Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

What to eat perform better body workout? How to get ripped and bigger muscle?

Today I just did some research online and read a lot of articles after my customer/ student told me I have been training him too hard on cardio or warm-up which led him to no energy or strength or stamina at all to continue on weight lifting. Partially I can say is my fault on training them hard but didn't give more advice on diet or what food to eat before and after workout.

Before I share the information I found online, I did like to explain on the workout routine I shared and trained them. Firstly, I will say "share" is because I will teach what I usually do on my workout routine daily which is "warm up, stretching, body building" in one session. "Warm up" usually is cardio plus partially working on your muscle and stamina which is necessary before start up body building because you need to pump up your heart rate first in order to allow the blood flow to all over your body muscle. So that, it will help you build and develop or affect your muscle tissue more when comes to body building session such as tearing your muscle tissue or damage your muscle by lifting heavy weights.



Why needs to torn and damage your muscle tissues? In order to build bigger muscle, you are required to do that and drink or eat sufficient protein to develop  or build bigger muscle in between the damaged or torn muscle tissues.

Second, my warm up/cardio workout session is not running on treadmills or just cycling for 15 minutes which I used to do before when I first going to gym and being told by most instructors. I don't really like or agree to do it for fully 15 minutes for my body type as I belongs to thin and high metabolism and easy sweat. Running on treadmills or cycling cardio for 15 minutes will make me becomes thinner or harder to gain weight. And doing running on treadmills for too long can hurt your knee joints from your body weight impacting your joints. Its same like doing squatting improperly will cause the same effect too.

Hence, my warm up/ cardio is a group of different body parts exercises to be completed from 4 - 15 minutes based on different weeks doing different warm ups.  Which is think is a good workout for people who only do a minimum body workout or exercise 3 times a week. Plus, the reason why I put on a warm up which involves most of our body parts since we only do 3 times weekly is because what I learnt from my instructor is I used to go to gym 4 - 6 times weekly and each day I go to gym I did only cardio, body stretching and two parts of my body which is any part of my body plus abs workout. If you are able to commit yourself to body workout 4-6 times weekly, you can split the body workout evenly, more focus and less heavy on each gym session.

And me as a trainer, I always wanted my students/customers are able to exercise every body parts workout weekly because I hope they get to build muscle on every parts evenly without missing any. I also hope I am able to build their strength and stamina instead of just building a perfect body without power, or just being "muscle Mary".

So, let begin our topic. What to eat perform better workout? There's many food you can eat which contains high carbohydrates before workout which is called Pre-workout Meal. But try to choose low-glycemic carbs like oatmeal, veggies or sweet potatoes instead of simple sugars or candy to avoid wild fluctuations in your blood-sugar levels. Carbohydrates you can also get from pasta, fruits, breads, yogurt, energy bars and drinks. The most digestible carbohydrates food is banana. You can also try to eat wholemeal bread with peanut butter or peanut jam and banana slices. Protein is also the needed nutrients to avoid muscle breakdown or not growing bigger muscles. Protein before workout also gives energy to perform better workout. Fats take longer time to digest which isn't recommended to consume high fats food before workout.

When to eat before workout? Having food in the stomach is never a good idea during body workout. which may hurts your stomach, causing nausea or stomach cramping.  Better to eat food 1-4 hours before workout. The shorter time before workout, the better to eat easy and faster digestive food or liquid such as banana, glucose drink (Glucolin), energy bars, isotonic drink, coffee and many more. These will help in fuelling up before workout.


What to eat after workout? Ever seen anyone in the gym who drinks protein before and after workout? Yes. you need right amount nutrients to fuel up and also right amount of nutrients to recover your body from damaged muscles and energy. Eat high in carbs and protein food such as chicken without feeling too full and of course balanced your acidity with some veggies and healthy oil. More importantly, sufficient water to hydrate your body as well.

source: http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/recipes/healthy-eating/nutrition/best-workout-foods/#page=2

source: http://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness_top_ten/24_fitness_list.html
What to do for building muscle and lose fat?
There's no other way of doing body building without cardio to warm up. The minimum warm up you can do is 4-8 minutes which I have given to my customers before. If you are looking for simple cardio warm up such as running or jogging, you need to start with walking pace for 4 minutes then sprint for 40 seconds then cool down back with walking pace for another 4 minutes which total up is still 8 minutes 40 seconds which I got this information from here. 


