If You Eat at Home, You are Not Alone

Welcome to My DoFollow Blog! As a Big Thank You, I'd Like to Give You FREE Access to my "19 Tips to Build Muscle & Gain Weight" Report That Gives You The Key Ingredients For Success in YOUR all your workouts! ~ Marc David; CPT

Thanks to a NPD report on the use of recipes for at home cooking, it looks like if you are one of the people who’s cooking more at home, you are not alone.  This means things like bodybuilding recipes is on the rise!  That’s great news for you because there’s quite a few on this blog.

People who use a recipe on a weekly basis has jumped from 37% back in 2005 to an almost high of 42% in 2011.

A whopping 67% of U.S. households have used a receipe in the last month and 42% use it even more often!
Count me as one of those people as I’m constantly pulling ideas from my top 3 fitness cookbooks.  As you might guess, dinner is the most often timeframe for using a receipe but I admit my dinners become lunches the next day and I’ll make something quick for a healthy breakfast as well.
If you think it’s because people are really interested in becoming healthy, you’d be wrong.  It’s about money.  U.S. families (as well as any cost conscious person) are just looking for ways to save some money, still have great tasting menus and use items at home.  That’s why I am such a fan of the bodybuilding receipes on this blog!  Most use 4 or less steps, they taste wonderful and they are creative and use things I often have at home anyway.

Where’s the growth coming from you ask?
Millennials make up 50% who use a receipe once a week (30 million young people)45% Generation XFamiles with children under the age of 18 (good to see kids eating at home)
As this trend continues to rise, there’s absolutely no reason for you to worry about the need to become a bodybuidling chef.  There’s many healthy meals on this blog as well as a few friends of mine that meet the needs of anybody trying to build muscle.

P.S. – If you have a sweet tooth, you might want to take a look at how to make High Protein Apple Cinnemon Dessert Balls by my skinny, but ripped friend from Canada… Scott Tousignant.
Marc David – CPT“The NoBull Muscle Guy”
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
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Introducing The NoBull Bodybuilding Points System

Welcome to My DoFollow Blog! As a Big Thank You, I'd Like to Give You FREE Access to my "19 Tips to Build Muscle & Gain Weight" Report That Gives You The Key Ingredients For Success in YOUR all your workouts! ~ Marc David; CPT


Thanks to a suggestion from a friend who pointed out rewards system.  I told him I wanted to reward my readers in some fashion but  giveaways or emails just wouldn’t do.  I’ve been at a loss for some time when he suggested I try PunchTab.

As you can see, there’s  a rewards tab on the right top side of the blog.  When you click it and logon via Facebook, you can see the prize catalog and the awards I’ve created for readers of this blog.

Earing point is simple:
You get points for every day you come backYou get points when you share out the posts (look for the red ribbons on the social sharing buttons)You get points if you invite a friend to see what this blog is all aboutYou get more points if they take you up on the offer and join in the funLike this blog on FacebookTweet about the blog (change the tweet to your liking)

I think I’ve added some decent awards and I’d be welcome to include more stuff if you have suggestions.  When you reach a redemption value, you can cash in your points for something out of the catalog.  Like the blog on Facebook and Follow me on Twitter is an easy way to generate points.
Should I award points for commenting on the blog?



Should I award points for commenting on the blog?  You tell me.
Be Fit, Stay Strong!
Marc David – CPT

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Overnight gym success tips for beginners

This is a guest post by Diana.  These days she contributes on Devrover.com

Going to the gym is one of the most important fitness regime for every person. It needs to be part of everyday activity to keep your physical and mental make-up fit, hale and healthy. Today’s society and lifestyle demands you to keep yourself fit. There are many people who practice various fitness regime like yoga, gym, cycling, jogging, walking and other fitness plans to keep them good and going. But, gym is something which helps a person increase or decrease his muscle tone according to his body structure and needs, which helps him keep him BMI (Body Mass Index) as per the required standards. A well known fitness expert says “Keep your muscle tone and your body on the high with effective fitness regime that well fits your body requirements”.

Every beginner has to be keen and careful while choosing his gym and the workouts for himself. It is always advisable to have a personal trainer at this stage since he doesn’t know how, what, when and where a workout will suit his body mass. First of all you should make a stern decision whether you need to increase or decrease your weight, muscle tone and body mass, which is purely based on the BMI, as mentioned earlier. There needs to be proper time and pace to achieve your goal and nothing could happen overnight. It is possible to reduce the duration to achieve the goal with proper, planned hard work and efforts towards it. It is important to keep every lifestyle such as your food, habits, etc., focused towards achieving this goal.
There are 4 major tips to achieving success overnight, for beginners:

The first tip to success is “No Excuses”. No matter who your trainer is, or what supplements you use, you need to remember that it is easy to give excuses, but difficult to achieve results. So, if you want to see results, DO NOT GIVE EXCUSES!! And plan to workout with steady efforts every day.

