Wednesday, May 22, 2013

I’m going to throw out a weird hypothetical question that I want readers to consider before continuing with this article. If you had to pick a single repetition range to train in for growth, what would it be?

How did you get started? Well, there are two ways in how I view myself getting started into bodybuilding; subconsciously and consciously.  Subconsciously, I got started when I was 8 years old. I didn’t call it bodybuilding at the time as I didn’t know what it was, but I liked being physically fit and I [...]

How did you get started? I’ve always been active and have enjoyed weightlifting and running.  But after having my three children, when my youngest was 2, my husband got deployed to Afghanistan with the Army.  While I had been working out, I wasn’t as consistent as I had once been before having children.  

How did you get started? I started lifting weights at 13 years old to prepare myself for Highschool Football.  I thought that I was too small.  I remember that day so well because I went to a Highschool Football practice and when I came home I started working out using furniture, books, and anything I [...]

Should women lift weights? That’s a question that I receive on a near weekly basis.  The typical reasoning for their question after I ask them is that they are afraid of becoming too bulky and becoming masculine.  After all, which females want to lose their feminine side?  Not very many.

Fitness goals are something on just about everyone’s mind come the late part of any year.  This is where you see numerous people start flooding into the once nearly empty gyms.  For those experienced fitness members, this can be the most painful period.  Since they did not have to wait for their equipment previously, they [...]

There are no shortcuts to build muscle fast, and that is where I find that most people fail when lifting weights with the intention of putting on muscle.  They begin working out with a solid diet, but then they quit after a few months because they are not seeing the results.  Let’s face it – [...]

One of the biggest  myths in the fitness world is that carbohydrates make you fat; I swear, one of the most common questions that you could get as a nutritional expert is “are carbohydrates bad?”  First off, you try to explain to them that they don’t make you fat.  Then they end up not listening [...]