Friday, October 29, 2010
Nutrition
Nutrition is essential to metabolism. Every individual required a specific amount of food to meet theirmetabolic needs. The amount of calories is dependent upon the change of body-composition you desire.
To achieve fat-loss, a negative energy balance must be present for fatt-loss to occur. However, the negative energy balance must not fall below the requirements of the basal metabolic rate. When the basal metabolism receives all of the necessary fuel requirements, it can function efficiently enough to burnthe unneeded fat stores.
When calories are eliminated or reduced to a level below what is required by the basal metabolic rate,the diet will have an adverse effect on the individual's body-composition and health.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Cell Manipulation
In order to achieve the result you want with exercise you must understand the premise behind changing the body. The body is made up of billions of cells. These cells all have a particular job to perform. To create change you must manipulate the cells to force them to work in a different way than what is normal against the DNA coding. Meaning you have to force new growth patterns. Essentially what we are doing when we exercise is containing cells. If we don't contain cells then the cells get out of control and begin to grow in bigger in the wrong places. This is especially true with fat cells. Muscle cells don't increase in number but they can shrink and /or grow depending on the activity level. So my point is that in order to change the cellular structure of the body you must know how to manipulate the cells to get the result you want.
Bodybuilding is a great way to manipulate the cells to make them look a certain way. Bodybuilders are concerned with developing muscle cells. When training correctly they can metabolize off unnecessary fat cells. For example, it is knowing how to activate the abdominal muscle cells without increase the size of them. Big abdominals is not desirable for the bodybuilder. Knowing how to create more cells in the shoulders and chest and back to create a more dramatic physique is important for the bodybuilder. It is knowing how to activate the muscle cells in the legs to create them bigger and with definition and shape.
Many people exercise and have displaced cell development. They don't seem to know what they are doing they just move weights around and do lots of cardio. It seems they don't care about symmetry or aesthetics, they just exercise for the sake of exercising. I see this alot with bootcamp style classes and aerobic classes and PX90 type classes. They are all good forms of workouts but they are all about doing as many exercises as possible using many different forms of training. I call these types of training programs "displaced cellular manipulation" activities. What this means is that the exercises work the cells in synergistic patterns not isolated form. So the result is whatever you end up looking like is what you look like. You could get lean but you might sacrifice bicep size because you performed too many abdominal exercises, or you might lose the v-taper and have a more blocky look to your torso. Because the way you trained has dispersed the cells to areas that is being over emphasized. Yes! the person has lost body fat and increased their lean body mass, but they have no symmetry. I see many guys who are functional training advocates. Functional training is a great way to train if you don't care about having a bodybuilders physique. Most of the time functional training produces great results in core stabilization, strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, neuromuscular efficiency which is all good. But the cellular recruitment patterns through functional training end up making the body look average but nothing like a bodybuilder. You can develop great strength and endurance with functional trianing exercises. This type of training is great for athletes. Football is a great example; football players train hard and are concerned with developing as many muscles cells as possible for greater strength, power and protection. They are not concerned with having a small abdominal area. They train for their sport and not necessarily for symmetry or aesthetics. Some of the running backs have huge powerful legs while their upper body is muscular but doesn't match their legs. They are more concerned with building strong legs. So the cells of the legs have to manipulated in a different way to produce this result.
If you are just concerned with metabolizing fat and increase lean body mass then just about any type of resistance training program will do that. But if you want to look a particular way then just doing exercise for the sake of it won't always produce the look you are after. You have to manipulate the cells and to train them in a way that gives the area more shape or less shape depending on your goals. You might have big arms and little shoulders. This will make you look out of proportion, so you would have to build the shoulders more and maintain the biceps. You have to look at each muscle group and decide how to work it. This is why I love bodybuilding. It is all about creating a work of art through the use of science.
The other day I had a person come into my gym and pretty much slam bodybuilding and bodybuilders. She told me that gyms were a waste of time and bodybuilding is stupid. She believed that we all need to be outdoors exercising and running. She said "why would anyone want to do an isolated bicep curl, it goes against nature. When does a person ever have a need to do a bicep curl?" I didn't agree with her about that we should all be outside running around and that gyms were a waste of time. And I told her that bodybuilding is all about cellular manipulation and developing a body into a work of art with symmetry and aesthetic appeal. Not everyone wants to have a stringy, non-defined, average looking physique. Bodybuilding exercises are not something you are going to do outside the gym in a functional way. They are isolated exercises that manipulate the muscle to grow in a certain way.
If you want to exercise and do a bunch of different types of training that is great. But if you want to really change how your body looks in terms of symmetry and aesthetics then you must perform the correct exercises and know how to train the muscles accordingly to get the result you desire.
tags: darylconant, ron kosloff, Vince Gironda, body building, cell manipulation.
