Annoyingly, it still isn’t common practice to instruct overweight/obese people to also lift weights instead of only hammering the treadmill.
And it’s a shame, because if you’re overweight and focus more on lifting weights than just cardio, you’ll likely be much better off!
As far as physical improvement go, dieting seems to be the main culprit of failure for many people. Thus, learning how to adhere to your diet is among the most important aspects of physical mastery.
This goes for all corners of the spectrum; young bros trying to lose some fat for whatever purposes (mainly impressing homo sapiens sapiens of the opposite sex), post-4-pregnancies women who after a long and stressful process wants to slim down, and actual competing bodybuilders and physique athletes wishing to bring the best conditioning to the stage.
Wanting a big strong chest is a common endeavor within fitness. While the same can be said for many muscle groups, there’s just a very powerful look to having a bulging chest protrude from your torso, making the bottom half of your shirt look like a loosely fitted dress.
Unless everything else is severely underdeveloped, having a big chest will help make you look like a tank. And honestly, who wouldn’t want to look like a tank? Adds another layer to the “become a machine” crossfit’ish saying.
One of the many psychological factors of prolonged dieting most people experience, is the ever increased mental obsession with food. While we in some degree usually consider ourselves to be more dedicated and disciplined as far as taking care of our bodies and diets than the mainstream masses, week in week out of strict dieting will takes it toll.
Go back just a decade and the thoughts of going for extended time without eating for the purpose of improving bodyrecomposition was deemed idiotic. Gymgoers would tell you that your body would “eat up all your muscle”, and that skipping meals (even if just breakfast) would mess up your metabolism. Oh and something about the body only being able to utilize 30 grams of protein pr. meal, and so on and so on.
Take a glance around any major bodybuilding forum online and you’ll discover just how many young guys feel frustrated with the rate of their biceps growth.
Now, sparing you guys the classic advice on focusing on the triceps – followed by some strangely arbitrary claim of said muscle making up 2/3rd of your overall arm size – i’ll leave that part out and focus just on the biceps this time around.
But more specifically, I’ll be focusing on using a high frequency approach to really stress the biceps!
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