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Building Effective Flexibility for Outdoor Running An outdoor alternative to indoor cardio machine sessions is the always reliable run, but remember that for the lower body, impact from natural and man-made surfaces requires some pre-run preparation in the form of a stretching session. In fact, there are several benefits that can derive from a targeted stretch to the lower body muscles: increased physical efficiency and performance; decreased risk of injury; increased blood supply and nutrients to your joints; increased neuromuscular coordination; reduced muscular soreness and stiffness; better muscular balance and posture, and less risk of lower-back stress. Consider including any…
Training Arms, Chest, Shoulders and Abs in Your Hotel Room While travel often stresses the upper body areas, you can recuperate and reinvigorate with these natural strength moves right in your hotel suite. Anyone traveling nowadays knows about the extra stress to upper body areas that most journeys involve. A day on the road sees you pulling suitcases, or carrying heavy briefcases or laptops on your shoulder. Then there are the periods spent in hunched or limited positions on planes, trains, or the highway. Often, this combination of demanding movement, along with the hours of immobility, can only be addressed…
A champion triathlete builds his racing skills in other arenas Triathlon competition demands multiple skills from endurance to strength to speed. Ironman champ Evan Evans discusses his own route to triathlon excellence. If you always thought size and strength were the main requirements for successful triathlon performance, then take a second look at some leading athletes in today’s multi-sport mania. You’ll find the big guys actually work harder than many others to excel in some competitive segments. Recently, at the first annual Nautica South Beach Triathlon in Miami Beach, we caught up with Evan Evans, one such athlete who has…
How NFL Player Ryan Watson Moved From Speed to Physique Training For new Florida super heavyweight bodybuider Ryan Watson, training for physique competition was a different challenge than his prior time in the gym and track while prepping for the NFL as a player with the Atlanta Falcons for two years. A spinal problem brought an end to his football career, but it didn’t stop Ryan from pushing his body in a new direction. Once Ryan entered regional bodybuilding shows in the south, it was all about starting to work for size and proportion instead of power and speed. At…
Take Care when Exercising not to Overstress Your Body Whether it’s tennis, swimming, backyard baseball or cricket, cycling, bushwalking or just doing more gardening, everyone feels like exercising when the weather is warm. Baby Boomers (aged between 45 and 64) are known for their ‘forever young’ attitude, but orthopaedic surgeons and exercise gurus suggest middle-aged people should take a more adult attitude and remember that their bodies are not as young as they used to be. “Baby boomers have become increasingly active as they age and orthopaedic surgeons think this trend will continue,” says Dr Ray Monto of the American…
Diet and Lifestyle Changes for Optimum Health Optimum health starts with a man’s observance of good habits—healthy thoughts, choices, and actions that include moderate eating, proper rest and sleep, adequate exercise and sunlight, natural supplements, and harmonious relations. Giving up smoking, which is a self-imposed pollution, lowers risk of developing lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema and heart attacks. Sense of taste and smell will improve and breathing becomes easy. Here, then, are health tips to promote high-level of health, which middle-aged men can put to practice today because tomorrow can be late. Diet and Lifestyle Leading to a Healthy Living Healthy…
How Bodybuilding Causes Tendon and Ligament Damage At almost every fitness seminar, you will hear the phrase “functional training.” Presenters will tell you how traditional bodybuilding exercises won’t help our neuro-musculo-skeletal health and how they are leading us to muscular imbalances. But the fact remains that every individual who walks into a gym wants the very same thing – to change how he or she looks. Very few people join the gym because they feel they need to improve their stability. End of an Era Functional training is now apparently the only way to train, apparently leaving bodybuilding in the…
Heavily Muscled Physiques Can Benefit from Stretching Sessions The benefits of stretching are multiple – and it only takes a few minutes of stretching to deliver all those benefits to your body. If you can include a minimum of just five to seven minutes of stretching both before and after your workout, you will be working towards increasing your flexibility and even your range of motion. Stretching: Basics and Benefits Stretching is also known to help prevent injury and reduce or avoid soreness. When you perform a session before regular exercise, it can reduce the tensions you may be carrying…
Safe and Productive Workouts for Shoulders in Recuperation Well-sculpted shoulders are a major element in overall upper body development for any bodybuilder to perform well as a competitor. If you take a careful look at the overall upper body development of the finalists on a championship stage, you will always notice that no one has mediocre deltoid development. The deltoids contribute structurally to both the width of the shoulders and visually enhance almost every pose of the bodybuilder during a contest. Returning to a targeted training routine for the shoulder area while not incurring any new risk is especially critical…
Some Basic Steps for Nurturing Your Body’s Surfaces Diet and exercise, of course, are for the bodybuilder two of the key components that contribute to the quality and appearance of the skin. A bodybuilding lifestyle where the objective is to build muscle mass and strength, can sometimes also create reactions on the epidermal surface. For instance, a diet high in fatty acids or “junk” foods during the off-season can lead to the skin appearing blotchy and breaking out in pimples. Since the skin is also one of the body’s eliminatory organs, toxins passing through the skin can cause blemishes. Skin,…