First of all, never compare yourself to the next person. Your only competition should be the person staring back at you in the mirror. I think where so many fail, is when they start comparing themselves to fitness models. Stop doing that!!! By comparing yourself like that, you will think that you’re not making progress. …
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Lose And Tone With FitGuy46
My name is Philip and I am a certified personal trainer. My main focus and goal is to help you lose weight and tone up those muscles. So let’s get started!!! Contact me for your free consultation. Make it a great day!!! Philip “FitGuy46”
Add Weight to Your Squats
Once you can comfortably perform 3 sets of 20 body-weight squats, it’s time to progress to the next level by upping the resistance. Adding weight to your squats not only helps your glutes develop but it’ll take some of the boredom out of a repetitive body-weight squat routine. The barbell back squat is one option. …
3-Week Back and Bicep Routine
The back muscles are the connection of all our limbs, the stronger they are, the greater the strength potential for the rest of the muscles. Remember… 3-Week Back and Bicep Routine
How to Incorporate Progressive Overload Into Your Workouts
Unless you’re a certified trainer, the very best way to incorporate progressive overload training is to work with an expert who can write you a program that takes your goals, schedule and current fitness level and lifts in mind. But if that’s out of your price range or you’re do it yourself-er, the best way …
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Why You Need Progressive Overload
If you’re on the hunt for a way to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of your workouts, all experts agree: Progressive overload is it. Progressive overloading involves intentionally planning your workouts so that every single session maximizes its strength-building potential. Typically, that means manipulating the weight, rep scheme, tempo or intensity of a movement. Could …
The One Method Guaranteed to Help You Get Stronger
No shade to the mood-boosting benefits of strength-training. But if you’re slinging around weight and not getting any stronger, at best it’s a bummer, and at worst it’s interfering with said happy-making perks. If this sounds familiar, it’s probably because your strength plan lacks something called progressive overload. Never heard of it? I have a cheat …
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What Does Progressive Overload Mean?
The key to gaining strength and building muscle, “the progressive overload principle says that in order for our muscles to change and get stronger, we need to work them harder.” That probably makes sense to you intuitively, but to understand physiologically why and how this works, you need to understand how muscle growth happens. During …
