The Facts About Anabolic SteroidsWritten by Rick Mitchell
Anyone involved in world of bodybuilding, and competitive sport generally, will understand 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 through use of anabolic steroids. In this article we'll examine what anabolic steroids actually do. In a second article we'll focus on dangers associated with steroid use.The main active ingredient in steroids is testosterone which is well known as major male hormone. Testosterone affects 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 in cross-sectional area of muscle fiber.
| | Exercise The Right Way - The Wrist CurlWritten 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. In this article we'll take a close look at wrist curl. MUSCLES TARGETED: flexor carpi radialis, flexor carpi ulnaris
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