People have a tendency to treat training for a “look” differently than training for an athletic or a strength goal. The truth is, whatever your fitness goals are, it is important to structure your program in a way that allows you to meet those goals in the shortest time period possible.
You have a tremendous variety of tools available to you, and it’s sometimes easy to forget that not all methods are effective for all goals. Athletes training for their sport practice some highly specific drills; training for fat loss requires adjustment of nutritional strategies; powerlifters work on becoming skilled and efficient in their primary lifts.
It is no doubt, there are many guys who want to build muscle but don't want to become too huge or bulky. This aim is especially necessary when your main goal for building muscle is to enhance the appearance of your body and be a little stronger, and not to look like a professional bodybuilder with huge and bloated muscles all over your body. Surely, a bloated overly muscular physique must be avoided if you want to wear normal clothes, be effective in sports and look appealing to the ladies. The following guidelines taken from Rusty Moore creator of Visual Impact Muscle Building will help you learn how to avoid becoming huge and bulky when building muscle, and instead get the lean and angular look like movie stars and fitness models.
Gaining Muscle Where You Want It Is Very Important
According to Rusty Moore, if you are in the gym and your only concern is to quickly gain lots of muscle mass by focusing only on the standard way of lifting for building muscle this may contribute to the problem. What is likely to happen is that most of these attained muscle will end up on your legs, butt and hips, and the rest evenly distributed over the rest of your body. Muscles gained in this way will most likely create a bulky and terrible looking physique. So even if you are very good at gaining pure muscle quickly , if it appears in the wrong places on your body it will not look very impressive.
You Can't Control What You Look Like By Just Sticking To The Basics
Rusty also stated the common advice of just sticking to the big lifts like deadlifts, squats, and bench press is great if you just want to add mass and don't care what you wind up looking like. This approach is the quickest way to putting on lots of muscle mass. However, the problem lies in the fact that the appearance of your physique is left up to chance and lots of guys who follow this approach end up looking like a professional bodybuilder with big butt, upper legs and hips.
Here is a video taken from Rusty Moore's presentation on the Visual Impact Muscle Building official site explaining this.
Increasing The Size Of The Right Muscle Groups Is The Way To Create The Desired Look
The approach of targeting the muscles that you need to grow and backing down on everything else will give you the impressive look writes Rusty. Adding the right amount of mass for your shoulders, arms and chest can transform the way you look without making you look overly muscular or unbalanced. If you want a bigger chest with a special focus on increasing your upper chest, then dramatically increase the volume on various incline presses, incline flyes, hammer strength machines, etc. To compensate for that increase in volume specifically for your chest, back off a bit when it comes to some of your other body parts. 15-20 sets per workout for muscle groups you are trying to add size to is recommended for getting the right amount of mass.
It's also a great idea to setup your workouts so that the targeted muscle group gets worked more often than the other muscle groups. You can also get impressive results by using a combination of free weights, cables, and machines when aiming for muscle growth.
Recommended Time Period For Working On A Specific Body Part
It is recommended to specialize for 2-3 months on a body part, then have a more balanced routine for 1-2 months (as a precaution to ensure that you don't neglect the other muscles). The idea is to systematically build an ideal physique by giving selective attention to body parts that need extra work.
Bulking Up With Calories Just Puts More Excess Fat On Your Body
Rusty also strongly advice avoiding bulking up when eating to build muscle. Though you need to eat sufficient calories to gain muscle you should not consume more food than you need. Excessive consumption of calories will give you more body fat to deal with. And, body fat is very hard to lose even though they're easy to gain. Lots of guys who bulk up gets stuck with too much fat stored on their body making their physique look bloated and bulky.
The above is just general info to guide you to gain a lean and angular physique that looks attractive instead of the huge rounded bodybuilder type look when building muscle. For a complete program that covers building muscle while staying lean and ripped through the entire process you should check out Visual Impact Muscle Building. This is a top rated muscle building guide created by Rusty Moore, a guy who is dedicated to helping people get the 'Lean Hollywood Look'.
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The key is to take in more calories some days than others.Calorie formulas should only be used as a starting point.One of the problems that fitness professionals deal with is answering extremely broad questions, the most common of which is “What should I eat?” Now, if I want to be a smart ass, the only way to answer an unfairly broad question is with an unfairly broad answer,its 'FOOD'.
Thinkstock My girlfriend and I try to stick to low carbs and high protein during the week, and almost never eat out. But when the weekend rolls around, we always pick a day to eat whatever we want and a night to go out to dinner. I'm not saying I look perfect (but I look pretty good), and my girl gets whistled at on the street when she's wearing a sweatshirt. Still, we definitely do our part to help deplete Ben & Jerry's stock (weekends only).
Well I'm sure you all know by now, but the national day and Islamic new year holidays have been announced:
Public Sector & Private Sector: Saturday 26th till Monday 28th and back to work on the Tuesday 29th. Add the weekend to that and that's quite the vacation!
