Saturday, 25 August 2012

Jenna Jameson Workout Routine

1. Eat about 6 small complete meals throughout the day (fish, almonds, walnuts, and lean proteins in general, plenty of raw fruits and vegetables, and complex multigrain carbohydrates) spaced out about every 2-3 hours. Consume between 1500-2500 calories a day. 2. Do NOT starve yourself, do NOT binge eat. 3. Be as active as you can; nothing to do for 10 minutes? Knockout 10 elevated push-ups. 4. Eat some spicy foods; take a decent amount of vitamin C, and drink between a half-gallon and a whole gallon of WATER a day. 5. No more soda. Ever. 6. If you do drink coffee, drink it black. 7. Do at least 35 minutes of cardio straight at least once a day, at least three times a week, more if you are not trying to put on muscle. 8. Do a large amount of full body exercises whenever possible (Jumping Jacks, Pull-ups, Chin ups, dips, squats, hanging leg raises, hanging knee raises, back raises, glute ham raises, burpees) 9. Get at least 6 hours of sleep a night, but no more then 9. 10. Avoid anything deep-fried, white bread, sprinkles, and any refined sugar. The easy weight loss secret that the celebrities are keeping from us is that (drum roll, please) there is no secret! Sure, the stars may have more money and time than we do, but their weight loss information is the exact same stuff we have! With very few exceptions, the celebrities that look the best got that way with a healthy diet and regular weight loss exercise. It's true that some stars have tried a fat burner, a weight loss drug, a diet patch or even weight loss surgery but for the most part, celebrities work hard at natural weight loss through exercise, diet and nutrition.

Friday, 24 August 2012

The Exbendables Crew's Workout

Slyvester Stallone TRAIN TO A SCHEDULE 'Sly's training is more comprehensive than most people give him credit for,' says Peterson. 'He's one of the few guys that gets that you have to book training. You treat it like an appointment, and then it gets done.' DIFFERENT FILM, DIFFERENT LOOK 'If you look at Sly, he had different looks for Spy Kids and Rocky Balboa and Rambo. Right now he's lean, but for the Expendables he went for that shredded look with big forearms and traps and a goatee, because that's who he decided the character was. He's a writer and actor first, and he immerses himself in whoever he's playing.' KEEP IT FRESH 'Sly does everything in the gym from traditional power stuff to bodybuilding supersets and drop sets, to kettlebells and single-leg work. We don't do a "typical" workout - I write a different workout for him every day he trains.' BELOW THE BELT 'We do a lot of lower-body work - from a mass-maintaining standpoint, you have to. Sly is not one of those top-heavy bodies. He knows you have to work the glutes, hamstrings, quads, beat up the calves. He'll do deadlifts and then shrug the same weight, so he hits his legs and traps, and because he's holding the weight it'll pump up his forearms.' PROTECT AGAINST INJURY 'We work on things that challenge the balance, or include rotations with bands, so that he's just as strong as he looks. We don't want him wrenching his back during a stunt. He gets some ridiculous injuries. In the movie, he wears a leather sling around his thumb, but that's a real injury - he had to write it into the script to cover it.' Randy Court STAY BALANCED 'Randy works a lot on his footwork and balance, so he'll do a lot of work on agility ladders and movement drills,' says Bonacci. 'We'll also change moves to emphasise balance - for instance, he might do a shoulder press while standing on one leg. We'll also work a lot of Olympic lifting, because it addresses a lot of qualities you need - balance, power and explosiveness. I'm also big on lateral moves - lunges for the legs and med ball throws for the core.' A LITTLE VANITY 'My job is to get Randy in the best possible shape to fight, so we didn't change much during The Expendables. We will do a bit of vanity work when we're not in fight camp, though - direct work on the biceps or whatever.' FIGHTING CONDITION 'About five weeks from a fight, we'll start to focus more on conditioning. A lot of it comes from fight-specific training, but we'll also do a lot of sprinting, rowing and work on the Airdyne bike, which gets harder to pedal as you go faster. We'll work five-minute rounds in the build-up to a fight, rather than making them longer, I'll work on getting the rest periods down. By the end of camp I'll try to get Randy resting for 35 seconds between rounds, so that when he gets a whole minute during a fight it seems like forever.' REDUCE ACID LEVELS 'Nutritionally, the main thing he does is avoid too much red meat, sugar and dairy. They make your system more acidic, which makes it harder to recover from the volume of training he does.'

