Interesting Facts

Five tips you might not have known about weight training.

Tip #1- Having bigger muscles than someone does not guarantee that you will be stronger than them. It depends on the way that the muscle has been trained, if you train for strength, and natural ability.

#2-Free weights activate muscles much better than machine weights. Obviously you have to stabilize the free weight, where as the machine weights are not going anywhere even if you want them to.

#3- Anabolic steroids are for enhancement of muscle tissue growth and make it possible to train harder and have a quicker recovery. They are still used to train in many sports, and most competetive sports have made them illegal. They act like a male hormone testosterone and can effect the body by, making the body not have to produce hormones because the steroids fill in for their role, they may make male breasts, and shrink the testes. For women they may effect the menstrual cycle.

#4- Eccentric exercise makes you sore - when you lift the weight up, like doing a curl or pushing up on a dip it is a concentric movement. When you slowly lower the bar or dumbell to start another curl or lower yourself to do another dip you are performing a eccentric movement. Muscle specialists believe that this eccentric movement makes you more sore than the concentric movement.

#5- It's difficult to lose weight while building muscle - some think that building muscle while losing weight is something that just happens if you lift. They think that the fat will leave and the muscle will grow, but the best way to do this is to bulk up with weight, even a little fat while still lifting then go on a strict diet and continue to lift to take over the fats place if that makes sense.

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