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September 17th, 2008 — , physical fitness from Israel Lagares @ Fat Man Unleashed
So 9 months (maybe more, maybe less) of sheer H-E double hockey sticks and sheer agony, you’re a proud new mommy. It’s a great thing and a time to celebrate, but once the hype dies down and you look at yourself…you wonder how the heck…
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September 4th, 2008 — , physical fitness from Israel Lagares @ Fat Man Unleashed
I don’t usually write about my wife on here, but today is an exception. Why? Because she rocks. Back when we were dating and in college, we would work out together and I used to love sharing that with her. It was something we did to relax and bon…
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August 11th, 2008 — , Muscle Building, physical fitness from Body Builder @ Fat Man Unleashed
An Often Neglected Bodypart
When you begin bodybuilding, what do you perceive as the most impressive body parts? That’s right: arms and chest. Those are the two body parts most of us get caught up in, because they’re the bodyparts that sig…
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The secret to cultivating the pulsating peaks that are attached to your femurs is a routine I like to call: Shock and Rest. The first stage of course is the unavoidable Shock portion. Let us take a look at a workout plan that will make your peep squea…
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post/workout routine from Josh Morrow who can be found at Muscle Bits, a strength training and nutrition blog.
Squats can be fun? Yeah, right, who am I kidding? Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s cut t…
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May 8th, 2008 — , physical fitness from Israel Lagares @ Fat Man Unleashed
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Sarah Scrafford, an industry critic, as well as a regular contributor on the subject of RN.
I hate vacations, not because I’m a workaholic, but because I’m one of the unlucky…
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April 23rd, 2008 — , physical fitness from Israel Lagares @ Fat Man Unleashed
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Rob Cooper, the Former Fat Guy, about his natural weight loss experience. We covered his fitness, nutrition, and mental health. He is an inspiration to all, he once weighed nearly 500 lbs. 500 POUNDS! It to…
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Zac Tunstall of Hood Workout, a site with videos on how to perform bodyweight exercises in the comfort of your own surroundings.
All of us have body weight (many of us have more body weight than we want). This body weight is a perfect tool you can use to aid you in your workouts. I have heard more excuses than I would like to share from various people about why they do not exercise. There is no excuse. There are hundreds of exercises that you can do right now while reading this blog.
Pushups are a great place to start. If you cannot do a normal pushup begin by doing pushups from your knees. If you cannot do many reps of pushups, practice by doing them on your knees to improve endurance. Go ahead try to do a few now. Once you feel comfortable with pushups try doing advanced routine, triangle pushups, wide stance, clapping during the pushup, double clapping, one arm, handstand pushups, etc… There is a never ending supply of upper body workouts built into you.
Squats are a great lower body workout. Starting out, you can just do reps of your own body weight. Why not stand up and try to knock out 10-20 squats now? While you are standing go ahead and do a few calf raises to make yourself feel better and look better. If you generally squat 500 #’s try doing one legged squats with just your body weight, concentrate on your balance.
Why not combine the two exercises and do some burpees? To do a burpee, start in a pushup position, do the pushup, then quickly jump feet forward to a squatting position. From that position jump up (bring your knees into your chest and stretch your arms into the air). Drop back down into a squat, than jump your feet back and fall into the pushup position to start again.
Here are a few other suggestions of things you can do “right now” from your office or home. Tricep presses from your chair, arm circles, crunches, air bikes, situps, jack knifes, isometrics, aerobics, run, walk, jumping jacks, and many more… You can walk to a local park and do some pull-ups, dips, and other various bodyweight exercises.
You can do bodyweight workouts anywhere anytime. They take up very little space and can give a solid workout. They are used in the hood, street, prisons, and even in the corporate world. Gyms are great, the one thing they are not, is an excuse. After you have your doctors’ approval to begin working out or are deemed fit enough to start, there really is no reason why you are not working out. There really is no excuse to not begin working out and to continue your routine at all times.