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Exercises for Perkier Pec

There may not be any magical remedies for impacting the size of your breasts but you can make them appear bigger, firmer and perkier with these simple workouts. The muscles directly underneath your breast are called pectorals and it’s these babies you want to target. Saggy boobs are for Nanas, so join in on the fight against gravity and pick your jugs up off the floor! Grab a set of dumbbells and do incline presses on an incline bench. Lie on the bench with your feet planted firmly on the floor and hold the weights an inch apart above you with your palms facing forward. Bend your elbows to lower the weights to your sides and stop when your upper arms parallel the floor. Push the weights back to the starting point and repeat 10 to 12 times. Doing a decline chest press works the lower section of the chest muscles that sits under the breasts. Lie back on a decline bench with a dumbbell in each hand. Extend your arms straight over your chest with your palms facing forward. Lower the weights down until your elbows are bent at 90 degrees. Keep the dumbbells aligned with the chest. Press the weights up and together over your chest. Do three sets of 15 repetitions. Execute a set of pec flyes for your inner chest. Lie face-up on a flat bench and hold dumbbells an inch apart above you with your palms facing each other. Bend your elbows slightly and maintain that bend as you lower the weights to your sides. Stop when your upper arms parallel the floor, push the weights back up and repeat for 10 to 12 repetitions.

Monday, 18 June 2012

Workouts to Increase Your Vitality

Try this simple exercise routine and see how it works for you: o Always start with a light warm up by doing low aerobic exercise for six to eight minutes o One - two sets of weight training with 30 -45 seconds rests in between o Do cardiovascular exercise for 20 - 30 minutes o Cool down and stretch! Remember to bring your heart rate down during your stretch by taking deep breaths. Set realistic goals when starting an exercise routine. You can expect to see results at various stages. Your fitness experience and current level of fitness may alter these results slightly. o In 1 to 8 weeks you should be feeling better with much higher energy o In 2 to 6 months you should become leaner and your clothing will fit looser o 6 months and beyond you will be much fitter and in most cases be losing unwanted pounds For a healthy sexual life a light and not tiring training program is as important as vegetal aphrodisiacs. A light and regular exercise program will balance your metabolism and hormonal system to keep you sexually active. But beware of heavy and tiring training programs because an extra low fat texture may cause a performance decrease. Yoga, meditation and many other positive energy techniques are recommended to purify your brain against stress and support sexual energy. Right breathing exercises are also important for a successful sex life. If you insist for heavy training please pay special attention for a regular and healthy nutrition. A Special Booster Formula for Men: Put 1 kg. of a good quality flower honey into a glass pot, add 250 gr. powdered ginger, 100 gr. powdered Indian saffron, 50 gr. peeled and pounded green cardamom, 1 gr. saffron, 5 gr. pounded coriander, 4 sweet spoons of pounded stinging nettle seeds, 2 sweet spoons of royal jelly, 4 sweet spoonful of pollen, 100 gr. unshelled and pounded pistachio nut and 100 gr. of pine nut. Stir and mix the whole with a wood spoon. You can store the pot in a cool and gloomy place. If you don't have any allergy or illness against those ingredients, eat one tablespoon 2 times (morning and night) in a day.

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Push Up Pump Workout

It might surprise you to know that the pushup wasn’t invented in the U.S. We can’t say for sure, but we’re guessing it comes from India, since it’s really a classic yoga exercise. And it’s not the only version of the pushup that comes form foreign soil. Strength coach Martin Rooney traveled the world and found all “new” variations, including the knee-to-opposite elbow pushup (Thailand), the triangle pushup (Brazil), the uchi mata pushup (Japan), and the staggered hands, single-leg pushup (England). You can see them all in the video, but better yet, take Rooney’s pushup challenge for a workout that’ll blast your upper body. Directions: Challenge 1. Start your stopwatch and do 10 reps of each version of the pushup. Try to do it faster every time you repeat the workout. Challenge 2. Start your stopwatch and do 10 reps of each version of the pushup. Then repeat until you’ve done a total of 100 pushups. Your goal: Try to complete this routine in less than 5 minutes. You can also use the push up pump. The push up pump is a revolutionary push up machine that makes doing push ups easier and safer on your body. Traditional push ups can often time cause back problems or other muscle aches in people who try and do them, but are not doing in the proper form. With the Push Up Pump you are fully supported, which means you will do the proper technique every time! The push up machine is built to be able to support your back 100% and offers up to 78% full body support which helps you concentrate on doing pushups instead of your form. This eliminates half of the troubles most people have with doing regular push ups. The Push Up Pump has 3 levels of resistance to ensure that you are getting a the proper burn in to build a more muscular body. The 3 color coded resistance bands each have a unique their own resistance levels. Using the 3 color bands can add 0 to 65 lbs of extra resistance to your own body weight. With the use of the extra resistance bands and your own body weight you are able to get a full body workout in as little as 5 minutes a day but realistically its going to take more time than that to get in a solid workout. The Push Up Pump system also offers three different gripping styles to help work on different muscles. The wider the grip, the more you work on your pecks. Whereas a closer grip will work more on your arms.

