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Ninja Warrior at Muscle Park

Monday, November 30th, 2009


A quick video tour of “Muscle Park” in Odaiba, Tokyo, which contains a special Ninja Warrior (Sasuke) training ground! Only one of us (Dave) had the magic stones necessary to tackle some of the hardest stages of Ninja Warrior in front of a crowd. He did better than I would have! A local, though, showed us how it’s done — despite a brief problem with a splinter.

Go From Skinny To Muscle With These 3 Steps

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Gaining muscle mass can be a real chore if you are born with genes that inhibit weight gain. Skinny to muscle man may be the dream for you but if you take the advice of the bodybuilding magazines and their emphasis on isolation exercises and supplements they are just trying to sell you then you may end up exhausted, with no cash from gym memberships and buying their products and with hardly any muscle gain to speak of!

If it was as easy as the magazines say everyone would have ripped physiques without much effort and those taking steroids and with great muscle building genes may think it is like this; skinny guys need to know the truth about how to gain weight and strength and these 3 tips can get you off to a good start.

Deadlifting and Squatting Deadlifting and squats are some of the best exercises you can do if you are skinny because it activates about 75% of your muscles when doing them which is essential for overall strength and mass increase. It also has a vital secondary effect which is that the intensity of the exercise forces the body to release growth hormone in large enough numbers to effect your whole bodies muscle growth. If you do just two exercises in your life these should be the ones!

Compound Exercises Are Mandatory While it might be easy to hit up the isolated muscle machines and work on just your biceps or calves or whatever this is really a waste of time because it brings blood into these areas but not all the nutrients needed to activate growth of any magnitude. Doing compound exercises that effect multiple muscle groups are much more effective still providing that ‘pump’ but doing more for your body overall and not wasting effort and time.

Focus on Rest & Recovery Do you use a stopwatch to time your recovery periods between sets? If not you may be missing out on doing two things:

These three simple skinny to muscle bodybuilding steps will have you putting on rapid muscle growth and strength increases all over your body just like a certain skinny guy once did who became a champion bodybuilder and fitness coach. Click below to find out how he did it and how he can help YOU. http://skinny-muscles. 1001-solutions. info

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Chair Massage for Nerve Entrapment Syndrome

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Chair massage is helpful for a variety of conditions, including those caused by poor posture and repeated stress and strain.  These injuries are found within all facets of the working population, affecting office workers and physical laborers alike.  Painful ailments such as Nerve Entrapment Syndrome can interfere with normal work function. Treatments vary by severity, and include prescription anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxers, steroids and surgery.  Offering a workplace massage can treat these issues without requiring recovery time or causing a rise in sick days.

Nerve Entrapment Syndrome (NES) is commonly referred to as a pinched nerve and can cause moderate to severe pain.  It is a condition caused by undue pressure on nerves and nerve roots by muscles, tendons, soft tissue, fascia or ligaments.  Pain can be localized to the affected area or outwardly radiating.  The area served by the impinged nerve can feel weakened, numb, and can experience a tingling or twitching sensation.  

The causes of NES include a primary injury to muscles and tendons such as whiplash and similar trauma caused by overstretching, with muscles becoming tightened and swollen, putting excess pressure on the nerves around them.  Another contributing factor is the over development of a certain muscle group working in conjunction with a weakened or underdeveloped muscle group.  This can lead to a postural disruption pattern, an example being the forward slumping of the shoulders, neck and head resulting from underdeveloped muscle groups in the front of the body working less efficiently than properly developed muscles of the back.  Over time, the stronger muscle groups become strained from overuse, causing tearing, which subsequently leads to the development of scar tissue and adhesions.  Scar tissue is denser and weaker than normal tissue, restricting muscle function and causing tension that “traps” nerves. 