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January 2nd, 2008 — Muscle Building, The Weight Loss Journey, Weight Loss Program, physical fitness from Israel @ Fat Man Unleashed dot com
I am so glad that I can workout again. I haven’t been able to lift any weights since my appendix surgery in December. I wanted to and felt I could, but my doctor told me to lay off until January. Well, it’s January dammit and I’m back with a vengeance! There is nothing like lifting weights. Pushing, pulling, and balancing heavy weight is such a rush for me. Not only that, but it also helps with my morale and weight loss goals. Now, I must admit that I haven’t taken any official fat loss measurements. I have not had a doctor or medical professional, or even a fitness professional measure my body fat or any sort of measurements. I have done all of that myself. I plan on having my doctor do that in the coming weeks and I also plan on checking for diabetes. That’s a bit scary. More on that some other time.
Anyway, back to lifting weights after surgery. I have been looking forward to this day for a few weeks. It sucked pretty bad to go down when I did because I was in a good rhythm with my current work out routine. That one is an intense, short, fat burning, multi-joint exercise routine. I happen to like it a lot. It gets me going pretty quickly. I plan on continuing that for the next 3 to 4 weeks with one change to it. I will be adding squats 3 times a week to it.
Why more squatting? For starters, Mehdi from Strong Lifts just randomly contacted me introducing himself and recommending that I make that light tweak to my workout. I had never been to his site, but it is a good one. He has tons of fat loss and muscle building info, plus his ebook is off the hizzy! It has a great workout that he has put together, which I plan on undertaking after my current workout. Another reason I want to squat more is because I how great I feel when I squat. Squatting makes me stronger. Period. I used to squat 3 times a week when I played high school football. That was all year round. I didn’t always like it, but when I was done I felt great.
One of the good things about having had my appendix removal surgery is that it heals relatively quickly. That allows for lifting weights after surgery a lot sooner than a typical surgery. That may not seem like a benefit, but I suppose I am looking at the glass half full on this one. I will post an update on the success, or failure, of my new workouts.
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Related StoresDecember 30th, 2007 — Diet Plan and Nutrition, Weight Loss Program, physical fitness from Dennis Rosato @ Fat Man Unleashed dot com
Let’s face it, you’re lazy. I’m lazy. We are all lazy. That is the first step in ultimate healing and change: acknowledgment. Now let us start the cycle of change with a little help from some weight loss catalysts. Here are some awesome fire starters that will ignite your internal body furnace and get the fat loss abilities that are innate to your body activated. No wimps allowed with these fat loss tips, so toughen up!
Fat Loss Tip # 1
The Morning After Pill: Your A.M. PRE-BRUSH Routine
Before you brush your teeth or hair, make sure to turn on your body’s engine. Don’t sneak in breakfast before this routine either, an empty stomach is better. As soon you roll out of bed stand up, spread your legs a little wider than shoulder length apart and reach up for the sky. Get a good stretch in this manner and re-align your bones and awaken your muscles. After that do this speedy day starter routine:
NOTE: Perform all these exercises consecutive with as little rest as possible, 30 seconds at maximum. The point of the Morning After is kick start your day with a major sweat. You are starting your body’s fire on an empty stomach.
Fat Loss Tip # 2
Consume Fire Starter Foods
Proper ignition is key in any fire. Same holds true with getting your metabolism rolling towards optimal weight loss. So with that being said, implement these seldom considered diet and health aides.
Fat Loss Tip # 3
Take on a Full Contact Approach
Fighting burns calories and that cannot be denied. An intense bout that utilizes all the limbs lasting 45 minutes can burn 1600 calories! But before you jump in the ring and get yourself knocked out perhaps consider investing in a pair of 16 ounce boxing gloves and a heavy bag. You can pound away your aggression, just imagine it’s your boss’s face (or your mother in law, ladies). Start out with a quick 3 minute shadow boxing warm up. Next, start pounding the heavy bag. Go at it for an intense 10 minutes and even get your elbow and knees involved for some vicious strikes. Eventually after four weeks work your way up to 20 minutes of pounding, just be careful not to slip on all the sweat that will be pouring out of you.