Bodybuilding is a great way to manipulate the cells to make them look a certain way. Bodybuilders are concerned with developing muscle cells. When training correctly they can metabolize off unnecessary fat cells. For example, it is knowing how to activate the abdominal muscle cells without increase the size of them. Big abdominals is not desirable for the bodybuilder. Knowing how to create more cells in the shoulders and chest and back to create a more dramatic physique is important for the bodybuilder. It is knowing how to activate the muscle cells in the legs to create them bigger and with definition and shape.
Many people exercise and have displaced cell development. They don't seem to know what they are doing they just move weights around and do lots of cardio. It seems they don't care about symmetry or aesthetics, they just exercise for the sake of exercising. I see this alot with bootcamp style classes and aerobic classes and PX90 type classes. They are all good forms of workouts but they are all about doing as many exercises as possible using many different forms of training. I call these types of training programs "displaced cellular manipulation" activities. What this means is that the exercises work the cells in synergistic patterns not isolated form. So the result is whatever you end up looking like is what you look like. You could get lean but you might sacrifice bicep size because you performed too many abdominal exercises, or you might lose the v-taper and have a more blocky look to your torso. Because the way you trained has dispersed the cells to areas that is being over emphasized. Yes! the person has lost body fat and increased their lean body mass, but they have no symmetry. I see many guys who are functional training advocates. Functional training is a great way to train if you don't care about having a bodybuilders physique. Most of the time functional training produces great results in core stabilization, strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, neuromuscular efficiency which is all good. But the cellular recruitment patterns through functional training end up making the body look average but nothing like a bodybuilder. You can develop great strength and endurance with functional trianing exercises. This type of training is great for athletes. Football is a great example; football players train hard and are concerned with developing as many muscles cells as possible for greater strength, power and protection. They are not concerned with having a small abdominal area. They train for their sport and not necessarily for symmetry or aesthetics. Some of the running backs have huge powerful legs while their upper body is muscular but doesn't match their legs. They are more concerned with building strong legs. So the cells of the legs have to manipulated in a different way to produce this result.
If you are just concerned with metabolizing fat and increase lean body mass then just about any type of resistance training program will do that. But if you want to look a particular way then just doing exercise for the sake of it won't always produce the look you are after. You have to manipulate the cells and to train them in a way that gives the area more shape or less shape depending on your goals. You might have big arms and little shoulders. This will make you look out of proportion, so you would have to build the shoulders more and maintain the biceps. You have to look at each muscle group and decide how to work it. This is why I love bodybuilding. It is all about creating a work of art through the use of science.
The other day I had a person come into my gym and pretty much slam bodybuilding and bodybuilders. She told me that gyms were a waste of time and bodybuilding is stupid. She believed that we all need to be outdoors exercising and running. She said "why would anyone want to do an isolated bicep curl, it goes against nature. When does a person ever have a need to do a bicep curl?" I didn't agree with her about that we should all be outside running around and that gyms were a waste of time. And I told her that bodybuilding is all about cellular manipulation and developing a body into a work of art with symmetry and aesthetic appeal. Not everyone wants to have a stringy, non-defined, average looking physique. Bodybuilding exercises are not something you are going to do outside the gym in a functional way. They are isolated exercises that manipulate the muscle to grow in a certain way.
If you want to exercise and do a bunch of different types of training that is great. But if you want to really change how your body looks in terms of symmetry and aesthetics then you must perform the correct exercises and know how to train the muscles accordingly to get the result you desire.
tags: darylconant, ron kosloff, Vince Gironda, body building, cell manipulation.
Monday, October 25, 2010
My Own Theory
I believe that in order to obtain more muscle size that you have to increase the bodies blood volume. We have all felt the wonderful muscle pump that is a benefit of weight training. The pump is simply blood rushing to the worked muscle tissue. The blood delivers vital nutrients and oxygen to the muscle to help with the tissue damage. The more blood you pump into the muscle the greater the contraction and the bigger the muscle gets. When the muscle fills with blood, the blood vessels and capillaries increase in size to accommodate the surge of blood. More fluid and substrates are able to get into the muscles to rebuild.
How do you increase the blood volume. This is done by diet. Drink plenty of water and up your iron intake. Spinach, red meats, broccoli and green leafy vegetables, and dessicated liver tablets will produce more blood. When you eat these foods you will notice that when you weight train your muscles will be really pumped and full looking. This added blood volume will help you keep the muscle active.
Poor diets and lack of exercise decreases blood volume and tissue size.
So I believe that a key component of building muscle size is to increase the bodies blood production. Now go eat some red meat, take a handful of livers, and a down a big bowl of greens. Create more blood.
Tags: increasing blood volume, daryl conant, Ron Kosloff, Vince Gironda
How do you increase the blood volume. This is done by diet. Drink plenty of water and up your iron intake. Spinach, red meats, broccoli and green leafy vegetables, and dessicated liver tablets will produce more blood. When you eat these foods you will notice that when you weight train your muscles will be really pumped and full looking. This added blood volume will help you keep the muscle active.