Sunday, 20 May 2012

How Much Reps for Blast Biceps?

What's the one muscle group that gets more attention then any other and instantly let's everyone know whether you are strong and muscular - or weak and puny? If you said "The Arms" then you are right on the money. What makes having big muscular arms so desirable? Well, it could be because the arms are the most visible of any muscle group. Whenever you wear a short sleeve shirt your arms are on display and people are looking. It's human nature, when we see naked skin we just can't help but stop and notice. First impressions say a lot and people are unconsciously judging you by your arm development: If your arms are "Skinny" you look small and weak. If your arms are "Flabby" you look fat and out of shape. In either case you WON'T get the respect you deserve! Try this workout! Start off with a set of reverse grip barbell curls (grab the bar with your palms facing down) and rep out until momentary muscular failure. Then immediately switch to doing preacher curls for as many reps as you can do. Preferably use the flat 90 degree angle side of the preacher bench pad, but if you can't do that, then regular 45 degree angle preacher curls will work as well. And then finish off with regular grip standing barbell curls and pump out as many reps as you can. It's ok to even "cheat" a little bit at the end to grid out a couple additional reps for an awesome sleeve stretching muscle pump. Repeat this killer bicep tri-set combo for 3 rounds and trust me your arms will feel like they are ready to EXPLODE WITH NEW MUSCLE GROWTH! Give the tri-set combo a try in your next arm workout. I bet you'll be surprised by just how an effective a bicep builder it really is. As always, remember to warm up your joints and connective tissues thoroughly before using your working weights and that all poundages here are for illustrative purposes only. Be sure to use weights that are comfortable for you that allow you to barely complete your last reps.

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Romanian Deadlift


Most leg exercises fall under the quad dominant category. Squats, deadlifts, leg presses and the like are all quad dominant exercises. While the hip extensor muscle groups (hamstrings and glutes) are activated during these movements, the quads take most of the training stress, and therefore receive the largest training response. If you do not make a conscious effort to balance your quad and hip extensor training, you will eventually develop a strength imbalance between the two muscle groups.

This imbalance can lead to several less than desirable conditions, with both physical (frequently pulled hamstrings) and cosmetic (less than perky backside) manifestations. Because hip extensor training can have such a wide range of benefits, it makes sense for everyone to include it in their training program - from general health and fitness clients looking for some improved "assets," to athletes looking for improved performance and injury prevention.

The Romanian Deadlift, or RDL, is an excellent lift for developing strength and muscle mass in the posterior chain. Whether your goal is a great physique, a bigger squat or deadlift, or to run faster and jump higher, the RDL can help get you there.

Unfortunately, the RDL is one of the most difficult lifts to learn and coach. Whether it's the concept of neutral spine, loading the hips by pushing them back, or keeping the weight on the heels, let's just say there are easier lifts to coach! In fact, I'd go as far as saying I'd rather teach someone to squat properly than do an RDL properly!

Performance

1. Grab the bar just outside of shoulder width; if grip is an issue, feel free to use a mixed-grip or straps.

2. Set-up in a hip-width stance with the toes pointing straight ahead and weight on your heels. You should have a slight bend in the knees.

3. The chest should be up, with the chin tucked and neck in neutral alignment with the rest of the torso.

4. From the starting position, focus on pushing the hips way back. In fact, just think about pushing the hips as far back as possible while maintaining the flat back and neutral neck position.

5. Once you feel a mild stretch in the hamstrings, drive the hips forward towards the starting position. If you start to feel any rounding in the low back before this, go ahead and return at that time.

6. As you approach the starting position, focus on actively squeezing the gluteals to finish the lift.

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