In order to maximize gains, you must commit to the bodybuilding lifestyle. There are many factors that affect how you look and feel, and it is important that you consider all of them carefully. How you train, the equipment that you use, the foods and drinks you put in your body, your sleep schedule, and many other aspects of your life are going to affect your performance. Here are five training tips to keep you on track and focused on your long-term bodybuilding goals.

1. Follow a Balanced Diet

Many bodybuilders today are still under the false impression that protein is the only essential macronutrient for muscle development. While protein is critical, it has become abundantly clear that a balanced diet is the key to improving your body and overall physical health. Try to keep your protein intake to 1 gram per pound of body weight per day, and then get the rest of your calories from fats and carbs. Seek out natural fats such as nuts or fatty fish, and try to stick to complex carbs such as brown rice or sweet potatoes.

2. Stay Hydrated

It is all too common for bodybuilders to overlook the liquids they consume. If you’re not properly hydrated, you’re not going to be able to reach your peak training performance, which means you aren’t going to be building muscle to your full potential. Even slight dehydration can put a serious damper on a workout, so be sure to keep replacing fluids before, during, and after your workout. Additionally, replenishing electrolytes is so important for athletes, so keep a sports beverage on hand while you exercise.

3. Have Training Options Available at Home

Fitness doesn’t start and end at the gym. Bodybuilding is a lifestyle, and surrounding yourself with the equipment necessary to build muscle is going to help in the long run. If you don’t feel like going to the gym, you can still put in your work at home if you have some basic equipment. Many of today’s savvy bodybuilders have taken a shine to the versatile SoloStrength Ultimate Home Exercise System, which allows you to perform many different resistance exercises, even in a confined space.

4. Incorporate Functional and Bodyweight Training Into Your Workout

If you’re still relying on the same old dumbbells and barbells, you’re going to experience a dramatic decline in both your results and your motivation. Bodyweight training is an effective and fun way to experience real, natural growth using your own weight as resistance. If you haven’t actively been engaging in this type of training, now is a great time to start, as the new regimen will promote muscle confusion and allow you to break through any plateaus you have been experiencing. The Solostrength system is the most effective bodyweight training system on the market, and since the equipment is designed to incorporate natural movements, you also achieve the functional training benefits of increased joint stability and mobility, as well as reduced potential for injury.

5. Set Fitness Goals and Deadlines

All bodybuilders struggle with motivation at one point or another. Setting clear goals on realistic timelines helps to keep you on track on those days when you just don’t feel like exercising. Although you may not always hit your goals by your deadline, just giving yourself a reason to continue looking ahead is a powerful tool. Write down your goals and deadlines, and then make note of your progress as you go. In addition to keeping you focused, tracking your gains helps you to modify your workout as needed for the next cycle.

Bio:

Cody McHugh is a freelance writer and fitness enthusiast from San Jose, California. He has written for a number of health-related organizations including the Livestrong Network, Vitalyte, and WorkLiveWalk. He is always on the hunt for the latest and greatest health products on the market, and he is constantly looking for new ways to increase his workout performance.

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If you are shopping around for a Freestanding adjustable Pull up bar, you’ve come to the right place at www.solostrength.com.

The new ULTIMATE series of adjustable exercise bars for pullups, chins and virtually unlimited total body exercise has 4 exciting installation options for fitting any home or studio environment – and they are built to commercial grade use for long lasting value.

You can choose from doorway gym installation, wall mounted gym, corner mounted (included with the doorway and all other installation options), and free standing gym or free standing pull up bar model.  Nothing beats SoloStrength free standing adjustable pull up bar versatility for maximizing your training!

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Premium quality fast and full height adjustable exercise bar ideal for pull ups and dip station (with dip/row bar accessory). Designed for easy adjusting to all physical levels of bodyweight exercise for fast circuit training and total body workouts at home or personal training studio.  Learn more at: www.solostrength.com – doorway or freestanding or wall mounted installation packages available.  Reference: Pull Up Bar Dip Station High Quality Total Body Home Gym by SoloStrength

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When it comes to successful weight loss, nothing beats the combination of fast bodyweight based strength training and consistency.  You will eat better naturally by demanding of your body and you will FEEL GREAT!

www.SoloStrength.com bodyweight exercise SpeedFit Circuit training programs are ideal for raw beginners to get started with safe strength movements and use simple and fast 3 second bar height adjustments to progressively increase the challenges as you get more fit.  

