Bodybuilding Nutrition

The first time an athlete tries to gain weight, it may seem very confusing. They may understand that they need bodybuilding nutrition and training, but they just do not understand how to use those two aspects of training. What ends up happening is that they buy a crappy product and they do not see any results. From there they head down a bad path that leads to nothing but spinning wheels. I am going to hopefully make the process of gaining weight clearer and show you how easy it actually is.

The weight room is definitely the largest factor in regards to gaining weight. An athlete will not gain much muscle without stepping into the weight room, better yet, training. What most athletes do inside the weight room is completely ineffective though. They are only training their upper body with an outrageous amount of reps and wonder why they are not gaining weight. On the other hand, there are some athletes that understand the process of gaining weight and are using full body exercises with moderate weights and are gaining lots of muscle. Gaining weight is easy once you understand what you are doing.

Now beyond the training aspect of gaining weight, one must be sure to have good bodybuilding nutrition. One’s nutrition is extremely important for gaining weight. Sure an athlete can gain weight without eating very much, but they will be greatly limited in doing so. Most athletes think that a supplement will help them gain all the weight that they need to gain, but sadly that is not true. Sure, supplements help, but they will not do it all. An athlete has to eat a ton to gain weight; I like to see about 500-1000 more calories a day than what they are currently eating. That is sure to pack some weight onto them.

I know I just said supplements are not that important in the last paragraph, but I may have fudged the truth slightly. It would be better said as 99% of all supplements are worthless pieces of shit, but that small 1% is actually worthy of being used by serious athletes. I do not like to mess with many supplements, actually I only use 3. But it is safe to say that the 3 I use are amazing and do some great things in regards to putting weight on my body. I like to use whey protein, creatine, and fish oil. If an athlete uses these, he will gain muscle, it is that simple.

I hope the process of gaining muscle is a lot easier now and you can actually add mass to your body. Gaining weight seriously is one of the easiest things to do when it comes to athletic training. As long as one has good bodybuilding nutrition and smart training, they will gain muscle.

The Fastest Way To Lose Weight

Everyone wants the secret to finding the fastest way to lose weight, well I think it is about time someone reveled that secret: there is no secret! I seriously hate how “gurus” all over the Internet and infomercials are able to make a killing by selling “weight loss secrets” to gullible and naive consumers. It is absolute bullshit that there is constantly a new heard of sheep that can be sold to even though no results are being made. I understand why these “gurus” do this as they have to eat and they do not deserve to receive all of the blame, you also must blame the public for allowing this to continue.

I understand that we want everything now, but as far as weight loss and training goes, you must have patience in order to see results. It is very easy to lose a steady 2 pounds of fat a week, but you cannot expect to lose 20-30 in that same amount of time and expect for the weight to stay off, it’s impossible. If someone wanted to lose 10-20 pounds of fat, I would find it very easy to have that accomplished within a few months. As long as the person is able to put forth the effort, their hard work will greatly pay off.

Losing weight does not require any special pills or supplements that cost outrageous prices, but instead just a good work ethic. I know tons of people that have lost over 100 pounds within a year, and they will all say the same thing; losing weight is easy, it just requires dedication. I have never seen anyone fail to lose weight as long as they were able to devote training towards their goal. On the other hand, I have witnessed tons of people that wanted to lose weight but just did not have the drive in order to do so. These are the same people constantly falling for the newest product on the market and have yet to lose any weight. I hate to see this happen as this is their life they are destroying by failing to understand the process of losing weight.

In my opinion, there is no fastest way to lose weight; it takes lots of time to see any worthwhile results. That is not to say that there are not ways to accelerate the process in a safe fashion, but as far as seeing immediate results, that is simply not possible. So the fastest way to lose weight is the best way to lose weight, and that is by smart training and great eating habits. 

How To Gain Muscle

Just about everyone, especially every athlete wants to gain muscle at some time or another. And just about everyone can easily gain muscle as well, but only up to a certain point. Once this intermediate stage has been reached, most people and athletes results come to a sudden halt. Well I’m going to hopefully help you break through that plateau and teach you how to gain muscle once you no longer can.

Gaining weight is honestly one of the easiest things to do as an athlete. If I had an athlete come to me that needed to gain some weight before the season begins, it would my make job a lot easier than it is. Now that very rarely happens because as an athlete you need to improve on a lot more than just your size, but it is very possible to improve your athletic abilities along with gaining muscle.