Workplace chair massage techniques are helpful in releasing tension and breaking up scar tissue and adhesions that contribute to NES.  Myofascial Release and Deep Tissue Massage can be performed in tandem with Muscle Energy techniques to delicately lengthen muscle tissues while releasing tension and adhesions in the affected area.  Neuromuscular and Trigger Point Therapy remove myofascial trigger points, helping to release the trapped nerve.  Improved circulation and lymph drainage are benefits of chair massage therapy and are important in the reduction and healing of scar tissue.  Improved blood flow brings much-needed nutrients to the area, which supports the renewal of cells and tissue, while lymph drainage removes toxins.  A short workplace massage can have immediate and lasting results without causing a disruption in workflow.

Acai Force Max – Diet Plans For Men

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Are you feeling depressed and upset because you feel that women don’t like you or don’t even talk to you because you don’t look healthy and you’re not confident about the way you look? I can surely understand how you feel right now and I would feel the same way if I were in your situation. Don’t worry buddy because I’ll share with you diet plans for men like you that you should really know. Here are are the tips that you should follow to make yourself look much better and feel much better about the way you look:Click Here For Acai Force Max Limited Free Trial!Tip # 1: Exercise DailyMost diet plans for men would definitely start with daily workouts. If you want to lose weight and become healthy, then you must have some quality time everyday to exercise. Try to exercise for at least 30-40 minutes everyday, because you will surely lose weight in no time if you’d be able to do this tip. Tip # 2: Eat Low-Calorie FoodsIf you want to be healthy, look young and lose weight at the same time, then you should make yourself eat low-calorie foods. You must try to eat leafy vegetables and fruits that are rich in fiber and antioxidants. Hence, you will not only lose weight but you are also making yourself healthy and feel  fresh and clean inside and out. Tip # 3: Avoid Soda, Drink WaterOne of the most effective diet plans for men would be avoiding sodas and drinking plenty of water instead. Sodas would only make you fat and make your weight increase. So, instead of drinking unhealthy beverages, try to switch on drinking clean water. This will surely help you lose weight and helping your body washing out harmful toxins. Looking good and feeling good about yourself is really important. If you feel confident and brave to face everything, you will surely find it easy to reach any goal that you may have. You deserve to look good buddy! I hope I was able to help you informed about diet plans for men like you who wants to have a better life and a better future. Good Luck!

This author writes about Acai Force Max and Diet Plans For Men.

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Monday, November 30th, 2009

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Monday, November 30th, 2009

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Muscle Imbalance And Chronic Injuries