Poor diets and lack of exercise decreases blood volume and tissue size.
So I believe that a key component of building muscle size is to increase the bodies blood production. Now go eat some red meat, take a handful of livers, and a down a big bowl of greens. Create more blood.
Tags: increasing blood volume, daryl conant, Ron Kosloff, Vince Gironda
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Training For A Particular Sport
I started weight training when I was 12 years old to condition for baseball. I was naive and ignorant about training back then. I ended up doing bodybuilding and power lifting type exercises because that is what everyone else was doing. Back in the early 80's there wasn't much talk about sport specific training. It seemed that most of the athletes were training like Arnold and didn't train for their sport. During college my concentration was on bodybuilding. I trained specifically for bodybuilding and the results I desired developed. Then one day a mother approached me in my college office and asked me if I could help her daughter train for basketball. The year was 1991 and the internet had not been developed yet. All we had was books in the library. There wasn't much information about training for different sports. It seemed that most of the books were basic in ideology and concentrated more on calisthenics than weight training. I took on the basketball player and decided to do some different things with her. It didn't make sense to train her like a bodybuilder, so I trained her like a basketball player. I took her to the track and had her do many different drills. Sprinting, plyometrics, lateral work. In the weight room I had her doing exercises that would activate greater fast twitch activity for jumping and explosive power. My experiment worked and she excelled the next season. After working with her I got more clients. And they all had different needs. So I integrated the correct exercise prescription for each of them. As the years passed sports conditioning has become the buzz in the fitness industry. Little did I know that what I was doing with those athletes would be the gold standard of training athletes today.
The idea is not new, train for your sport. I am a bodybuilder so I bodybuild. If you are a baseball player then you must train for baseball etc. There are many athletes that are misguided and end up wasting time with training incorrectly. I decided after my baseball career that I wanted to continue with bodybuilding because I enjoy the lifestyle and benefits. I remember a conversation I had with Frank Zane. He asked me what types of exercises I was doing. I told him that I was experimenting with some gymnastic exercises in conjunction with bodybuilding exercises. He said " are you a gymnist or a bodybuilder, you can't be both." I then realized that he was correct. Gymnastic type exercises will develop the muscles differently than isolated bodybuilding exercises. So needless to say I went back to strict bodybuilding exercises.
If you are a bodybuilder then train for bodybuilding.
If you are a baseball player train for baseball.
If you are a skier train for skiing. etc, etc, etc.
I THINK YOU GET THE IDEA.
TRAIN FOR YOUR GOAL AND TRAIN ACCORDING TO YOUR SPORT.
tags: bodybuilding, baseball, strength, nutrition, health, daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff
The idea is not new, train for your sport. I am a bodybuilder so I bodybuild. If you are a baseball player then you must train for baseball etc. There are many athletes that are misguided and end up wasting time with training incorrectly. I decided after my baseball career that I wanted to continue with bodybuilding because I enjoy the lifestyle and benefits. I remember a conversation I had with Frank Zane. He asked me what types of exercises I was doing. I told him that I was experimenting with some gymnastic exercises in conjunction with bodybuilding exercises. He said " are you a gymnist or a bodybuilder, you can't be both." I then realized that he was correct. Gymnastic type exercises will develop the muscles differently than isolated bodybuilding exercises. So needless to say I went back to strict bodybuilding exercises.
If you are a bodybuilder then train for bodybuilding.
If you are a baseball player train for baseball.
If you are a skier train for skiing. etc, etc, etc.
I THINK YOU GET THE IDEA.
TRAIN FOR YOUR GOAL AND TRAIN ACCORDING TO YOUR SPORT.
tags: bodybuilding, baseball, strength, nutrition, health, daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff
Thursday, October 21, 2010
A Unique Bosu Exercise
Hi Folks,
Though this is not a bodybuilding exercise it is fun and can challenge you cardiovascular system. It is good to do if you are bored with the same old cardio. I suggest doing it for a warm-up.
tags: Daryl Conant, Ron Kosloff, VInce Gironda, Phillies, Texas Rangers, Cliff Lee,
Though this is not a bodybuilding exercise it is fun and can challenge you cardiovascular system. It is good to do if you are bored with the same old cardio. I suggest doing it for a warm-up.
tags: Daryl Conant, Ron Kosloff, VInce Gironda, Phillies, Texas Rangers, Cliff Lee,
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Vince Gironda's Body Drag Curl Performed Correctly By Student Daryl Conant
This video is for those that are signed up for Daryl Conant's Online personal training program. To sign up goto www.darylconant.com and goto training. The cost is $25.00 per month. Daryl will design a nutrition and exercise program to help you get results. These videos will be exclusive to online clients only.
tags: daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff, body drag curl, bodybuilding
tags: daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff, body drag curl, bodybuilding
Keeping the Muscles Filled Up
When we exercise we are alterating and manipulating our sympathetic tone to improve the systems of the body. If the goal is to just improve the systems responsible for the physical aspects of the body, then exercising in a progressive manner will work. However, for the bodybuilder it is more involved. In order for muscle to get bigger there must be an influence in the neural output and muscle fibers. Building muscle is no easy task. The muscle must be worked to a point where protein synthesis increases.
