Gym Workouts & Gym Routines

I (GP) have added categories below for various gym workout routines that may be of interest. These are sample gym workouts only. Your training should follow a gradual progression (as your planned season allows), with sensible transitions from one gym workout routine to another. I will cover more on periodization of training and training transitions amongst other articles on the Gym Professor website and will (in time) release an eBook detailing sensible process maps to follow with your weight training. However, in the meantime, DO NOT RUN BEFORE YOU CAN WALK! I say this because many newbies will adopt gym routines that are far beyond them and will therefore make little gains and increase their risk of injury.

Gym Workout Routines:

Toning Gym Workout Routines (for men)

Toning Gym Workout Routines (for women)

Endurance Gym Routines

Strength Gym Routines

Circuit Training WorkoutRoutines

Bodybuilding Gym Routines

Powerlifting Gym Routines

Sports-Specific Workout Routines

Tell me more about:

Gym Exercises

Gym Workout Routine Factors to Consider

Gym Workout Routine Upgrade Options

Advanced Training Methods

Fitness Workout Routines

Fitness & Strength Assessments

Please visit the Gym Professor website for even more gym workouts!

GP

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Diets and Dieting

For many of you diet will mean losing weight, toning up and burning fat, rather than just your maintenance daily eating habits. There are many different diets out there - Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Zone Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Ketogenic Diet etc. - all of which have the simple aim of you consuming less calories (food energy), therefore, causing a negative energy balance & you losing weight.

Different diets present different problems, some more so than others. The fundamental flaw of most people's diet plans (or rather, lack of plan) is both EFFICIENCY and SUSTAINABILITY. For example, if you did not alter your activity levels, but cut out a couple of meals a day (say 600 calories less a day), initially you'll lose weight through causing a negative energy balance, but, before long, this will become your maintenance calories (level energy balance), as your metabolism (body's processes) will slow. The reason, not having to work as hard to break down food as regularly and correcting its self to your new calorie intake - your body's very clever! Subsequently, if you were to resume what you considered normal eating, you're likely to put on more weight than you started with. Not quite what you wanted to read - there being no quick fix, but, if thought out properly, there's no reason you cannot achieve realistic diet & physique goals.

Visit the Gym Professor web site to find out more about the following subjects:

How do I make my body more EFFICIENT?

How do I SUSTAIN weight loss throughout my diet?

Popular Diets

Healthy Eating

PERSONALISED DIET PLANS

Fat Burners & Metabolism Boosters

SAMPLE DIET PLAN

All the best,

Gym P. 

Protein

Protein, the second most abundant substance in the human body (second only to water) and with functions as varied as providing structure and repair (& growth) of tissue (skin, bone, MUSCLE), to preventing and fighting infection, protein is suitably named (from the Greek word meaning "of first importance").

Proteins are made up of smaller sub-units called Amino Acids.

For further information, please be sure to follow these posts & visit the Gym Professor website.

For now, all the best,

Gym P.

P.S. Below are a list of related topics, we'll look at soon:

Amino Acids

Dietary Protein

Nitrogen Balance

Protein Requirements

Protein Source Comparisons

Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER)

Biological Value (BV)

Net Protein Utilisation (NPU)

Protein Fractions

Protein Supplementation

Key Nutrients

I, Gym P, am always amazed that people do not know the functions that their food items (& nutrients within those food items) play. That said, many adults don't even know what nutrients are derived from certain foods they're eating, despite most being clearly labeled. Below is a list of our key nutrients and the main function that they perform. I covered carbohydrates in brief on my lost post, and will cover the remainder in more detail in periodic future posts. If you require further information in the meantime, please CLICK HERE to visit the Gym Professor website.

Protein – repair & growth of tissue
Carbohydrate – primary energy source
Fat – secondary energy source
Vitamins & Minerals – regulate metabolic processes.
Water – transportation of other nutrients

Over and out,

Gym P.

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