Category Archives: Weight Training

Advanced Body Transformation: Elite Fat Burning, Muscle Building Techniques

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You’ve seen them, all those sculpted bodies that grace the covers of fitness magazines. It can be frustrating if your goal is to be one of the elite fitness model types as few people know how to get you there. Fat loss is one thing, but to teach you a system that systematically burns fat

What do I do if one (side/arm/leg/etc) is bigger or stronger than the other?

Having an imbalance is more common than you may think! For example, I spent 10 years carrying a heavy laptop bag on my right shoulder. This resulted in a severe imbalance that is very noticeable. The musculature on my right side is tight and packed, and my head naturally leans to the left side to

Why is it that some strong people don’t have big muscles?

I was just sharing this on a recent teleminar about resistance training (the different ways that muscles respond).You have muscle cells that are grouped in bundles called motor units. They are called units because each of these muscle cells has a single nerve that commands them to contract or relax. Each motor unit is either

How do I calculate exactly how much muscle I’ve gained?

You cannot calculate your muscle gain, short of having a biopsy. You can calculate your lean mass gain. Many people confuse this with muscle, which it is not – it is a combination of anything that is not fat. That means the contents of food in your gut, the water that your muscles may draw

Can you gain muscle and burn fat without weights or cardiovascular exercise?

To burn fat, you have to create a deficit through nutrition and through burning calories. Guess what? Whether you are doing cardio, lifting weights, or doing bodyweight exercises, you’ll burn calories. And the squats, etc they are describing will have your heart rate through the roof. I was doing something similar for about a month