Over-working a muscle will cause protein inhibition. The bodybuilder must know how much is enough. Also, for muscle tissue to grow there must be a greater volume of blood pumped into the area. A person can train all they want but without increased blood production and volume their efforts are fruitless. Consuming the right foods and supplements will help produce more blood. The more blood that can be pumped to the muscle means that the muscle can be nourished better. Greater oxygen, vitamin, mineral, protein, fat and sugar metabolism improve as a result of greater blood volume.
Once the muscle tissue is built up the key is to sustain it. The body is in a constant state of breakdown. The cells of the body are somewhat lazy. If they can rest they will. If they can shrink they will do whatever it takes to shrink. It is much harder to keep muscle tissue active and full then it is to become atrophied and deconditioned. This is why I consider true natural bodybuilding (not the drug induce bodybuilding) to be the hardest sport to do. The true natural bodybuilder has to balance all facets of life, training, supplementation, nutrition precisely everyday to maintain their physique. It is so easy to become complacent and lazy. That is the nature of the human. The real challenge is to tear down the tissue, rebuild it and then maintain it. Think of it like this, the muscle is like a balloon with a small pin hole in it. You pump up the balloon and it remains tight and full as long as the air is in. After you blow it up and tie it off, the balloon will eventually deflate due to the small pin hole. The balloon gets pumped up again once you add air to it. This is much like building muscle. You pump the area up with blood and oxygen etc. Then during the recovery phase the muscle slowly begins to shrink. When you train again the area gets pumped up. This increase and decrease cycle is always taking place. The science behind bodybuilding is figuring out a way to keep the muscle pumped up without losing all the "air". This is where true bodybuilding techniques take place. By knowing how to train and how to manipulate the muscle tissue is the answer. You have to figure that for every 10% of tissue you activate through progression and intensity of exercise that you end up only producing 1% of actual gain. This is why it takes natural bodybuilders longer to make significant gains. It is all about discipline, frequency and tissue manipulation. The key is keeping more air in the balloon longer and knowing when the right time is to pump it back up before it totally atrophies.
tags: muscle tissue, daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff, natural bodybuilding, supplements, strength building.
Over-working a muscle will cause protein inhibition. The bodybuilder must know how much is enough. Also, for muscle tissue to grow there must be a greater volume of blood pumped into the area. A person can train all they want but without increased blood production and volume their efforts are fruitless. Consuming the right foods and supplements will help produce more blood. The more blood that can be pumped to the muscle means that the muscle can be nourished better. Greater oxygen, vitamin, mineral, protein, fat and sugar metabolism improve as a result of greater blood volume.
Once the muscle tissue is built up the key is to sustain it. The body is in a constant state of breakdown. The cells of the body are somewhat lazy. If they can rest they will. If they can shrink they will do whatever it takes to shrink. It is much harder to keep muscle tissue active and full then it is to become atrophied and deconditioned. This is why I consider true natural bodybuilding (not the drug induce bodybuilding) to be the hardest sport to do. The true natural bodybuilder has to balance all facets of life, training, supplementation, nutrition precisely everyday to maintain their physique. It is so easy to become complacent and lazy. That is the nature of the human. The real challenge is to tear down the tissue, rebuild it and then maintain it. Think of it like this, the muscle is like a balloon with a small pin hole in it. You pump up the balloon and it remains tight and full as long as the air is in. After you blow it up and tie it off, the balloon will eventually deflate due to the small pin hole. The balloon gets pumped up again once you add air to it. This is much like building muscle. You pump the area up with blood and oxygen etc. Then during the recovery phase the muscle slowly begins to shrink. When you train again the area gets pumped up. This increase and decrease cycle is always taking place. The science behind bodybuilding is figuring out a way to keep the muscle pumped up without losing all the "air". This is where true bodybuilding techniques take place. By knowing how to train and how to manipulate the muscle tissue is the answer. You have to figure that for every 10% of tissue you activate through progression and intensity of exercise that you end up only producing 1% of actual gain. This is why it takes natural bodybuilders longer to make significant gains. It is all about discipline, frequency and tissue manipulation. The key is keeping more air in the balloon longer and knowing when the right time is to pump it back up before it totally atrophies.
tags: muscle tissue, daryl conant, vince gironda, ron kosloff, natural bodybuilding, supplements, strength building.
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