Showing posts with label Tracking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tracking. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Natural Bodybuilding Tracking Quickly Builds Muscle


Natural bodybuilding precision is a technique that is sure to maximize muscle gain in the shortest possible time. Some natural bodybuilders even see the results of steroid users by paying very close attention to their training precision. If you are a natural bodybuilder, and want huge results, now is the time to start paying attention to the word precision.

In natural bodybuilding, there leaves very little room for training error. Natural training with precision is crucial for significant muscle achievement. Let's face it, a steroid induced bodybuilder is granted a greater margin of error in training, and nutrition. Steroids aid bodybuilders in recovering faster, and can support longer, more intense bodybuilding training sessions. This enables bodybuilders the liberty to train and eat with less precision, and still reap fantastic muscle development. However, natural bodybuilding athletes must pay very close attention to detail in order to benefit from great muscle building results. Witnessing excellent bodybuilding results can be the difference between performing too many training sets, and not enough intensity.

You most likely ask how you can determine if your natural bodybuilding routine is precisely what it should be in order to achieve massive, steroid-free results. Are you working out with the precise amount of training sets per body part? How about the reps, or rest days between workouts? Is your training intensity significant enough to illicit a natural bodybuilding response?

There is an easy way to find out! If you learn only one thing from this natural bodybuilding article, please let this next tip be it. To determine if your training program is the most effective natural bodybuilding routine, pay close attention to detail by recording, and tracking your bodybuilding workouts.

Being a drug free bodybuilder, and knowing what your numbers are at all times, is being an intelligent bodybuilder. Can you imagine not tracking your checking account balance? What a silly question! Not closely tracking your bodybuilding progress is considered just as silly. Besides overtraining, lack of tracking your progress is the biggest mistake fellow bodybuilders are making.

How can you train with maximum effort and efficiency to improve your musculature if you don't know really where your numbers are? Remember, developing natural muscle is much more challenging, but a sense of precision is gained when you track your progress. Without bodybuilding workout precision, it is like driving a car in a strange place blindfolded.

The results of tracking can assist your natural bodybuilding efforts by making the whole story visible. Tracking will help determine if the amount of rest days between workouts are optimal or not. If your strength is improving with each and every workout, you are getting the precise amount of rest needed for optimal growth. If it is not, your rest days are not optimal. Therefore, tracking can direct your muscle building workouts into a precise science.

As soon as your natural bodybuilding log reveals a few training sessions that show no gains or decreasing strength, you are most certainly overtraining. Training more than is necessary is the worst enemy for any natural bodybuilder. Just remember, your body won't be able to recover from the training stress as rapidly as a steroid induced bodybuilder can. Therefore, if you try to duplicate a steroid aided training program, you will be dead in the water. Your natural muscle building results will definitely suffer. Once again, focusing on a specific program for you, and you only, is a key point to remember. Consider your training log the key to all the information necessary for significant natural bodybuilding gains.

Take a closer look at your training log. If you find you have achieved 10 reps on a particular exercise for two consecutive workouts, you should focus your mind on pumping out the eleventh reps during the next training session. This specific data, if followed, will direct and focus your natural bodybuilding routine into precisely what is necessary for growth.

This valuable data can also serve as a great motivator for achieving your specific goals. I call it training smart. If you know precisely what numbers are needed to accomplish your goal during the next workout, you are more likely to achieve it, thus, overloading your system in order to develop rock hard muscle. Take, for instance, a retail store. If they don't track how much money they made yesterday, how will they stay focused on what they need to beat today?

Prior to entering the gym, successful natural bodybuilders make point of drawing up a mental image of what needs to be accomplished in order to achieve their goal. By keeping a natural bodybuilding training log, you too will have a license to quickly build muscle.

Another excellent tip to achieving natural bodybuilding results is paying attention to the timing of your nutrients. Once again, it is critical for a natural bodybuilder to pay close attention to what is happening on the nutrition side of the natural bodybuilding puzzle. Research suggests it is important to eat carbs, and protein within one hour following a hi-intensity, natural bodybuilding workout. This particular bodybuilding nutrition regimen will help stimulate the muscle building recovery process. Natural bodybuilding buffs also need to pay close attention to the amount of calories they are taking in. Just as training, I also recommend tracking your nutrition regimen.

