Is Your Muscle Building Potential Limited By Your Genes?Written by Rick Mitchell
It is clear that certain traits are handed down to us by our parents and unfortunately our ablility to grow muscles beyond certain limits is no exception. That doesn't mean to say hard work and carefully planned training won't have a positive effect on your physique - it just means that some people will inherit a greater abundance of favored physical characteristics than others. Not everyone possesses physical traits to become a champion, but you can work wonders with raw material you do possess.How responsive you will be to physical stimulation can be predicted to a certain extent by examining your somatype or natural body shape. Basically, there are three recognized body types: 1. Endomorphs - these individuals tend to be squat with a round torso, thick neck and short limbs. 2. Mesomorphs - these individuals tend to be musclar with broad shoulders, powerful chest and limbs and little body fat. 3. Ectomorphs - these individuals tend to be slim and are usually tall with little muscle and body fat.
| | Exercise The Right Way - The Bent-Knee Sit-UpWritten by Rick Mitchell
Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing basic exercises that constitute core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using correct techniques before moving on to potentially more dangerous heavy weights. If it also helps more experienced lifters to redress some of little faults that have almost imperceptibly crept in over years, all better.
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