscle instead means increasing your calories. Sometimes by a lot. But if you aren’t someone who has much of an appetite, has a fast metabolism, or is just too busy to eat a lot of meals, weight gainers might be for you. Similar to a protein shake, they also contain carbohydrates and fat, with the emphasis on how high the amount of calories is per serving. Plus some also contain vitamins and minerals, creatine, glutamine or other supplements. Like anything there are good weight [...]

Protein – Everything You Need To Know

Aug 292012

Building muscle and getting a six pack means sufficient protein in your diet, but you could be wasting your time and money if you think this alone will get you results. Instead you need to get the right amount of the right kind at the right times. Proteins are what all living tissue in the human body are made of, and can in some situations be used as a fuel source. They are themselves made of amino acids which are linked together by peptides and polypeptides. Essential amino acids are those that must come from food sources as the body cannot make them itself, unlike none-essential amino acids which can be created by from other proteins. The amount of protein required each day varies with the individual, the type of training they do, and the results they are aiming for. For someone who does no exercise the recommended amount is [...]

Workout Meals – What To Eat Around Your Workout

Aug 132012

Your workout meals are the most important of the day, so it’s essential to pay attention to what you consume during the hours around your training. If not you could find yourself low on energy, low on motivation, and you could be making wasting your time in the gym. Pre-Workout Meal Preparing your body for exercise means more than just warming up and stretching. It also means making sure it has what it needs to sustain you while you train. Your last meal should be about 2 hours before and consist of complex, low GI carbohydrates such as oats, plus a protein in the form of chicken or shake. This slow-release source of energy will give you a steady level of blood sugar as well as serotonin, which will help put you in the mood to train hard. Mid-Workout Meal Most people know that it’s important to drink sufficient fluids [...]

How Many Meals To Get A Six Pack

Jul 122012

How many meals you have each day can help you get a six pack by boosting your metabolism and minimising fat storage, but it can also have the opposite effect if done incorrectly. This is because your body’s preferred source of energy is glucose, which is stored in muscle and your liver, but because there is only a limited amount of space the excess has to go somewhere else. If you’re a man it tends to go to your stomach, if you’re a woman it tends to go to your thighs. Either way it goes there as fat. To put in another way, imagine you need 2,500 calories a day but your muscles and liver can only store about 400 calories worth of glucose. As you go about your day this store empties in about 3 hours, less the more physical activity you’re doing, so if you have a 400 [...]

How Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Affects Your Six Pack

Jul 102012

Although you might need to lower your body fat to get a six pack, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. Do it wrong and, due to your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), you could be making things worse. Your Basal Metabolic Rate is the minimum amount of calories you need each day for your body to function properly. Fall below this figure and to adjust to the scarcity of food, your body will go into what is known as starvation mode. You can find out what your Basal Metabolic Rate is by clicking here Starvation mode has several effects upon the body, none of which are beneficial to getting a six pack. First, not getting enough calories means that your body’s own energy stores will soon run out, so instead it will have to make its own from what’s available. Unfortunately this isn’t fat, [...]

How Much Protein, Carbohydrates And Fat Do I Need To Get A Six Pack?

Jul 072012

When it comes to diets and dieting, generally you’ll find the emphasis is on how many calories you get each day, not which food groups the calories actually come from. So how much protein and carbohydrates do we need? What about fat? And why does it matter? Well it matters because if you want to get a six pack and generally be fit and healthy, you need to provide your body with materials it needs to achieve this. Including more fat than you might think. Protein repairs and maintains every living cell in your body, including muscle and six packs. But despite the importance placed upon it, especially by supplement companies, it should make up only about 30% of your diet. It’s found naturally in meat, dairy, pulses, legumes and nuts. Carbohydrates are to people what petrol is to a car. They fuel your workouts and if you don’t get [...]

To Get A Six Pack Start Here

Jul 052012

Wherever you are now, to get a six pack you can be proud of and amaze your friends with, you need to get the basics right before you even think about moving on to the more advanced principles. To get started were going to take a look at your diet, your cardio, your training, your recovery, and how to keep your motivation. So whether you’re an exercise newbie or workout veteran, the following six pack basics will give you something you can use straight away. 1. Your Diet The word ‘diet’ has a lot of negativity associated with it for various reasons, the most guilty of which is probably that having a good diet is often confused with being ON a diet. Being ON a diet usually means starving yourself, apart from when you’re allowed whichever fad or secret ingredient the clueless celebrity or previously unknown ‘expert’ permits. Compare [...]

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