Insulin is a hormone that is released when carbohydrates, i.e. sugars are present in the blood. It collects and allocates the sugar for immediate energy requirements, brings a part into muscles and the liver (if they aren’t already full) and converts the rest into fat and stores it. It also stores dietary fats but they…
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Human Growth Hormone (somatotropin), definition and role Human Growth Hormone (HGH), or somatotropin as it is further called is a vital hormone in the human endocrine system. The endocrine system is a system of glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream. The Human Growth Hormone is secreted by the pituitary gland, a small gland…
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Lately, greedy nutritionists have emerged, shamelessly offering programs with rhetoric like: “Lose weight without physical activity,” appealing to the lazy side of the reader’s mind.
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No matter what kind of exercises you are about to do, you always have to warm up before a workout. Besides warming up the muscles, which is mandatory, here we’ll include another, often neglected aspect of warmups. How many times have you heard people about having knee problems, can’t do squats, lower back pain to…
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The standing overhead press Some of the myths that accompany this exercise is that it is damaging to the knees and/or the lower back. Those myths come out of people who have damaged their knees or back as a result of training in a way which doesn’t treat the body as a system. Proper, balanced…
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How to get maximum gain from every workout? The answer is: intensive training. What does it depend upon? . Type of exercises performed. Weights you exercise with. Number of muscles involved. Length of rest between sets and exercises. Number of repetitions, sets and exercises. Duration of the whole training. Explosiveness with which exercises are performed.…
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My experience shows me that most people have a deficiency in muscle mass, regardless of whether they are thin or overweight.
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Squats – irreplaceable for strong and muscular body Squats are one of the strongest if not the strongest resistance-training exercise there is. We are talking about free-weighted squats, not smith-machine squats. Machines stabilize and help you, but free weights make your body balance itself. That contributes to generating real strength, because strength is not only…
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If you want to build a great back, it is important to know how to do barbell rows – one of the best back exercises. Barbell rows is mainly a back exercise. Called a compound exercise, it trains many muscles at once. Muscles trained with barbell rows: Back (lower, middle, upper) Lats Trapezius Rhomboids Biceps…
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Deadlifts – irreplaceable for a strong and well-built body The deadlift is one of the most powerful exercises as it simultaneously works on multiple muscles. It activates the whole body and such activation is key to higher hormonal response of testosterone and human growth hormone. Doing this exercise with proper form is very important if…
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