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Getting an awesome full body workout at home is one of the best ways to compliment your gym or studio exercise routines…look into SoloStrength Home Gym Exercise Equipment for fast and very versatile strength training exercises and stretching for everyone in your home.  A full range of training is possible from Beginner assisted strength exercises, to full bodyweight total body killer workouts, SoloStrength provides freestanding and doorway mounted frame models, to suit your needs, check out www.SoloStrength.com for more information and online exercise equipment store. 

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What is the body weight training cultures perception and knowledge about isometric exercise and the positive health benefits derived from incorporating this manner of muscular development in a fitness routine?

Isometrics is often misunderstood and at best difficult for most novices/average persons in fitness to properly apply this to their fitness routines.  The applications, definitions and concepts are often cloudy and hard to apply because people do not seek out this form of fitness in their pursuit to health and fitness.

I have found that information of how to perform isometric exercises based upon body part/group training routines are not easy to find and or the information is often expressed in a manner that a beginner and at most times an intermediate fitness enthusiast will not understand.

Isometric exercises have been around for hundreds of years and can be found in use in the following forms of, martial arts, yoga, Buddhism, shaolin monks and Greek and romans civilizations.  The Greeks and Romans called it “Soft Training”, and in Buddhism “Yijin Jing.” Chin Ching; literally (“Muscle/Tendon Change”).

Traditional types of exercise include isotonic exercise, where tension or resistance remains unchanged in either an eccentric (lowering) or concentric (raising) movements. Dumbbells and other free weights are good examples of this kind of exercises, where bicep curls and or other movements take place against a set resistance. Isotonic exercises require two specific types of muscle contractions according to the load placed on the body:

• A concentric muscle contraction occurs when the body is able to manipulate a weight load in a certain direction.
• An eccentric muscle contraction occurs when the weight is too much for the body, and the muscles focus on distributing impact, rather than raising or lowering a weight load.

Another kind of conventional training is isometric training. In isometrics, there is no movement, and the muscle length and joint angle do not change. Someone holding free weights while not in motion is an example of this kind of training. (AKA: Static Exercise)

There are two popular types of isometric exercises. One is overcoming isometrics and the second is yielding isometrics. “Overcoming isometric”, is where you press against an immoveable object such as pushing or pulling against pins, a stationary (fixed position) bar or even a wall. Yielding isometrics is where you hold a load and as fatigue sets in the load forces you into an eccentric contraction. “Yielding isometrics” are generally performed by “lowering and holding the barbell, dumbbells or object being used and trying to prevent it from lowering down.  (AKA: negative reps)

One of the most important benefits of isometric action training is that it’s the contraction regimen that leads to the greatest activation level. “Activation” refers to the recruitment of the muscle’s motor-units.

A recent study comparing the level of muscle activation during isometric, concentric, and eccentric muscle actions found that a person can recruit over 5% more motor-units/muscle fibers during a maximal isometric muscle action than during either a maximal eccentric (lowering) or maximal concentric (lifting) action; that’s 95.2% for isometric compared to 88.3% for the eccentric and 89.7% for the concentric.

 These findings are in accordance with the body of literature that finds that a person can recruit almost all motor-units during a maximal isometric action. (3) What this tells us is that isometric training can improve our capacity to recruit motor units during a maximal contraction. In the long run, this improved neural drive could greatly increase one’s strength production potential!

In the past, isometric exercises have been described as a technique that should only be used by advanced lifters. I beg to differ. One of the biggest shortcomings of lower-class lifters is the incapacity to produce maximum intramuscular tension during a concentric contraction. Isometric exercise can thus be used to learn how to produce this high level of tension, as it requires less motor skills than the corresponding dynamic action. For this reason, I see isometric exercises as very beneficial for all classes of athletes.

As in all exercise applications there are hundreds of, if not thousands of exercise variations using both of these techniques and the many other related forms for body weight fitness and weight training exercises.

Not only can the physiological (body/muscular) benefits like muscle strength and muscular definition be achieved with either form, but the psychological (mental/mind) aspects of linking your mind to your body using applied positive imaging (pictures in your mind), using your mind to think the exercise to beneficial results.

The common Consensus of using Isometric Exercise as a Training Tool and Benefits:

The common isometric consensus in isometric training is to apply a single angle muscular contraction (maximum flexed state) for somewhere between 10-60 seconds to receive the maximum muscular stimulation that enhance muscle strength and achieves muscular definition.  It has also been stated that holding the contracted muscles position produces beneficial results without hitting the same muscle from multiple angles like in weight lifting or isotonic movements. However, I have found a greater benefit from changing the application angles when I perform isometric based exercises in my fitness routine.