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Injuries can occur anywhere and at anytime, but the most prevalent place of occurrence is in the workplace. The reason for such a high rate of injury is that people spend 8-18 hours a day, 5-7 days a week performing unidirectional (one-way) movement patterns, causing an imbalance in the musculoskeletal system that results in the overuse and under use of certain muscle groups. If left unchecked, these injuries can be come chronic, resulting in pain and dysfunction that can last for years.
Usually, when one muscle group is overused, the opposing muscle group, acting as a stabilizer, becomes underused. When this imbalance establishes itself in the musculoskeletal system, the body does not function as designed. Instead of muscles working together to perform a specified function, they work against each other, causing the body to exert more energy to perform the same task that previously was perceived by the body as “simple”.
When muscles become too short and tight, they lose their strength as they are in a chronic semi-contracted state and cannot contract (shorten) efficiently due to being pre-fatigued and the fact that they are already in a state where they are too short for proper function. If a muscle is already in a shortened, semi-contracted state, it cannot contract, or shorten very far. And the farther a muscle can contract (shorten) and move, the greater the strength and endurance the muscle will have. Chronically tight, restrictive muscles just don’t function very well and they impinge structures around and beneath them such as nerves and blood vessels, causing disorders like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cubital Tunnel Syndrome and many other associated Repetitive Strain injuries. Short muscles also pull bones out of alignment, which causes a joint imbalance, often resulting in severe pain and dysfunction.
The same goes for underused muscles. Underdeveloped muscles are weak due to lack of direct stimulation. Weak muscles are usually too long, unless they are in a state of spasm, which occurs as a protective response in order to keep from being overstretched. Weak underdeveloped muscles cannot act as efficient stabilizers when the opposing muscle(s) are called into action, which again causes a joint imbalance to develop, as weak muscles cannot stabilize bones in their proper position / alignment. Weather a muscle is short and tight or long and weak, the strength and length imbalance of the affected muscle(s) must be corrected for the body to function optimally without pain, dysfunction and reduced mobility of the involved muscles / joints.
Muscle imbalances are the cause of most biomechanical disorders in the body. From Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, an existing muscle imbalance is at the root cause of the disorder in 90% of the cases. Too many modalities focus on the “band-aid principal”, allowing the muscle imbalance go on for years with a little bit of relief here and there. Now is the time to focus on the actual “cause(s)” of these disorders and eliminate them altogether. With the appropriate exercise and stretch routine, most musculoskeletal disorders can be eliminated quickly and effectively.
Correcting muscle imbalances is achieved through a process consisting of a number of stretches and exercises. Soft-tissue treatment and hot/cold therapy may be utilized to help expedite the rate of recovery if it is so desired. Usually the nature of performing both stretches and exercises within the same program can be quite effective at eliminating the existing condition without the addition of the soft tissue treatment and hydrotherapy. Word of caution; there is a treatment sequence to addressing muscle imbalances if the best results are to be achieved. If random stretches and exercises are performed, an individual may cause themselves more harm than good.
A general rule when addressing a chronic muscle imbalance is to execute the following program:
1. Heat Therapy* : Use heating-pad 5 Min. to warm the affected joint and surrounding muscles, preparing them for upcoming stretches and exercises. (Be sure that all sides of the joint and surrounding muscles are warmed-up. )
2. Soft-Tissue Treatment: Soft tissue treatment utilizing Effleurage and Trigger Point Therapy to reduce muscle spasm and relax the tight, restrictive overused muscles can be very effective in correcting muscle imbalances. Utilizing Transverse Friction Massage (TFM) on specifically weak, injured muscles and/or tendons to break down adhesions on the soft tissues can also be very effective in reducing overall pain and dysfunction. ) Performing basic massage to the tight muscles is the easiest way to address the issue without getting too complex. )
3. Stretching Routine: Once the muscles are warmed up, stretching the tight, restrictive muscle group is key to increasing their length and reducing their impingement of surrounding tissues as well as reducing their effect on the misalignment of the joint. (Stretching the weak, underdeveloped muscles is not recommended as they are already too long and do not need to be lengthened further. )
4. Exercise Routine: Once the tight restrictive muscles have been lengthened from the stretches, it is time to exercise the opposing muscle group, the one that is weak and underdeveloped, in order to shorten and strengthen the muscles in order to reduce the tensile stresses imposed on them from the opposing tight muscle group. Exercising and strengthening the weak underdeveloped muscles not only forces the opposing muscle group to relax and lengthen further, but it also helps to maintain the length created in those muscles from the previous stretches. (Do not perform stretches after the exercises as this misaligns the joints and causes muscle rebounding. Always perform stretches first when addressing chronic muscle imbalances and then immediately follow with exercises. )
5. Contrast Bath: Utilizing a contrast bath at the end of the complete routine can be helpful in reducing muscle spasm, remove toxins from the muscles and increase circulation and overall nutrient flow to the injury, helping to aid an increase the speed of recovery. Basic procedure is 3-minutes heat to 1-minute of cold. Repeat 3-times, finishing with cold.
This general treatment program for chronic repetitive strain injuries resulting from muscle imbalances is very effective and often eliminates all of the symptoms previously associated with the injury, quickly and effectively. Always consult a physician before beginning any type of exercise or treatment program.
Remember, Your Health is in Your Hands!