As you now know, natural bodybuilding results are easily seen if you focus on precise training. By training smart you will reap all the benefits of bodybuilding without steroid side effects. Simply follow my recommendations stated above, and your training will be guaranteed to be the most effective, efficient natural bodybuilding system possible.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Tips for Tracking Your Bodybuilding Progress

One of the mistakes that a lot of bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts make is that they start a bodybuilding diet and training program without measuring their progress properly. A lot of bodybuilders just rely on the scale and if they gain a pound they assume that the gain is muscle. If a pound is lost, often times the assumption is that what has been lost is fat. But is this really the case?

Simple changes in weight can be deceiving. Remember that if a fat loss diet is not designed correctly you risk losing muscle mass along with the fat. Conversely, if your muscle gaining diet is too high in calories, you may risk gaining a lot of fat with the muscle. Thus, in addition to scale changes, you also need a way to measure your body fat in order to clearly see what is happening to your body. For me, the easiest way to do this is by using calipers (personally I have found the Accu-Measure calipers to give me some very accurate and reliable measurements). By using caliper measurements along with the scale I know exactly how much muscle I am gaining and how much fat I am losing.

On top of that, I also like to take digital pictures as in this manner, as the weeks go by, I can have a visual diary of how I look at a specific weight and body fat percentage.

Try these tips out and you will be glad that you did!

For more tips on ways to track your bodybuilding progress, please take a look at the article below:

The Importance of Tracking Your Bodybuilding Progress and the Many Ways To Do It


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Friday, September 23, 2011

Tracking Your Bodybuilding Progress Properly

A big mistake that a lot of bodybuilders make is to track their bodybuilding progress only via the use of a scale.? A scale can only tell you how much weight you have gained or lost but it can never tell you how much of it is fat and how much of it is muscle.? Thus, a simple solution to this problem is to have bi-weekly weight-ins coupled with caliper readings.?


Skin fold measurements that are properly executed will give you a very good approximation of what your body fat percentage is so that in that manner you can calculate your lean mass and your fat mass.??By calculating?those values on the days that you weight yourself? then you will be able to know whether you are going up in muscle and/or losing fat.?


In order to get the most accurate measurements try to make sure that your body composition day (as I call it) is on the same day and at the same time of the day all the time.? In this manner, you keep most things constant and you get the most accurate results.


In addition to weighing yourself and getting caliper readings, I also recommend taking digital pictures on this same day so that you can see visually how you are changing.? In that way, you can address symmetry and unbalance issues.


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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Tracking Your Bodybuilding Progress Properly


A big mistake that a lot of bodybuilders make is to track their bodybuilding progress only via the use of a scale.? A scale can only tell you how much weight you have gained or lost but it can never tell you how much of it is fat and how much of it is muscle.? Thus, a simple solution to this problem is to have bi-weekly weight-ins coupled with caliper readings.?
Skin fold measurements that are properly executed will give you a very good approximation of what your body fat percentage is so that in that manner you can calculate your lean mass and your fat mass.??By calculating?those values on the days that you weight yourself? then you will be able to know whether you are going up in muscle and/or losing fat.?
In order to get the most accurate measurements try to make sure that your body composition day (as I call it) is on the same day and at the same time of the day all the time.? In this manner, you keep most things constant and you get the most accurate results.
In addition to weighing yourself and getting caliper readings, I also recommend taking digital pictures on this same day so that you can see visually how you are changing.? In that way, you can address symmetry and unbalance issues.
View the original article here

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Tracking Your Bodybuilding Progress Properly

A big mistake that a lot of bodybuilders make is to track their bodybuilding progress only via the use of a scale.? A scale can only tell you how much weight you have gained or lost but it can never tell you how much of it is fat and how much of it is muscle.? Thus, a simple solution to this problem is to have bi-weekly weight-ins coupled with caliper readings.?

Skin fold measurements that are properly executed will give you a very good approximation of what your body fat percentage is so that in that manner you can calculate your lean mass and your fat mass.??By calculating?those values on the days that you weight yourself? then you will be able to know whether you are going up in muscle and/or losing fat.?

In order to get the most accurate measurements try to make sure that your body composition day (as I call it) is on the same day and at the same time of the day all the time.? In this manner, you keep most things constant and you get the most accurate results.

In addition to weighing yourself and getting caliper readings, I also recommend taking digital pictures on this same day so that you can see visually how you are changing.? In that way, you can address symmetry and unbalance issues.


View the original article here