Exercise The Right Way - The Vertical Chest Press

Written by Rick Mitchell


Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly fromrepparttar perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performingrepparttar 113042 basic exercises that constituterepparttar 113043 core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.

It is useful, therefore, to describe in detailrepparttar 113044 processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out usingrepparttar 113045 correct techniques before moving on to potentially more dangerous heavy weights. If it also helps more experienced lifters to redress some ofrepparttar 113046 little faults that have almost imperceptibly crept in overrepparttar 113047 years, allrepparttar 113048 better.

The Facts About Anabolic Steroids

Written by Rick Mitchell


Anyone involved inrepparttar world of bodybuilding, and competitive sport generally, will understandrepparttar 113041 pressures that go with striving to achieve optimal performance. Sometimes athletes feel they cannot reach their peak without artificially enhancing their powers of recovery from intensive training. One way to speed up this process is throughrepparttar 113042 use of anabolic steroids. In this article we'll examine what anabolic steroids actually do. In a second article we'll focus onrepparttar 113043 dangers associated with steroid use.

The main active ingredient in steroids is testosterone which is well known asrepparttar 113044 major male hormone. Testosterone affectsrepparttar 113045 body in two ways, either as an anabolic or an androgenic influence. The anabolic action helps build body tissue by increasing lean muscle mass and bone density. The androgenic actions are those that affect secondary sex characteristics in men.

In recent years research has provided some interesting information in relation to testosterone:

1. It affects muscle size through muscle fiber hypertrophy with an increase inrepparttar 113046 cross-sectional area of muscle fiber.

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