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December 26th, 2007 — physical fitness from Dennis Rosato @ Fat Man Unleashed dot com
Stretching has a direct correlation to injuries in weight training. Performing static stretching before a workout not only leads to injury prone muscles but weaker muscles. Want to be weaker before strength training, just stretch.
Stretching the muscles that are to be worked out is a no-no. Stretching in between sets is okay only if you do so with the antagonist (opposite) muscle group. For example if you are training your Quadriceps, stretching hamstrings in between sets will result in stronger quads for your workout. So simply put, never stretch the muscle currently being trained, stretch the opposing one. A good one is to stretch your Pecs when you train your back. Do that in between sets and you will be stronger, it’s amazing.
A very personal story on stretching and how it adversely affected me is “the day of change” as I call it. Without this day I wouldn’t be where I am today in terms of studying and expanding knowledgeable practices in strength training. I now stop stretching completely. I tore my Pec on October 24, 2005. I attribute my pec tear to stretching before a light to moderate set. The poundage was a womanly 235 lbs. but I made the egregious error of stretching seconds before getting under the bar. I was flowing the poundage with ease. Perhaps my mind wandered midway through the set now that I look back on it. I had just completed my sixth rep and as I lowered the bar and surged upward for my seventh repetition the last thing I expected in life happened. I felt the “pop” and what scares me to this day is that I heard the “pop” and that audible terror was followed with the terrible sensation of my muscle tearing away. I was in total shock. But oddly enough numbness and heat were the only immediate affects. Shock was so strong I actually pushed for the eighth rep. After I racked the bar, tingling took over my arm, especially in the bicep region, and extreme warmth took over my pectoral muscle. I was distraught, I knew that I did a number on myself, I knew I tore my pec.
I actually felt like crying, not because of discomfort or pain but because of the disappointment. I couldn’t believe that I would never be the same. But in actuality: the way I do things would never be the same, but for the better. To be honest more details to this story exist…I think a bike accident a week prior to the Pec Tear contributed to the tear occurring. A series of calamities so to speak. My pec was torn while I trained on vacation in Tampa, Florida.
I plan on revealing more details, but for now…STOP STRETCHING!
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Related StoresDecember 19th, 2007 — Mental Health & Inner Warriorness, Muscle Building, physical fitness from Dennis Rosato @ Fat Man Unleashed dot com
Hence the timeless logo of FatManUnleashed.com, the brain is without a doubt the optimal muscle when it comes to growth. Public opinion on the frequency of working out has changed quite a bit over time. Steve Reeves employed the whole body workout method which didn’t allow for training more than three times a week. That [...]
Related StoresDecember 15th, 2007 — physical fitness from IronGuru @ Fat Man Unleashed dot com
Most everyone who is in the gym does cardio at one time or another, it’s the best way to burn calories - period! Intense work, get the heart pumping and keep it pumping. Well what most don’t know, and don’t realize about cardio is what it takes to make it effective, and most important - [...]
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Today was a good day. I was actually able to get up early in the morning and perform some cardio exercise. I got up as soon as I heard the alarm clock go off. Didn’t hesitate one bit. I would normally just let the alarm keep going or would get up to turn it off [...]
Related StoresDecember 9th, 2007 — physical fitness from Fat Man @ Fat Man Unleashed dot com
Stretching is an integral part of my exercise program, and it should be the same with you. Unfortunately, stretching is often times neglected by many individuals. I work out at home now, but when I used to go to the gym I would see many people go straight into their workout without the slightest thought [...]
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I know this college kid that is extremely lazy when it comes to working out. He doesn’t do any kind of exercise and wishes that he was muscular and diesel. The guy can’t even do one push up! Don’t get me wrong, when I first started out I couldn’t do any push ups either. I [...]
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