Jeff P. Anliker is a Therapist, Author and Inventor of Flextend, Flextend-AC, Flextend-TFT and other therapeutic products that are utilized by Corporations, Consumers and Medical Facilities around the world. repetitive-strain. com

Toning & Building Muscle : How to Get Ripped Muscles in 4 Weeks

Monday, November 30th, 2009


To help get ripped muscles in four weeks, eat chicken, turkey and fish to get a solid source of protein. Get ripped muscles in four weeks withtips from a fitness specialist in this free video on toning and building muscle. Expert: Bob Mathews Contact: power1k.com Bio: Bob Mathews is the owner of Perfect Body System and has been in Phoenix, Arizona for the last 15 years. He’s trained with Barry Goldwater and other devoted clients over the years. Filmmaker: Dustin Daniels…

Build Muscles And Smash Plateau

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Five times a week, two hours each visit. You’ve been more faithful to your gym schedule than you’ve ever been to any girlfriend you’ve had. And for a while it paid off: those muscles started rippling and the girls started paying attention.
But then, like a bad dream you wake up from, your muscles suddenly wasn’t growing like what it used to do. Your muscles stop responding to your heavy workout no matter how intensely you’ve been training. So you said to yourself, now I will train harder. So now you put in three hours a session and but even as you upped your gym dosage, horrors of horrors, your muscles are actually shrinking.
Ahhhhh, the Gym Plateau. It afflicts all of us and few of us ever gotten out of it. In fact, most people don’t even know that they have hit the dreaded plateau and thought that their muscles can only grow so much due to inherent genetic factors. Not to worry though, if you read the following fitness tips, and follow these tips to the latter, I can assure you that your muscles will start growing again and grow bigger they will.
Here are your free fitness tips.
Fitness Tip #1
Take A Break
This tip is easy to comply for most of us but very difficult for some gym rats. Simply take a break from your workout. Do not step into the gym or do any workout for 2 weeks. Its time to let your body recover from the punishments you are dishing out to your muscles. Some bodybuilders may find this difficult to do because working out is addictive. You produce endorphin when you workout and endorphin is also known as happy hormone. The same hormone you produce when having sex.
Professional bodybuilders take a break after every 4-5 months of hard training and when they are back in the gym, they shock their well rested but complacent muscles back into massive muscle gain.
Fitness Tip #2
Are you training too often?
If your exercises are intense enough, you need only to train each muscle group once or twice a week. Your training schedule shouldn’t repeat muscle groups in the same week. Every time you train, you do your muscles damage. Muscles need time to repair and it does so in the after your training when you are resting. This means that if you lift weights on consecutive days, there isn’t sufficient time for the body to recover. Try to have one day rest between each weight lifting day.
If your routine requires intensive weight training, remember not to prolong your gym time longer than an hour. This is because your cortisol, a muscle eating hormone level will be elevated and thus will be counter productive to your efforts. It eats your muscles.
Most of all, you must sleep! Eight hours or even better, go for ten hours. Muscles do not grow in the gym; they grow when you sleep. When you sleep, you are secreting growth hormones for many bodily functions and one of those functions is to build muscles. That is why they called it beauty sleep!
Fitness Tip #3
Are you using the correct weight lifting techniques?
If your technique or form is incorrect, not only is your training retarded, you are also inviting injury. Don’t laugh. But when you exercise you must think and focus, instead of mindlessly repeating the motions, do take note of how you perform each exercise and rep. Do so with deliberation and at the beginning and end of every lift, pause and squeeze the muscles you are exercising. Mind and muscle must connect! Never never use momentum of the swing to lift the weights and let gravity pull the weight down. That is why you must lift slowly and lower slowly feeling the tension in your muscles and resisting the load all the time.
In order for muscles to want to grow, you have to stress them to the maximum, and then further. Do enough repetitions until you feel you cannot go any further using good form. You must then either increase the weight or the number of repetitions at the next session. This is called progressive overload, and progressive overload is what forces your muscles to grow. As a general guide, if you can lift more than 12 reps the weight is probably too light and it is too heavy if your muscles fail you in less than 5 reps. You may wish to consult your physical fitness trainer on the correct form and technique for each exercise.
Fitness Tip #4
Are you using free weights?
