Discover the tips to gradually resume weight training Following the confinement, your weight room has been closed for several months. After a long injury or another event, you were unable to train? Whatever the situation, this forced rest has modified your sports program dedicated to your weight training sessions. Your progress...
4 ways to make your own bodybuilding equipment Maintaining your body and your health is essential. Do you want to develop your muscles through weight training? You are already an enthusiast and doing bodybuilding is vital for you? But as with any sport, it is important to keep a regular training rhythm in order to benefit from the results.
Do you know the 5 pillars of good physical and mental health? They are: breathing, sleep, sunshine and its vitamin D, diet and finally, physical activity. The last category is not the least and it is of particular interest to us. Being free to bring your gym home has never been more important.
What is the drop set? The drop-set is a well known intensification technique in bodybuilding. It makes it possible to accelerate sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. Contrary to classic sets, drop-set sets make the muscle fibers work in depth. It makes possible an optimized growth and an easier mass gain. However, it does not help to...
Everything you need to know about the Larry Scott to get big arms Do you spend all your time at the gym, but still don't have big, powerful biceps? If you're not getting big arms, then your weight training program is not working. Fortunately, there's a simple and powerful exercise that will help you get big arms.
Have you ever thought about doing sports with your spouse? It's obvious to everyone that it's easier to be motivated when you're together. But if your sports partner is your life partner, the sports session will be a moment of complicity, laughter, mutual aid, in short, it will be much more effective. Here are 5...
What program for seniors? As you get older, certain movements, such as climbing stairs or carrying weights, are no longer as easy to do as they were when you were 25 years old.Contrary to popular belief, it is quite possible to get back into shape and gain muscle even after 50! Whether it's to tone up...
Have you made good resolutions and started weight training? Congratulations on this investment and you will soon see the results on your body. But maybe you have been working out for a while now? Well, read on, whether you're a beginner or a seasoned exerciser...
When you are a beginner? Building muscle and sculpting your body requires a lot more thought than you might think at first. Number of repetitions, tempo, exercises, rest time... All these elements must be taken into account to optimize your training. But the most important element to gain muscle remains...
There are many different intensification techniques to increase the efficiency of your workouts. One of the most effective is tempo, in other words, the speed of execution of a repetition, its frequency. This is something that few weight trainers take into account, and wrongly so. Indeed, mastering your tempo, managing your effort time is an essential element...
Skinny fat, what does that mean? Skinny fat in its literal sense means skinny and fat at the same time. Why has this term gradually appeared in our society and especially in the sports world? It's simply because before, overweight people were categorized as fat or obese, and those who were not were categorized as...
What is the deadlift? The deadlift is an exercise known in gyms to train and strengthen all the muscles of our body, hence its name of poly-articular exercise. It is all the more important to know how to practice this exercise in the right conditions.
In weight training, there is a very wide range of techniques that allow you to improve or sculpt your physique. These exercises can be very tiring, which is why there are often breaks to regain your strength. For example, when you do squats, it is possible to blow when your legs are...
The vacuum, and more precisely the stomach vacuum, is a hypopressive abdominal exercise, which solicits the transversus abdominis, a deep muscle of the abdomen, and which tends to strengthen the abdominal belt to make the stomach flat but not only. What is the vacuum? It is an exercise of isolation, because it is exclusively the transverse muscle that is...
Jumping rope is a complete cardio sport if you know what gestures, rhythms and frequency to adopt. In fact, it is an aerobic exercise that helps you lose weight and burn calories. This intense activity also helps to avoid blood circulation problems and helps to reduce cellulite....
The thruster is part of the bodybuilding exercises that use a machine. The training program allows you to optimize muscle mass gain or to develop the performance of your muscles. However, it is important to know and master the exercises to avoid muscle injuries. Discover through this article the gestures and...
In bodybuilding and fitness, bodyweight exercises are important and can be integrated into any program. The dips are no exception to the rule and allow you to request several muscle groups. Discover how to build up your triceps and pectorals with this fundamental exercise, which can be done at home or in the gym...