DRS- (Direct Self Resistance) exercise movements are pitting one group of muscles against the other when performing BWT exercises and DVR (Dynamics Visual Resistance) mentally picturing the results in the movement where you tense or flex your muscles while contracting the muscle, (no weights). No equipment exercises that can be performed anywhere at any time.  Examples of these can be found in John Peterson’s book, “Pushing Yourself to Power.”

The Solo Strength training system can assist you in any type of isometric exercise as it is fully adjustable allowing you to perform anything from isometric body squats, isometric pushups, isometric shoulder presses, isometric bent over rows, isometric triceps press downs, isometric bicep barbell curls and all other examples of isometric variations static exercises by simply sliding the bar into position and locking it in place.

The possible health and fitness benefit from isometric exercises are endless and should be considered to enhance any type of personal fitness training.  The key to good health is in balance of all aspects in your life, spiritual, emotional, volitional, physical and mental balances.

Please remember to talk with your doctor before trying any training routine for the first time.  Isometric exercise training involves placing your body under extreme physical stresses for a predetermined amount of time and is known to raise blood pressure levels and circulatory stresses on anyone that uses this form of training in a routine. 

Contributing Editor for SoloStrength: Steven O.

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If you haven’t yet heard of SoloStrength exercise systems, our unique and simple to use designs for total body training are ideal for home use, and commercial environments.  There are three models that we offer in our Exercise Equipment Affiliate Program, and you can few them all on our home page here.    

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The simple to learn and develop body weight based fitness workouts that can be done on SoloStrength systems are amazing exercise and provide extremely fast workouts that both strengthen and tone the body and very helpful for beginners to self-assist their movements and build up to amazing fitness condition all with just one machine.   

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You can view a video of our Exercise Equipment Affiliate machines, and visit our website for more detailed information on the equipment, exercise workout programs, fitness training for home or group club programs, and any questions you may have on manufacturing and products. 

The versatility of our home exercise equipment is second to none.  Only one adjustment to make to change exercise difficulty or challenge, or modifying body position as you improve your fitness condition, to keep the workouts appropriate and increasing in challenge as you wish.    The system is ideal for working with personal training professionals as well to keep the training new and fresh and client centered even in very limited floor space training areas.  

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Typical door mounted non-adjusting pull up bar with limited exercise value

The trouble with fixed height pull up bars is that the greater majority of people, even if they are relatively fit and stronger than average, can still not use them for proper form pull ups or even accomplish more than a single pull up – rendering the fixed height pull up bar virtually useless as a training tool or effective piece of home gym equipment.  

Most exercises require a minimum target goal for reps of at least 8-10 per set.  Let’s say you were wanting to train yourself or a client for wide grip pull ups or chin ups (palms closer and facing you), for three sets of 10+ reps…would a fixed pull up bar work for this?

If yes, you are one of very few people who can accomplish this, and not being able to accomplish even 2-3 in a set won’t help you get there very soon.

If no, you are sitting there staring at the equipment wondering…what am I going to do with that now?

Freestanding and Doorway Adjustable Pull Up Bar Home Gym Online

Even if you are strong enough to complete 10 reps for one set, the ability to complete two or three sets is greatly diminished after the first set, without the ability to lighten the resistance (typically done through self spotting or assist in some way).  This bring us to one of the primary values of this new adjustable pull up bar home gym system.

The many benefits and versatility to adjustable height pull up bar home gym equipment:

SoloStrength Home Exercise Equipment designed and developed a solution to this problem, with their series of freestanding and door frame mounted adjustable exercise bars.  By virtue of the simple and fast adjustments to a full range of height that quickly adapts to each user, SoloStrength SpeedFit home gym systems offer a super FAST way to exercise in your home, and the ability to accomplish simple and highly effective total body exercise workouts that anyone can complete in home, in minimal time.   The ability to create and customize workouts is only limited to one’s own desires and the bar is ideal for stretching exercise of all sorts and as an anchor support to replace door mounted anchors for suspension training like TRX, allowing it to integrate with many types of training tools to make a highly complete home gym exercise system that you can use well into your golden years and everyone in the family can enjoy.    

Take a look at some of the home workout exercise photos here and you can visit the SoloStrength online home gym equipment store for more information about their different home gym and professional studio models. .

View some Exercises and Workouts you can do at home training with Adjustable Pull Up Bar home gym Video Below:

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