It is possible for an athlete to gain close to 25 pounds in their first year of training, but the number drops to about half out that exponentially until it finally stalls out. I don’t know many athletes that have ever gained over 40 pounds of muscle in their athletic career outside of puberty and steroids. It is just not a very easy thing to do and most athletes take the wrong approach towards building muscle.
The first thing an athlete must do in order to gain muscle is quite obvious; they must be training, and training very hard at that. They also must have a good weight training program, not some crappy cookie cutter routine that they found on the web, but rather a customized weight training program built specifically for them. Now I know I have said gaining muscle is easy, but the volume that an athlete must reach can be very difficult for the athlete. By difficult I mean that it would be tough and usually give an athlete that “burning” feeling in their muscles. That burning feeling would be from a lack of oxygen due to the high reps.

The next thing an athlete must do is eat, and eat, and eat. In order to gain tons of weight, an athlete must completely change their calorie consumption. I am talking about thousands of calories more a day; this is the type of eating it must take in order to gain lots of weight. I do not recommend that an athlete eat “junk” food and what not, but it is still possible to gain solid muscle eating like that. I am just not a fan of what it has the capability to do to an athlete in the later stages of life.

Now that is pretty much all there is to gaining weight; training hard and eating. Of course there are some other factors that go into play, but they are pretty irrelevant. I’ve seen athletes gain tons of weight over the course of one off season, and you can to!

Weight Training Programs

What is the point of having a weight training program? Why couldn’t we just go into the weight room without any form of instruction and just do what we feel like doing?

Well you could do that, no one is stopping you. I am not advising that an athlete does that, but if you want to be like everyone else in the weight room that has been lifting for years yet have made zero progress, then go right ahead. But if you actually would like to add strength and size to your body, then you need a proper weight training program.

You can easily find a routine on the Internet with one simple search. But those are mainly just cookie cutter programs that offer zero help to you as an athlete. There are a few exceptions out there that while being a cookie cutter routine, are still able to provide decent results, but those are rare. But in order to truly see results as an athlete, the athlete must have a weight training program specialized for them. A routine that is specific to their needs could potentially be the difference between becoming the star player or riding the pine for another year. I repeat, it is a must for an athlete to have a weight training program tailor made to suit their needs.

Now having a routine that fits their needs perfectly is only half the battle. The other half is for the athlete to be actually committed to training in order to see any sort of results. You would be surprised by the number of athletes that lack the motivation and the drive to ever see any kind of results in their athletic training. Yet these same athletes want to complain and wonder why they see zero results. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: Dedication the most important aspect of an athlete’s training.

So now that you have your perfect weight training program and you are putting in the effort in the gym, you may be wondering what else could you possibly need to have. Well it is great that your training is great, but you must also be sure to make sure your nutrition is good as well. I’ve seen many athletes put a ton of effort in the gym, yet outside of it you would never think that they try and take care of their body. I am not saying that you must eat well in order to make results, but that it helps, plus it will definitely pay off down the road.

There you go, a simple article explaining the importance of a weight training program and how to see great results once you have one. It is very essential that an athlete follow a strict routine and not stray too much from it unless they know what they are doing. The routine is there to keep you focused and without it you would more than likely be lost. So if you haven’t already gotten one, then be sure to get yourself a weight training program.

Great Athletes: The Common Trait

How does one becoming a great athlete? What do all great athletes have in common? How hard must I work before I become a great athlete?

These are all questions you as an athlete must ask yourself when striving to be a great athlete. You must understand that it is not easy to truly be great at your sport, and to actually be great you must do what other greats are doing. This means going the extra mile as long as it means that you can become great.

Definitely the biggest trait that all great athletes have in common is their genetics. There is not anything you can do to change that, but you cannot let that keep you from becoming great. It is only a slight hurdle that stops you from becoming one of them. You cannot compare yourself to someone with great genetics and hold that as an excuse as yourself, you must let that instead be your motivation to work harder than them to become better than them. Talent is not everything when it comes to becoming a great athlete.

The most important factor in becoming a great athlete besides being born with all the genetic tools is to have a heart of steel. This is definitely the hardest to have as this has to do with an athlete’s personality rather than their physical traits. If an athlete has the drive and work ethic to work harder than his competition than there is no reason why he should not be better than his competition. It is a fact that hard work beats out talent when talent fails to work hard, this is proven time after time again.

You may wonder why not all athletes that work extremely hard are not very successful, well this ties into my first trait that all great athletes must have; great genetics. If an athlete has bad genetics, than no matter how hard they work, they may never become truly great. That is not to say that they will never become great, but rather to say that it makes the journey a whole lot harder than if they even had average genetics.

So if you are every wondering why you are not as good of an athlete as you know you can be, you need to ask yourself are you working as hard as you could? If not, then you need to begin working as hard as possible and then sit back and enjoy the results.