Actual photos of Anthony Ellis before and after 12 weeks. Read this letter to see his incredible transformation after only 16 weeks — you'll be amazed...
Sorry about the crap photos, the lighting was awful with the weather outside today.. I'll try and take some pictures when its sunny! These ones kept going blurry too :S
I filmed my "Everyday Makeup Routine" today and uploaded it to YouTube, I'm sure you will all be very excited to find out what I slap on my face on a regular basis.
Also I dyed my hair, do you like it? A Video on the dye I used, and tips etc will be uploaded within the next couple of days :) This Raspberry Nail Paint from Barry M is my new favourite winter polish. I love anything with a reddish tone at the moment, hence why I'm basically living in this T-Shirt from New Look. Although in real life it's almost purple.
Oman Sail has recently launched it's latest initiative to get children involved with sailing: Sail with Colours.
To celebrate the Omani Year of Children 2012, Oman Sail is launching an online contest for children, to design a sail for a small dinghy sail boat RS Q'BA.
This contest is the first response to the announcement of Year of Children 2012 in the Sultanate. There is an important story to tell to all children living in the Sultanate about Oman's maritime and seafaring heritage - the contest is a fun way to encourage children’s artistic talents whilst helping to raise awareness of the emerging sailing culture among the youth in Oman. The contest targets children aged between 6 and 16 years and can be entered via Oman Sail’s Facebook page.
The ‘Sail with Colours’ competition is to find the best design for a sail of an RS Q’BA boat. Entries are from school children falling into two categories: the first category is for children aged from 6 to 11 years and the second for those aged between 12 and 16 years. Both Omani and expatriate children can participate in the contest.
1. First prize is a RS Q'BA boat! (Pictured below) 2. Second prize is a weekend stay and sailing courses at the Shangri-La Resort and Spa and a certificate. 3. Third prize is a super surprise!
Participants can submit their designs by uploading their artwork to http://facebook.com/OmanSail, or e-mailing their work to kids@omansail.com. Alternatively the contestants can deliver their artwork by hand to the reception at Oman Sail headquarters located at The Wave, Muscat. The Oman Sail judging committee will select the top 30 designs. From these 30 shortlisted designs, the top 10 will be selected by a jury team which includes high profile officials. Finally, the top 3, and the overall winning entry will be selected via public voting on Facebook.
Hameed al Balushi, the popular sports TV presenter will be the spokesperson for the sail design contest.
Oman Sail has a huge focus on the youth of Oman, and teaching young Omanis to sail is the primary objective of the company. Its Try Sailing program will teach over 30,000 young Omanis to sail by 2015. These innovative training programmes are inspiring a new generation to discover and enjoy sailing. The first graduates of Oman Sail's training programme have already achieved many victories as part of their elite inshore and offshore racing teams.
Here are a few notes about the competition:
1.The contest will be officially launched on Facebook (http://facebook.com/OmanSail) with full details on November 1, 2011. 2.The last date for submission of entries is December 16. The public voting feature will be open on Facebook from 27 to 31 of December 2011. The top 3 winners in each category will be announced on 1 January 2012. 3.Online will be the main channels of communication for the contest. 4.Facebook will be the online platform for competition information and submission of sail designs. 5.The Facebook page tab will be specifically designed for the contest and include a video about the contest (in Arabic), terms and conditions of the contest, a form through which contestants can easily fill and upload their submissions, and a downloadable template for the sail to be painted on.
On Friday the 11th (Rememberance day) a charity music single was released globally via CNN and MBC. The track is called Tomorrow / Bokra and is a re-release of Quincy Jone's original track, Tomorrow (a better you, better me).
The reason for blogging it is the local spin, local Omani artist, Salah Al Zadjali features in the track along with 23 other "leading Arab music artists from 16 nations across the Middle East and North Africa".
Anyway, here's the track for you to have a listen to. It's fairly long!
I dont think I've written a book review since I was 10 and had to write a review about James and the Giant Peach, but this time I wanted to share with you all the latest book that I've just finished reading:
I won't go into detail about the book, but it's very well researched, and well written and very informative. Very enlightening the way that the Accession to the throne of His Majesty is described in the opening chapters of the book. And as for the battle at the end in Mirbat, I could not put the book down it was so interesting to me.
Click this Amazon link for more details (don't worry it's not a referral thing!).
Well worth the tenner it currently costs.
The blurb says:
In early 1970, the Commanding Officer of 22 SAS flew into the strategically critical Sultanate of Oman on a covert intelligence mission. A Communist rebellion in the south threatened not only the stability of the Arabian Peninsula but more importantly the vital oil routes through the Persian Gulf.
Within six months, the Regiment arrived in theatre to lead a fierce, secret war against the rebels.
From a remote RAF airbase in the desert, an elite band of British pilots, flying difficult, dangerous missions in Strikemaster jets and Vietnam-era Huey helicopters, were scrambled alongside them.
For the British soldiers and airmen, it was to be no easy victory. The enemy were well supplied with weaponry and training from China and the Soviet Union, and despite confronting the largest assault force ever deployed by the SAS, many months later the rebels were still fighting back.