Most machines do not involve as much of the synergistic muscles (supporting muscles) as free weights do. And, therefore, do not build as much muscle mass. Synergistic muscles are the smaller muscles that aid the main muscles in balance and strength in each lift. Machines has its uses, but for beginners and for smashing plateaus, use free weights.
Fitness Tip#5
Workout with compound exercises
Compound exercises are exercises that involve 2 or more joint movements and thereby employing bigger muscles and more synergistic muscles . Bench presses, dead lifts, squats, and barbell curls amongst others are fantastic compound exercises . For example, when you squat , all the muscles in your lower body get a workout and that alone is about 60 percent of your overall musculature . Squat also works your back and abs too. Using more muscles at one go means that you get a better overall workout. To add icing to the cake, because of the massive utilization of your muscles , you will pant, huff and sweat more. That means your routine also has a cardio effect and you will burn calories even hours after you stepped out of the gym .
Fitness Tip#6
Are you working out your legs?
Your body is programmed to grow proportionately with only slight variations. If you do not train your legs, your upper body mass will stop growing before it becomes large. Surely, you’ve heard of chicken legs! Just because leg training can be brutal, it doesn’t give you reason to hide your legs in your pants. To get that super hero X-frame, pepper your routine with squats . A word of caution though: compound exercises such as dead lifts, squats, and bench presses must be done in excellent form and a spotter is highly recommended. This is where your physical fitness trainer will come in handy as your spotter. If not, injuries are bound to happen and that may put you permanently out of the gym.
Fitness Tip#7
What are you eating?
Muscle building requires protein – the more, the better. Meat, especially red meats and fish, are the best source. It is in your food that your body will draw nutrients from, for strength and necessary fats for joint and organ protection.
To have massive muscle gain and help in muscle preservation , you need about 2-3 grams of good protein per kilogram of your body weight . If you want to get serious about muscles , you may need to supplement them with protein shakes . Eating a meal and having a protein shake immediately after your workout also maximizes the window for rapid absorption of nutrients. This is important as you need to feed the muscles now that you have damaged them. You should also 6 small meals a day so your muscles are constantly fed throughout the day. This will help rev up your metabolism to burn fat too. This will tremendously help you in your build muscle lose weight program. Remember to take your protein shake half an hour before you workout too.
Fitness Tip#8
How about Carbs?
Glycogen is the main energy source for any muscle-building exercise. The body stores whatever carbohydrates you eat as glycogen and muscles use it to give you energy during your workout. After an intense workout, do consume carbohydrates immediately to replace the used glycogen. You can even indulge in high glycemic carbs such as ice creams and white bread as these will turn into insulin and shuttles nutrients such as protein to your muscle cells quickly.
Fitness Tip #9
And Fats?
Yes, your body do need do need fats . But try to avoid saturated fats such as animal fats or worse, trans fats which are artificial fats found in pastries, confectionaries and preserved food. Consume healthy unsaturated fats such as olive oil, canola oil, fish oils, flax seed oil.
Fitness Tip#10
Water Water is essential.
Water is essential. It is the most underrated macronutrient. You need at least eight glasses of water every day but when you exercise , you lose even more water because of the sweating. So drink before, during and after your workout. Weigh yourself before and after the workout, and compensate for the loss by drinking at least 16 ounces of fluid for every pound or half a kg lost.
Fitness Tip#11
Creatine
While meats are the best source for creatine, which is a nutrient that helps speed up muscle gain and power you up during workouts, those who do not get enough from their regular diet must be supplemented. Creatine puts volume into your muscle cells and gives you that muscle pump thus your muscles feels tighter, look bigger and overall illusion of superb muscularity . It also helps to prevent muscle breakdown.
Fitness Tip#12
Glutamine
When supplemented, it may help bodybuilders reduce the amount of muscle wasting away or used up as energy. It also helps in muscle recovery.
Fitness Tip #13
Do you change your routine?
The human body is fantastic at adaptation. So whatever routine you are on, your body will get used to it. So do change your routine every 6-8 weeks. For example, instead of working out your chest muscles at the start of your workout, work your back muscles instead. You can reverse your whole routine or change the variations of your exercises or add new ones and take away some old ones. By changing your routines, you not only shock your muscles to new growth, it will also prevent boredom by doing the same thing all the time.

