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Born on March 3 in the year of 1975, Tracy Anderson (38) is one of the best fitness trainers for celebrities and for many ladies not from the Hollywood world. The reason why she is Hollywood’s top trainer, lies in her method called simply – “Tracy Anderson Method”. All of those perfect bodies that we see on the world’s top cover – it’s Anderson’s guilt. Her clients are Shakira, Nicole Richie, Courtney Cox, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and many others from the show biz. Here are some tips that Anderson recommends: TIP 1 We all want to go to the gym and pay for that fitness program, but the truth is – can you really stick up to that plan and make it last? To start a program in the gym and to finish it without skipping any class is quite challenging. Anderson’s advice is to give yourself a challenge and ... Read More »

Living in a fast society makes us want to build muscles fast on the most easiest way. Beside building it fast, we want to do it on the right way along with great results. Gyms offer to us various programs to speed up the whole process, but at the end, what it really important is to do it on the right way, take a deep breath, and go step by step. Here are few steps on how to do your workout correctly, and to have a great body in the same time ASAP. STEP 1- BACK TO BASICS It doesn’t matter if you focus today on your workouts for legs or abs, you should start with the basic training workout, allowing you to lift up more weight, like for example when you do the press on the bench for your chests, the deltoids presses overhead and the rows of barbell ... Read More »

2013 has just finished and 2014 has just arrived and we welcomed it with arms wide open and an open mind for the new styles and hits in the workouts zones. The new age ’14 is right in the front of us, get, set, ready and go! But, before we “attack” the new programs for workouts, let’s check one more time, which of the exercises have become the “ultimate” popular workouts for the year of 2013. Together with the Google’s annual 13th Zeigest, we represent you the most popular workouts among the healthy lifestyle lovers. We are starting our list from number 10 until the winning number 1. Here there are: Number 10 – THE WORKOUT -TRX Exercises for the bodyweight with the help of a trace. The traces which are portable, with help of the gravity, will help you for your predominance and how much you are resistant. For ... Read More »

Giving a birth to a child and making this world a better place for living with one more angel on the way, it doesn’t matter if it is a boy or a girl, it is a dream come true for every woman. We can all see how celebrities work very hard in their post-birth period and have a great, fit body shape! It doesn’t necessarily mean that if you are becoming a future mother, that you should not take before and after giving birth. If we look retrospectively over the past, we will see that in the previous years, all that pregnant woman had to do was to stay at home, in calm and relaxing environment, and after giving a birth to a child, she should stay at home, taking care of the family, completely forgetting about her feminine side. But, the times have changed, and the current fashion is ... Read More »

Regardless of the many examples that you might have seen of people gaining extra fat when bulking, it is still possible to gain muscle without adding too much fat. Everyone’s body is different, and some people will put on more fat than others when gaining muscle no matter what, but there are things you can do to keep your muscle gains as lean as possible. Keep in mind that gaining muscle without some fat is impossible, but you can keep your fat gains at a minimum by following some a few basic rules. An “eat everything” diet won’t work for gaining muscle without getting fat; you’ll need to eat higher quantities of natural and healthy foods instead of eating anything that you want. That’s the key – eat more of the good natural stuff, instead of allowing your appetite to run wild when you’re bulking. There are only a small ... Read More »

Having a washboard stomach or a six pack is a goal for most lifters, but many fall short because of the consistent dedication it takes to developing a strong core. A defined and muscular core shows health, stability and strength. A weak core not only looks bad, it can even make your other muscles less stable and more prone to injury during workouts or other strenuous activities. Your core muscles include the muscles of your lower torso, your oblique muscles, lower back muscles, and your abdominal muscles. These muscles are used in a wide range of movements and are involved in stabilizing your body during major compound lifts like dead lifts and squats. The stronger your core muscles are, the easier it will be to push yourself on the major lifts and avoid injury, so having a good regular core workout routine is a must for any serious lifter. A ... Read More »

Almost every month when reading the newspaper I see there is some new diet that promises the reader that they are going to lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks. The truth is most of this is utter lies and it’s just a story the newspapers will get some buzz around it so without further adue here are my picks in no particular order of the worst weight loss techniques I’ve ever seen. Don’t eat carbs after 3pm, eat what you like before Cut out all fat from your diet Liquid diets help Eat 5 meals a day For anyone who’s been following this blog will know that I am in actual fact an advocate of increasing meal frequency in order to build muscle and also to lose weight. It helps both increase and decrease calories, increase the metabolism slightly but also the main factor is to reduce cravings and suppress ... Read More »

Brad Pitt in Fight Club was in absolutely peak physical condition, being somewhere in the region of 5-6% bodyfat, Brad shows us what is possible with some hard dedication and a few months of training. Although being shredded Brad didn’t possess a load of muscle when playing Tyler Durden, his ripped abdomen and veiny arms make him appear far stronger and bigger than he actually was. At no point was he weighing more than 170 lb’s and his true weight would have been closer to 160. Brad’s routine wasn’t any different from a standard 5 day split, most people and other celebrities use to get in shape. He did include a higher amount of cardio than the average routine because I stress again he wasn’t concerned with building a lot of new muscle mass. He was very concerned and focussed around ripping away the fat to reveal the muscle he ... Read More »

Ketones many people believe to be an artificial substance that help you lose weight. I blame all the advertisements for raspberry ketones in fitness magazines. There is a completely different use for ketones within the body as the essence behind consuming ketones is fundamentally flawed in biology. The process of ketosis is forcing the body to burn lipids instead of the traditional carbohydrate. The standard way the body works is to convert glucose which then get’s transported around the body and used in respiration or stored as glycogen. If there is very little carbohydrate in the body then ketosis kicks in and in the liver fat’s are converted to ketones which are used as energy via ketosis. Commonly ketosis and diets associated with it are given to people to help prevent epileptic seizures. Most fats consumed in the typical western diet are considered long chain triglycerides, however studies have shown ... Read More »

L Carnitine has been regarded as a substance that helps aid weight loss due to it’s role in the transport of fatty acids during lipid breakdown. In animals L Carnitine can be biosynthesised in the liver and kidneys from the amino acids lysine and methionine. It’s therefore not surprising that foods that contain high quantities of amino acids have high levels of L Carnitine; Beef Steak – 95mg Bacon  – 27.7mg Chicken – 3.9mg Long been dubbed a fat burner a paper which was published in 2011[1] goes into detail about the effects of many substances dubbed as fat burners, e.g. CLA, Caffeine and green tea extract. It’s worth checking it out if you have access to the journal. L Carnitine Weight Loss Mechanism L Carnitine is responsible for transporting long chain fatty acids that contain an acyl group. An acyl group is derived from a carboxylic acid and has ... Read More »