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Despite people generally wanting to pick up training in the spring to prepare their body for summer, summer itself is actually a great time to start training. This doesn’t necessarily mean in a gym either, it’s also the best time to start alternative style training outside. In this article we’ll explore the advantages of signing up for a gym in the summer, and even the different possibilities when it comes to outdoor workouts in the beautiful weather. If you didn’t find the motivation you needed to start working out in the spring, don’t get down on yourself; it isn’t too late. The summer is an amazing time to sign up to the gym. With the beautiful weather outdoors, the gym crowd tends to begin to shrink. People often begin to train less, as they want to enjoy the beautiful weather, or perhaps they throw in some different outdoor workouts to get the best of both worlds. What this means for someone who wants to start training at a gym is space. Instead of signing up to a crowded, possibly intimidating if you’re someone who worries about looking inexperienced gym, you’ll get a vacant, empty gym to learn and progress in….

1.Squat: The squat is almost a must when it comes to working out, especially if you’re looking to develop your legs. Not only does the squat work your legs, but it also makes your whole body work hard. When you think of the squat, of course you primarily imagine it working your legs, but it also has a huge impact on the core and lower back. Being heavy weights are usually used, and it’s vast muscle use, it helps your body produce a lot of testosterone, so other exercises are more effective, and growth is more likely. 2.Deadlift: As we’ve already done an article on the deadlift, you may already know how important it is, but we’ll give a little resume of what it can do. Form is extremely important while performing this exercise. The deadlift literally works your whole body, and can improve everything from muscle growth to posture. It also produces a lot of testosterone, and can be beneficial all over. It really is an extremely complete, compound exercise that everyone should perfect and include in your routines, because it can really help overall results and progress. 3.Standing Press: The press is another compound movement, especially when performed…

This week we’ll focus on the importance of tracking results. This could mean anything from writing down your weight month after month, or taking progress pictures every so often so you could see how you’ve transformed your body. Knowing how you’ve progressed is more important than you’d think. Having a photo, or something like weight written down from the past, or even a goal weight can make a huge difference. It’ll help your focus so much; like nothing else. When you’re feeling off, or like you don’t want to go to the gym, or eat that last meal, looking at where you were or where you want to be in a picture or on paper can get you right back on track. It’ll allow you to focus on what’s important and keep sight of your goals, and reasons for wanting to achieve them. Not only will seeing a large drop, or clean gain in lean muscle mass satisfy you, but it’ll push you to train harder. The feeling of accomplishment is one that can’t be replaced, and one that can’t be replicated without greater accomplishment. To get the feeling again, you’ll want to accomplish an even greater goal of yours,…

This week’s article will be discussing a different way to train for both muscle and strength gains. Occasionally you’ll hear of people who go to the gym twice a day. Most of the time, they’ll do two separate muscles. In this case, we’re going to talk about training the same muscle twice in one day. It may sound crazy, and hard on the body, but actually, the results can be quite positive. First, let’s try to understand how you can train the same muscle twice a day, and discuss the best way to do it in order to maximize results. First off, this isn’t something someone who has just started training should consider. It’s a technique only advanced gym goers should use. Marc has just begun using it himself. Now, as an example of how you’d go about training the same muscle in a day… Say you’re looking to accelerate the growth of your chest. In the morning, you would go to the gym and do compound movements with higher weight and lower rep ranges, so between 4-6 reps. For chest, this would mean maybe flat bench press, and incline bench press. Then you could do abs. Your workouts should…

Most of the time, when people decide they don’t want to train, or stick with training, it’s because of the difficulty and inability to deal with pain. This can be either lifting weight, or doing cardio. They are different forms, but still have to deal with tolerance of hard work. Without that feeling of pain, or suffering, you won’t get the results you expect. You need to get through that to get where you want to be. People tend to not understand the importance of pushing through that pain to get to the other side. First, there are the people who just say it isn’t worth it. If you say you want to change your life, but aren’t willing to deal with the pain, you don’t want to change your life. Pain in the gym to change your body isn’t the only kind of pain. Psychological pain can be just as hard to deal with, if not harder. Changing your mentality, or lifestyle can be extremely tough to do. The bottom line is; if you want change, you have to learn to deal with it. It’s the only obstacle between you and what you want, what you dream of. Let’s…