Chris Chew is a fitness personal trainer and author of “Burn Fat Build Muscles Fast”. More free articles at his site and blog Lose weight get toned muscles fast and Be a certified personal trainer

Skinny to Muscle – Tips to Gain Muscle Fast!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Going from skinny to muscle is not as hard as many people say but it is harder than perhaps you might think due to the genetics in your body that keep you getting fat but also inhibit muscle growth. If you are looking to gain muscle fast not just incrementally then it becomes another step harder that the only solution is to work harder but more importantly to work “smarter”.

This does not mean you can find shortcuts around hard work but it does mean that you, the skinny guy who wants a ripped physique needs to plan your workouts and understand exactly how your body works so you can be more efficient and spark muscle growth in extreme amounts! These tips proven to work for skinny guys to build muscle can get you started.

1. Do Not Do More Than 10 Reps If you are doing more than 10 reps per exercise then you are not activating the right muscle fibers but instead activate the “slow-twitch” muscle fibers that have the least muscle growth opportunity. With this in mind you should always choose weights that would mean that an 11th rep would not be possible as to recruit the muscles you really want to grow.

Fast muscle growth equals heavy lifting and a heavy lifting mentality must be present in your workouts because doing more of a light weight does not increase your strength and muscles . . . you have to CHALLENGE yourself and your muscles.

2. Lower Workout Time, Increase Intensity A simple equation: Work / Time = work capacity This means that to increase your work capacity (a mixture of fitness and strength) you either have to increase your work which is what most people think they need to do, but you can also Decrease the time you do the work in for the same result!

This is another challenge to your body and one that actually saves you time because spending hours upon hours in the gym is pointless if you could do the same amount of work in 30-45 minutes. This will really push you to the limit but it is well worth it, move on to the next exercise quicker, take shorter rests . . compress everything and the weight will stack on faster.

3. Only Do One Exercise per Muscle Group Punishing your muscles do not make them grow and will not get you from skinny to muscled. You need to stress them and challenge them but once that task is done and you have sparked the muscle growth further exercise on that group is wasted.

So do the right number of reps and sets for a muscle group, but once you have reached your 100% maximum effort on that muscle group you have activated all the required muscle fibers so you should move on.

4. 3-5 Sets per Muscle Group Only If you are doing more sets that this on a muscle group then you need to look at your intensity level!

As a general rule the first 1 to 2 sets should be about 85% max effort, the next set at 95% and the last set(s) at 100%. The last sets are the ones that really spark the muscle growth as you attempt to go beyond your body’s abilities which forces it to adapt and start trying to get bigger to cope. You should also be trying to force an extra 1-2 reps or a little bit more weight on those last all out sets for maximum muscle growth.

5. Track Your Strength Increase to 5% More Per Fortnight It can be easy to fall into a routine with weight training but if you really want to go from skinny to muscle then you need to pay attention to each and every workout and track your progress or you risk just going through the motions and not really challenging yourself.

For each exercise you should be increasing the weight by about 5% every two weeks. Writing these things down really helps you focus on progress and when you achieve them gives you the motivation to go back in every time with vigor and determination!

These tips are not just a bit of good skinny to muscle advice, they come from one of the most respected bodybuilders around who like you was not blessed with great muscle building genetics but was for most of his life a skinny little runt!

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