Those of us working out with a personal trainer may find ourselves repeatedly hearing the same phrases again and again. Our first reaction may be to assume that the trainer may think you have a learning disability, have an attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, or just don’t care. Don’t complain! If everyone out there were a gifted, natural athlete, they wouldn’t need to use a personal trainer.

Your personal trainer may say things like…

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There are many details to consider when putting a weight gain food plan together that suits you as an individual. You must take into consideration your lifestyle, time constraints, food preferences, family and social obligations, job and/or profession, and last, but not least, what you want to do. Do you want, or need, to lose fat? Do you need to gain weight in general? Do you have a health concern that requires you not eat indiscriminately?

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Strength training necessitates that we work at a very high level of effort so as to reach a point of exhaustion. Energy production needs cannot be met by the body’s oxygen transport system. Therefore, energy is produced without oxygen (anaerobic pathway) by the ATP-CP (adenosine triphosphate-creatine phosphate) stored within the muscles for very brief, intense bursts of effort.

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Most people have absolutely no idea what they really need to eat to gain weight. A lot of people think they eat quite a bit, yet in reality they don’t eat enough, or at least not the right foods or in the right macronutrient ratios.

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Exercising at high intensities or volumes for a prolonged period of time can increase the risk of an athlete becoming sick due to weakened immune system and even over-trained. Fortunately, advances in exercise program design, nutrition, and nutritional supplements allow us to exercise intensely with a decreased risk of becoming sick or over-trained. One of the more popular nutritional supplements that has been shown to prevent illness and possibly over-training is the amino acid glutamine.

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One of the major drawbacks of working with free weights is that you’re limited to using only as much weight as you can handle in the weakest point in the range of motion. Because each exercise has it’s own unique strength curve, your muscles are actually subjected to varying amounts of resistance as you perform each repetition.

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Are you a regular exerciser wanting to gain weight and muscle who is considering adopting a vegetarian diet? If so, there are some things you need to know, and you want to make sure you get it right because nutrition is the cornerstone for weight gain.

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When it comes to weight gain, good nutrition is fundamental to success. If you are not committed to eating enough food to reach the daily number of calories required to gain weight, then you will never reach your goals. This is why it becomes important to have variety with your meal plans to enjoy what you eat.

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You have already got six pack abs (eight if you count the two boxes between your navel and your pelvis). That’s the way your abdomen is configured. The good news is, if you’re like the majority of hardgainers, then you already have a very low body fat percentage and only need to focus on strengthening the abdominal region to show the muscles, instead of worrying about fat loss. However, this article will be an abs guide for all body types. If you want those boxes to pop, your plan of attack needs to be two fold; one, build your abdominal wall, and two, reduce your body fat so the muscles will show.

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