Innervation Without your nervous system, you couldn’t lift a blade of grass. To be strong, you need to have an efficient nervous system that innervates a large quantity of your muscle mass. Motor nerves end in the muscle at synaptic junctions called motor end plates. From there, multiple parallel muscle fibres are innervated by the …
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Top 10 Fitness Trends for 2014
1. High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT): HIIT, which involves short bursts of activity followed by a short period of rest or recovery, jumps to the top of this year’s list. These exercise programs are usually performed in less than 30 minutes. 2. Body Weight Training: This is the first appearance of this trend in the survey. …
Benchmark Crossfit Workouts
Learn the ladies of crossfit, and no, I don’t mean the ripped girls in Lorna Jane gear lifting more weight than you.
Eat More Veggies
Vegetables have always been a main part of diet and in some modern diets (like the American) there quantity is decreasing, which presents a lot of health risks. This review looks at the benefits of vegetable consumption and why you should eat a sufficient amount of them. A good source of slow carbohydrates Vegetables contain …
14 Tips to Shed Body Fat
1. You should always keep in mind refined and brown sugar, corn sweeteners, sucrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, fruit syrups and any other sugars. They are proven to spike insulin levels, which results in storing body fat. In order to preplan everything you eat, you must learn what do the nutrition labels say and what …
Cardio & Strength Workout
Perfect for someone with no equipment and little time. Push through this set and feel better about yourself all fucking day long, you champion.
The Core Challenge
Punch through this and push through the pain. Try this core set every day for a week and there’s no way you won’t improve.
5 exercises for building shoulders
The shoulders are a crucial component of the perfect body. They do not only look great when you are posing, but they also give you that athletic, muscular appearance, even when wearing a t-shirt. Aesthetics aside, strong shoulders are also very important for the general upper body strength, because they take part in virtually every …
Brock Lesnar Inspirational Workout
Brock Edward Lesnar is an American professional wrestler and actor, and former mixed martial artist, professional football player and amateur wrestler, who is currently signed with WWE. He is also a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship and placing second in 1999 after losing to …
Best Supplements 2014
It’s that time of year again where we start our search on some of the best supplements of 2014. We’ll be looking at all categories, but concentrating mainly on protein powders, pre-workouts, test boosters and fat burners. 2013 was an interesting year for bodybuilding, fat loss and workout supplements. Perhaps the biggest event in the …