For fat burning effective and body building, early morning and evening time is the best time to do workout. Also do schedule the weight training early enough in the evening so you are allowed a minimum of 6 hours between your weight training session and bedtime if possible. And also you need to know that :

  • The liver is the strongest from 1-3 AM. This is when you should be sleeping
  • The lung is strongest at 7-9 AM. This is the best time for aerobic exercise
  • The liver is weakest at 1-5 PM, so schedule difficult work for the morning.

For more information on fat burning, muscle building workout:
Check out these from Men's Health.

And if you are really passionate and hardworking, discipline into getting ripped body on diet.
Read about the Ripped meal and 
the Muscle meal.
“There’s no set time to train as everyone’s schedule is different but be sure to have a protein shake 30 to 45 minutes before each workout and another one directly afterwards,” says Lovell. “Avoid eating too much fruit, except berry fruits, which should be eaten after training. When they’re eaten at any other time the fructose they contain can combine with carbs to add body fat.”

For more references:
7 tips for body building and burning fats

But for me, if you really wanna build muscle and lose fats and gain muscle, eat lean meat, high protein, balanced with colourful veggies and low fat. And try avoid lousy junk or snack food or desserts.


Sunday, July 27, 2014

Advise and basic guidelines for gaining weight correctly.

I got a message on my Facebook page and I decided to share my information here And the question is shown in the image below:



Hello, thanks for writing up to me and thanks for your complements =). I am happy to hear that. I can only share some information that I know but there are things you need to find out by yourself or by consulting doctor about your body health. First thing is about your digestion system good or bad, are your digestion absorbing well from the food you intake? or they do very easily flushed out from your body without even absorbing the nutritions from food.

Second, Is your metabolism high or low? do you get easily hungry and you eat a lot but never gain weight? usually high metabolism people tend to be thinner because their digestion is doing great or fast. If that's the problem, you can try have more meals a day such as five meals a day and you may try have supper at midnight if you usually burn midnight oil which I don't recommend people sleep too late.

Third, are you the person who chews very little before you swallow your food?  Because from what I heard and learnt from the sources i got from media. There's a saying that the food are harder to digest or absorb when people tends to chew less which also known as fast eater who tends to finish the meal quickly without at least 15-20 chewing repetitions. Eating fast also will caused you to eat more as you are not feeling full shortly.

Fourth,  how often do you go for exercise or body workout? getting a good body weight partially also rely on your exercise. In order to let your muscle grow or develop more muscle or bigger muscle, you need to exercise. So that, the food you eat will be used to develop muscles which leads to gaining weight. Exercise will also boosts up your metabolism, it will cause you easier to get hungry and tends to eat more. Exercise minimum 3 times a week regularly is good for a healthy body.

Lastly, gaining food is not just about eating more meat. A balanced diet is recommended, the amount you eat for meat need to be balanced with the amount of vegetables you eat. Balance with acid and alkali food. And gaining weight also rely on your protein and carbohydrates intake which you can get from meats and some vegetables such as beans and more. Carbohydrates provides energy for you to do exercise, taking excessive carbohydrates and not doing exercise will converts carbs into sugar which could end up becomes body fat.

I hope this provides you a basic guide to improve your body. Good luck! =)

J-son Yau

Friday, July 25, 2014

How our face reveals our body health status?

Today I am ready to share some information about face acne since its useful to my sensitive acne blemish skin. I hope this helps you too for people who can same problems as me.

The video below aren't the most detailed complete information to read about parts of your face shows the problems of your body organs but is worth watching to know some basics and I will also show a link below this video to read another article which covers more and much complete information about acne and body health.



To read more detailed information on full different parts of your face showing different parts of your body health conditions, click the link below:
http://bunbunmakeuptips.com/acne-and-health-what-your-body-is-trying-to-tell-you-with-pimples/