Tips for Building Muscle Mass

Just wrote a new post with my favourite and most important muscle
building tips inside:

Muscle building is a huge and important subject for many guys. After
all, who wouldn’t like to get ripped?

Unfortunately, this also means that it’s a BIG market and lots of
people are trying to exploit that. For example, there’s no end to
muscle and fitness magazines and of course there’s also tons of
muscle-building related products.

The problem is that misinformation is often spread because of
commercial interest. Who cares if a new supplement is worthless? Just
spread some rumors and have some articles published in fitness mags,
that make your new supplement look like the best thing since sliced
bread…

On the other hand, there’s alos lots of very good advice out there.
Only: Which is which? How can you tell the good from the bad muscle building tips?

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How to Gain Muscle Mass (if You're a Skinny Fellow)

While there are probably more people out there who are desperately
trying to lose weight and struggling with excess pounds, being
perpetually skinny can be extremely frustrating as well.

Particuarly for men, it can seem like a real curse when they have
difficulties putting on weight. Of course, that extra weight should be
mostly muscle mass and not just fat, and that makes the problem even
more complicated.

So, how can a guy put on some lean muscle mass?

Read this post on how to gain weight to learn more...

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Deadlifts and Squats - Awesome Muscle-Builders

Deadlifts and squats are probably the ultimate muscle-building exercises, bar none.

They're also super-tough, which is why almost everyone hates doing them... I found two cool videos explaining both techniques very well and wrote some of my own notes about them.

Check out my deadlifts and squats post right here: Click here

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HubPage About Functional Strength

I just tried my hand at publishing a Hubpages page about compound exercises, functional strength and why I think most people are better off focusing on those instead of isolation exercises. I wonder how it will do and what kind of a score I'll get for it. :)

Head on over here to see my page about functional strength.

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3 Best Exercises for Ripped Abs

Having a six-pack of abs is pretty much the pinnacle of fitness. The six-pack is what being fit, muscular and ripped is all about and in many ways, ripped abs represent fitness as a whole. Pretty much anyone you see in a gym wants to have ripped abs (although few have achieved that goal).

While resistance exercises for your abdominal muscles are only part of the deal, they are of course essential. Traditional crunches and sit-ups will only get you so far and actually, they are not particularly effective exercises. Here are the top three most effective and most “hardcore” ab exercises:

1. Hanging Leg Raise:
As the name implies, you need to be hanging off something to do this exercise, ideally a pull-up bar. Simply raise your straight legs up until they are at least parallel to the floor (i.e. you'll have a 90 degree bend in your body) and then lower them again. To do this exercise properly, raise and lower your legs slowly, without sudden movements. You'll quickly find that this is one of the hardest, most intense exercises you can do for your abs, giving them a really hard workout.

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5 Tips for Getting in Shape Quickly

Summertime's upon us and everyone suddenly needs to get in shape really quickly, so they can strut their stuff in bikinis and swim-trunks. Because of this, I wrote a quick article with my five top tips for getting in shape as quickly as possible. Here's a small preview:

1) Build muscle, burn fat.

Professional bodybuilders and weight-lifters take a cyclical approach to getting in shape: They go through phases where they concentrate on bulking up and then go through phases where they concentrate on getting rid of their body fat. These are referred to as the bulking and cutting cycles. If you want to get in shape quickly, you can't rely on a system like that. For maximum effectiveness, you need to be building muscle mass while you're burning body fat.

2) Shorter equals harder.

The good news is: Building muscles while burning fat at the same time is possible. The bad news? It's very hard. In general, the only way to see quick resluts is to ramp up the intensity of your workouts. That means more sweat and more pain for you...

3) Better than cardio...

Instead of doing the typical steady-state cardio, where you keep going at a fixed rate for a long period of time...

To read the rest, check out these muscle building tips.

Happy pumping! :)

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Testing Mobile Publishing

This is just a quick test of the mobile publishing feature. Want to make sure that it really works and also want to check out what text styles and stuff like that look like.

Here's a link.

I'm also attaching a pic, to see how that works out.