The second tip is “Keep patient, Gains of course take time”. This is the most important thing to keep in mind. Achieving goals in gaining muscle strength is not an overnight success. It takes at least a few months to reach this. In the initial stages, you might not witness any phenomenal change in your body mass, but this happens in a longer period of time. It is at this stage when most of the people tend to give up. Just think for yourself, if it was easy, why everyone wouldn’t opt for it. So it is necessary to have a patient mind-set and wait to see results for yourself.

The third tip is to change your lifestyle. To achieve the goals that you aim, at, it is very important to make a lifestyle change, which will help in supporting your hard work. Certain things in your life often keep yourself convenient and sit back on your couch and enjoy your life. But, these things need to be cut down and make your results easily achievable. These things include fast foods, few soft drinks, candies, chocolate, snacks, junk foods, and much other such stuff. It is not easy to stop all these things immediately. But you need to motivate yourself on regular intervals by offering such things as rewards at times of hard work. More importantly, positive energy is what priority is. Throughout your tenure of hard work.

The last tip that you need to remember is to keep your plan, well nurtured and up, with a positive spirit. Going to the gym without a plan is like running an organization without a mission statement. Your physique is like your business or organization and a mission statement is a very important motivation throughout your schedule. You need to find a solid program that would match your goal and make a steady plan in all your activities including your dietary regime. You need to have clean and hygienic habits. It is important to ask yourself limited questions and make limited adjustments in your schedules with limited mistakes.

All these tips are to see success in a very short and focused time period. These tips are not to scare you, but to ensure to make you achieve your goals easily and steadily. These will help you lay a clear ground plan and make a kick start on reaching your goals. It is vital to keep only one thing in your mind. A steady and clear fitness regime would always help you to keep you stronger, healthier and fit throughout your life.
This Post is written by Diana. She is a writer/blogger. She writes articles on Technology, social media, wordpress, Gamification, website development and software development.


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Shed Some, Gain Some: How to get your body in its Right Shape

Welcome to My DoFollow Blog! As a Big Thank You, I'd Like to Give You FREE Access to my "19 Tips to Build Muscle & Gain Weight" Report That Gives You The Key Ingredients For Success in YOUR all your workouts! ~ Marc David; CPT

This is a guest post by Krisca Te, Australia’s leading provider of TAFE courses

A friend told me the other day:

“What’s the point of dieting? I go on a diet, I avoid certain food that I like, I eat less and watch the pounds fall off. I am very happy with myself; with my dedication, with my success over my appetite. Then it takes a few months or a few years and I’m right back where I’ve started. So why go through all this? My body apparently is happy to be at this weight. ”

But are you?

It is not only about the way you look, it’s about health. Research shows over and over again that a restrictive calorie diet in mice results in healthier and longer living animals. The regularly fed mice became fat, grew older sooner and their coat was matted, turning grey and shedding. The others, those who got less food were leaner, looked healthier and their coat was shiny and retained its color.

So, it is probably healthy for human beings to be a little less heavy than our bodies feel comfortable in.

Because our bodies are such intricate machines, they are ready for different kinds of disasters. If a virus or bacteria attack the body, the white blood cells are sent to fight the intruder. When we inhale large particles, our body reacts with a sneeze. The body’s ultimate ‘survival kit’ is the fat it is storing, mainly around the waist, for leaner times.

This fat accumulates in fat cells that split and divide to be able to store more. The old ones do not disappear. The fat coats inner organs as well. To be ready, just in case the calories you intake would amount to less than what it needs to operate.

And the circle continues – more fat, heavier mass, less air, less physical activity. Less physical activity, less calories spent, easier for the fat to accumulate.

Back to my friend.  I’ve seen her shed some and gain some. I’ve seen her happy in lean times and miserable when she gained the weight back. This yoyo of gaining weight and shedding is so unhealthy for our hearts, doctors tell us.

It’s not about the kind of diet you are doing; it’s about your life style.It is not about the amount of food you are eating, it’s about the kind of foods.It’s not about being in the optimal weight as far as some chart indicates, but being in the optimal shape as far as your body is concerned.Dieting and exercise are not something that has to be done periodically, but all the time. Shedding weight and keeping it down means a change of lifestyle.

There are hundreds of diets on the market; low calorie diets, low carb diet, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, The South Beach diet, Pritikin, Ornish, Attkins. The list goes on and on. There are diets that tell you to eat by your body type, by your blood type, or by your body shape. It does matter, for your health, what method you’ll be using to shed the pound, but to keep the pounds off, you have to be physically active.

The way to get your body in the right shape is to exercise. It has to become a priority on the list of things you have to do today. Any physical activity that raises your heart rate and leaves you a little bit breathless will do. Being healthy sometimes means pushing yourself to the uncomfortable zone for a few minutes. But the endorphins the body releases in this case will more than make up to it.

That is what my friend did. She likes walking and she does it for at least one hour every day. She also discovered she can combine walking with another love of hers, books. Something she had no time to do lately. Now she downloads the books on to her iPod and listens to them while walking.

Krisca Te works with Open Colleges, Australia’s leading provider of TAFE courses equivalent and fitness courses. When not working, you can find her actively participating in local dog show events – in support of her husband.

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