At dawn on 19 July, 1972, a force of nearly 300 heavily armed, well-trained guerillas attacked the little fishing port of Mirbat without warning. Between them and glory stood a team of just nine SAS men, and the skill of the British fighter pilots. The scene was set for an epic encounter; a modern-day Rorke's Drift. Their heroism would become SAS legend.
Drawing on extensive interviews with participants from the SAS, the RAF and the Sultan's Armed Forces, most of whom have never spoken about their involvement before, as well as previously classified documents from both the UK and Oman, Storm Front weaves an unputdownable tale of intrigue, action, daring and astonishing bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.
Weight Gain isn’t something that is easy to do, it requires patience and discipline to diet and training. Hopefully the weight gain tips on this site will help you to achieve your goals.
One of the best weight gain tips to remember is DO EVERYTHING BIG! That means eat BIG and lift BIG to get BIG. Say that over and over again in your head until you fully understand it. Many people think weightlifting is the key to gaining weight. Of course weightlifting is an extremely important part. However to gain weight, think beyond weightlifting! Your diet is just as important when it comes to gaining weight.
I'm a complete beginner to weight training. I'd like to make gains as fast as possible, but when I ask people how I should go about it all I keep getting different answers. Please help me, I need advice on all areas: diet, routine, exercises, supplements, etc.
This is one of the most common questions that I am asked. And for those who are just getting started it can be very confusing. I understand what you are going through because I went through the samething when I began bodybuilding.
We all have to start somewhere and it can be overwhelming at times because people often make things more complicated then they really are. When you put aside all of the hype you can see that building muscle and losing fat is not very complex.
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You have to give it everything you've got in order to see results."
Tomorrow is the Jay Sean and Shontelle concert, but next Wednesday is The Script, and once again I've been fourtunate enough to get 2 free VIP tickets to give away right here on ze blog. Tickets are still available, but they really are going quickly - it's going to be a very well attended concert - I kinda wish I was going to be there!
A special congratulations to Jinan AL-Busaidi who has won the 2 free VIP tickets to see The Script on November 16th.
It seems that there is more rain heading towards the capital with showers expected by most weather predictors to begin tomorrow and run through until Friday at the latest - patchy showers, not continuous.
Last night was the Shaggy party, with the VIP after party at Zouk later on - I've not heard much about it yet but what I have heard was positive, great to see more acts coming to town :)
This Wednesday the 9th sees Jay Sean and Shontelle at the InterCon gardens, gates opening at 7. I'll announce the winner of the 2 free VIP tickets to The Script tomorrow. I'm told that there are a few tickets remainig for both the gigs, not many though! You can buy them at the following outlets: OUA MQ, Bose Qurum City Centre & Al Ghazal pub at the InterCon.
For people that like rock music, I woke up this morning and was surprised to see the following poster:
This Friday, at the Safari Bar in the Hyatt, RO 10 on the door, doors open at 7, band on at 9. Should be fun, even though it's on a school night for many of us.
I also saw that Craic Attack is coming back -
Tickets are OMR12, available at Crowne Plaza and OUA retail outlet in MQ. Doors open at 8pm (show 9pm).
Tomorrow I'll announce the winners to the Script concert... you can still enter... click here for details.
The Oman Cat-Astrophe lot have a petition going on to gauge support for an animal shelter campgain they want to launch. You can help by signing the petition on facebook, here. I suggest that your contact information can be found by clicking your name, and that you don't need to put your email address there publically for all to see.
Local blogger, Happily Married to a Biker has started a new blog to support her moms new store, Unique Star Fashion at the Zakher Mall in Al Khuwair. It's great to see more shopping choices with web-presence here in Muscat!
Welcome to getmascular.blogspot.com weight lifting section. This site contains lots of bodybuilding and weight lifting information in it. If you are a true weight lifter then you will find our site very useful. On our site you will find lots of weight lifting tips for beginners, intermediate aswell as the advanced. You will also find here lots of weight lifting programs laying stress on every body so that you get the muscles that you wanted from past so many years. You will also find here lots of weight lifting routines to fit your lifestyle. Tips on weight training are also provided so that you perform all your weight lifting exercises with correct weight lifting technique. And remember a warm before starting your weight lifting workout for any body part is very essential - Tips for that are also given.
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John Abraham is a vegetarian, and it is very difficult to get protein sources in a veg diet. So we went strict on soya, sprouts and whey protein to recover his protein requirements. His diet consists of six meals a day. Each meal with
Yet more free tickets donated by the kind souls at Hi FM and Alive Events.... The Script, playing live at the InterCon gardens on Wednesday November 16th from 7pm. Tickets cost RO 25 for General Admission or RO 50 for access to the Golden Circle (VIP) area. There are 2 free VIP tickets up for grabs and all you have to do is either leave a comment here, or email me at mrsythe *at* gmail.com. It's free to enter, I dont give the email's to anyone, so why not have a go? :)
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