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Abs! How To Get Them To Show

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  It would be in your best interest to do sit-ups until you have a six pack, right? That is where multiple people fall short on their quest for abs. Sit-ups do help strengthen your core and build up the size of your abdominal muscles, but there’s something in the way of that six pack you’ve been training for. That something is adipose tissue (fat). If you truly want to see results and definition, you need to reduce the layer of adipose tissue that is covering the abdominals, and sit-ups are not going to cut it. Exercises that are more on the high intensity side. A quick couple examples of this would be sprints or stairs. These are going to help you lose adipose tissue and keep more muscle tissue, which will help sculpt that six pack that you’re aiming for. To get into the more scientific aspect (yay), there are three different abdominal muscles that come into play! You first have your rectus abdominis. This is the one that gets the most attention since it is the most superfici
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15 Beginner Lifting Tips

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15 tips So before I go into these 15 tips, I want you all to know that these are tips based off of my experience of lifting and what I knew and should have known when I first started out. Others will have different views and opinions on the tips a give or what ones I may have left out so don’t think that these are like the 10 commandments to beginner lifters, but this will definitely get you going down the right path. 1. Wrists straight when benching or with any upward lifting motion The reason I emphasize this is because I see a lot of beginner lifters with their wrists almost at a 90 degree angle while doing something like bench press or dumbbell press. It’s going to put yourself at risk and will damage your wrist joints. 2. The use of lifting belts and their purpose This I see being used in almost all the wrong ways with the exception of the correct usage of them. Belts are for maxing out or when you are doing three reps or less. In better
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Debunked Fitness Myth: Muscle and Fat Tissue Correlation

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The Myth: After not exercising for an extended period of time, your muscles will turn into fat. This is one of the top myths that I hear from other people when trying to give advice on fitness. In theory the phrase is true, but most people take it as that the tissues change from muscle tissue to adipose tissue. This can be debunked because muscle and adipose cells are two distinct types of tissues in the body. To go into further detail about this, we can first look at the different types of muscle tissue. We have three types of muscle tissues that are categorized as smooth muscles, skeletal muscles, and cardiac muscles. The easiest we can start with is cardiac muscle. This muscle is found in the heart, thus is why it’s called cardiac muscle. This muscle is a type of smooth muscle that works involuntary so you don’t have to think about activating that muscle to keep a constant heartbeat. The difference between cardiac and smooth muscle since they are both involuntary m
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